Do The Right Thing Sparknotes

Summary: Do the Right Thing takes place in Brooklyn on a hot day. The movie starts at Sal's Famous Pizzeria. A young African American named Mookie works at Sal's and is the only black man working there among a family of Italians. This pizzeria is a very popular spot for the people of the town which is made up of a lot of African Americans and HHispanics. The movie shows different stereotypes and the conflicts between different ethnicities. The movie escalates when an AAfrican American named Buggin Out is upset that Sal does not have any black people on his wall of fame wall. Buggin Out wants to form a boycott on Sal's. At first no one complies but in the end he gets a group. They go into Sal's and an argument breaks out, a radio is broken and everything goes downhill from there. An African American is killed by a police man causing a huge riot and destruction of the street.

1. The
Koreans and African Americans do not get along at first. The Mayor calls the Korean shop owner Kung Fu. In the end the African Americans and Koreans part ways on good terms and the blacks decide not to loot their shop.
The white police and African Americans do not seem to have a conflict at first. At the end of the movie Radio Raheem gets choked to death by one of the officers and it was not at all necessary. Some white police had it out for the blacks and others did not.
2. The Italians had a bias towards their culture and the whites. The consequences of this was the anger of the black people in the neighborhood. The Africans Americans were not happy that only white people were on the wall of fame and wanted to boycott Sals shop. The consequence of not giving equality to all was that his shop was destroyed and looting.
The police man that killed Radio Raheem was unfair to him because he was black. This caused a huge riot that the policeman could have avoided if he was to be equal to