"The Help" Got Me Thinking

I grew up in the South. Not the deep South depicted in the movie “The Help”but the South nonetheless. I was born in 1962 so I was just a baby during the era in the movie. I went to see it tonight with 2 of my children and it has me reflecting back on my childhood growing up –what I saw and didn’t see or maybe didn’t want to see. Are we just as guilty when we look the other way or don’t stand up? I think maybe so. Segregation wasn’t as visible when I was growing up in Kentucky because of when I was born but it was still there on many levels.

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