` ` Do the Right Thing '' came out 20 years ago this year . `` I wanted to do a film that would try to show what was happening at the time . '' The Lee film examined race issues in a tinderbox situation . Lee sees race as still relevant : ` ` We ' ve got a lot of work to do '' on race , he says .
` ` Do the Right Thing '' came out 20 years ago this year . The Lee film examined race issues in a tinderbox situation . Lee sees race as still relevant : ` ` We ' ve got a lot of work to do '' on race , he says .