The Help
By marie2052
@marie2052 (3691)
United States
February 1, 2012 9:26am CST
I don't want to spoil the movie but again there are few GREAT movies being made and between this one and The WarHorse I hope they both are up for every emmy possible!
This movie goes back to my childhood days. I now sit and try to remember my younger childhood days and come forward as to how we treated the Black community.
To think we had a Civil War in the 1800's pitting North and South brother against brother and other family members defending their ideaas of Slavery.
Once we gave them their freedom, To know almost a hundred years later nothing had changed.
I for one believed in Martin Luther King and his voice. I was a true follower of him whenever I could hear him talk.
he had my love and respect and admiration.
Seeing this movie even as touching and even a bit of comedy tells how still the black community was treated.
Its a wonderful movie and one a lot of us 50's and over can really see come alive and know what it is about.
I hope everyone views this movie and for those that have what did you think of it?
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@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
4 Feb 12
I saw the 'War Horse it was EXCELLENT!
I am going to purchase it when it comes out.
If you like HIstory and movies the new one Red Tails is also a good one to see
I think my hubby and I might see it this weekend.
I am rather tired. Been on a new diet thing and cant eat the calories I was eating so sitting and knitting is doing it for me tonight LOL
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
1 Feb 12
I have not seen the movie, but I have read the book. I enjoyed the book a lot! It is hard to imagine that blacks were treated the way they were. I am now reading a fictional book set in the 1960's, when President Kennedy was shot. The main character stops at a gas station and there are restrooms for ladies and men. The colored people go down a trail filled with poison ivy and there is a board across a creek. Things have changed for the better, but it did take a long time.
@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
1 Feb 12
I still see a lot of limitations for the poor blacks in the US. I still see them doing jobs here in our tourist area that most white folks would not stoop to do.
But watching this movie brought it more real again to open our eyes and see how they are treated and what we can do to change that.
Have a great day.
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@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
2 Feb 12
Granted there are still a lot of things that need to change, but on the whole, we have come a long way. I don't really know if it was true about the restrooms, after all, it was fiction, but I know they couldn't use the same as the white people.
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@Fatcat44 (1141)
• United States
2 Feb 12
The civil war, form what I can gather actually was faught over trade agreement, where the North mandated the southern states to buy products from the North, but the southern states declared freedom to purchase goods from where every they wanted, and at the time was cheaper from overseas. The southern states then, afer this mandate from the north, with the constitutional power it had, disimpolished their legence to the United STates, which under the constitutional they have a right to, and left the US and create their own country. With this done, Lincoln, did not have the constitutional power to put military in these states, but did anyway. Lincoln was actually wrong in his actions.
We have since re-wrote history, and said the battle was about slavery, and taught that concept in schools, because most teachers do not know their history.
The abolishment of Slavery was only a result in-acted after the war was over.
@marie2052 (3691)
• United States
4 Feb 12
Thank you Fatcat your thoughts are actually right on the money. But the slaves were given their freedom and when they were freed most of them had no clue what to do and asked to remain on the plantation.
I know I would have been a rebel saving them from being shot and worse.
I probably would have been one heck of a little rebel if I had known what they were doing my early years of childhood.
