"the help"

[NinaS]

Watch it. You can rent it at your favorite video store or do like we did and get it "On Demand". You'll have to pay for it, but it's worth the $5.99 .

Some of you will be saddened, others will be embarrassed and some of you will be indignant that even back in the 50's (where the GOP would like us to be today) there were people "uppity" enough to make waves.

I thought of quite a few PJers when watching it and pretty much could tell you what their reaction would be. I wasn't around in the 50's but I'll be damned (can I say that here??) if I would EVER want to live in such an IGNORANT era.

Rick Santorum...you really need to get with the times.

 

[Old Ridge Runner]

You are some else Nina. You take a really good flick and you turn into political trash talk for the left. Yes, those time were bad in the south but blaming it on the Republicans is a streach. Anyone with have a brain knows that it was you party the DemocisRats that was incharge of the south at that time. It happened under trhe watch of the so called party of the people, the party of the middle class. Hop you can live with the fact that it is and was the left that fostered racism.

 

[NightSwimmer]

When Southern Democrats became Southern Republicans after 1965, the only thing that really changed was their party affiliation. They're still the same self-centered, arrogant, ignorant, paranoid xenophobes today as they were back then. I know this first-hand, because I've lived among them the whole time.

 

[NinaS]

When Southern Democrats became Southern Republicans after 1965, the only thing that really changed was their party affiliation. They're still the same self-centered, arrogant, ignorant, paranoid xenophobes today as they were back then. I know this first-hand, because I've lived among them the whole time.

Well you sure did tell me off. From what I'm hearing from the teapartiers and OTHER republicans they want to take things back to that era. So I guess they're also self centered, arrogant ignorant and paranoid. Republicans...the party of paranoia and the mindset they have to carry a gun to protect themselves from the "unknown" or whatever it is they're afraid of. I'd hate to be that weak.

 

[Jen]

I have the book and am about to read it. I thought I would read the book before I watched the movie.

 

[NightSwimmer]

NinaS,

My intention was to address Old Ridge Runner's post. The Democratic Party was the standard-bearer for racial segregation up until the civil rights legislation of the mid-sixties was passed. It was only after that time that the "social conservatives" in the South began defecting from the Democratic Party and accepting Richard Nixon's invitation to join the GOP. That might sound strange to anyone not old enough to remember it, but it's true. My post was only meant to point out that bigotry is offensive, no matter which political party happens to be catering to the bigots at any particular moment in history.

 

[NinaS]

I have the book and am about to read it. I thought I would read the book before I watched the movie.

I'm going to buy the book on Amazon. I watched an old movie awhile back called "Carrie" with Sissy Spacek. She plays in the movie "The Help". Man, I didn't know she was as that old. Carrie must have been from the 50s. It's an excellent movie. Something every racist jackass should watch.

 

[NinaS]

NinaS,

My intention was to address Old Ridge Runner's post. The Democratic Party was the standard-bearer for racial segregation up until the civil rights legislation of the mid-sixties was passed. It was only after that time that the "social conservatives" in the South began defecting from the Democratic Party and accepting Richard Nixon's invitation to join the GOP. That might sound strange to anyone not old enough to remember it, but it's true. My post was only meant to point out that bigotry is offensive, no matter which political party happens to be catering to the bigots at any particular moment in history.

LOL...I'm the one who put my post in the wrong place. I was posting to RidgeRunner and put it under yours by accident. Sorry

 

[NinaS]

I have the book and am about to read it. I thought I would read the book before I watched the movie.

Oh well...I just googled Sissy Spacy and she's only 61. She played a much older part. I think she also played Loretta Lynn. Good actress and i THINK she's from Nebraska.

 

[NightSwimmer]

She did play Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter, and Carrie was from 1976. Please don't make me feel any older than I actually am!

 

[Old Ridge Runner]

When Southern Democrats became Southern Republicans after 1965, the only thing that really changed was their party affiliation. They're still the same self-centered, arrogant, ignorant, paranoid xenophobes today as they were back then. I know this first-hand, because I've lived among them the whole time.

Southern Democrats did not become Southern Republicans. Case in point is the one your side always try to hide, Robert Byrd.

 

[Old Ridge Runner]

Republicans...the party of paranoia and the mindset they have to carry a gun to protect themselves from the "unknown" or whatever it is they're afraid of.

understand something Nina, it is not a paranoid mindset about carrying a gun, it's about upholding the Constitution which garentees the right of gun ownership and the carrying of the same for protection. I bet you'll hate it even more if you accosted and unable to defend yourself, won't you.