…and I saw little Kennard from The Wire. You probably know him as the sorry, disrespectful little snot nosed hopper that killed Omar. Or, you gleefully recall watching Michael beat him good and pulpy. Either way, he was on Law and Order.
Turns out he was playing a Haitian slave, brought to America to work for some rich white people. Wanna know what I thought when the police got him in the park and took him to the station, after they found out he was a slave? “I hope they send that little bastard to jail.”
The kid can’t be much more than 10. He’s a fictional character. But I promise, with everything in my soul, I was hoping they’d throw his lil’ ass in the tank with the grown men so he could see what it is to really be hard. Show ’em how hard you are, lil’ hopper.
Well, it turned out he did kill someone, and he was sent to jail. At the end, he asked if he could go back to Haiti. Instead, they took him to jail. I smiled.
And I will watch it again, in search of that good feeling.
January 12, 2009
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