I am going through the complete series again for the third time and I noticed something interesting in Season 4, Episode 8. Bunny Colvin is working with the corner kids in the classroom and they are asked to write down where they see themselves in 10 years. One of them says "I want to be a pediatric neurosurgeon like that one nigger. What's his name?"
Then the guy in charge of the program, Dr. David Parenti, says "Ben Carson" and the kid responds "Yeah. That dude." Then Dr. Parenti says to Bunny Colvin that "He's a black surgeon at Hopkins with a lot of profile."
At one point Dr. Ben Carson was actually a role model in Baltimore. At least before he outed himself as a batshit insane Republican. If David Simon only knew then what he must know now. Believe it or not.