Are we ready to have some uncomfortable discussions about ‘The Wire’?

[BrothaZay]

That show, while it might be the goat, made the black street characters WAY too dumb and stupid. Even the way they spoke some time was forced to make them seem too uneducated

All the top of my head:

- Dangelos bm to him when he’s leaving the house -“D, where you going at? “

- the dudes in season 3 not knowing the difference between the Edgar Allen Poe house and a “poor” house

- bodie referring to entrapment as “contrapment”

-the kid in season 5 thinking a copy machine was a lie detector test machine

It’s plenty more I can add later

 

[Ol’Otis]

That show, while it might be the goat, made the black street characters WAY too dumb and stupid. Even the way they spoke some time was forced to make them seem too uneducated

All the top of my head:

- Dangelos bm to him when he’s leaving the house -“D, where you going at? “

- the dudes in season 3 not knowing the difference between the Edgar Allen Poe house and a “poor” house

- bodie referring to entrapment as “contrapment”

-the kid in season 5 thinking a copy machine was a lie detector test machine

It’s plenty more I can add later

That was the goal

Dysfunctional educational system

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Most street nikkas are dumb
No school smarts at all
I gave a ride to this dealer years ago and had to help him text his customer for a delivery

 

[Peak]

That show, while it might be the goat, made the black street characters WAY too dumb and stupid. Even the way they spoke some time was forced to make them seem too uneducated

All the top of my head:

- Dangelos bm to him when he’s leaving the house -“D, where you going at? “

- the dudes in season 3 not knowing the difference between the Edgar Allen Poe house and a “poor” house

- bodie referring to entrapment as “contrapment”

-the kid in season 5 thinking a copy machine was a lie detector test machine

It’s plenty more I can add later

I don't that they're was anything wrong with the depiction, if I'm being honest. They also showed the shrewd intelligent side, the Stringers, the Mario's, the Prop Joe's etc.

 

[KillerPups]

Most street nikkas are dumb
No school smarts at all
I gave a ride to this dealer years ago and had to help him text his customer for a delivery

i disagree. it's like 50 50

 

[Robbie3000]

What you talking about OP. Just because they were not book smart doesn’t mean they were not intelligent or clever.

Most of the street guys were depicted as extremely clever. Avon, String, Bodie, Marlo.

Hell even Bubs wasn’t dumb. He was extremely clever.

 

[EastsideRio]

You also show the side that book smarts don’t outweigh street smarts in the streets. Example; Stringer Bell trying to outsmart Omar and Brother Mouzune which led to his demise. Or Prop Joe underestimating Marlo Stansfield.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

i disagree. it's like 50 50

In my experience,drug dealing is 70% guts 30% smarts

 

[EastsideRio]

What you talking about OP. Just because they were not book smart doesn’t mean they were not intelligent or clever.

Most of the street guys were depicted as extremely clever. Avon, String, Bodie, Marlo.

Hell even Bubs wasn’t dumb. He was extremely clever.

String wasn’t really a street guy. He was the brains while Avon was the brains and the muscle

 

[EastsideRio]

In my experience,drug dealing is 70% guts 30% smarts

What’s crazy is way before the crack epidemic (1960’s) it was 70% smarts and 30% guts

 

[Robbie3000]

String wasn’t really a street guy. He was the brains while Avon was the brains and the muscle

He was #2 in the biggest drug crew. He wasn’t a goon, but he was street.

 

[Dem313wayz]

The Edgar Allen Poe shyt was hilarious. Great scene too.



Omar: Thank you young man

Goon: Oh shyt!!!

Omar: O shyt

Goon: Yo Omar, with all due respect. But this here a Barksdale joint

Omar: Due Tell

 

[Ol’Otis]

String wasn’t really a street guy. He was the brains while Avon was the brains and the muscle

He was, he just thought the rules didn’t apply to him

 

[Ol’Otis]

He was, he just thought the rules didn’t apply to him

Edit
He disregard the rules of the streets

 

[Treblemaka]

Sounds like OP has never been to Baltimore.