Retired NFL star Michael Oher, whose supposed adoption out of grinding poverty by a wealthy, white family was immortalized in the 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” petitioned a Tennessee court Monday with allegations that a central element of the story was a lie concocted by the family to enrich itself at his expense.
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But we’re going to love Michael at 37 just like we loved him at 16.
…which is to say, not at all, and with a thick overlay of paternalistic racism.
