Jamel Bouie

not only out of line with the philosophy of the court, but this hasn't come up too much, the government was actually citing the views of white supremacist opponents of the 14th Amendment in order to make its case.

And so in a real sense, what the government would have you believe

was that the people who did not want birthright citizenship to exist in the 1860s, 70s, and 80s, and who were actively trying to exclude people from the country, had a better understanding of what that clause meant than the people who wrote it.

Jamel?

Jamel?

I am re-watching.

So a rare instance of me saying something I'm watching.

I am re-watching The Wire, which I have not done for 15 years.

And I just want to recommend it's on HBO.

Unfortunately, on HBO, it is the remastered widescreen version.

The film was shot in 4.3, so more of a rectangular square format.

And all of the...

the cinematography and the blocking like where the actors are in the scene is built around that frame um and so i i have i do have like the old dvds yeah and you'll notice that like in the four three everything's much more stagey and theatrical which i think really works but then on the hbo widescreen it's much more like cinematic but i i it's just something that works for the show

But even still, even still, this is truly a remarkable piece of American fiction.

As I rewatch it, I'm like, oh yeah, this is a legitimate case to me that this is the single greatest television show of all time.

It's so nuanced.

It's so real and believable.

It's so affecting.

And yeah, I don't know.

Rewatch The Wire, people.