things she was holding, and therefore i would be labeled as a black actress who took for role timeas mammy. but we differed not respectfully, because i did not have a issue. if i am going to law school, who is going to tell me what case not to take. as i am going to be a doctor, who is going to tell me which patients not to take? you have to fulfill your own dreams and destiny and hope that whatever your art is, if it is received, great. i respect you for receiving it. if it is not, great. you have to keep pushing it on. >> you feel no burden about any of your choices? >> not at all, because where is the indictment in the jewish community about their history? >> they do not have to be indicted because this town will make a movie about a holocaust seven days a week. >> we have so many affluent african american producers. why are we still having the same conversation? tavis: because they do not control distribution channels. >> why have they not pull their resources together. if someone is not doing what you feel they should be doing, why are you waiting for them to do anything? >> agreegree

land space for a mammy monument.museum. i keep thinking that was probably the same ground on which they were going to put the mammy monument in 1923. so this idea of building monuments to domestic workers is not actually new, but it's still sort of this covering, this imaginary. >> right. in 1923, the daughters of confederacy are almost successful in erecting a memorial of the mammys in washington augu, d.c. the same senate passes this -- that refuses to protect black people from violence celebrates this version of interracial relationship hads, this version of black and white interconnection that's not about violence, which i argue is fundamentally violent and is about doing violence to those women's lives. this is a piece of that ongoing political narrative. i think one of the histories, one of the figures we have to include in thinking about this film and the book, the book "the help" was published in february 2009, within weeks of barack obama's inauguration. >> what else was happening in february of 2009. >> exa