{"id":2009177,"date":"2023-08-23T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blindsided-by-the-blind-side-heres-what-actually-happened-with-michael-oher\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:24:24","slug":"blindsided-by-the-blind-side-heres-what-actually-happened-with-michael-oher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blindsided-by-the-blind-side-heres-what-actually-happened-with-michael-oher\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth behind Michael Oher and &#8220;The Blind Side&#8221; revealed."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblindsided-by-the-blind-side-heres-what-actually-happened-with-michael-oher%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2009177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Remember the Titans and The Blind Side: \u200dMovies that \u200cTug at Your Heartstrings<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are some movies that just\u2064 really pull on your heartstrings. \u2063\u201cRemember the Titans,\u201d for example, is one of those movies. It accurately portrays\u2062 how far America has come in terms of race \u2014 without \u2064saying things are perfect.\u200c \u201cThe Blind Side\u201d is another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jerry-and-marge-go-large-is-a-heart-warming-defense-of-the-twilight-years-and-community\/\" title=\"\u2018Jerry And Marge Go Large\u2019 Is A Heart-Warming Defense Of The Twilight Years And Community\">feel-good movie<\/a>, not because it\u200b was about racial\u200c struggle, but because it was about racial harmony. The Tuohys were in \u200ba circumstance\u200b to\u200d help people, and they made a \u200dhuge impact on Michael Oher\u2019s life simply because they took time to care about him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael \u2063Oher came from a\u2063 troubled home; his mother was an\u200d addict and when his father died, Oher was left penniless. He would stay with classmates\u2019 \u200dfamilies \u2062\u2014 until he met Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy. Oher \u200dsaid in past interviews that \u2062they\u2062 made him feel like he \u200cwas a part of their family. Eventually, they decided to make him\u200c a part of \u200btheir family, so they put him in a conservatorship because he had aged out\u2062 of adoption. The\u2064 movie \u2062was not \u2062only a success \u200dbecause\u200b of Sandra Bullock\u2019s portrayal of Leigh Ann Tuohy \u200cwas so powerful\u2064 that it earned her an Oscar. But the movie was a success \u2014 earning \u200bover $300 million at the box\u200d office \u2014 because of\u200c its emotional storytelling; it made people want to aspire to do more \u200dwith\u2063 their lives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I remember when I watched this movie, I thought about my childhood because throughout my entire life, there have always been people who have helped me. We always had food on the table \u2063in my family\u200b and our needs were always met, but the reality was\u2063 that I had two busy working parents. There was a young, Irish, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">middle-class family<\/a> who lived down the street and did so much for \u2064me. I would go there every morning to\u200b have breakfast, and \u200bthe mom would take me to school, pick\u200d me up, and \u2064take\u200d me home. Experiencing that kindness might have been part of \u200cthe reason why I became\u200d so attached\u2064 to the\u2063 story in \u201cThe Blind Side.\u201d \u2064It is a movie that \u200bshows you never know who is going to help you. There\u2064 is no light cast on racial issues and tensions; it\u2019s just a feel-good American story. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Michael Oher&#8217;s Lawsuit: A Shocking Turn of \u2064Events<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we\u2062 know, we cannot have nice things\u200c in America anymore. We were all\u200b blindsided to learn that Michael Oher is taking the Tuohys to court. \u200c <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To court.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  He has filed\u200c a lawsuit claiming that Sean and \u2064Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into\u200d making them his conservators \u200drather than his adoptive parents nearly \u200btwo decades ago. The \u200dTuohys \u2062have\u2064 denied\u2062 they kept the conservatorship a\u2063 secret, and \u2063they \u2064say they are devastated by the allegations,\u200d part of which includes that they profited handsomely from his story. \u2063 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/08\/15\/tuohy-family-claims-michael-oher-attempted-15-mil-shakedown-before-court-filing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to TMZ<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, they are claiming that Oher demanded a $15 million payment from them and threatened to go