David Simon - Two Americas in One City

David Simon, creator of "The Wire," shows us a portrait of "the other America" - the America deeply affected by the war on drugs, a distrust of law enforcement, and mass incarceration, and discusses solutions to these problems.
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[@silvercomic]

6:32 for Simon

[@letthereberock11]

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[@franciscolourenco3814]

Thank you brother

[@dashuntas.m4045]

I aspire to be as well read, astute and knowledgeable as this guy is. He has so much clarity and depth on the issues he speaks on as well as being self aware and empathetic.

[@BlackNella]

He's brilliant. David Simon for President. I've been watching his speeches all day. I love him.

[@patrickandersen412]

The war on drugs is foundational to the police department and our world. Yet time after time I talk to people and most people don't have a clue about what I'm talking about.

[@wthwasthat8884]

@@patrickandersen412 It's not though. Police departments have been around long before the drug prohibitions even began.

[@emeraldcelestial1058]

@@wthwasthat8884 Hopefully he was saying it is foundational to the injustices that take place in our system

[@SOULRELIEF22]

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[@Jack-in-the-country]

I know "X person for president" is just a figure of speech, but one of the points David Simon is continually making is that it largely doesn't matter who is president. As long as the legislative branch of government is bought by corporate lobbying, there is a hole in government. I have an argument that it's gotten even worse because of the emergence of some hidden negative long-term drawbacks of quantitative easing on income inequality, but I won't rant unless anyone's curious. Point is that the situation is even more out of control now than when David Simon made this speech.

[@karlwaelder8728]

This is amazing watching in 2020 amid/post-George Floyd and the protests...

[@MrElmofamily]

I know right

[@muxperience]

The U.S lacks moral outrage. Instead, everything has been replaced with the binary of rage or unquestioning love. We haven't maintained the human quality to mediate our beliefs. Instead, we become polarized and jump at every shadow we see on the Internet. Hopefully future generations will adapt their critical thinking to the Internet (seeing as many adults have refused to do so ). I grew up with the Internet, but not like people will end up doing.

[@jekk23]

Fine speech. Clever chap.

[@jimbotimes]

Thank you for uploading.

[@rabjohnson5955]

I wish he'd run for public office if only for bringing these issues up for DEBATE !!! 💖✊🏿💯

[@PatchedThePipe]

Guys like David Simon should be running the world cos they see it as it really is therefore can attempt to fix it, even thought they would be the first to admit... that’s a big ask

[@Onigirli]

He's a lamb of God

[@anthonymorales842]

his depth ,candor and in depth knowledge is so needed

[@buktoothedgoat78]

This is great insight

[@Killoea]

"Journalism used to have a better effect on astonishing and outraging people when it was done well. And you'd get the right reaction from people. And I think the world itself is less inclined to outrage." 43:42

[@tasman001]

I had to think about this one for a second, because so many people (justifiably) say that we are "addicted to outrage". How can we be less inclined to outrage if this is the case? Then I thought of it like a drug. If we are addicted to outrage, and are constantly getting high off of it, then we'll have built up a tolerance to it. And when something comes along that we really SHOULD be outraged by, it's just going to register the same mild sense of outrage as everything else, and we'll quickly move on to the next "outrage", rather than that horrible thing actually provoking some kind of strong reaction that leads to action. Sad to think about.

[@Mike-zd8wq]

@@tasman001 journalism became the pill press for the masses?

[@ttrons2]

The US has so many great and just people. I can not see not agreeing with him. Integrity.

[@FreshTillDeath56]

Brilliant speech! I don't agree with everything he says here, but that's the big point of his speech that I agree with. We would be foolish to limit ourselves to the one specific ideology that we rode in on, and we would be foolish not to trust the capabilities of our fellow countrymen.

[@DineshBhadwal]

01:13:18 is pure love. The whole thing is good but right at the end is the sweetest note.

[@TSquared2001]

Love it

[@richardlopez4813]

36,000 people have seen this. This is my first time.

[@lizannewhitlow1085]

#MeToo.

[@helevole2]

please tell me im not the stupid one pointing out the recommendation right at the beginning "Please join me with the Lincoln and Booth families". i know its petty, but still its kind of amazing to hear that sentence in a public setting.

