Do the Right Thing: Independent Cinema Essay

Do the Right Thing (1989) is a drama-comedy film crafted by writer-director producer star Spike Lee which delved into issues dealing with Brooklyn existence, racism and bigotry which exist in areas found in metropolitan New York. Tolerance is unremarkably maintained but feelings are always threatening to spill let on the key point of Lees film. Most of the actions take place in Sals Pizzeria, a 25 year-old Italian-American establishment in the African-American community (Do the Right Thing 1989).Sal has two sons, Pino and Vito who were all working with delivery person Mookie. In one of the scenes, Mookie was talking to one of his African-American friend in the pizzeria when the issue of blackness was again brought up. His friend asked Mookie who is his favorite basketball player, actor and musician. Mookie replied caper Johnson, Eddie Murphy and Prince who apparently are all African-Americans by descent (Do the Right Thing 1989). His friend had humorously assumed that Mookie might have preferred to be black in a sense.Mookie responded that the three are not just blacks they are the higher blacks. His friend, who is an African American, was shocked with how Mookie regarded his favorite personalities they do not choke to the ordinary blacks to whom the issue of racism is often addressed however, Mookies categorization of blacks can still be considered as being racist and still not a way to move out from the issue of racism (although Mookie had attempted to ease the degree of insult by bringing up the status of whatever blacks into a higher level).The stimulating theory of double consciousness explores the possibility of how black political culture may change as it moved out of the early phases which attempted to escape from the notion of slavery towards the acquisition of meaningful citizenship in post-emancipated societies (Gilroy, Paul 1993). The categorization of Magic Johnson, Eddie Murphy and Prince as higher blacks is an unmingled response that the pu blic (regardless of descent) is attempting to put a higher regard of what have been considered by history as bearers of the lower status.