Open Thread: Do The Right Thing Edition
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later,…
The 20th anniversary of the release of Spike Lee’s ground-breaking movie Do The Right Thing, which dealt with a day in the life of a block in Bed Stuy, and in so doing brought the multi-layered issues of gentrification race coexistence and conflict in the inner city to a broader national audience. Two decades later, how much has changed and how much remains the same?
It’s just a saying. It means how are you?? Don’t read anything subliminal into it, unlike MY tricks.
tricks? sorry, my brain is totally fried today
“Today’s generations simply do not care about the tired old dichotomy; race relations to them are on a whole other level.”
I just don’t know how to think about this, IJ. You and I can both only speak as white people and while on some levels you’re right, I think, calling it “tired old” doesn’t really addresses the issue, because there’s still a lot of tired old dichotomy out there. The way we dance around it has changed, but the fact it, we’re still dancing around essentially the same issue now as we did then.
Segregation was an expression of racism- eliminating segregation didn’t eliminate racism. Affirmative action was meant to address institutionalized racism but unless you can reach people within the core of their hearts and minds, all we’ve accomplished is force people to change much of the public discourse, but not the private one.
Now we throw around terms like “reverse racism”- that only tells me how far we have to go. Obama’s election was a ray of hope. When you look around and see how much of our leadership includes African Americans, Hispanics, people from other countries- I am elated and hopeful, but for people to assume the worst of the past is behind us? I’m still hesitant- I’ve seen and heard too much. Just look at what the Republicans have been doing- “Obama, the Magic Negro?”, making an issue of his birth and middle name? And so many other examples- I just would love to say we’ve left the tired old dichotomy behind, but I’d be lying.
Snappy, how’s tricks??? Maybe you ought to add some expertise to the Curb Cut thread.
Hola fellow PLUSAs 🙂 What’s the good news for today?
I’ve seen plenty of NY’ers wear Paul Pierce Celtic’s shirt…I think has something to do with gangs.
Well’ technically not. Both Wendy’s and Arby’s are owned by Triarc Corp. The Thomas family, myself included, have nothing to do with it anymore.
infinitejester – didnt but a quick image search tells me while nice – not even close to Trading Places or DTRT
*Chuckle* LOL DIBS