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Brett Alan Dewing
Sep 05, 2011
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Awhile ago, I vowed to never again apologize for being a white, Christian, American man.  And so, in watching the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's massively successful book, The Help, I cannot but ignore the tumult of controversy over the writer's (both in-book and out) whiteness.  What gall, they say, to tell a black story from a white mind, to sh…

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