After 62 minutes of watching this movie, I’ve been wondering why Sal built his pizza shop in a heavily black neighborhood. He hired Mookie to get the pizzas delivered, but mainly to keep the fellow black people happy and attract more customers. It makes me believe he is a racist. On one hand he can put on a happy face and greet all the black people as they use their hard earned money to buy pizza from his shop, while on the other hand he turns into a bigot, hating most black people and talking behind their back while they are not around. So, if Sal is a racist then why did he build a pizza shop around people he dislikes? Contrarily, Sal and Mookie seem to have some kind of father-son bond. Also, Sal has some sort of infatuation with Mookie’s sister, Jade. When she stepped into the shop, Sal practically begged her to try his special slices of pizza and he even stopped what he was doing just to sit with her. Taking all of this into account, I still don’t understand why his shop is located in the Bedstuy-Stuyvesant area, when he clearly has no love for the people that are native there. I assume he’s making good money from them since his shop has been open for a while and has not run into any problems.
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