Posted on 10/06/2023 6:31:24 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Here’s what the judge said:
It looks to me like it was a well-planned scam, but not racist.
From military to University to work, I have purposely chosen a path of as close to exclusively white male as possible.
After public school in Wilmington DE, I never want to spend time around blacks.
I quit basketball and switched to volleyball to avoid blacks.
Besides... how many Black people speak out about the misogyny and violence in rap?
In Michael’s first book, he wrote that it was explained to him that they could not legally adopt him because of his age.
So, giving a good faith interpretation, they may have told him that they were going to adopt him but found out that they couldn’t. So, they did the next best thing they could to adoption.
My point is that I don’t think there was any deception on the Tuohy’s part. They thought they could and they looked into it and did what they could for him. They still treated him as their son.
A scam for what?
The family was worth tens of millions when they took him in.
They should have left this fat **** eating out of the trash.
What would that movie look like?
-PJ
You got an official DNC Race Card there, “Carron”?
“In Michael’s first book, he wrote that it was explained to him that they could not legally adopt him because of his age.”
That is not the law in Tennessee, so if the Tuohy’s told him that they were lying.
They could have actually adopted him — there was and is no age limit on that in Mississippi.
The help they did give him was not legal under NCAA rules unless they had adopted him or put him under conservatorship (which he agreed to).
Did they do it because they were Ole Miss boosters or because they wanted to help him?
were they Mississippi residents or Tennessee residents? I thought I had heard Mississippi.
I am sure the Tuohys will think long and hard about it before they befriend another member of Eternally Oppressed & Offended race again.
There doesn’t seem to be much luck when adopting across racial lines.
TN residents, OleMiss alums.
You’re right on the law of adoption in Tennessee. Did they do him harm because of it?
Their being in his life gave him a life that he wouldn’t have had otherwise.
Everybody is compromised on this life on Earth. Nobody is pure in their intents to do good. That’s just life.
I personally would have been very grateful, if I had been adopted (functionally) by another family and given everything I needed to succeed, including stability and acceptance.
If after going as far as I can with my talents and all that, they cut me off, I probably would have been grateful.
Pretend adoption?
It was always a guardianship so that they could take him in and provide him help with basic sustenance and tutors without incurring the wrath of the NCAA. He even specifically acknowledges, describes, and elaborates on it in his 2011 book.
If he had been adopted, wouldn’t he have taken the Tuohy’s last name?
“A scam for what?”
Fame? If so, it worked.
So they knew some negro eating out of a trashcan would garner them fame eventually?
A family worth millions and millions.
That sounds ridiculous to me.
“It looks to me like it was a well-planned scam”
If you read the book “The Blind Side” the only way Oher got into college was because of the Tuohy’s as Oher did nothing to meet the college entrance requirements. Without college Oher would not have the success he did in the NFL, if he even could have gotten there.
So I don’t see the scam.
A side story by an ROTC recruiter (may or may not be true) at a Mississippi College, he was trying to recruit a black football player and told the kid he had almost no chance of getting into the NFL. But the Mississippi Valley State player did get into the NFL, his name was Jerry Rice. So if Sean Tuohy can know which HS kids will be drafted in the 1st round he should be a billionaire now.
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