We know movies are dramatized, but the narrative that was accepted by the public was made possible because of racist stereotypes.
From “The Blind Side” to “The Help.”
With the conservatorship being a legal fact and the adoption seemingly an entire fiction, this might seem like a surprisingly dark turn for what we were told was happily ever after. But the easy acceptance of the story the public was told about Oher speaks toOher really was a young man in a difficult and vulnerable situation, and someone really did see his potential and give him a chance to build on it.
Far from the innocently ignorant teenager portrayed in the movie, Oher was intelligent and well-versed in football without the Tuohys or their tutelage, the petition says. What he needed — and what he seeminglyThis would have been enough for a heartwarming story, but it’s not the one we saw on the big screen. Inas being shepherded by the Tuohys into not just a stable home, but to academic and athletic success.
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