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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
Furthermore, I find Spike Lee's assertion that the destruction of the pizzeria in order to save Sal and his kids to be preposterous. Yeah the cops crossed a line and should be prosecuted, and they weren't targeting Pino and Raheem, just Raheem, but Sal isn't the cops, and the mob equating Sal to the cops shows a reprehensible amount of bigotry.
But generally, that's what Spike Lee films intend to do--they want to show a story of bigotry, and instead the vast majority of the bigotry that is shown is that of the filmmaker.
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What did you expect?
And for the record, riots aren't about vengeance or reason or fairness. It's anger, bottled up for too long, and finally released in all directions. There's always friendly fire and imaginary villians created at the time.
Lee has gone overboard in recent years to convey his message and that's a shame. I don't think he's made a film worth watching since then. I've pretty much worked at Sal's for over a decade near an HBC I attended.
There was always that friction between it being one of the few places for decades that welcomed the black man and at the same time made money off them.
So the question is always there: are we
really welcome or are you just another cracker making money off us?...