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It is definitely a story worth telling! The book is really great. I hope they cover her father’s story in it. He was a Civil War Vet who fought for years to get his pension. The book also goes into her disagreements with the NAACP. And after everything she acoomplished, she wasn’t allowed to be buried in the cemetery…

I’d like to see Octavia Spencer revise her role as Harriet Tubman from 30 rock.

To see her performance as Precious and then watch her in interviews show her personality to be almost 180 of her character I’d say she has the range at least. It’s tough to say. A lot of the material she is given is not very good.

They’ll cast Zoe Saldana and put her in a fat suit and blackface.

“I’d rather play a maid and make $700 a week than be a maid and make $7.”

How about Emma Stone?

I’m here for this. It used to strike me as odd that my grandmother, a black woman born in the 30's, had a collection of Mammy and Prissy dolls. Now I’m seeing that this was probably because she wanted to honor women who looked like her and broke down barriers, in whatever way that was. Duh.

If they cast a white woman to play this I’m gonna be pissed.

When I saw her picture on this article, I thought she looks like Octavia Spencer. And Octavia is awesome.

Over told story or not, I would love to see this and if I could choose anyone, would definitely like to see Octavia Spencer do the role. I have no doubt that Mo’Nique would do awesome, but I have a soft spot for Ms. Spencer.

It doesn’t matter what a slave owner thinks. You can justify anything if YOU think it’s right. C’mon, seriously?

No, I think slavery is still bad no matter what side of the fence you’re on.

Greed.

A private religious school, probably mostly attended by whites. Religion has been used to promote slavery for a long time.

Boom. Best answer. They can claim to want to expose them to the intracices and mindset and blah blah blah but in the end they’re just kids being asked to think like a grownass white man in the 1700s. WTF?

School Principal Jim Van Dellen admitted the assignment was “out of line” in a letter to parents, explaining that the assignment was intended to “spark debate.”

I think asking a bunch of 9 and 10-year-olds to unpack the rationale of 17th-19th century slaveowners and the governments that permitted the practice is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve seen today. Shit, good on the kid that the answer was “there is no good thing” but on bad things...chores? If you’re going to ask such…

I’ll tell you what, my grandmother would have given that teacher 5 bad reasons right across his-or-her face for slavery, god rest her soul.