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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.

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