feb 5

Why do they call "Da mayor" the "mayor"?
Who's neighborhood is this?
Is it racist for Sal (the pizzeria owner) to display only photographs of Italian-Americans on the wall of his restaurant?
Why does "da mayor" call everyone "Doctor"?
What purpose does "Radio Raheem" serve in the narrative?

In the movie, we can know "Da mayor" has lived in that community for 18 years. Also, in that period,negros usually live in the same place for their most of life, so he seems know everything about the community and gets his "Mayor" for his much experience and age. What's more, he dresses like a gentle man so he looks like a Mayor too.

All the people live in that community are black or Mexican which are poor and unrespectful by the majority in America. In a short, even he white people are not rich and well educated in that place. Therefore, it seems like chaos place.

I do not think it is a serious racism problem to do that. Because as a white, he certainly wants to put the people he respects on the wall but not the one, which is not related to him. However, if not all of the photographs in the wall are respectable to him; it is a kind of racism because he should also care about the Negro’s mind. He of course knows it is racist to put all whites on the wall in such a Negro community.

In my opinion, from Mayor’s deep mind, he thinks all the Negro is smart and respectful so he calls them “doctor”. Alternatively, maybe all the people live in the same community for their whole life, they seem to know most of things going on, and so they can be experiment too.

"Radio Raheem" is a place even a technique to relieve the pressure and bring some happiness in that movie. Furthermore, it serves as a technique to lead people into the next script in the movie and describe the outlook of movie such as the weather.