Is “The Help” Liberal Condescension?
I’ve been relishing the controversy over the racial politics of “The Help” almost as much as I relished last week’s rumpus kicked up by Stephen Sondheim over “Porgy and Bess.” Think it’s an accident that race continues to be at the heart of our national argument? If you do, you probably think it’s an accident that all Republicans so viciously criticize President Obama because he’s a Democrat and not because he’s an African-American Democrat. Anyway, here’s the latest salvo in “The Help” discussion.
