Do the right thing is a film about a community living on a street mainly from African-American background set in Brooklyn and shows their everyday lives of their experience during a heat wave.
The film starts of with a song called "Fight the power" by Public Enemy a song that talks about black people fighting back against the racism and struggle
A man named Mookie works in an Italian pizza resturant. A man named Buggin Out causes trouble when commanding the owner of the resurant to put picturews of positive black men up as he only put white men up.
A riot breaks out and some of the neighbourhood turn against the Italian man and soon the police come and strangle a man named Radio Head to death by accident which leads to a even bigger riot and violence on the street.
The movie ends with two famous speeches by civil right leaders Martin Luther King and Malcom X. Both the speeches are based on the film during the fight. Martin Luther King speech says that violence is never the answer while Malcom X speech says violence used as self defense isn't violence but 'Self Defence'
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