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Old 08-18-2011, 08:05 AM   #31
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I read the book and I don't think it white washes anything. There is a real discussion about the financial, physical, and social danger that the women participating in the writing of the book are in. There is a real discussion of the biogtry and pettiness of White society. There is a real discussion of the hard lives that the Black women lead and insight into how those women viewed the White families they worked for.
The comment on the movie from one of the sites on the cheezburger network:
Cons: Anybody else find it a little bit insulting when movies turn the civil rights movement into a story about compassionate white people?
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