Like Atomic, I'm sorry, I haven't seen the film, so if that precludes me from being involved, fine, but since nobody who HAS seen it has jumped in yet--
That, to me, seems to be a non sequitur. If it came down to a choice between the pizzeria and the life of a person (black or otherwise), very few would question choosing the man's life. But in this case, the trashing of the pizzeria would not prevent nor make up for Raheem's death -- the loss of the pizzeria was simply more loss. To say that questioning the riot's justification is racist is a bit much, but then, I doubt Lee was calling MLK a racist, so that might have been a claim he made in an exaggerated or philosophically imprecise manner.Originally Posted by Wikipedia
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