In a pivotal moment in Spike Lee's film do the right thing, a character colloquially referred to as Da Mayor tells Mookie, the film's protagonist whom is portrayed by Lee himself, to "Do the right thing . However, while most would claim that morality should be common sense in deciding whether or not something is the right thing to do, what would happen when morality is thrown out of the window, due to close-mindedness? This is the challenge that Mookie, along with many other characters in the film, are presented with day in and day out as they go about their daily lives. Lee uses these challenges to highlight the many facets of stereotypical and racial abuse that the characters in the film must endure, and parallels them to the people in the real world who deal with most if not all of the same struggles on a daily basis. While Mookie and the other characters deal with a wide variety of scenarios, it would appear that the main dilemma for all of the characters is that blacks are not accepted by the other races within the community, given the racial barriers and tensions that exist between them. This implicates how Lee sees the struggles of blacks in modern society, having hoped that through this film eyes would be opened to the struggle that African Americans face: to be recognized and accepted, even now long after the strides that were made during the civil rights movement. By using various scenarios in which characters are discriminated against based on their race, culture, or other stereotypes, Lee essentially puts the main objective of the film right out in the open, which is the fact that even now in modern society, despite the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and the like, the struggles of African Americans to be culturally accepted are far from being solved, but despite being looked down upon they should continue to fight and "do the right thing . It would appear from the start of the film that it is somewhat of a call to action by Lee, seeing as how as soon as the opening credits roll by the song "Fight the Power  by rap group Public Enemy is blasting over a scene of actress Rosie Perez dancing rather aggressively, at one point even donning a pair of boxing gloves and a boxer's robe and beginning to take shots at the screen. It is apparent as soon as the movie begins that Lee has an affirmative stance on how the African American community should begin to rise up and "fight  to be more accepted by mainstream society. This is delved into in greater detail right after in the opening scene in the film, where DJ Mister Seňor Love Daddy tells the audience to "wake up  and that the forecast for the day is "HOT . This shows that what the audience is about to see is going to "wake them up  to what the black community must deal with every day, and that the movie will be getting them "hot  not necessarily in a physical sense, but an emotional one. It is also interesting to note that DJ Love Daddy says "Here I Am! Am I here? You Know It!  which could be Lee's way of speaking on behalf of the entire black community, where he is communicating that no matter what, Afric