Picture it: United States of America, 2001. You are an old white man, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, and your writing partner, a former police officer and teacher, are in the HBO offices about to pitch a television series about the drug trade and broader sociopolitical and economic structure of Baltimore through the eyes of predominantly African American people, through all facets of the city, from the drug outfits themselves and the police officers to the dock workers and even the newspaper writers.
Like many things in life, or mine specifically, the first question anyone should ask when doing anything or experiencing something, or for that matter before they take a step out of the bed and decide to live for that day, is to ask why. It’s the very foundation and fundamental question to us as people and as society. It is the hive mind that spawns the dissenters, the sycophants, and the entirety of the congregation.
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