pizzas à part, voilà un peu de lecture pour ceux qui doutent du racisme latent dans The Wire :
"One of the many problems with “The Wire’’ is that creator David Simon relies on clichés to depict blacks. It’s like doing a series about Jews and presenting only inside traders or judging the residents of Charlestown by Ben Affleck’s “The Town,’’ which at least has a disclaimer that the film doesn’t represent the Irish-American population. HBO should tackle something new. How about depicting the family life of a suburban gun dealer who is sending illegal weapons into city neighborhoods?
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The main reason that I oppose the teaching of “The Wire’’ is that it joins other [movies] such as “Training Day,’’ “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans,’’ and “Brooklyn’s Finest’’ in locating drug use and distribution in the inner city, when most of it occurs elsewhere.
While cocaine use among black teenagers is on the decline, it is on the rise for white teens, according to a 2009 New York Times story. Heroin epidemics have hit the suburbs around the country. Another myth promoted by “The Wire’’ and other shows is that while cr@ck is a black drug, whites use powder cocaine. Whites of all classes do cr@ck. Plenty of it. They just don’t get sentenced as much for possessing it."
"One of the directors of the show wrote and directed a short about this southern middle-class black family, which they screened. He was speaking to an executive at one of the studios and asked what he thought of it. The guy sighed and said, ‘Come on, nobody wants to see a black Terms of Endearment.’ Idon’t think that’s an isolated case." "
- Lance Reddick (Cedric Daniels)
Et ça :
http://goatmilkblog.com/2008/03/13/ishmael-reed-interview-3-of-3-jabs-low-blows-and-knockout-punches/