A Brief Summary Of Do The Right Thing Day

It is the day of a campus-wide town hall meeting. It is also the day of the BSU-initiated protest in response to the heart-stopping incident that occurred in the fifth episode. During this episode, the newly-appointed student president, Troy, is caught between a rock and a hard place; that being, fidelity to his blackness and new-found duty to the Office. As night falls and the crowds begin to gather, Troy gets closer to his judgment day. As it stands, just before the event begins, Dean Fairbanks and President Fletcher hear a ruckus outside to which Troy is sent to investigate and even dilute. It is at this moment that Troy’s hedge of privilege slowly begins to crumble. Following a series of chaotic events, Troy finally has his Mookie in Do the Right Thing moment. He smashes the locked door of Hancock Hall with a shovel and is immediately arrested. As silence falls over the chaos, Dean Fairbanks arrives outside in time to see one of the cops pulling a gun on a struggling Troy. “Don’t shoot!” he cries. “That’s my son!” Troy is spared and instead, dragged away. It is a chilling callback to the moment in “Chapter VI” when Dean Fairbanks denied Troy would ever face down a cop’s gun following the aforementioned incident with Reggie. …show more content…
Did privilege save Troy or did he just get lucky? Were there any subtle differences in police interaction between Troy and Reggie? As much as Dear White People explores the various experiences of Black life, Simien instantly regresses back to the universal fact that class is a divider only in the mind of [our] contemporaries; not in the eyes of the hegemonic, white supremacist, heteronormative society in which we all dwell. This episode serves as a wake-up call for the dormant and a “told you so” for the