Posted on 09/29/2023 12:19:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
But Oher did get ahead due to white help- the Tuohys literally took him off the street and gave him a home. With no promise of any return to themselves.
I bet there was a legal impediment to the adoption. So they did the next best thing.
Rummy-it was more a funny fish-outta-water story. My problem is how white run with the stuff just like whites adore the Kenyan and Tiger Woods. Deals with their guilt.
semantics....I wouldn’t announce to others that my child that I was taking care of as being his conservator...no, you’d say he’s adopted...
I watched some interviews of Oher. He said the Tuohys helped by providing him with a place to stay and food to eat. He said many other families helped him, too.
What he doesn’t like about the movie is that it portrays him as someone who struggled to read and write. He said that wasn’t true at all.
Also, the movie portrays him as someone who needed the Tuohys to show him how to play football. He said that wasn’t true, either. He already was an athlete who played football and other sports when the Tuohys met him. He said he was self-disciplined and excelled in sports.
For example...
In this absurd scene, Mrs. Tuohy interrupts practice to explain football to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76nhIfp9gr0&list=PL_ai_uRBs3y4epVubd54tgL0SLjaLCilX
And, in this cringeworthy scene, the youngest Tuohy must force him to practice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Tfer9FIys
That depiction of him affected the way people see him in real life.
You mean you’d lie? Because that would be a lie.
As I said above, maybe the Tuohys meant well, but it sure doesn’t look good.
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