1:25 SAME DAMN CORNERS

This woman literally has a wall for a brain...

I finally understand the problem of being Bunny, only because I see the world much like this character. Bunny thinks that just because he knows the real problems and can find real solutions, that this should matter to institutions and institutionalists; it doesn’t. Some cannot see, though they care, others do not care to see. The key is finding that which will make them care, whether it be carrot, stick, threat, promise, risk or reward. Also, exaggeration and telling a story that will satisfy the bs people while actually doing real work is a necessary political and bureaucratic tool of change. In other words, the genius (bunny) has to learn to speak in the language of monsters (institutionalists) and play their reindeer games in order to save the children (corner kids). He already speaks the language of street monsters, it’s just another dialect to learn.

Bunny Colvin was by far my favorite character in this series. I loved how he just saw right through all of the BS, and I could empathize with how often he was unable to change it on a large scale. And I was jealous of his creative ability to change it on that smaller, more localized scale. That's the part of being human that we all want to get to. We imagine it in our heads, but for many of us, excuses and obstacles in real life stop us from doing that hard work.

I hated that chick more than any character, even Cheese!

Greatest Show Ever…The Sopranos was my #1 until I watched THE WIRE…Now Sopranos is #2

I bet that superintendent is an undercover freak. Take off those glasses and let that hair down and you're in for a time of your life.

Public school is still like this. They absolutely will not pull the 1-2 students in a class who ruin the lesson for everyone. No real consequences. Everyone knows who the problem kids are. But administration just keeps throwing them back into the classroom and blaming the teachers. They need an alternative program, one that isn't controlled by standardized testing. Never gonna happen, though, and bad schools will just keep being bad.

“Archer! You are Sean Archer!!!” Anyone gets that reference here can be my friend

“It’s not about you or us”. It’s important and extremely hard for any human to keep things in perspective. Asking yourself why you are doing something is a step towards becoming an adult. Repeating that step is how you stay an adult.

Damn, one of the first KZfaq videos.

this video was uploaded in 2006 jeeeeez haha

Bunny was the best character on The Wire and nobody can tell me otherwise. He was the heart of the show.

Bunny’s my guy

"Did they embarrass us?" Christ almighty, fuck off.

If Shawshank has taught us anything it's that you can't go around calling folks obtuse. They get real pissy about it.

Bunny Colvin is what I hope that most police officers strive to be like.

"We pretend to teach them, they pretend to learn...'' is unfortunately very commonplace, even more so today.

Great scene...except, as it turns out, Bunny was only half-right. Namond wound up leaving the corners and became an upstanding dude. The exact same dude the teacher was saying he could become.

Im starting to watch too many of these videos, I guess it's time to start watching the show again, for the 6th time.. :)

Honestly Parenti was lowkey one of the best character.

Anytime someone's response is an offended "excuse me", you know you're speaking the truth they don't want to hear.

"What do you think he became? A stevedore what fuck you think?"

The reason they hated him wherever he went is because he told the truth. They didn’t care about helping students just to keep the teachers employed.

Bunny is the cop we deserve

The Wire is probably the most damning portrayal of what happens when you give women any position of power. They don't care about results, efficacy, or actually reaching people on their level, they care about about putting on a good face, being "right," and superficially nice despite every shred of evidence showing that method doesn't work. With men you see the same principles in elite positions of influence (Rawls, Valchek, the politicians), but women make up the lower tiers that socialize and educate the generations of tomorrow

Watch the scene in season 1 where Wallace helps the young kid with math problem, and then watch this scene. The way this series weaves stories together is like no other.

For some reason, calling uptight people obtuse REALLY bothers them. This lady got all riled up, just like the warden in Shawshank. Lucky this dude didn’t get time in the hole.

If Bunny was based on a real person, he was one helluva human. Integrity and compassion above everything else - a true leader

bunny's actual speech of a lifetime was convincing weebay to let him adopt namond

Bunny's approach was basically Hamsterdam better executed within the schools. It's a continuing theme within this show that previously failed ideas are improved upon and find success as a result. The same thing happened with Marlo and how he combined the individual failures of Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale to create his drug empire.

Bunny Colvin took my heart in this show and squeezed it so many times. His words are so genuine and so well said.

We need more bunny’s in the world…. I love how Colvin is all about not being 100% result driven in processes… that is so important in the world we live in… doesn’t hurt to be empathetic and understanding about problems

Damn, Bunny was one of the few who saw through all the bullshit.

This, The Shawshank Redemption. Everybody has a problem with being labeled "obtuse."

"You arent educating them, you are socializing them!" Do you think you can educate an unsocialized person? Is she even a teacher?

best police in the wire 1. colvin 2. daniels 3. lester 4. mcnulty

If school teachers who truly cared watch this, it will ring different to them.

‘Requires socialization before they can be properly educated…’ That’s a DAMN SHAME black folks. And y’all are proud of that culture??..

This was the saddest subplot in the show, the way these schools were purposely knowingly failing these children, in a systemic way, so they could promote themselves and continue up the ladder, and anyone who tried to intervene and help the kids was shut down and shut out.

Anyone who’s ever taught in a non-rich school would know. I taught in a school in a small community where people didn’t know what it was like to not be poor. Most of their families were farmers and the kids also worked the farms on weekends. They didn’t really care about trigonometry or mechanics. They were very aware that they would end up as farmers. Some were in gangs, most were rebellious. Your goals change in that situation. You can’t care about test or exam scores anymore. You just want to help them see that there’s more out there than the life they have so they can want more for themselves.

"did they embarrass us?"

Can you really educate someone who hasn’t been socialised? 🤔🤔🤔 That was a really terrible statement from her 😳😳😳

Bunny tried to change the system as a police, but he realized that crime doesn’t dissappear just by punishing the criminals. Instead he centered his attention in the education system, only to discover that it was as corrupt as the police…

" we pretended to teach them... And they pretended to learn... Where'd they end up?" .... Colvin best character on the show.

Bunny is my favourite television character of all time

Bunny is the only one in the room who understands the kids and the problem. The so called educators are just posturing and bloviating about their own perspectives. This is the real reason why Malik can't read.

So this is where Ray Holt came from! :P

Has that assistant ever seen Shawshank? Nothing good comes from using the word obtuse.

If I ever find myself teamed up with Bunny Colvin with the task of trying to convince someone to do something I want them to do...I'm just going to keep my yapper shut and let him do all the talking.