[@alexanderdavies657]

Starts at 6:30.

[@fanazikschool9951]

this man is a genius !

[@KOLN555]

The one part of the program where he allows himself to be optimistic is the one part that turns out to be wrong. Damn.

[@Onigirli]

The way he ended it with his music appreciation was perfect. Brilliant man

[@StefanBerreth70]

Anyone having any good URLs to interesting Mariachi Funk bands?

[@larryroberts9247]

He is the smartest guy in America. He should be president.

[@jamestrebilcock5602]

HEs a genius

[@puma.will.pounce7590]

James - He's far from a genius. Like most libtards, he thinks he has all the answers if only everyone would let him be dictator. Pretty much sums up all fucktard gun grabber liberals. The most violent cities in America with the most gun homicides are run be Democrats... Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Camden, Newark, Los Angeles, Philadelphia... yet he thinks conservatives and the NRA are evil. According to Simon, Baltimore should be a fucking utopia since it's been run by Democrats for decades... not just at the city level, but at the county level and state level as well. Yet Baltimore is apiece of shit precisely because of Democrat ideals.

[@Tony32937]

@Stephen Shelley @Stephen Shelley wow Stephen you're a guines your intellect is just so aweing you should be chosen to lead the world to a new age, a new fucking utopia because you clearly are omnipresent. you, Stephen can clearly see things for what they are and see people for who they are. my god you're amazing, as a matter of fact your mother should be very proud.

[@davidcarton6064]

"As one generation teaches the next how not to do the job". Sargent Daniels.

[@zmarvelous664]

So David, what do you say now?

[@zmarvelous664]

You need to work on the piece about why it is different in rural areas...

[@smokeyt6340]

I agree unless you live it you won't know it

[@mig7290]

I would hes wrong about one thing. It's probably 4 or 5 America's in one city.

[@Hardbody94]

Absolutely brilliant and inspiring ... more relevant now post trump

[@dubois2.024]

I'm not a liberal by any estimation (voted pro Trump and would again if I had to do it over), but man I wish that our leaders were like this guy.

[@jekk23]

Dubois2.0 Policies you agree with aside, how can you believe that man to have the mental health, intelligence and moral courage to do the biggest job in the world?

[@msmamaleeta]

Nearly 400,000 views on Stringer Bell’s apartment .....less than 26,000 on how to change the country Bell lived in. Just as each generation in The Wire became harder, more ruthless, rapacious and numb....so America has become more corrupt, greedier, self focused. It could change but we’d all have to look OUTSIDE ourselves and stop voting for business interests and start voting for human interests! That has no color or income level below the 1%.

[@tasman001]

But that was Simon's whole goal with The Wire, or at least one of the principal ones, was to try to communicate the ideas that he's talking about in this speech in an entertaining medium that many more people will watch. So I think in this case it's not too bad that The Wire gets so many more views than this speech.

[@bobbob-sv4mk]

Powerful and engaging speech but the underlying problem is broken families.

[@arsaytoma]

The underlying problem is guns

[@Jack-in-the-country]

Broken families come from broken communities, you simpleton

[@Jack-in-the-country]

Broken families come from broken communities, you absolute fool.

[@Jack-in-the-country]

Broken families come from broken communities, you fool.

[@Jack-in-the-country]

And broken families come from broken communities. I know you'd like for things to be simple, but the real problems of the world won't simplify themselves to fit your narrow view. Either you will have to continue doing that yourself, or you can learn to embrace the complexity of reality.

[@theoriginalsamueljohnson]

Why did they clap at using robots? They still don't get it. He might as well be talking to babies. Don't agree with him on everything, but he makes some good points.

[@FuzzyDlop]

LOL. Everything he said was a good points, he wasn't offering opinions, he was giving facts obtained with knowledge and experience over 30 years.

[@theoriginalsamueljohnson]

Fuzzy Dunlop He gave opinions during the Q&A several times.

[@theoriginalsamueljohnson]

This guy... who called YOU a cave beast?

[@1squeamishneophyte]

My life partner calls me it all the time in the bedroom. I specialize in doing Lascaux-style paintings with various bodily fluids on the walls of my dungeon.

