In #28 one of you guys, I can never remember who, observes that The Wire rarely depicts black men trying to go straight. True, but in recounting the few instances there were, you missed an important one: the supermarket security guard who was shot over challenging Marlo's shop-lifting. There is an aside for you. Just because you go straight doesn't mean you won't be a victim.

That being said, I have a bone to pick with this statement:

"Many young black men in Baltimore (or Washington, or Chicago, or wherever) end up in crime, for lack of education, skills, and opportunity."

Are you kidding me? This, I know, is not the forum for a full-scale debate on general social ills, but the 60's called and they want back their apologist political views.