Spike Lee Speaks About 'Do the Right Thing' 20 Years later

Spike Lee, in a conversation with Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Root's Editor-in-Chief, calls out the critics who predicted violence at the release of his groundbreaking 1989 film and clarifies what the "right thing" really was.

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Great film and interesting interview. When the government is
markadamsjdmba

wrong, it's dangerous to do the right thing.

For example, complaining about criminal conduct can result in a prosecutor threatening to make you disappear. For more on that see, http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mark_ada_071006_msm_misinformati...

For another example of how dangerous it is to report a crime and why government agents can treat you and me like slaves, see http://dailycensored.com/2009/06/24/why-does-the-u-s-government-torture-...

If you want to know what happened to me because I did the right thing, see http://markadamsjdmba.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/justice-in-floridas-supre...

Keep up the great work.

Highest regards,

Mark A. Adams JD/MBA

P.S. If you're interested, here's a 3 minute video about some of my work http://blip.tv/file/1672498 and here's a link to my speech titled "No Justice, No Peace" given at the National Judicial Reform Conference at Rice University in Houston, Texas http://markadams.blip.tv/file/2074454

Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Can't wait to watch and hear more.
lclemetson

Great interview, Skip! Very interesting to hear Spike call out the film's critics by name all these years later. Seems still very personal to him. Good tease. Can't wait to watch more.

Posted: Thursday, June 25, 2009