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The Reality of the Melting Pot Tempers explode, emotions take charge, and a Italian-run pizzeria in a black Brooklyn neighborhood becomes the center of a violent conflict on a hot summer day in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. The film is a d ....

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... delivery boy for the pizza parlor, as he struggles to “do the right thing” throughout the day. The events are set in motion when violence that breaks out is between two neighborhood black teens, Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito) and Radio Reheem (Bill Nunn), and Sal. They are upset that there are no black photos displayed on the wall of the pizzeria. Radio Reheem ends up being murdered at the hands of the police. The community turns against Sal and the pizzeria and a riot breaks out, in which his pizzeria is destroyed. In Do the Right Thing, the subject is not just a struggle between races, but racial tension and miscommunication. Lee’ ...