Posted on 10/06/2023 6:31:24 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
In practical matters, while doing good, they also have to protect themselves from whatever negative consequences from their actions.
Doing goodness does not mean a dump truck of manure isn’t heading your way. There are legalities in these issues that can be used against you in ways that you cannot expect.
Too bad that narrative never shows up in print....
I don’t see it as racism at all. I see it as pure greed on the Touhys’ part. From the movie, Oher got 20%. Dad, Mom and the two Touhy kids each got 20%. To me, thats naked, shameless greed. We’ll never know; but now that we’ve seen how they operate, I think they’d have screwed over a poor white kid just as bad as they did Michael. It was in their hearts. They own 50+ fast food restaurants and ritzy homes all over, but they shamelessly hogged up 80% of the movie profits. GREED, regardless of race.
The book was great. The bad guys were the NCAA trying to put a stop to this arrangement every step of the way.
I knew the movie was going to misrepresent the story because everything Hollywood these days is race and homosexuality. They made him out to be a dumb country bumpkin who couldn’t do it without the whites. The movie made more money than the book. The characters involved made little money and Oher doubts it. The big money came when he went into the pros. The. question is what happened to it.
I read Native Son by Richard Wright. This do-good white family of leftists hired Bigger Thomas. Ended up killing their daughter. Might have been an accident I don’t remember. Tried to cover it up. I’m saying there’s no coming together of the races. It will take several generations more and the Great Society is what set them back. Now there’s too much money keeping anger, not hope alive.
The writer (and many conservatives) are missing the point. This is about “white leftism.”
It’s about that movie. (I didn’t read the book.) That movie is a cringe-fest.
Oher didn’t like the way he was portrayed in that movie. I don’t blame him.
The movie is a white leftist’s dream. Conservatives should be slamming that movie.
In interviews, Oher says the Tuohys and other families helped him by giving him a place to stay. But, he didn’t consider himself a victim.
He said he was an athlete before the Tuohys met him, yet Hollywood portrayed him as a simpleton.
For example, watch this scene where Mrs. Tuohy teaches him about football: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-dUSx5ndh4
Tell me you all didn’t cringe at that scene. And that’s just one example.
The actress herself sees black people as victims. Here she is, teary-eyed, with her point of view: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fUR_VOF8_uY
“they shamelessly hogged up 80% of the movie profits. GREED,”
Wow, the Touhy’s sold their business for over 200 million dollars, but you define them as greedy based on their “The Blind Side” cut. How much was that?
Touhy’s movie cut: “The pair, who were also producers of the movie, said the contracts “did not include significant payouts in the event of the film’s success” and therefore, “the notion that the Tuohys were paid millions of dollars by Alcon to the detriment of Michael Oher is false.”
Their company paid about $767,000 to the talent agency representing the Tuohys and Oher, per the statement, which noted there was likely an agency commission removed before the sum was distributed to the five of them. (Sean has said the family and Oher got about $14,000 each after The Blind Side book author Michael Lewis “gave us half of his share.”)”
https://www.eonline.com/news/1384033/the-blind-side-producers-reveal-how-much-money-the-tuohys-really-made-from-michael-oher-story
Seems Michael Lewis is the one who got screwed. Good writer.
What did they get out of it? A movie deal? He is just an backstabbing prick, looking for a bailout. First purchase after he “got his” was likely a huge home, for which he would have to play football for 30 years to make payments. I am glad I never saw the movie, or watched him play. Without the Tooeys he would be selling individual smokes and fentanyl between the ages of 18 till he died 10 years later.
He likely sees Shadeur Sanders 5 million dollar deal to play amateur football, and is jealous. I remember when my favorite College team got sanctioned, because they gave a job to their QB, that he was able to get others to do so he could have spending money. Watering the practice fields and the game fields, and someone got money to live on in exchange. How corrupt is America? Pretty effin bad.
The race card is the tool of scoundrels and fools.
Best not to have any dealings with people who use it. Good that you didn’t fall for his scam.
If anyone “accuses” me of being a Trump supporter, depending on the situation I either laugh, loudly, or announce “We’re done here,” and walk away. They voted to make a dementia patient President; they are not smart enough to do business with me.
Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking.
blacks always confusing racism with realism.
biggest problem blacks have is that they are the problem and everyone knows it
Awkward choice of phrasing there, Carron. LOL.
Everyone is constantly indoctrinated by the race baiting industry to see racism in everything. And the race baiters have no interest in calming racism, instead they do everything they can to incite racism.
Secondly everyone is discriminated against, like with kids games picking sides, if you aren’t picked 1st you have been discriminated against, or if you didn’t get the job again discrimination. Discrimination is part of life. So just because a black is discriminated against does not automatically mean they were a victim of racism.
Unfortunately victimization has become a cult.
Blacks know it. They use it to extort .... everything. And they count on mentally ill liberals to advance their scam.
Indeed
Amazing how some are determined not to be confused with facts it spoils the agenda.
Media takes a bow
The Obama regime and the aftermath of it has left me increasingly less concerned about racism with each passing year.
We are now tolerating insanity out of fear that someone might accuse us of racism. Not working anymore, at least on me it isn't.
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