Sal keeps talking about how his life work has been destroyed but Mookie keeps bringing up Radio Raheem’s death.
He also showed this in the film with the final conversation between Sal and Mookie.
Lee added that these people put more value on property than they do on Black bodies.
In an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, Spike Lee mentioned that some film critics (and people) were more upset about Sal’s Pizzeria being destroyed than they were about Radio Raheem’s death.