10 Questions for Spike Lee

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Spike Lee

What impact would you say that Do the Right Thing had on race relations in America? Aqeel Kameelah FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.

Well, it didn't end it. [Laughs.] I don't know what film will be able to do that. I think maybe a better question might be, Can you still do films today dealing with race in the so-called, quote-unquote, postracial world we live in? I don't even know what that is when people say that. It would be a different movie, but I don't think that subject matter has been exhausted.

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