Comments on: A dog’s life http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:11:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: tt http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/comment-page-1/#comment-12407 tt Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:34:53 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/#comment-12407 Damn you are fine Snoop I am straight but u make me want to change my mind Damn you are fine Snoop I am straight but u make me want to change my mind

]]> By: DJ http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/comment-page-1/#comment-7648 DJ Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:24:05 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/#comment-7648 yo i know your deaf cousin, Joanna Koonce =] yo i know your deaf cousin, Joanna Koonce =]

]]> By: Literary memoirs, lies, race, and appropriation at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/comment-page-1/#comment-6770 Literary memoirs, lies, race, and appropriation at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:38:38 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/#comment-6770 [...] there is nothing special about that. I was reading ABW, and one of her guest bloggers mentioned how Felicia “Snoop” Pearson of The Wire has a book about her life and experiences…that didn’t get nearly as much [...] [...] there is nothing special about that. I was reading ABW, and one of her guest bloggers mentioned how Felicia “Snoop” Pearson of The Wire has a book about her life and experiences…that didn’t get nearly as much [...]

]]> By: john tomasic http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/comment-page-1/#comment-6215 john tomasic Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:28:45 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/#comment-6215 Eric-- I meant there is a clear and compelling logic to the decision. I didn't say it was the only logical decision nor the best decision. She tried to go straight and failed. It wasn't easy to admit that, according to the memoir. As an excon, she was hired in the straight world and worked hard but was fired when news of her record got to management. So the money and the respect she had gained on the corners before going to jail was the rationale for her decision to return. In some parts, that decision is seen as motivated solely by a desire to corrupt people and live off the weak and flout the law and so on, a product of there being something wrong inside. It's just not like that is all I was saying and I think that's the point comes out pretty well in her book. Eric– I meant there is a clear and compelling logic to the decision. I didn’t say it was the only logical decision nor the best decision. She tried to go straight and failed. It wasn’t easy to admit that, according to the memoir. As an excon, she was hired in the straight world and worked hard but was fired when news of her record got to management. So the money and the respect she had gained on the corners before going to jail was the rationale for her decision to return. In some parts, that decision is seen as motivated solely by a desire to corrupt people and live off the weak and flout the law and so on, a product of there being something wrong inside. It’s just not like that is all I was saying and I think that’s the point comes out pretty well in her book.

]]> By: Eric http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/comment-page-1/#comment-6204 Eric Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:11:15 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/#comment-6204 It may be valid to say Snoop ended up dealing because she was born addicted to crack, raised in a foster home, and lived in the inner city of one of the roughest cities in the US. But to say that her decision to deal was *logical* just because her legal job opportunities paid only "tens of dollars" a day is nonsense. You make it sound like having a poorly paid job and living in poverty are justifications for dealing drugs. Unfortunately, millions of people in this country are forced to live and scrape off of minimum wage jobs. Only a very small percentage of them end up dealing drugs. Most are able to balance economic decisions with moral ones, and as a result they find to logical to avoid dealing drugs. As someone who has lived in poverty and worked many minimum wage jobs, I find it insulting that you view someone like me as a "fool" for having decided against dealing drugs (and as a former illegal drug user, I had plenty of opportunities to do so). I thank my family for helping me out of some rough times -- if Snoop had no family I can certainly understand how desperate she might have gotten. Perhaps if she had been raised in a stable family and lived in a safe area, she wouldn't have turned to dealing even if she were working minimum wage jobs. But to say it's just because of economic reasons seems to be one of the worst kinds of oversimplification. It may be valid to say Snoop ended up dealing because she was born addicted to crack, raised in a foster home, and lived in the inner city of one of the roughest cities in the US. But to say that her decision to deal was *logical* just because her legal job opportunities paid only “tens of dollars” a day is nonsense. You make it sound like having a poorly paid job and living in poverty are justifications for dealing drugs.

Unfortunately, millions of people in this country are forced to live and scrape off of minimum wage jobs. Only a very small percentage of them end up dealing drugs. Most are able to balance economic decisions with moral ones, and as a result they find to logical to avoid dealing drugs.

As someone who has lived in poverty and worked many minimum wage jobs, I find it insulting that you view someone like me as a “fool” for having decided against dealing drugs (and as a former illegal drug user, I had plenty of opportunities to do so). I thank my family for helping me out of some rough times — if Snoop had no family I can certainly understand how desperate she might have gotten. Perhaps if she had been raised in a stable family and lived in a safe area, she wouldn’t have turned to dealing even if she were working minimum wage jobs. But to say it’s just because of economic reasons seems to be one of the worst kinds of oversimplification.

]]> By: a very public sociologist http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5987 a very public sociologist Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:08:56 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/#comment-5987 It saddens me to hear the fifth season will be The Wire's last. Without a shadow of a doubt, it is the best drama ever made anywhere. It saddens me to hear the fifth season will be The Wire’s last. Without a shadow of a doubt, it is the best drama ever made anywhere.

]]> By: A dog’s life http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5921 A dog’s life Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:06:32 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/#comment-5921 [...] A dog’s life That there was ever a TV show with the payroll and the plotline and the will to hire Baltimore corner kids is something beyond the realm of fairytale. Michael K Williams, who plays Omar in the show, saw Snoop in a bar and asked her to … [...] [...] A dog’s life That there was ever a TV show with the payroll and the plotline and the will to hire Baltimore corner kids is something beyond the realm of fairytale. Michael K Williams, who plays Omar in the show, saw Snoop in a bar and asked her to … [...]

]]> By: links for 2007-12-07 at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/comment-page-1/#comment-5833 links for 2007-12-07 at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:19:45 +0000 http://www.popandpolitics.com/2007/12/05/a-dogs-life/#comment-5833 [...] A dog’s life - Pop + Politics “The fact that Snoop was saved from the fruits of her success as a dealer by The Wire…That there was ever a TV show with the payroll and the plotline and the will to hire Baltimore corner kids is something beyond the realm of fairytale.” (tags: via:latoya tv drugs) [...] [...] A dog’s life – Pop + Politics “The fact that Snoop was saved from the fruits of her success as a dealer by The Wire…That there was ever a TV show with the payroll and the plotline and the will to hire Baltimore corner kids is something beyond the realm of fairytale.” (tags: via:latoya tv drugs) [...]

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