I finally pinpointed what exactly irritates me about The Help

I'm used to the magical Negro trope, so that's not it. It was a sympathetic movie too.

What's wrong with The Help is illustrated in this post over at Dear Author where Jaili wrote that she thought Cajuns were part black, and liked the stories because they were written as if the Cajun characters were real people, not minority tags and stereotypes.

It was almost all about sex where mixed race characters were concerned. Authors did used this to their Cajun characters as well. Such as...