Ater Do The Right Thing, Lee went on a tear with films Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Crooklyn and all the way up to his last big film Inside Man. Amazingly, perhaps tragically, white people still don’t understand the climactic scenes in the film.
“White people still ask me why Mookie threw the garbage can through the window,” Lee complained to the Associated Press around the time of Do The Right Thing’s 20th anniversary. “Twenty years later, they still ask me that. In 20 years, no person of color has ever asked me why.”
About Post Author
