I’m not doing the students good if they’ve seen a film 10 million times already. I’m trying to introduce them to things. I’ll say, “You know there was some good s— made before you were born. And it might be black-and-white.” And “On the Waterfront” is one of my all-time great films. I got to be good friends with Budd Schulberg, who wrote the screenplay.

Spike Lee in an interview with The Washington Post

By definition we teach Political Theory with this in mind. What would it mean to teach Racial Politics with this in mind? Black Politics? Urban Politics?