The book nor the movie "The Help" are my cup of tea. As a black woman from the south with first hand knowledge of women who were maids to white people, I heartily agree with Melissa Harris-Perry's view of "The Help." Both the book and the movie romanticizes a fraught filled, thankless, low paying job done by black women in the south during the ending of Jim Crow. Best wishes to Ms. Davis and Ms. Spencer but I do not wish the film well at all.
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