What do black people think of "The Help"?

http://acriticalreviewofthehelp.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/what-do-black-people-think-of-the-help/

This is from another blog, and it's kind of long but a pretty fast read. Since "The Help" is getting award buzz, I thought this was timely although the book and movie have been out for a while. And I'm probably one of the few who haven't read the book or seen the movie. I'll probably eventually see the movie version, some night when I'm bored and I want to stream a movie on Netflix. It's sad that I can categorize my interest in movies as such: will pay full price, will wait until it's at a second run theater or wait until I'm bored and it's on Netflix. It's not that I think I'll dislike the movie...but from what I've heard, while it's moving, it completely ignores a large part of what living in the South was like for African Americans pre Civil Rights. I know the claims that for once, it gives the black characters a voice...but it seems like it also trivializes. I'll never claim to ever be able to come close to understanding the life of a domestic worker, then and now, all over the world, no matter the race (though if you want a brief peek into the life of domestic workers, there's a few chapters on it in the book "Global Woman: Nannies, maids and sex workers in the new economy") and I don't want to say that a white woman cannot write from the point of view from another race. That's absurd. I just don't know whether she did a good job or not...I know many people have said that at the heart of the story is the idea of female love and female empowerment...but I imagine that would be a hard pill to swallow when the African American characters are placed in stereotypical situations (much like past literature/cinema, while the character Skeeter claims to be helping the African American characters, they are in fact helping her achieve her dream of being published).
I just wonder if this book failed because it wasn't able to overcome the period in which it took place. More thoughts when I actually see the movie or read the book.