Deanna Fry
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#SpoutibleNews "Blind Side" family accuses Michael Oher of "shakedown"
09:23 AM - Aug 16, 2023
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South Cackalacky Scholar
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This story always seemed fishy to me. Kindly white saviors —in MISSISSIPPI?!— save illiterate black youth from a life cleaning toilets. Turns out almost none of that was true—he was high achieving, already had a scholarship. And the conservatorship? Likely to keep him from inheriting from THEM!
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09:25 AM - Aug 16, 2023 (Edited)
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William Tulloch
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I also feel bad for Sandra Bullock, who likely took the role in part because she's an actual adoptive mother to Black children, and was also likely lied to, just like Oher. She joins Vanessa Redgrave in the "won an Oscar for a 'real' character who turned out to be a lie."
11:01 AM - Aug 16, 2023
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Yeah, she probably feels snookered but the person truly responsible is the author. Sounds like he did no fact checking, just tan with what the Ohers told him!
03:10 PM - Aug 16, 2023
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