I totally get what David Simon was trying to say in his interviews in All The Pieces Matter to explain his intentions with season 2 but also, one should know that Sonja (Kima), Michael K (Omar) and Andre (Bubbles)'s initial suspicions were all very valid because there has been a long history of whitewashing and cultural appropriation in USA entertainment industry (see jazz music in 1950s, the whole controversy with cool-jazz being appropriated and whitewashed by white musicians while black musicians were effectively being segregated; another case being hip-hop culture has been constantly appropriated, naming no names but you understand the whole concept of "black fishing") But I'm really glad things didn't turn out the way they feared, he lived up to his words to present the city as whole rather than chasing media exposures. It's one of things made The Wire lives on rather than ages poorly.
