Do The Right Thing

According to my own opinion the right thing to do is to live life as fair as possible. Spike Lee uses this film to show how life was in the diverse community in New York City. He was able to show us how the African American community was treated with other ethnicity's such as Italians, white Americans and Latinos. Each community had a different style of living life and often clashed among and against each other. The community was still facing racial discrimination even after the civil rights movement but they were also causing problems themselves. Mookie the main character throughout the movie lived life as fair as possible and often times stuck up for what he believed in but also prevented multiple complications without a reason. Even with the different races clashing with each other and others promoting black power, Mookie still worked for the Italians and was even told he was like son to the owner. Towards the end of the movie chaos is brought to the community because the African American community and Italian pizza parlor began a fight which resulted to the police being called upon. This lead to the intentional death of a black male by the hands of the law. At that moment Mookie was given a choice to side with the Italians or his own brothers and he chose his brothers because the killing was not necessary for an innocent kid. 

In this case Mookie did do the right thing by siding with his community. I personally would have done the same because the death of a teen should not be caused by police brutality. Given the circumstance of the era and the area they lived in, this happened often and the only way to get ahead of this awful system is by coming together as one and to fight the power. That being said, in an individual standpoint, no one should go out of their way to cause violence to prove a point but by living life fair. That is the right thing to do.