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An open question near the end of the film is whether Mookie "does the right thing" by throwing the garbage can through the window, inciting the riot that destroys Sal's pizzeria. Some critics have interpreted Mookie's action as one that saves Sal's life by redirecting the crowd's anger away from Sal to his property, while others say that it was an "irresponsible encouragement to enact violence".[32] The quotations by two major Black leaders used at the end of the film provide no answers: one advocates nonviolence, the other advocates armed self-defense in response to oppression.[32]

Lee has remarked that only white viewers ask him if Mookie did the right thing; Black viewers do not ask him the question.[33] Lee believes the key point is that Mookie was angry at the wrongful death of Radio Raheem, stating that viewers who question the riot are explicitly failing to see the difference between property damage and the death of a Black man.[30]

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In the 2021 Cannes Film Festival award ceremony, Chaz Ebert, the wife of the late film critic Roger Ebert, noted that her husband had been appalled that the film had not received any awards from the Cannes jury in 1989, and had even threatened to boycott the festival as a result.[38] Lee noted that the U.S. press at the time thought the film "would start race riots all across America". Drawing a loud applause from attending press, he pointed to the continued relevance of the film's story, more than three decades on, saying: "You would think and hope that 30-something motherfucking years later that Black people would have stopped being hunted down like animals.[39]

Radio Raheem: Let me tell you the story of Right Hand, Left Hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand, Love, is finished. But hold on, stop the presses, the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes, now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt, he's down. Left-Hand Hate KOed by Love.

"I thought treating employees fairly was really important," I said. "You told us to present our cases. I can't help it if other supervisors weren't prepared. Plus I'm lucky enough to have a lot of great employees and they shouldn't be punished because they happen to work in the same area. Oh, and I had to bring notes because you haven't given me my evaluation forms back." (Okay, so maybe he was right about the "arguing like a lawyer" thing.)

While I felt it was my job to not just advocate but fight hard on behalf of deserving employees and therefore had done nothing wrong, I could also tell I was beaten. So we went back inside and finished the meeting. I wasn't delighted with how it all turned out but that's par for the leadership course in a big company: win some, lose some, fight another day.

Me: "Hang on a second. I need to figure something out." I tried to think quickly. I needed to show him an evaluation signed by my manager and by HR, so simply printing another sheet wouldn't help. So I just told him what happened.

HR manager: "Well, I hope his evaluation is a good one. While we were waiting Joey has been telling us about everything he does. He sounds like an outstanding employee. I think he deserves a merit raise."

While the situation had suddenly gotten confusing, there were a few things I was clear about. I knew Joey was not getting a raise. I knew his evaluation would not be as glowing as he deserved.

So I said, "Joey, I hate to ask you this, but can you step outside for a moment? You didn't do anything wrong. There's just something the three of us need to discuss privately. I promise we'll get you back in here in a few minutes."

So we brought Joey back in. He knew I had screwed up the paperwork on his original evaluation, so I told him we still hadn't sorted it all out but I would get with him tomorrow to clear everything up, and he left.

Me: "I worked on evaluations at work and at home. I revised them a number of times, printed copies in different places... and when I was putting the final copies together I attached an older version of his last page. When we met to discuss raises I shared the right final rating from my notes and we all agreed he deserved a raise. But I turned in the wrong form and didn't realize it until I was giving him his evaluation. So then I printed the right copy and sent it to you guys to sign. It's my fault. I messed up the paperwork."

Plant manager: "Oh. That's right. If we fire you then you will receive no severance pay. You are a long-term employee who has consistently received superior evaluations so if agree to resign we will give you eight week's severance. But we need your written resignation explaining that you are voluntarily leaving the company, and we need that today."

Each episode will offer a short reflection, a simple action, and a benediction to help you create a little more space for your soul to breathe so you can discern your next right thing.

Spike often notes that it's exclusively white people who ask him if Mookie did the right thing by throwing the trash can through the window after the police killed Radio Raheem. Black people don't ever ask him that

I know this from experience; in my early twenties, I was faced with a huge, important, life-altering decision and I tried very hard to do the next right thing. Sadly, I chose the wrong thing, bringing pain and turmoil to my life for several years. Did God work with this wrong decision? Or perhaps I should ask, did God do his work in my life despite my bad decision? Looking back, I can say without hesitation, yes, he absolutely did.

The thing is, there are no answers. There may be heroes and villains, but on this ordinary street in Brooklyn they don't conveniently turn up wearing labels. You can anticipate, step by step, during a long, hot summer day, that trash can approaching Sal's window, propelled by misunderstandings, suspicions, insecurities, stereotyping and simple bad luck. Racism is so deeply ingrained in our society that the disease itself creates mischief, while most blacks and whites alike are only onlookers.

A short while later, I saw two runners in front of me. Suddenly, the statement made a lot more sense. Having run this race for many years, I figured these runners must have gone off course, taken a shorter/faster line, and leapfrogged in front of me. One of the two runners was my buddy Cooper Linde. As I passed Cooper, I said something to him about going off course, and he said that they had. Having regained the lead, I continued on to the finish to secure the win.

Many of the arguments and conflicts we have are because some folks are aligned with doing the right thing, and others are aligned with doing things right, though sometimes it is hard to discern which one is which. In the cases above, I would say driving the kid home is doing the right thing, as well as making the exception for the organization so they could submit a proposal after the due date. Refusing to drive the kid home and refusing to make a grant deadline exception would be doing things right, as it is about following rules and protocols.

Now is also a time to remind us that we do live in a world that is shaped by good men who do good things. Too often if we focus on the news we learn more bad than good in terms of conflict between people, nations and religions. Digesting such evil day after day it is easy to fall into the trap that evildoers outduel the righteous.

For that reason remembering a man such as Smith who did the right thing is to hold a light up against the darkness. In doing so we illuminate a path forward where good deeds are noted, not to the benefit of patting people on the back but for the reason of reminding the rest of us that we can do better because good men and women show us the way.

I'm a graduate of the University of Miami. Before joining Forbes I worked as a reporter and editor at Bloomberg where I covered everything from sports to how negative rates impacted the Black-Scholes model.

I am a U.K.-based journalist with a longstanding interest in management. In a career dating back to the days before newsroom computers I have covered everything from popular music to local politics. I was for many years an editor and writer at the \"Independent\" and \"Independent on Sunday\" and have written three books, the most recent of which is \"What you need to know about business.\"

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