Anyone else despise Miss Millie?

"Now give me some sugar" Did you see Sofia's son wipe his face after the horrible Miss Millie slobbered him with kisses? "You wanna be my maid?"-"HELL NO!"

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I personally think that during that time that any favor a white person in power did to an African American was VERY outside the norm if you consider during slavery that families were ripped apart all the time without a whim and if you read the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, slaves werent even allowed to know their own ages. So for the simple fact that Miss Millie even allowed Sofia to see her family for even one day maybe showed that while she was incredibly ignorant...she wasnt essentially coldhearted...Other folks would have been much much worse.

" How 'bout some chocolate pain, bitch"

I know that this thread hasn't been worked on in a while.

But I can't disagree more with you. My strongest reaction is to despising Celie. First of all, her sister was either sure to be raped, and soon, by their father, and end up in exactly the same position as Celie, or leave. She didn't ask Nettie to come stay with her, Nettie showed up, nor did she try to manipulate her into staying when she left. And Nettie knew what she was getting herself into. If you're going to hate Celie, hate Nettie to. Might as well be victim blaming the both of them while you're at it. What she liked and saw in Shug was a woman who garnered the respect of Mister, a woman who he didn't beat and who enjoyed sex with him. And in a twisted way, she looked up to that. Because in the mind of a person being abused, she wanted to be what pleased Mister for him not to hurt her. Shug was that example. Shug was not a threat to Celie, she was a relief, she loved her and taught her confidence, was the one person who cared or asked, while also being the distraction to cause Mister not to beat Celie. She didn't threaten any stability in a "fragile family arrangement", because there was no stability in that arrangement to begin with. She didn't cause the unstable environment, that chaos was was caused by Mister, it started in him. In no way can either Celie or Shug be responsible for that situation. To suggest that Celie have not befriended Shug, another victim in her own way, and not have had that support, is absolutely twisted.

As far as Sofie, I am one of those people that believes that if I have to be killed by my abuser to make the news for sexism or racism to be noticed in my country and start change, so be it. That is a small price to pay for standing up for myself. Perceiving that as a threat and shrinking away from that responsibility to myself, and allowing the abuse of my entire demographic to continue is irresponsible. I can't hate her for being strong.

You talk about Millie as if she's done the least bad in this movie. Which says a lot about you. It's no wonder that blacks grew to hate the whites, after what's been done. That's what was most apparent to me while watching this. You don't see the black people in this movie being even half as racist as Millie, not to say that it doesn't exist. The boys all tried to jump on Millie's car and help her despite knowing her hatred for them, while she did the opposite and gave into fear. She might have been progressive for the time, but I don't really care how someone is raised. No matter what age you were raised in, when you see abuse of another human being, you feel that it's wrong. People lie to themselves in all kinds of ways to avoid acting and admitting that it's wrong when they see it. I hold other people to the same standards I hold myself, and I've been in some situations. You are responsible for your actions. You are responsible to reacting to your gut when you see something happening. Hatred and racism and sexism are NOT NATURAL STATES. They are not born with you, you are taught them. You're not responsible for your parent's actions, but you sure as hell are responsible for your own. That's the only way to change, and the way that the world has changed even as much as it has, is realizing that and changing YOURSELF, correcting and relearning what you were taught. Which is why I despise Millie, what she represents, a person failing to be strong in that way. An entire race of people doing that for decades. I hate her weakness.

Millie remains racist to the end, Celie leaves her abuser and lives BETTER for it, with the lesson of strength under her belt. So please tell me more about how you dislike Celie more than Millie.

My only hope is that the country can continue healing and both sides can come to the center and realize that fear isn't the natural reaction to everyone in the opposite race. And that people will start seeing unhealthy relationships for what they are.