Social Inequality In The Wire

The eighth episode of The Wire was about the gang their revenge on Omar. They raid Omars house and light his van on fire. Omar then kills Stinkum for payback and injures Wee-Bey. Once the police found out that it was Omar who did the shooting, they had to let him go because he is a loose cannon. McNulty uses his sons to get the license plate number off of Stringer Bell’s car and was very proud and bragging to Bunk about it. D’Angelo is talking about not being part of the “business” anymore and Greggs thinks she’s a bad cop because she believes she led Omar to saying he was a witness. In the book Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences, Chapter 8 is about racial and ethnic inequality. The chapter explains how there has been racial inequality for as long as we can remember and what they are doing to try and make it better. It says there are many problems when it come to race, sex, and gender. Especially for Blacks and Native Americans. …show more content…
Daniels is one of the only people shown in the show who has a higher up job and is african american. “Blacks are most underrepresented in certain high-level professional and upper-level skilled white-collar positions involving authority or decision making, and they are overrepresented in various private and governmental service and aide occupations”(Hurst 190). It's very surprising to see Daniels in a Lieutenant position especially being a government job. Many believe that since he is black, he shouldn't be in that position since its a white person's job. It is believed that a white person would do the job