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?
Mr. B., had you considered this topic to be a thread separate from the OT??? I think it certainly could have stood on its own and generated a couple hundred hits. You are cannibalizing the OT.
The OT should never be one’s own personal soap box. It should remain “Open” as its name says. This too represents the further downfall of this blog that many have pointed to since the removal of guest posting. 🙂
Haha, thanks. They are the extreme crunchy parents. It’s a pretty safe assumption to make that if you see someone holding a diaperless infant over a sewer to poo they would also be the type that would not vaccinate.
I did like “subculture of crunchy parenting.”
Ahhhh, Do The Right Thing! I remember NY Magazine published a rather hysterical article by Joe Klein about how the movie would cause riots! Mayhem! Truculent po’ folk throwing shade at the checkout counter! Idiots.
Everyone should have the full spectrum of hepatitis vaccines, no matter what you think of big pharma. Apparently Park Slope is as dangerous to visit as parts of Asia without sanitary facilities. Who are these people that you PSers have allowed to move into your neighborhood????
When Do the Right Thing came out I was with my parents taking a dump in a sewer on Nostrand Ave.
That it exists, gemini? Oh, yes. Google it.
That I believe in it?
I would think after all this time, you could answer that… but, uh maybe not, so GOD NO. It is crazy. These people scare me.
Heather:
are you serious?
Exactly, dibs. I’m sure China’s 30% of the population having Hep B or something is just a plot by big pharma to sell more Hep B vaccines.
Or, at least if I lived in Park Slope that is what I would think.