When I read the book The Help, it opened my eyes to the extent people used to go to encourage discrimination in the south. Their derogatory terms for African Americans and their lack of empathy struck a nerve in me. It is unbelievable how cruel people can become, especially when it is socially acceptable to do so. I am ashamed there was a time Americans believed it was a right to own people as if they were property. Even after...

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