Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, so far, is a brilliant film.  Especially the scene when Mookie confronts Pino about his racism.  Pino’s favorite anything is a black man yet he is so strongly bothered by Mookie and his friendship with Vino.  Pino’s excuse, however, is something incredibly stupid: “well they’re not really black.”

Even though this film takes place in 1989, its issues are still highly relevant today.  Time and time again I hear many say that blacks just aren’t black enough anymore, as if that makes sense.  This is why this movie is so funny to me because it shows the stupidity of the truth.  Black people are black but not everyone is the same.  Same with Italians, Puerto Ricans, Asian, Jews…  Everyone creates certain stereotypes in order to group people together.  However, this just becomes harder to identify them, to hate or to love them.

– Shivani Sharma