Do The Right Thing: The Dreadful Society

The Dreadful Society

In today’s modern society it is essential to follow regulations, so there would not be any kind of tension among the people of all races. This tension we speak of, is one should not be treated higher them the rest because of their skin color. In the past century we the people had a lot of tension concerning the black people and the white people. The tension, provided white people more authority than black people. A fellow black person named Mookie from the movie Do the Right Thing directed by Spike Lee testified the notion of white people being high up in the ranks. Many would say when he was dealing with this issue of …show more content…
One minor act of violence could lead to further superior acts of violence. Mookie portrays violence when he throws a trash can at Sal’s Pizzeria, this is due to the death of one of his own being killed by white cops. Mookie fails to do the right thing, when he does this kind of act of injustice. Early in the film the Mayor of the community advises Mookie to do the right things, and not only him but his only sister articulates him to do the right thing also. Two people tells him valuable advice but he doesn’t listen, and this causes him to make immoral decisions later on in the film. As being a witness of such a tragedy, and a member of the community he should have redirected the tension and anger of the black people from Sal, and should of talk sense into them, and also lead them to a way, that there will be no violence but just tranquility. He had the chance to diffuse the situation, and turn matters into his own hands but unfortunately failed to do so. The first step of doing the right thing is to listen to people and not only that but also think about their actions beforehand, so they would not cause any new