Portrayal Of The Black Male In "Do The Right Thing" By: Spike Lee
Portrayal Of The Black Male
All black males in today's society are raised different and portrayed in many different ways. All black men can grow up to be like Flipper and not like Gator in Jungle Fever. Flipper works at an architecture firm trying to move up, while Gator, Flippers brother is a crack head. All men don't have to be lazy with no job, kids. Like Kevin Hill (Taye Diggs Show), he is a successful lawyer, adopted a child, black, no girlfriend, and he hires a nanny to help him while he is at work but he still is taking care of his responsibilities. Black males are portrayed in several different ways, hostile, lazy, funny, broke, in fact powerless, educated.
In Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee's portrays the black male as funny, Sweet Dick Willie, ML, and Coconut Sid are all funny. They are always talking about someone akin a joke out o something or talking about each other. ML says, "They way I see it, if this hot weather continues it will surely melt the polar caps and......
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