Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190303:02:41:00
Systemic racism and the cycle of poverty like no other television show had. >> come on, get up. school day. y'all going to be late. >> it wasn't just about, hey, look at these black kids chilling drugs on the street. you were in the apartment with them where they had no parents, where they were taking care of their siblings, where they were trying to scrounge for food. >> where is your bookbag? >> teacher ain't give us no homework. >> you start to get a much more realistic, three-dimensional picture of what poverty looks like in a city. [ sirens ] >> one of the things about "the wire" that was...