[maica]

The TV series The Wire really should be viewed as a documentary of the life of the underclass in Baltimore, and how the education system and the political system are part of the problem, not the solution.

For children of the 'hoods, the only successful people that they can relate to are the drug dealers and associates. All middle-class blacks have moved to the suburbs, just as middle-class whites did decades ago.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

the education system and the political system are part of the problem, not the solution.

Sounds positively Reaganesque. "Government IS the problem"

the only successful people that they can relate to are the drug dealers and associates

(associates) basketball players, gangsta rappers, COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS.