Viola Davis says she feels like she "betrayed myself and my people" in 2011 film The Help.
Set in 1960s Mississippi it was nominated for multiple Oscars but Viola says it was "created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism".
It's based on a 2009 book that has been accused of perpetuating a "white saviour" narrative - when black characters are marginalised for the benefit of a white hero who "saves" them.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
MARIO SAVIO MISSISSIPPI SAME AS BERKELEY BABY
"...We have encountered the organized status quo in Mississippi, but it is the same in Berkeley...."
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