{"id":1478,"date":"2023-12-03T20:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T20:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:05:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:05:23","slug":"what-is-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/2023\/12\/03\/what-is-the-right-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is The Right Thing? (Extra Credit)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am writing this blog simply because I still do not quite understand the meaning behind Do The Right Thing, especially the ending.\u00a0I applaud Spike Lee for giving what feels like a balanced and fair view of race relations as it is inclusive towards other minority groups such as Hispanics and Asians. What I truly do not get is the ending. Sal damages Raheem&#8217;s radio and gets involved in a fight. What follows includes incidents of police brutality and the tragic death of a black man, all drawing harsh criticism from Mookie and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, I acknowledge that Sal is a racist who ranted out racial slurs and called Radio Raheem&#8217;s music &#8220;jungle music&#8221;. However, I am just wondering what the right thing really is. Spike Lee also incorporated Malcolm X&#8217;s and MLK&#8217;s quotes, which seem contradictory as one is anti and one is pro-violence. Maybe what Spike Lee is trying to imply is that the right thing is not always white and black but instead muddled? What do you guys think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this blog simply because I still do not quite understand the meaning behind Do The Right Thing, especially the ending.\u00a0I applaud Spike Lee for giving what feels like a balanced and fair view of race relations as it is inclusive towards other minority groups such as Hispanics and Asians. What I truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extra-credit","tag-do-the-right-thing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/introtofilm2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}