Spike Lee, The Right Thing

    In the film Do The Right Thing the small block in New York is torn by racial ideas and preconceived ideas.  The films constant theme is said by almost every character.  "What is the right thing?" and every character reacts to it differently.  Mookie (Spike Lee) is at the center of this whole block.  He is the go to man along side Da Mayor (Ossie Davis) the two of them are trying to get everyone to do the right thing and be respectful and stand for whats right.  

     In my opinion the "right thing" in this movie tho was that they people had to be hateful towards someone of different heritage or color.  We see the monologs of the police man, Sal, the korean, and Radio.  Each one of them is going off about the last one and how they are F*&$ this and he's always been a Mother F*^%$ that.  that seemed like the right thing to do at the time.  To hate the person for being Black, Italian, Korean, or a Cop.  

    

     Talking in a derogatory way and belittling them as who they are or what they are was the only way to fit into whatever group they were characterizing themselves into.  The cops always beat the black people up first in the film, and the black people were the first to talk shit to the cops in the film.  An if you didn't you would stick out like a sore thumb.  So the "right thing" to do back then was to characterize the other person as less than you because of his color or heritage.