Skeeter Monologue

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I can not believe that damn nigger would write a book about me. About me? And as for Skeeter? Going behind my back and writing about these so-called ‘issues’. What’s wrong with the way we live? After all that I did for them. Helping Skeeter find Stuart, bless his soul. But as for Minny, putting that pie in that book? I can’t have anyone in this town knowing that I ate two pieces of what mother calls “shit”. Shit, God forbid if anyone heard me say that. Damn nigger feeding me her faeces.
She shouldn’t even have the ability to make a pie, let alone feed it to anyone white! Only God knows why drunken Celia would hire her, oh “to impress Johnny”, and of course because she has no-one else. Johnny should never have left me, I could impress him by walking into a room.
But if I had married
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If they found out, I would be done, I would lose everything. No one is would come to my meetings if they find out. Oh my goodness what a disaster. What is going to happen to my legacy. How will I get people behind charitable causes? Why would anyone donate to charity if I can’t get them behind it. Feeding the starving children in Africa, who would even know, if I wasn’t here to tell them?
And after my bathroom initiative? I spent so long trying to protect us from them. Now? My life will be ruined, I need to convince everyone that this isn’t Jackson, there’s nothing wrong with Jackson. We don’t need to change anything here. William will be elected and everything will be fine.
But Skeeter has made this so much harder, of course she has the audacity to do something like this. Turning her back on her friends and writing a book with niggers! I knew writing that Miss Myrna column could never be anything good. If only I had figured it out. Or if she had said something, of course she wouldn’t though. I would have shut her down! That’s why she sayed in the dark about this, to hide it from everyone so she could have all the credit for herself. She

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