The Help

I read a lot.  I just finished one of the most page turning, life inspiring, makes you really stop to think books I've ever read.  It is titled The Help, written by Kathryn Stockett.  It is a beautifully written story about black maids, working for white families, in Jackson Mississippi in the 1960's.  This book is thought provoking and it is a MUST READ!!

This book tells the story of the lives of some truly amazing black women.  Their lives are spent cleaning and cooking and raising children for the white women who employ them.   I could go on to say that it moved me and that I just can't believe that the world ever thought, or operated this way but I'd sound just pathetic and clueless to even say it.  I just can't wrap my head around anyone who thinks they are truly better than someone else because of the color of their skin.  I know, I know, it's the world but I hate it.

To think about sitting on my ass and telling someone else what I want them to do, as far as cooking for me or cleaning for me, is a foreign concept.  Let alone thinking it was their, 'place' in life????  UGH.  How people could ever think and feel that way is about as beyond my level of comprehension as the thought of me sprouting wings and learning to fly.  Yet it is a reality that I am sickened with it.

I usually try and write about funny or crazy things that happen in my life but I just wanted to write about how much this book moved me and how strongly I feel that everyone should take the opportunity and read it.  

Well there you have it.  My first blog of April, on my soapbox.