Do the right thing by Spike Lee

The whole story in Do the Right Thing took place on an excruciatingly hot summer day and night in the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a slum Black community. In that neighborhood, three businesses dominate: a Black radio station, a Korean grocery store, and an Italian pizzeria. In a space where the residents were predominately black, the two alien businesses strive to merge in and coexist. They seemed to succeed at first, but then the heat have …

…of hand. Spike Lee further emphasizes his point by showing us the sayings of Malcolm X and King at the end, giving the viewers a choice where one can choose between peace and violence. From the film before, one can see that both choices may lead to dire consequences if the people as a whole would not embrace the same ideal, but that would have to be left to the people to choose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**