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Old 10-31-2011, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by ilovetv View Post
How many readers here had a "maid", of any color, growing up?

I don't know of anyone we knew in the Midwest having one.

I know this is a good movie and one I'm definitely going to see. However, I have read opinion pieces from other states that cite the movie as more reason to be repentant of "white guilt".

What do you think if you've seen it?
Not I said the little red hen. No one I knew had help...unless you count your grandmother coming over to help with the wallpaper cleaning.

The whole concept of this book seems like such a heartbreaker that wimpy me will not go see it. I stay down for days after books and movies like that. It is too late to fix that part of history and all you can do now is be aware and fair.
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