…and I saw little Kennard from The Wire. You probably know him as the sorry, disrespectful little snot nosed hopper that killed Omar. Or, you gleefully recall watching Michael beat him good and pulpy. Either way, he was on Law and Order.
Turns out he was playing a Haitian slave, brought to America to work for some rich white people. Wanna know what I thought when the police got him in the park and took him to the station, after they found out he was a slave? “I hope they send that little bastard to jail.”
The kid can’t be much more than 10. He’s a fictional character. But I promise, with everything in my soul, I was hoping they’d throw his lil’ ass in the tank with the grown men so he could see what it is to really be hard. Show ’em how hard you are, lil’ hopper.
Well, it turned out he did kill someone, and he was sent to jail. At the end, he asked if he could go back to Haiti. Instead, they took him to jail. I smiled.
And I will watch it again, in search of that good feeling.
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The funniest part of that episode was when Van Buren and McCoy were discussing how terrible slavery was. But on another note I’m sure kennard is better off in jail than in haiti.
lol. So you’re hating on one fictional character based on the actions of a completely different fictional character who happens to be played by the same actual person. And actually…. I completely understand.
Bo–
I was thinking the same thing when I saw this episode. The crazy thing is that a lot of the actors from The Wire have appeared on Law and Order and SVU. They must have the same casting directors. I’ve seen Namon, Omar, and Bill Rawls just to name a few. I remember seeing Rawls play a senator who did the “Larry Craig” deed in the public bathroom. I wanted to see him go to jail. With all the actors from The Wire it’s hard to separate them from the characters they played. But the Kennard thing was crazy because he was older and taller and tried to use a deeper voice. He’s still a bad little dude who needs to be jailed. LOL
must…not…make…comment on black actor playing a succession of murders before his tenth birthday…must…not