The Help - The Movie
I saw the movie called "The Help" very good and a real eye
opener and I highly recommend it. Although this movie is still
playing in a theater in my area it may already be out of theater
in your area, so I encourage you to get the DVD's. Before I get
into my take on the movie The Help, in my last email I shared
about the movie The Courageous, I thought it was
interesting that after I saw the movie I saw a segment on the
Trinity Broadcasting Network with Paul Crouch Jr interviewing
Alex Kendrick promoting the movie also. The movie courageous
will make you laugh, make you cry go and see it and you will
see why.
Now back to the movie called The Help. Many of the younger generation today are
not aware on how bad segregation was at the time the movie portrayed. Segregation
has been a problem from the beginning, Moses had to deal with it because he married
a Ethiopian women. Paul had to deal with it and so do we today. I as a younger man
never realized how bad it was till I went into the army in 1960. I was stationed at Fort
Binning, GA for basic training and for the first time in my life I found out there was still
regions and states where people of color had to use separate bathrooms then
Caucasian people, and that people of color had to sit at the back of the bus, it was a
real shocker to me. I was raised in New Jersey, my family had a business called John
D'Alesio and sons landscaping and contracting, and growing up I worked along side
people of many different races, I also went to school with kids with all different ethnic
backgrounds. So when I got to GA in 1960 it was a real eye opener and heartbreaker
for me. I was then sent to Fort Sill, OK for advanced training. The army at that time
was training me to be a forward observer in the artillery. Prior to sending me to my tour
of duty in Germany they sent me to more advance training at fort hood, TX and that is
where I got another eye opener. I had a 3 day pass and took a bus to Dallas, I got off
the bus and headed up the steps into the bus terminal. I was greeted by a large group
of men of color, they wanted to beat me up and I could not understand why. They
pointed to a sign over the door that said Negroes only, then they pointed to the sign
over another door that said white people only. I was completely shocked, never
experienced anything like it. It almost started a riot. I explained to them that I am from
NJ, worked with, went to school with, and was raised with people of color and my
parents did not raise me that way. Well it was really exciting when they let me go
through there door because alot of the white people did not like it.
So when I saw the movie The Help it brought back alot of memories. In my 6 years
in the military some of my closest friends were people of color and so it is today. Go
see the movie, bring your family as it will be a eye opener for everyone you bring and
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His Friend and yours
Pastor John D'Alesio