Blog- Do the Right Thing

I recently wrote an essay on Do the Right Thing, a movie that covers lots and lots of racial issues, especially discrimination and prejudice.
Here's a little excerpt:
The late 1980’s was a time of reformation for Americans. After the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans were quickly swept up into a postmodern world that called for many conflicting attitudes on ethnicity. From globalization and cultural preservation to individuality and community, the citizens of the United States had many new questions to consider. Now that African-Americans have earned their political freedom, should they be treated differently? Should we stop clinging on to what seems safe and familiar and strive for different relationships? Unfortunately, the new Civil Rights Acts were not enough to dissolve the powerful racist social constructs.
In response to the instability and continuous prejudices, blacks emerged with many new statements and opinions about American government and society through music, movies and other forms of media. Spike Lee is a major contributor to this movement through his direction of controversial independent African-American films. One of his most famous films, Do the Right Thing, addresses an endless amount of ethnic, cultural and political issues of the time. Through the use of realism and symbolic elements in Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee exposes the discrimination between whites, blacks and minorities in a multi-ethnic urban city in order to exemplify the deeply embedded racism that continues to exist and destroy American society.