ANYONE SEE Spike Lee's "DO THE RIGHT THING"?

[YourNewLove]

In class we are going over american history and what not and so in order to see the suppression but on blacks and stuff like that we watched DO THE RIGHT THING and I thought it was a really good movie. there were some things that I didint really understand like why MOOKIE threw the chair to really kick start the fight at Sals.

Post if you have seen it and what you thought of the movie

 

[x339]

I watched it earlier this year in school. I thought it was pretty good, but it really felt like a reverse racism kind of deal. For example, the part where mookie started the riot at Sal's. He blamed Sal (basically a representation of "white people") for what happened to Radio Raheem, when clearly it was just the fault of the of some stupid (and possibly racist) police officers.

This quote from spike lee really makes me angry

Spike Lee has remarked that he himself has only ever been asked by white viewers whether Mookie did the right thing; black viewers do not ask the question. Lee believes the key point is that Mookie was angry at the death of Radio Raheem, and that viewers who question the riot's justification are implicitly valuing white property over the life of a black man.

He is clearly just making another racist remark about white people, but tries to make it look like its white people being the racist ones. Obviously people question it because it was not in anyway Sal's fault that Radio Raheem was killed, not because Sal was white and Mookie was black.

 

[YourNewLove]

ahh yes good feedback so far. and thanks for that quote and analyzation reall made me kidna think about that. i loved freaking radio raheem he was the man. I dont know if i would call the 2 cops racist because they did look out for the blacks when they sprayed that white mans caddi but then again what could they of done. and yes i did feel like reverse racistism was kind of the deal.

 

[x339]

ahh yes good feedback so far. and thanks for that quote and analyzation reall made me kidna think about that. i loved freaking radio raheem he was the man. I dont know if i would call the 2 cops racist because they did look out for the blacks when they sprayed that white mans caddi but then again what could they of done. and yes i did feel like reverse racistism was kind of the deal.

I felt that this was another point of reverse racism. The cops didn't "look the other way" because they thought the black people were right in what they did, but instead did so because they realized they were out numbered. That part of the movie was supposed to show that the black people were heroes for what they did, and when they intimidated the cops it was another little "fight the man" message.

Now think about this, they think its ok for them to basically threaten the cops just because they are white. If the cops had arrested them for doing something that is illegal, they would have been called racist.

 

[BedLover]

no, never eared about that.

 

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