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Hollywood Hype
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In "Do The Right Thing" (1989), a racial show-down eventually erupts between an Italian American pizzeria owner in Brooklyn (Danny Aiello) and his African American delivery man (Spike Lee).
Director Lee says he based his 1989 film on an actual incident which occurred in Howard Beach, New York in the mid-1980s, when a group of African Americans were attacked outside of a pizzeria in an "Italian" neighborhood.
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Joe Truth
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Of the four white attackers arrested for the beatings,
only one of them was Italian.
The ringleader was an immigrant from Great Britain.
Lee betrays his own bias when he makes
Sal the pizzeria owner---ostensibly a sympathetic character in the film---the
ultimate instigator of the race riot by uttering the infamous "N" word. |
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