{"id":80504,"date":"2014-06-30T18:08:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=80504"},"modified":"2014-06-30T18:08:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T16:08:33","slug":"spike-lee-on-do-the-right-thing-for-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/spike-lee-on-do-the-right-thing-for-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike Lee on ‘Do the Right Thing’ for Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTwenty-five years ago this month, Spike Lee released his third feature film and, inarguably, his greatest joint: Do the Right Thing, the story of tensions between the local residents and an Italian-American family in the black neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, on the hottest day of the summer. The film was a trenchant exploration of the racial politics of New York City at the time, from incendiary trash-talking to police violence and an ensuing riot \u2014 even extending to the graffiti on the wall reading “TAWANA TOLD THE TRUTH.” (Tawana Brawley became a political flashpoint in 1987 when, as a teenager, she was found in a trash bag smeared with feces and with racial slurs written on her body; she said six white men had raped her, although a special state grand jury the following year declared that she had fabricated the story.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the interview HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Via RS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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