Building off Patricia Turner's op-ed, TNC identifies The Help's biggest problem, perpetuation of the myth that racists are evil through and through:

It's worth [remembering] that people brought their spouses and children to lynchings, that they kept gory reminders of the work on store counters. I'm sure many of these people were good parents, good spouses and deeply committed to their society. But it's much more comforting to imagine them racists as Lex Luthor evil and Jeffrey Dahmer depraved