Thought-provoking video essay - with link to transcript - which reiterates Jonathan Rosenbaum's suggestion that the film's argument is not a case of either/or, but both/and. This argument helps us understand the closing quotations - the binary opposition between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Rosenbaum would argue that Lee is not inviting us to choose either King or MalcolmX, but prompts us to acknowledge that both King and Malcolm X have equally valid points to make.
http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/do-the-right-thing-is-about-much-more-than-just-race/Content?oid=1198065
(with thanks to filmstudiesforfree.blogspot)
And here's a link to the BBC4 documentary about Public Enemy which was shown on Friday 9th December. Up for a few more days, I imagine. Hurry now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01805m3/Black_Music_Legends_of_the_1980s_Public_Enemy_Prophets_of_Rage/
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