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Not-so-nice review of "The Help" by Leonard Pitts
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 454654" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>I had really hoped to make it to this movie this weekend. My latest idea was to go to the matinee this afternoon but I got home 45 mins late from seeing difficult child because I had gotten stuck in traffic.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, my perspective is that while I understand the movie was set at a period of time that is a repulsive period regarding race, my grandparents had hired "help" to help with cooking, cleaning, grandkids, etc. My earliest memory is of this being a young, black lady. I think she had been there several years but my memory only goes back so far. Then, after she found a better job, there was a young, white lady doing the same job. Once, I was taken to Alabama in the mid-60's and had no choice but to meet the most prejudice and discriminating people I have ever met in my life. I kept thinking though, that it couldn't be right to view black people as less than white people because my grandmother had really thought a lot of that black lady that had worked for her and my grandmother spoke very highly of her and her work, and I KNEW my grandparents would not have had her helping with us kids, cooking our food, and having us eat the food if there was something wrong with her. (Mind you, this is in a child's mind.) So, as it turns out, due to this hired "help", I strongly believe this is why I am not prejudice. I don't think we can expect that white people didn't have to think about those issues, given society at the time, so I don't hold that against white people. I do, however, hold it against those who refused to think about any rational reason for behavior or views and just continued discriminating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 454654, member: 3699"] I had really hoped to make it to this movie this weekend. My latest idea was to go to the matinee this afternoon but I got home 45 mins late from seeing difficult child because I had gotten stuck in traffic. Anyway, my perspective is that while I understand the movie was set at a period of time that is a repulsive period regarding race, my grandparents had hired "help" to help with cooking, cleaning, grandkids, etc. My earliest memory is of this being a young, black lady. I think she had been there several years but my memory only goes back so far. Then, after she found a better job, there was a young, white lady doing the same job. Once, I was taken to Alabama in the mid-60's and had no choice but to meet the most prejudice and discriminating people I have ever met in my life. I kept thinking though, that it couldn't be right to view black people as less than white people because my grandmother had really thought a lot of that black lady that had worked for her and my grandmother spoke very highly of her and her work, and I KNEW my grandparents would not have had her helping with us kids, cooking our food, and having us eat the food if there was something wrong with her. (Mind you, this is in a child's mind.) So, as it turns out, due to this hired "help", I strongly believe this is why I am not prejudice. I don't think we can expect that white people didn't have to think about those issues, given society at the time, so I don't hold that against white people. I do, however, hold it against those who refused to think about any rational reason for behavior or views and just continued discriminating. [/QUOTE]
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