Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is a picture of an American community torn apart by hate. The civil unrest under the surface throughout the movie – which surfaces itself drastically in the end – stems from hatred and prejudice within the small community of Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn. Although Mookie at one point says that America is a free country, the film depicts an America that will never be free until the hatred that abounds in its citizens is turned into love.
The most obvious example of the hatred running rampant throughout the film comes at its center. Near the middle of the film, representatives from each of the film’s ethnic groups rattle off lists of racial epithets that each of them hear – and probably think – every day. A departure
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