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Clips from The Wire - Corner Boys (S04E04)

"- What's up? - Who's your favorite one"
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"What, are you a New York, girl? Sonjay."
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"- Who? Who? - Kill that show any day."
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"Snoop! Snoop, yo! Snoop, yo! Yo!"
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"And then they basically entrap some poor bastard on a bet,"
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"property voucher his bike."
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"Next thing, they're working on"
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"some 14-year-old smoke hound like he's Bin Laden."
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"The big haul there is three vials of cocaine."
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"I mean, are you with this?"
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"I've been fighting this bullshit for years."
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"The only way to go is high-end enforcement."
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"You pick the targets that'll make a dent out there,"
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"reduce the violence."
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"So what's the problem?"
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"Problem is I do what I'm told."
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"Meaning?"
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"Mr. Mayor, I'm no more a racist than you are."
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"The thing about affirmative action--"
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"- None taken. - --it's a numbers game."
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"And numbers games breed more numbers games."
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"You need a 20% hike in the hiring of black officers"
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"to keep up with the city demographic."
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"But that's also got to be reflected straight up the chain,"
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"which means fast-tracking some people past where their--"
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"there are experienced warrants."
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"And he who owes his good fortune to the numbers,"
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"abides in them."
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"Gotta show arrests are up 15, 20%."
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"We'll worry about the quality later."
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"So what you saw out there, it's a con game,"
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"a Band-Aid on cancers."
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"So no, I'm not with this, but I do follow orders."
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"However, if those orders were to change,"
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"or if I had the opportunity to change them myself..."
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"Oh no, you not!"
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"What's this shit doing in my house?"
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"You ever see your daddy"
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"bring his work home with him like that?"
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"That's what you got a lieutenant for."
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"Police come through this door instead of your mother,"
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"they will have this whole damn house."
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"This has all got to be packed up and elsewhere right now."
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"Wait till Bey hears about this."
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"Did you hear that naked-ass appeal to racial solidarity?"
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"I'd like to kick his pale entitled ass."
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"He's no more a racist than I am."
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"Might have to kick your ass, too."
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"What have you heard about this fellow Daniels?"
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"but not much politically."
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"I don't think he's got any suction with anybody."
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"Where's the Rice-A-Roni?"
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"Ma, where's the Rice-A-Roni?"
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"There was this boy on the stoop"
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"that looked like he was starving."
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"So you cooked it for him?"
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"Naw, I just gave it to him."
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"You just gave it to him."
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"Don't look at me like that."
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"I gotta go out."
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"- $10? - You have your Rice-A-Roni profits."
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"Michael, come on!"
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"Boy, I ain't gonna let you hold the DSS card"
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"if you ain't gonna do right by me."
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"You're gonna let me hold that card."
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"Next time, don't go selling the food out of our mouths!"
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"Yeah, like y'all say--"
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"don't lie, don't bunk,"
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"don't cheat, don't steal, or whatever."
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"But what about y'all, huh?"
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"What, the government?"
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"What it-- Enron? Ha!"
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"Steroids, yeah."
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"Liquor business:"
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"Booze is the real killer out there."
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"And cigarettes-- oh, shit."
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"Hey, you got some smokes in there?"
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"And drugs paid your salary, right?"
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"No, not exactly, but I get your point."
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"except when we do it, it's like, "Oh my God, these kids is animals.""
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"Like it's the end of the world coming."
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"Man, that's bullshit, all right?"
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"'Cause it's like-- what is it-- hypocrite-- hypocritical."
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"I mean, yeah, we got our thing,"
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"but this is just part of the big thing."
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"Exactly."
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"But this corner-boy thing, right?"
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"All y'all did all this talking up in here."
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"You think you could sit down"
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"and write down the laws to your thing?"
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"Hell yeah. I'll do it right now."
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"Shit."
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"No, I'm talking about-- can y'all do it together?"
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"I give the test on fractions,"
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"half the kids have breakdowns."
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"Well, if it's any comfort,"
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"I have outside of my advanced class"
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"maybe half a dozen reading at grade level."
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"Try having them on the periodic table of elements."
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"The thing is, it's your curriculum,"
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"and you have to stick to it."
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"- I can't. It's absurd. - You have to."
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"That test in April is the difference between"
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"the state taking over the school or not."
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"Maybe the state should."
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"the leave-no-child-behind stuff getting spoon-fed."
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"And what do they learn?"
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"Find some middle ground."
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"You know, if she comes to visit,"
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"she thinks you're on point."
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"do what you feel like you need to do."
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"But be careful."
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"The first year isn't about the kids,"
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"it's about you surviving."
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"Whoo-hoo!"
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"Get up!"
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"- I was eating that. - Fuck you."
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"- That's my lunch. - Fuck you."
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""Fuck you." That's what you said to me."
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"I'm going to be in your people's shit like this every day"
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