The Help

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I finally read this book. Once started I couldn't put it down. I've known people like this all my life, both black and white. What really impressed me was to remember when men and women each lived in different worlds. Often they never had a clue as to what was going on. Now with so many women in the work force I think many of these seperate worlds are blurred. My family was white and we did have help in the house, being from the East Coast of the USA, our help was of many nationalities. Unlike these stories in The Help our people were all family, those that worked for us were not treated any differently then the rest of the family, all children had chores just as each employee did, we played with their kids, went to school with them wore each others cloths and shared lives. But because we lived in California we had many Southern families and in those homes The Help would have recognized themselves in that book. I remember the first time I saw the way Black people were treated, as tho they were not humans, I hated it then and I hate it now, because it still goes on, it's just under ground and hidden. But I liked the book.