Class and Class Consciousness in The Wire
"You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money and you don't know where the f*** it's going to take you." ~ Lester Freamon in The Wire, speaking about political corruption [click on this image to view videos to think about class and class consciousness in The Wire]
Barack Obama meets Idris Elba of The Wire On balance, it's a probably a good sign that when asked to name his favorite TV show, President Obama named The Wire. [click on this image to find a short documentary examining the fact that the US now incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, and how the "war on drugs" is really a war on racial minorities]