The Help (score: 6.5)

The Help is a film is about racist whites (who are evil in every scenes) and enlightened white (singular) trying to offend one another, with the African American characters sometime act surprise that Emma Stone actually cares about them. I'm not too bothered by the overall plot structure like some do, but how can the director not notice that while the white characters talk, make decisions, and grow; the black characters stand like a furniture waiting to be arranged?