Are you blind sided The Blind Side may have been a lie?

To be fair, in my newspaper days we always referred to anyone leaving for a job outside newspapers as "getting off the plantation."
I referred to my personal escape as "getting off the Titanic."

 

I hope this doesn't shake anyone's belief system.

 

Facts is ain't facts.

 

Do you understand that by holding a conservatorship they had legal authority over his financial affairs, as in, all of them? They had greater ability to profit off of his success than LaVar Ball does from his sons, or countless other parents living vicariously through their children's athletic or artistic successes, and he's not their son nor apparently ever was despite their representations otherwise. Also, do you realize that a conservatorship is generally only used for adults with disabilities who are no longer capable of making decisions for themselves? Every conservatorship I've dealt with on behalf of my clients has involved people with major disabilities.

Whatever he's done with his money (or that which they permitted him to have) is irrelevant to the offensiveness of defrauding a young man by convincing him that a conservatorship is akin to adoption. I have no idea what kind of person Michael Oher is, but it's entirely irrelevant to the Touhys being massive pieces of shit for 1) putting him into a conservatorship and 2) maintaining it for 20+ years. And they have clearly acknowledged the existence of the conservatorship in their public statements about seeking to end it.

 

Her competition was:

HELEN MIRREN
The Last Station

CAREY MULLIGAN
An Education

GABOUREY SIDIBE
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

MERYL STREEP
Julie & Julia

 

Did you keep reading? Because he was aware of the existence of the word "conservatorship" doesn't mean he knew what it meant. How they explained it to him certainly doesn't appear to be how it turned out, given the Tuohys' continued changing stories about the movie payouts.

 

My version was “escaping the mines.”

 

Well, for one thing, he got married last November….not that a new wife chirping in your ear about what you’re entitled to would ever happen.

 

This is not a defense of the argument, but The Blind Side has already been cited (particularly by Bomani Jones recently) as being something of the archetype of the racist "white savior" trope, so a lot of those people probably think she should have never accept it (or the job).

There's some truth to it. Both Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell did win gold medals in those events at the 1924 Paris Olympics, but Liddell knew months ahead of time that the 100 final would be on a Sunday and planned accordingly, and the American who slips him the religious message said he was not observant and did nothing of the sort. I believe the main fudges in the Abrahams side of things was that it wasn't him who did the court run before the clock struck 12 and that there wasn't nearly as much anti-Jew stuff as was portrayed. All this reminds me it's about time for me to dig way too deep into The Complete Book of the Olympics ahead of next summer.

Also, Mr. Bean didn't really play the synthesizer part.

 

Between Whitlock and Michael Lewis chiming in, I think we can declare this matter settled and close the thread. [/remember the blue font]

 

You have a white person helping a black person its "white savior" - you have a black person helping a white person its the "magic negro" thing.

It doesn't sound like Oher is alleging the Tuohys stole money from him - outside of the conservatorship preventing him from striking his own deal with the film producers. Correct? He's not saying they took a cut of his NFL deals or anything.
The other thing that struck me is that this whole deal went down during his seniorish year at Ole Miss, he declared for the draft as a junior, but went back and became a first round pick. How much the Tuohys had a say in that I don't know. Doesn't have quite the movie ending if he's sitting at home on the couch on day 2 and no photo op with Goodell.
Conservatorship or no, adoption or no - the book and the movie coming out while you are on the cusp of an NFL career had to be a crazy time.