Travel Tips: See the Movie The Help
Wonderful film set in a Time period of the Jim Crow laws 1950′s 1960′s where Blacks couldn’t drink from the same water fountains or use the same toilets. White Families had black Maids who raised their white children. Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) was gifted with children. Aibileen with Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) carry the main parts of the story with Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone) weaving the threads together into a book explaining. Telling the story from the Maids viewpoint of what it is like to work for White Woman in the South and raise their children. The story is poignant.
Like Blind side when I saw the previews I believed it would be an Oscar for Sandra Bullock. This movie is an Academy Award winning movie with a great story and good acting. I would love to see it get an Academy Award
After the Civil War (1861- 1865) several Black people were voted into Congress, Vanessa Williams in TV series Who Do You Think You Are? found an ancestor had been in the Legislature in Tennessee (1885-1886) for a short time as an educated man formerly a teacher. As districts were redefined he lost his job.
As I watched the Movie I thought of all the movies (Driving Miss Daisy, The Long Walk Home, Blind Side) and books (Black Like Me) written about Black and White people and how some things have changed a little. Much is now coded in political words like States Rights, Southern Strategy, Birth Certificates, Voter ID, and voter precincts being gerrymander in order to make sure its leaning are toward one political party. Mostly our Congress is still White men.
Jim Crow Laws (1876 to 1965) forcing Segregation was the normal. Desegregation laws brought busing and with it long trips to schools cross town. Now campaigns funded by Billionaires and Millionaires against busing are changing towns back to Segregation.
What will our future hold as we cycle again though turbulent times like 50 years ago during the Civil rights Movement resulting in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The polarization of left and right is just as strong as the subject in this movie with many states implementing Voter ID for voting as we are marching back to a time period about 50 years ago.
In the end the white writer, Skeeter gets a great job in New York but the maids still live in the south in Jackson Mississippi with Ross Barnett as the Governor. The film draws you into the characters. It is just a glimpse into the time period without the total harsh truths.
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Eileen Ludwig, travel writer of Freelance Tourist brings to the world insights about places to travel, discounts, Staycations, Restaurant Reviews, movie reviews, and fascinating tibits. She is owner of three other sites: Photography, Web Design School, and Social Media School Each are in different stages of development and evolution.
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