It aint just Tavis, the whole black community hates this Disneyfied view of black history:

http://www.huffingtonpost...02275.html

You go girl. Perry aint exactly a radical.

"The whole black community"?

I liked it. Your whole black community comment has fallen flat on it's face.

The shit is really gonna hit the fan once they win tonight. It's gonna be Monster's Ball all over again.

sextonseven said:

"The whole black community"?

Every last one of 'em. Didn'tcha know?

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smoothcriminal12 said:

I liked it. Your whole black community comment has fallen flat on it's face.

and I know at least 10 black people who liked it too, so... I guess we're just blind Steppin Fetchit clones

Ottensen said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

I liked it. Your whole black community comment has fallen flat on it's face.

and I know at least 10 black people who liked it too, so... I guess we're just blind Steppin Fetchit clones

If I remember correctly, the movie is based on a novel, so Ms. Harris-Perry needs to go after the author for whitewashing racial history as much as the movie producers, but then again, the novel was a work of fiction anyway.

Having said that, it appears there's an element of trying to gloss over racial inequities in order not to offend ceratin groups of people. I sort of remember this same argument a couple of years ago when The Blind Side was nominated for Best Picture. Now that was actually based on real events, but it did appear like it was about this poor Black gentle giant from the wrong side of the tracks being saved by the nice Southern white lady. And years earlier, the movie Mississippi Burning had all kinds of historical inaccuracies with reard to the civil rights movement.

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2freaky4church1 said:

It aint just Tavis, the whole black community hates this Disneyfied view of black history:

http://www.huffingtonpost...02275.html

You go girl. Perry aint exactly a radical.

2freaky, you're exaggerating. She wasn't speaking for the entire Black community. If she was, she would not have been interested or needed the opinions of other Black Americans, that she invited as guests on her show yesterday morning on MSNBC, as well as other non-Black Americans, to discuss the movie. Did you watch Melissa's program on Sunday morning? If you had, you would have known that she didn't hate the film.

Melissa and some of her guests had their 'difference' of opinion about how they would have liked it better, if the film makers didn't sugarcoat some of the racial prejudice/segregation, etc., that was going on in that time period. One critic felt they could have used the movie as a lesson about racial prejudice, segregation laws, etc., to show what the real reason was behind the racial disrespect/mistreatment the African-American actors received, while employed as domestic workers, and also what they experienced as African-Americans during a turbulent time period of racial discrimination, segregation and Jim Crow laws in America.

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My wife (who's Hispanic) made me watch it a few weeks ago.

I loved it...nearly cried...and I took the funny maid's advice and put Crisco on my squeaky garage door. Worked like a charm.

I'm curious, but I really don't want to read what Melissa Harris Perry's issue is with "The Help". I respect her opinion, but I really enjoyed this movie and don't need her spoiling it for me. I didn't watch it for it's historical value anyway, and that's not where my appreciation of it comes from either.