There are so many movies like "A Bronx tale" which depicts a black business being destroyed and even in real life black businesses have been destroyed. Sal was an opportunist who didn't give a crap about the customers that were paying his bills. Look at what his racist son said "Planet of the Apes", where do you think he learned that from? His father. I'm glad spike lee made it so easy to sympathize with sal.
shareNo, it wasn't.
shareA man died but some people seem more interested in some pizza joint. Yikes.
You are sin.
Agree with you PreachCaleb.
shareNo, people are upset that a protagonist destroyed the livelihood of another protagonist because a character was killed by cops.
Sal had nothing to do with RR's death. Destroying his place, and having it started by Mookie, comes off as betrayal and unjust.
Say, do you hear that? It's the sound of the Reaper.....
Exactly. They're upset over a pizzaria and not the dead guy.
shareExactly. They're upset over a pizzaria and not the dead guy.
Wrong. They're complaining about the pizza place, not about the murder in the streets.
sharePeople can take issue with both.
Mookies actions were wrong. The cops killing Radio Raheem don't justify his destroying Sal's pizzeria, and people take issue with it. The cops were villainized the entire film, so, when villains kill a character people aren't as disturbed as when a protagonist seemingly betrays another protagonist.
Say, do you hear that? It's the sound of the Reaper.....
you're a retard son. Two wrongs don't make a right, and if a white guy acted like radio raheem all the time and got choked out a little too much by a cop, I sure as hell wouldn't be crying in the streets about it. Get over yourself you virtue signalling twit
shareTwo wrongs don't make a right,
I never said they did. The issue here is that people complain about a pizza shop yet don't care that a man was killed on the streets by the police. Heck, that's still going on to this day. Almost 20 years later, and people still don't understand that human life is more important than pizza.
If a poll was taken and a viewer had the ability to either revive RR or restore the pizzeria, they'd choose Raheem.
I'm sorry, but judging by the comments on this message board, no, they would not.
That's the problem. That even though the villains of the piece killed someone, viewers don't care. Heck, several posters on here salute the cops and are happy about what happened to Radio Raheem. And the ones that don't are more concerned over the pizza place. Yes, it was a tragedy and a betrayal.
Yet Sal is alive and few people give Raheem another thought, and the ones that do are happy he's dead. That's far worse than Mookie's betrayal. That people side with the obvious villains.
OP: I disagree. When you have worked in rough areas as I have and haven't done the slightest thing that was racist but, my having been witness to and victim of countless racist and anti-Semitic comments, does this give me the right to go on a violent crime spree? I didn't grow up in a racist/anti-Semitic house. I learned what it was to work in rough areas when I finished my education and got a job.
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