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— tales of other worlds

⟡ VERSION 10, SEPTEMBRE 2023

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On whether Mookie did the right thing or not...

What’s really interesting to me about this question is that Spike Lee said that he only gets asked this by white viewers. Black viewers have never asked if Mookie did the right thing or not. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, and I really can’t figure out why that divide exists. Is the idea that black viewers don’t have to ask because they know it was the right thing to do? So, as far as I can tell, here’s the fundamental difference: Sal’s pizzeria represents different things to people of different races and cultures. To me, as a non-black viewer, Sal’s pizza shop seems like part of the community and Radio Raheem was killed by a white police officer, not by Sal. To a black viewer, however, Sal’s pizzeria could represent something entirely different, though obviously I can’t know for sure. But Sal refuses to represent the neighborhood’s culture on the wall of fame, he silenced Radio Raheem’s voice by destroying his stereo, and he let all of his inner racism fly when he flipped out on Buggin’ Out and Radio Raheem. If I think about it, I can easily see how Sal and his pizzeria could represent the fundamental, systemic racism and white privilege that white people rarely have to think about or acknowledge. If that’s the case, then Mookie’s intent was not destroying Sal’s pizzeria, but destroying what it represents and making sure they would remember the implicit racial biases and injustice that previously went unspoken in the community.

See, when we don’t acknowledge the problems in the country and in our lives, it makes the people who see the problems feel like they’re going crazy and making a big deal out of nothing. It’s so much better to bring the issues to the forefront and actually deal with all the pain that they cause. So when it comes down to it, Mookie did the right thing in making sure the neighborhood’s equilibrium was upset, even though it came at the cost of a family’s livelihood and place in the community. But then again, maybe the reason black viewers don’t have to ask is because it’s not a question of right versus wrong; it was sort of the inevitable. Something was going to happen anyway, and better to destroy a store than take away more lives. Hate was going to win over love that night regardless of what Mookie did or didn’t do.