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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, this is brilliance. Fuck that book and I will never watch that movie. I WAS “The Help”. Worked as a nanny on Capitol Hill for years for fuck-ass white folks. This shit is unbearable for me. Fuck, give me a “trigger warning”. 

Melissa Harris-Perry is never not awesome.

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   I love MHP for these tweets. SO hilarious.

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    Yeah, the film itself was so painful to watch, and the whole time I was screaming in my head, “EMMA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?...

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    Bolded mine. It still boggles my mind that people don’t see this and that I actually had a conversation with people...

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    I knew from the moment I saw the poster in the movie I was going to be offended by this movie. I said verbatim to my...

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