Comparing Do The Right Thing And A Letter From A Birmingham

In the movie “Do the Right Thing” and Martin Luther King’s “A Letter from a Birmingham” compare in the aspect of focusing on the injustice that lies within the oppression of African American people within a Caucasian dominated society. In Martin Luther King’s Letter, Dr. King expresses the ideas of non-violent action being the action of choice in order to fight oppression of minority races in response to tension that is brewed within society between the Caucasian and African American races. In response to an individual labeling Dr. King as an “extremist” Dr. King merely replies with an explanation that he is a non-violent extremists in order to address the unjust laws that degrade the African American personality. To some degree, the movie

By Sal smashing Raheem’s radio, displays Sal’s silencing of African American expression of the frustrations with oppression. In turn, displaying Caucasian dominance over the Negro class. As Buggin Out, Radio Raheem, and Sal began to argue over the silencing of the radio, as it laid smashed on the bar, Sal and Radio Raheem had begun to fight. Though both had justification to display their frustrations with each other, the fighting and tension between Radio Raheem and Sal surface, displaying the surfacing of the underlying tension between the white and black races in the community. The shift between a silent protest as Buggin Out no longer goes near Sal’s place and attempts to recruit others to do the same, and causing a fight between Sal and the community displays a significant shift from non-violence to direct action from the community. With Buggin Out attempting to take Sal’s place under by trying to get the community to not buy from their anymore displays African American attempt to try and destroy oppression of the African American race by sabotaging Caucasian capital in the community. If Sal does not have any customers in the community, he cannot keep his pizza place open, and is forced to close. This concept that Buggin Out had attempted furthers the idea that by stripping the Caucasian individuals of their power, which is capital, then African Americans can be equal in dominance or display the need for a change and turn-over injustice into equal opportunity between the