Spike Lee Do the Right Thing

The movie, Do the Right Thing, by Spike Lee is a hard hitting drama that deals with violence and racism in today's society. This film is set in a primarily black neighborhood in close to the present time. Right in the center of this neighborhood stands a pizza parlor that is owned and operated by one of the most important characters in the movie, Sal. In the beginning of the movie, Sal is shown arriving …

…up a good point that I believe pretty much sums up the movie. She says that the lunatic violence that erupts in not just this community, but all segregated black communities finally hurts black people more than anyone else. Even though it seems like it is Sal who came out on the bottom here it is really the black community and relations among black people that are wrecked and ravaged for a long time after..