Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon refused to let a slur against her city made by a British member of Parliament go uncontested. The Liberal Conspiracy reports on her response.
An excerpt from the blog posting reads:
The Mayor of Baltimore has hit back at Tory MP Chris Grayling over comparing parts of Britain to The Wire.
In a statement posted to her website, Sheila Dixon said Baltimore had a per capita homicide rate "a fraction of that in the popular UK television show Midsomer Murders."
The statement read:
"Fellow citizens
This week I was alerted to a speech made by a Member of the British Parliament, a Mr. Chris Grayling, who suggested his country should fear becoming like our city of Baltimore as portrayed in the HBO series, The Wire. We all watched The Wire and while it was sometimes a heart-breaking reflection of reality, it was in the main, merely entertaining fiction.
The television show failed to reflect the best we have in this city, our sense of community, our hospitality and our proud history and culture. To present a television show as the real Baltimore is to perpetuate a fiction that dishonours our city. It is as pointless as boasting that Baltimore has a per capita homicide rate a fraction of that in the popular UK television show Midsomer Murders."
Read the full blog posting here.