My favorite television show of all time, The Wire, featured a devastating scene last season. A former police captain took a few streetwise, underexposed and underprivileged kids to one of the best restaurants in Baltimore, the city where the series takes place. The kids, all black, won this dinner by participating in a class project. And although the former captain, also black, did everything he could to put them at ease, the kids collapsed in the unfamiliarity of the situation and became almost completely incapacitated. One of them would not …