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Sep 12

Do the Right Thing

The film Do the Right Thing does supply me with examples of how to do the right thing by showing mistakes that people have made. The point was that to fight racism you should not use violence, you need to be peaceful and try and send out a strong message. If you use violence your point will never be reached out to your audience.  It relates to making any type of argument. In the long run it is more successful to have a strong rhetorical speech rather than creating all sorts of mayhem. At first it seems like Sal’s pizzeria is a strong community although they fight with each other they are all family and do love each other.  Mookie also has a very strong bond with his community. He is known as the popular one and is very influential to them.  Near the end he provokes the riot when he throws the garbage can into the window. That’s when his loyalty shifted away from the pizza shop. When people resort to violence they will never fully understand each other. Food shops are always trying to make a good business. Chikfila didn’t want a lot of people protesting outside because they thought less people would come eat because of the protesters.  Sals pizzeria was similar, Sal did not want Radio Rahem inside with his radio because he would scare away all the customers. The song Fight the Power was really the most important song because it showed how the community wanted to fight against racism, although the example was just a little pizza shop. The pizza shop represented a bigger example of racism. It ended up leading to the police officer killing radio rahem, which was most likely, a racist act.


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