Posted on 08/15/2023 3:40:11 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The 2009 movie “The Blind Side” does not state or imply that the Tuohy family adopted Michael Oher. Neither does Michael Lewis’ 2006 book that inspired the film that won Sandra Bullock an Oscar.
In 2011, when Michael Oher published his first memoir, “I Beat the Odds,” he stated directly that the Tuohys secured a conservatorship when he was a senior in high school. He wrote that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy insisted that he maintain a relationship with his biological mother and 11 siblings. Oher wrote that his mother participated in the procedures necessary for the Tuohys to become conservators.
Why on earth is Michael Oher pretending he only recently discovered that the Tuohy family didn’t adopt him? Why are members of the media going along with Oher’s effort to shake down the Tuohy family for cash under the pretense that they lied to him and exploited him for profit?
Yesterday, Oher, a former NFL offensive lineman, filed a petition in a Tennessee court arguing that the Tuohys earned millions of dollars from “The Blind Side” and the false belief that they “adopted” him. He claims that he earned nothing from the movie and that the Tuohys owe him millions. This made headlines across corporate and social media. Twitter feeds overflowed with allegations that the Tuohys had profited from Hollywood’s love affair with the “white savior trope.”
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No good deed goes unpunished. Truer words were never spoken.
Just like Colon Kraperdick turned on his white parents.
Welcome to New Amerika. Courtesy of Barack Obama.
Yep.
I love this story. I hope it gets “worse”! Sorry. 😔
“white savior trope”
Indeed.
But tell me, how many black saviors are there in real life?
Evidently he spent $35,000,000 on Escalades, bling and hoze.
The rest he just wasted.
This is sooooo America in 2023. Nasty people grubbing for money.
He’ll get his settlement to add to his $16M net worth. But why the wait?
Everybody’s going to get rich by suing everybody else.
That’s pretty much America’s prime directive…some folks get a bit rich, but the lawyers get VERY rich.
I read that Oher has a new wife as of 2022.
Driving force? He has two kids with her as well as two steps.
The Tuohys saved his life and this is how he repays them?????
He probably would have been gunned down, addicted to drugs and most likely would never have graduated from high school, much less from college and with a scholarship, no doubt.
They gave him the tools, too bad he is too stupid, lazy or greedy to learn how to use them.
-PJ
And he meant every word of it.
They gave him a home, support, love and inspiration. They gave him the opportunity to achieve his dream of becoming a star athlete. Regardless of Oher’s and Tuohy’s races, they WERE his “savior”. Making it about race is a sad reflection on Michael Oher and America’s Race Hustle industry.
The left HATED that movie.
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