DiAngela once ate with his girlfriend in a high-end restaurant, surrounded by powerful people, Di felt deeply inferior and embarrassed, as if every move was being watched. After the meal, Di expressed some emotion: "I think some things are deeply rooted and lingering. You know what I mean, no matter how hard you try, you still can't get anywhere, do you understand?" Once, after a round of vendettas, Digan was extremely fed up with what the cartel was doing, and complained about his new love, stripper Shadene (subtitled Sheldon). Fan, thinking that his uncle's business might not be for him, sometimes it all takes his breath away. When Chardini suggested to Di: "Then do something else", Di rhetorically asked, "Are you satisfied with your job?" Di's subtext was, if you and I could find something else to do, why not do it now will do this. Dee's complaints reflect a kind of fate, a vicious circle that exists in black society in America, or at least in Baltimore. This vicious circle is probably like this: Blacks are racially discriminated against by whites (including Asians and Latinos) → low education level, few job opportunities → drug trafficking and drug abuse, violent crime → more discriminated against → less job opportunities, low education level. Year after year, generation after generation, very few black people can break out of this cycle. Wallace, the pony in the bungalow area, has a flexible mind and a kind heart. Didn't he ever think about going back to school and starting over? In the end, he still died under the gun of a drug dealer.
At the end of the first season, after a preliminary deal with the prosecution, Dee said this: "You don't understand. You were born in this environment. My grandpa was Butch Stanford, (drug dealer), my dad, I Uncle, my brothers and sisters, we all do this until the day you die. I spent eight months in the detention center, and I feel freer in prison than at home." These words did not feel like what Dee said, But screenwriter David Simon borrowed Die's mouth to say it. This is similar to what Wallace said, "I was born here, I grew up here, all the people I know are here, but I don't know anywhere else" (to the effect). The situation is stronger than the people. The environment shapes and spurs you. Wallace has five or six children to support (probably younger siblings, which are not explained in the play), what do you ask him to do. Di carried the interests of the entire family, and in the end he could only compromise, give up the idea of dealing with the prosecution, and obediently go to prison for 20 years.
As for racial discrimination, according to my superficial knowledge and observation, in a place with a majority of ethnic minorities like Baltimore, there is relatively little discrimination against blacks by whites. Discrimination often comes from fear and ignorance. When you can deal with black people every day, when you have wonderful black people like Bunker, Gemma, Lester, Daniels, Brabus, Omar, how can you go Discrimination against blacks? You'll learn one thing that someone should be judged by what they say and do not by the color of their skin, and you'll understand that no matter what race or group there are, there are good people and there are assholes. Although racial discrimination is very rare in the play, it is interesting that racial discrimination is often used as a weapon and for profit. For example, drug cartels, when the police arrest drug dealers, they often shout "racial discrimination". Probably in the fourth season, there was a scene that left a deep impression on me. Heck, a white police officer, stopped and searched a black congressman (official?) for being a drug dealer because he was teased. Subsequently, the black caucus in the Baltimore City Council immediately used this incident to put pressure on the white mayor Carcetti (the actor is Littlefinger in Game of Thrones) as a bargaining chip to bargain for political gain. This matter has nothing to do with racial discrimination from beginning to end, but it is full of racial discrimination when it is handled. Racial discrimination is often a card and a tool, and the people are being played around, and politicians are never tired of using it. If you are interested in racial issues, you can watch the movie "Crash", but I feel that the movie is a lot less in depth than the line of fire.
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