[@theoriginalsamueljohnson]

BiscuitHead Good for her. Come over talk to me face to face and stop being a pencil neck geek, hiding behind a computer. Kinda obvious who your are bruh.

[@hookemdevildog]

Freddie Gray was purposefully thrown into the back of that van, handcuffed, and without a safety belt- again on purpose- and then he was purposefully driven "roughly". That was NOT negligence, that was malice. Period. The notion that it was just an oopsie, is pretty gross.

[@lkuzmanov]

He's not saying that it was. Listen again.

[@G11713]

Base on this situation, is it that black people in Baltimore have no influence over their city's governance regardless of who is the mayor, district attorney, or chief of police?

[@jjmarcos]

Pretty much. This guy is so intelligent, yet he dances around the actual problem, or is unable to grasp it for one reason or another. He blames the problems of black people on white people leaving. That's ludicrous. All races and cultures have the inherent ability to govern themselves effectively. To say otherwise is ACTUALLY racist. Having said that, he is still right about a lot of things (imo at least). The problems in America are cultural first and foremost. A better first step would be to change the degenerate media that certain people foist upon blacks, wherein they glorify crime/killing/drugs. America was founded on the inherent principle that everyone would share a Christian morality. They would have never set up the government the way they did if they could know how far we would stay from that a few hundred years later

[@jjmarcos]

@Stephen Shelley never Said it was. I said Christian morality, smart one.

[@jjmarcos]

@Stephen Shelley no. "Treat others the way you'd want to be treated"

[@paulm6081]

@@jjmarcos Watch the wire and your questions and concerns will be answered. I think youre missing the point otherwise

[@jjmarcos]

@@paulm6081 I've watched the entire show multiple times. I realize my interpretation is at odds with what the writers Intent was, but to me it's a valid interpretation. The deteriorating systems that David Simon so aptly refers to as "greek gods" to me represent flaws inherent in man. **in my opinion** Any attempt to fix these flaws by strengthening the systems would only result in their corruption GROWING because the flaws are a byproduct of man himself, not his relationship to the systems.

[@criticsatlarge0073]

Rishi Sunak still flying private jets 😂3 Aug 2023 and his punishment? Type of man who should be in jail

[@dalewells9457]

What is he scared of skating with the truth!

[@SOULRELIEF22]

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[@davidgcavada]

He gave credit to Rand Paul. Awesome.

[@andrewcook1246]

I like his work so much more than his rhetoric. His work is realistic and gritty, yet his rhetoric seems to pander sooo hard to all Democrat fantasies.

[@tdeeb33]

Wtf

[@lesterdiamond6190]

I'm sorry, but the Autopsy results from the Mike Brown Case reveal a man who attacked a Police Officer after committing a Robbery and paid the price. I like The Wire as much as the next guy, but lets not get carried away here.

[@Mariah375]

Wow so tone deaf .. you think if Michael brown was white he would have been killed ?

[@smokeyt6340]

@@Mariah375Hell ass no , you know as well as I there is racism and hate ,unfortunately is alive and evolved in shapes existing at different levels and different forms almost like evil gremlins plus the excuses denying the fact and reality these words &statement we can't stand and listen anymore neither want those made to fail government made to fail and destroy and no federal funds that communities deserve the ones who want are votes show they are gonna fight for what we are and always deserved buy knowing it wont happen but if by a slim chance some funds come our way from federal aid it most likely drinks a red-bull grows wings saying bye bye no people want sympathy and the training to be a bum people want equal rights schools with high standards and well paid staff safety training for employment structure in neighborhoods and development from the grass roots with involve citizens to invest learn real development to pass on people to be hands on to be in touch and love the fruit the earn real rehabilitation with work and hey all you young men and ladies we are not arrest you jail you let us put trust and write down a guarantee to have you invest in legal business and make more than a danger life no questions asked folks it is not what they tell you or show the fact is so deep complicated to explain here it has reasons real questions real lives and condition environment that most were created with evidence and proven facts

[@ivandesantis858]

Simon fancies himself an intellectual but the adolescent dismissive attitude he expressed to describe his interaction with Newt Gingrich made him sound juvenile and petty