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Harvard Students to Learn About Black People By Watching The Wire

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:23:34 -0500

Harvard Students to Learn About Black People By Watching The Wire:

colinweaver:

jesuisperdu:

youmightfindyourself:

Harvard, the nation’s insufferable institution of higher learnin’ attended by the nation’s most insufferable kids from its most insufferable families, will offer a course on HBO’s The Wire, the best TV show ever made, so as to better educate their pampered student body about life in the ghetto. Says William J. Wilson, who will teach the class: “I do not hesitate to say that (The Wire) has done more to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life and the problems of urban inequality, more than any other media event or scholarly publication.

FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK YOU. Seriously Harvard? Stop sucking dick and live outside of the mindless, meaningless, and overly polished lives you boost about. The Wire is a terrific show, but really? So now all of you will “understand” black people now, right? What a load of bullshit. I don’t normally get this annoyed over the blatant ignorance in this world, but come on, Harvard. An ivy league course on it? Completely frivolous. Do you really think it is that simple to fool people? You are losing your luster even more.

I say we round up all the Harvard kids and make ‘em live in Bed-Stuy for a few days. Or OTR. Or Oakland. I actually think that’d be a pretty fun experiment. Maybe I should work my ass off to become a Harvard professor some day so I can maybe organize that.

In all seriousness though: it’s not like they’re trying to educate them on what it’s like living in Haiti or Sudan or the slums of Mexico City. It’s fucking pathetic that they have to teach these kids what it’s like in their own back yard. How can anyone be truly educated about their own world (much less country) if they’re totally isolated from it?

Colin Queefer, you are so stupid. You make me so mad. I want to punch you and I don’t even know you.

This is pretty incredible, you guys are morons. How did any of you get to the idea that the course will serve to teach Harvard students about “black people”. I don’t like reblogging but as I love The Wire and Harvard is in my backyard I found it hard not to say something. For one if you think The Wire is about black people, you might want to rewatch because you clearly missed the point. The Wire is about the American city, not black people. I could talk about things that take place in the show for days so its easy to see how it can be the focus of a class. Secondly I love this 1919 idea of Harvard and its students and think that its this isolated compound where only the richest most elite sweater wearing white bunch are allowed entrance. It’s in Cambridge, Ma. with buildings all over Boston. Harvard Square alone you will see your idea of the campus and the city are misinformed. If you’ve never been and only know of Boston through movies, its more than just Irish and South Boston. Anywhere in this city you walk a block one way or another and you are in a completely different environment. It’s a diverse city, the student body at Harvard and any other school here are quickly exposed to all kinds of people and different statuses of wealth and all.

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