i guess i heard about original sin.

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Melissa Harris-Perry tweeting her thoughts on the movie The Help live while watching it on August 10th 2011
She later said on MSNBC that it was the periphery of that story that she took issue with, arguing that “the African American domestic workers become props” for the white protagonist, and that it reduced the struggles of laborers in the South to light Hollywood fare.
“This is not a movie about the lives of black women,” she clarified, as their lives were not, she argued, “Real Housewives of Jackson, Mississippi… it was rape, it was lynching, it was the burning of communities.”

>”oh I loves me some fried chicken” this line was just uttered
That one line says so much.

Wanna know why I refuse to watch the movie? There you go.

Like, how on earth did anyone watch this movie and NOT think that it was ultra-racist? Guh. Also, I’m developing quite the affection for Harris-Perry and her commentary lately on, like, everything.

ladyatheist:

catbountry:

feedmerevolution:

Melissa Harris-Perry tweeting her thoughts on the movie The Help live while watching it on August 10th 2011

She later said on MSNBC that it was the periphery of that story that she took issue with, arguing that “the African American domestic workers become props” for the white protagonist, and that it reduced the struggles of laborers in the South to light Hollywood fare.

“This is not a movie about the lives of black women,” she clarified, as their lives were not, she argued, “Real Housewives of Jackson, Mississippi… it was rape, it was lynching, it was the burning of communities.”

>”oh I loves me some fried chicken” this line was just uttered

That one line says so much.

Wanna know why I refuse to watch the movie? There you go.

Like, how on earth did anyone watch this movie and NOT think that it was ultra-racist? Guh. Also, I’m developing quite the affection for Harris-Perry and her commentary lately on, like, everything.

Fighting racism is really not an issue of people being nice to each other. It doesn’t end when white people learn Important Lessons for themselves and realise that people of color are actual human beings with feelings (but not human enough to be able to speak for themselves, natch). It’s about breaking down power structures that privilege whites and keep non-whites down. Who really cares about a movie where white women learn to be nice to their black maids when they are still their maids, what the fuck. If you really want to tell a progressive story, tell it from the perspective of the people who are disenfranchised, and actually make them three dimensional characters as the author of The Help failed to do. That’s the kind of story that does a world of good, because not enough of those stories exist.

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—	squintyoureyes, on “The Help” (via youarenotyou)