Harvard Students to Learn About Black People By Watching The Wire
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.
Why don’t you do yourself a favor and quit reading my blog?
Fuck, you edited your response after I wrote mine out. And I’m trying, but apparently I love to hate you just that much.
1. This is a media studies course. Every college has them. I took a class on Willa Cather poetry. My sister took a class on war films. Despite the NEW YORK POST’s very inflammatory title, this is just a normal, everyday media studies course, not a class to “learn about black people” as you seem to believe.
2. All of the kids that I know who go to Harvard are people of color from lower to middle class families from West Virginia. They are less privileged than you are. They might be in the minority, sure, but they worked really fucking hard to get where they are. And even the kids who are there that come from privileged backgrounds are very often very aware of liberal issues and causes. Stop assuming that these universities are monolithic places filled with neoconservative WASPS. They really aren’t. Not at all. But you use that myth for a useless exercise in stirring class resentment for what? I don’t understand what you are trying to do. Feel good about yourself? Feel authentic and working class by comparison?
Honestly, ask yourself if you know about your backyard. How isolated are you from the harder parts of our country? Man up to your own privilege. Because I am willing to bet that you are pretty fucking privileged, which makes the posturing in your comments all the more arrogant and obnoxious.
3. Just fyi, William J. Wilson, the professor who is teaching the class, is an incredibly accomplished man. He is one of the foremost thinkers in the world in the fields of race and urban poverty. I would love to just sit in a class and hear him talk. And, yes, he’s black.
4. When he said, “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,” he wasn’t just talking about Harvard students. He was talking about all of America. You all seemed to miss that point.
I love this e-beef I have started. Carry on. Also I want to point out, the default way to quote posts in Tumblr is garbage.
edit: this quoting mess goes against every fiber of my being. I will need to reformat this when I get home.
Haha, no! The most insufferable institution of higher learnin’ is Princeton.
