My wife wants to see “The Blind Side”, but I heard that it is basically a story of a poor black, underpriveleged boy being helped by a typical rich, white family, out of a sense of ‘white guilt’ and the black boy faces discrimination from all the other whites, but the white mother just complains that everyone should show tolerance, again showing white racism against blacks.
Is any of this true?
I am so tired of every black person being shown as a victim and every white person shown as the racist oppressor. On the other hand, my wife has heard that it is a movie with a conservative Christian theme. What is your take on the movie?
I saw it. The black football player is named Michael Oher. Most of his black friends from the project are portrayed as thugs and criminals. His mother is portrayed as a crack head. When Michael begins to succeed, his black friends ridicule him and try to drag him back down again. The black community is portrayed as being far more responsible for his problems than white racism although that is portrayed as well.
The white family finds him walking down the street in the rain and let him come over to sleep on the sofa. They leave him alone downstairs while they go upstairs to their own bedrooms. In the morning, before going downstairs, the husband and wife joke to each other about calling the insurance adjuster.
Besides that, it’s got FOOTBALL.