Why I Will Not See The Help: A Rant
…e truth about who these people are could not be known. Without the novel’s central character (a young, white, would-be writer named Skeeter), Abilene, Minnie, the other black women of the narrative would never have a voice or an opportunity to present their humanity to the world. This message is false because black women, from a variety of stations in life, have voice and live and demonstrate to the world fulfilled lives every day—without the assi…
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