#Michael is their savior

[jodielandons]

Remember The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock? The movie showed how a kid who had an extremely rough upbringing got help from the family of a school friend, found success in football and ultimately ended up being adopted by the family. Turns out he was never adopted.

Michael Oher says that he was tricked by the Tuohy family into signing documents that made them his conservators. Since he was already 18 at the time the family told him, “that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took [his] age into account.”

Oher also says that papers were signed so that his story and likeness were given away for free to use in The Blind Side. He also never got a single royalty check for the hugely successful, Oscar nominated film in the 14 years since its release.

[florabellalove]

LET ME SPEAK MY TRUTH 🦢🫶🏼

sometimes I just want to read a reverse comfort fic about some big burly character absolutely breaking down, call it a saviour kink or whatever but there seems to be an absence in this world

[doortotomorrow]

"I'm Reese, Sergeant Techcom, DN38416...assigned to protect you." - Kyle Reese

[actually-azi]

HAS ANYONE DONE AZIRACROW ART BASED OFF OF THIS PICTURE OF MICHAEL??? BECAUSE HOLY SHIT

[hikarry]

Oh shit, here we go again

[ghost-of-you]

[theeldermillennial]

*knock knock*

Will you let them in?

[mccbrackets]

[kindahoping4forever]

5SOS: A night we’ll always remember as the time we really appreciated how special this place is and celebrated it with you. Thank you New York for such a vibrant musical conversation. We’ll see you next time Madison Square.

[jameslmartello]

Saint Benedict, Saint Michael the Archangel, and Our Lady of Holy Protection, the Immaculate Conception, bless and protect me, this web page, and those who read this prayer. Amen +

[gh-0-stcup]

Gonna be honest, I don't think any Sam ship will ever hit as hard as Sam/Ruby.

[martydaxnger]

I cannot believe I just got Doomsday’d by the Good Omens season 2 finale

[puckingdisaster]

This is like, irrelevant to probably everyone who's not speaking German or at least understands it, but new Michael Raffl sign of life just dropped🥺

[melaninpov]

Damn, the more I find out about Michael Oher the more I realize how fictional the movie The Blind Side was. Wow this is quite disturbing. But I guess the real story wouldn’t have been that entertaining. He wasn’t homeless, he was playing football, basketball, and running track when he met the Tuohys. And……. it was the Father that met Oher, not the son. It’s theorized that they changed that in the movie so it would look less like a recruitment. It’s starting to look exactly like that when you think about it.

They portrayed him as a dummy who needed saving. When really in-spite of his circumstances, he was doing just fine and preparing for his future. The real story of Michael Oher is just as amazing as the fictional movie. I wished they had shown the truth and I wished this family genuinely loved and supported him.

[ghost-of-you]

[inquisitivetree]

The Blind Side came out while I was in foster care and let me tell you, my (white) foster parents loved that movie! I never actually watched it until I was an adult because I thought it was cringy how much the white people I knew assumed I would love it because I was a black kid in a white foster home. This tweet really stuck out to me in some of the Twitter commentary on the situation:

[Image description: A tweet by user “#StopCopCity” @/ChuckModi1 that reads:

Let’s be honest. If a Black family took Michael Oher in, there’d be no best-selling book or movie. And if there was a movie, it would never gross close to $300M. The Blind Side resonated so greatly w/white audiences because white saviorism resonates so deeply.

/end ID. ]

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I hope Michael Oher gets justice for being exploited and is able to heal.