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, this is brilliance. Fuck that book and I will never watch that movie. I WAS “The Help”. Worked as a nanny on Capitol Hill for years for fuck-ass white folks. This shit is unbearable for me. Fuck, give me a “trigger warning”.
Melissa Harris-Perry is never not awesome.
(via cocknbull)
