Segregation And Discrimination

Discrimination and segregation are both very big topics that are pushed to the side in today’s modern society. Discrimination is the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. It was very noticeable that the whites left most blacks to defend themselves. Most say that they were being treated like dirt. Segregation is the act or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart. Most having to defend for themselves and not having anything to do with the whites. The blacks also had many rules as to where they could be and what they could do. Racism was also a large topic that is not always talked about in the society. Racism
This shows that segregation doesn’t just mean that the blacks and whites must live apart. It means that they can only interact in certain situations. The blacks that work in the little community go to work for their owners each day across town. The white women running the house were full of cake eating, tab drinking, and cigarette smoking women. They cook, clean, and watch their children. They have group meetings to talk about the things they were going through with their owners. The only person in the community that wants anything to do with the blacks is Skeeter, she believes they are treated wrong. They should be treated just like any other person in the community. She helps the blacks write the book about their owners. With the fear of the white women discovering and retribution in the beginning kept the maids form complying. They did not want their owners to know that they were talking bas about them behind their back. They told stories embarrassing stories and even stories about the deepest darkest secrets from around the town. The blacks in the town always did what they were told and never wanted to disrespect their owners. “I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side of town. I want to stop that moment from coming – and it come in every white child's life – when they start to think that colored folks are not as good as whites. (Chapter 7)”. This quote shows that the blacks never felt like they had as much meaning as the whites. The Help unlike many books shows many images of race relations, it also portrays the point of view of both the blacks and