thank you for believing in me.

I have no problem with ‘The Help.’ In fact, I loved it. I’m a black woman whose grandmother worked in a white household from the thirties through the sixties until a (SHOCKER) white woman she’d befriended offered her a job as a secretary at a hospital.

I’m not getting why black people feel like this being written by a white woman is an example of OH GOD WHITE PEOPLE TRYING TO TELL HOW IT WAS. It’s just a book. It’s just a movie. It’s based loosely on some things that the author observed years ago.

Maybe I’m way off base. I’ve already been told I’m not ‘black enough’ so maybe that’s my issue. I’ve read all the articles and arguments and recaps of rage, and I just want to tell everyone to calm down because it’s not called ‘The Help: An Actual Account of How Life Most Definitely and Exactly Was for All Blacks and Whites in the South.’