… to go all the way; and Kathleen Stockett’s source material for The Help can’t be blamed this time. What is deeply regrettable is that if Ma had been braver it could have gone into the archetypal regions of the American psyche and encouraged the conversation we are having right now as a country — or that some of us are trying to have — about reparations for African Americans. Sue Ann is what happens in America when we refuse to talk about slavery.
Max S. Gordon
