What are some “safe” themes that occur in “Do The Right Thing?” Racism is one, and it’s present throughout the movie. However, this is a tired subject, thus has been written about by more authors than I care to count. Discrimination? Sorry, this is just a subdivision of racism, this one has had a few papers written about it as well. Those were all excellent choices for a paper, and I’m sure that someone has won a Pulitzer for them, so let’s leave those topics alone.

My best friend, John Frerichs, once told me,

“Dare to be different.” I thought that I would take John’s advice for this paper, seeing as how he is at Duke, and I’m at WWU. I figure that alone has to mean he knows what he is talking about. Now pay close attention, this is where the paper takes a turn for the better.

Now for the heroes. Possible contestants? Radio Raheem comes to my mind. Let’s test his character, and see if he can be a true hero. First off, he is far from blameless in his death. He plays his radio at levels that could be heard by my dead grandmother. In fact, this noise is so loud; it drives not only Sal crazy, but the three old African Americans sitting on the corner. Second, he wears steel knuckles that spell out “Love” and “Hate.” A trained movie veteran will notice that Radio is by all accounts harmless, and the knuckles are just a thing of show. The knuckles may have been just for show, but they did look bad

to the police officers, not that they took the time to notice however. They saw a black man fighting with a white man, and being white police officers, they assumed that the black man was at faul

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