Sunday, January 29, 2012

Moving but Hypocritical

I admit The Help is a good movie, about friendship between white women and black maids in the 1960s and hope and change for a racially equal society. But mm, a white girl wrote about how black maids look at serving white families, the book became a hit, the writer was head-hunted by a publisher, that is, the privileged gets more privileged, while black maids who talked about their perspectives, exposing themselves to racial tensions, get in more trouble. Mm ...