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Characterizing Mother Sister as a Wise Black Woman is also underselling the complexity of her role. She may have the appearance of being wise and certainly positions herself that way on the perch, but she's actively offering advice to destabilize the system. She encourages Mookie to work as little as possible and constantly rebuffs the well-meaning Da Mayor partly because he has "bought in" in her perception. This is to say nothing of her actions at the end when she is screaming for the place to burn down louder than anyone else in the mob. Her "wiseness" is called into question the very next morning when she's seen presiding over Da Mayor with sadness over what she devolved into last night. If there's anything Do the Right Thing does well, it's show how these people are more than their stereotypes like "Wise Black Woman" or "Angry Black Man". Heck, the saddest line in the movie for me is when the "Angry Black Man" Radio Raheem is leaning against a wall with Buggin' Out and weakly says, "He told me to turn down my tunes and didn't even say please." He's willing to correct his behavior, he just wants someone to be considerate about it.
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