My husband and I were at Target looking at movies. A man suggested The Help. We hadn’t ever heard of it. When we read the back, it
sounded like one we would both want to watch (he likes adventure, and I like
chic flicks). It was an amazing, thought provoking movie. It starts out slow,
and you wonder where it’s going, but the characters are well done, and it draws
you in. It gave this southern California girl insights into the way it was in
the south in the 1960’s. You see both the sides: the ladies of white society,
and their African American domestic help.
Being in California I never could understand different schools, sitting
in the back of the bus, different drinking fountains, different counters in
cafeterias and such. Even our military was segregated. I thought it was all
stupid. I don’t want to give anything away, but I still can’t comprehend how
any human being could have charitable societies to “help the poor starving
people of Africa” and in the same breath treat their kindred in this country as
sub-human.
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