If you've never seen Spike Lee's 1989 canonical American film Do the Right Thing, then you're missing out on movies, Spike Lee, New York City, America, reality, and some pizza.

If there ever was a film that encapsulated the strife between neighboring types of people in New York City's outer boroughs, as in pre-hipster Brooklyn, it is Do the Right Thing.

So a few days back, satire expert Jimmy Kimmel released the sequel to the Spike Lee joint, Do the White Thing, illustrating just how far Brooklyn has come in a lot of ways since back in the day.

But in what direction has BK gone? Well, mostly, white. Yep, we all know there's an encroaching battlefront of quinoa, high-pressure processed carrot juice and $8 grapefruits. 

Kimmel is just the first guy to frame the (often pretentious) silliness that creative white people have flooded Brooklyn with in the context of a seriously important film-- essentially cutting foolish newbie "Brooklynites" pretty deep. 

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We should really be calling them "Brooklyn-lites," but that might make easily offended people upset. But, if they have any sense of humor, they'll get it. Because it's ironic. See what we did there?

It's five minutes of pretty great jabs at NYC's "cultured" anglo-youth with a few bucks. Check it out.



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