public. They\u200b didn\u2019t give him\u2064 the $15 million, so Oher has filed \u2062a lawsuit because he says he was taken advantage of and didn\u2019t make any money from \u200cthe film, \u200bdespite its \u200csuccess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oher\u2019s conservatorship is not like the\u200c Britney Spears-type conservatorship by any means. Since he was already 18, it was necessary only\u2062 because adoption was not an option. The Tuohys needed to enter a conservatorship\u2062 with Oher in order to make him a part of their family. It allowed them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-oz-pledges-to-renounce-turkish-citizenship-if-he-wins-senate-race\/\" title=\"Dr. Oz Pledges To Renounce Turkish Citizenship If He Wins Senate Race\">make legal decisions<\/a> for him, like sign contracts or school forms. But Oher\u2063 is now claiming this was wrong, even though he acknowledges <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in his own book \u200c <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that they sat him down and \u2062explained\u2063 why they were entering into this conservatorship. He\u2019s somehow \u2064wrenched that entirely from his memory and all\u200d of a sudden feels duped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now there seems to be a financial dispute, \u2063because Oher is claiming he never saw one red cent \u2064from the\u200b movie. \u200bAccording to legal\u2063 filings, the Tuohys and their two birth \u2063children each earned $225,000 from \u201cThe Blind Side,\u201d plus 2.5% of the net proceeds. \u200bSean\u200b Tuohy himself says he\u2019s only received\u2064 $60,000 to $70,000 in royalties over the\u2064 years \u2014 not \u2062a lot of \u200cmoney. The Tuohys\u2019\u200d family wealth comes\u200d from a conglomerate of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-owner-of-14-franchises-sues-mcdonalds-over-bias\/\" title=\"Black Owner Of 14 Franchises Sues McDonald\u2019s Over Bias\">fast food franchises<\/a> they sold for\u2062 more than $200 million. Interestingly, the Tuohys have said they put money in Oher\u2019s conservatorship,\u200d but he \u2062just hasn\u2019t touched it. Likely,\u200d he hasn\u2019t used it because he\u2019s earned over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\/michael-oher-5484\/cash-earnings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">$34 million\u2062 as a pro NFL football player<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This means, \u200cOher is concerned about $225,000, at most.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/candace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: Candace Owens<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To believe Oher\u2019s version of events means believing that despite the\u200b Tuohys\u2019 \u2062abundance of wealth, they conspired to meet this athlete who they had\u2064 no idea would \u2063make it to\u2064 the\u2064 NFL and had no idea \u2063he would write a \u2064book\u2064 that would be turned \u200binto a movie, \u200dall so they could steal a couple extra $100,000 from him, which are conveniently sitting in \u200dhis conservatorship. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  is foolish. \u200dIt\u2019s\u200d sad, but it\u2019s incredibly foolish. Placing him \u200bin a conservatorship, picking him up from his mother\u2019s \u2062house (just\u2064 like the movie showed), \u2062allowing him to live\u200b in their home, taking\u200c him to \u200dpractice, making sure he got into a good school \u2014 everything the Tuohys did, they did out of their hearts. There is no question about that. They were just\u200d good people \u2064who cared about him \u2063and loved him as though he was their own son. 20 years down the line, he has turned his back on the\u2062 Tuohys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, what is happening with \u200dOher is the same thing that happens all the time: Black Lives Matter\u2063 has rotted people\u2019s brains. Oher made it to the NFL, and\u200b he\u2019s seen\u2063 the media \u2062and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blindsided-by-the-blind-side-heres-what-actually-happened-with-michael-oher\/\" title=\"The truth behind Michael Oher and \"The Blind Side\" revealed.\">black versus white messages<\/a>. Now, people can\u2019t even see their friends \u2063the same way. We now see \u2063these stories about people who have been friends for\u200c decades but they no longer so much as\u2064 talk because the\u2063 black friend woke up one day\u2064 and realized their white friend was actually racist the entire time because the media told them so. It\u2019s media brainwashing that America is existing under, and it\u2019s\u2064 causing us to go\u200b backward as\u200d a society. Michael Oher\u2019s lawsuit is a perfect example of just that. He has quite \u200bliterally gone backwards, turning beautiful things in life \u200binto villainous events. He\u2019s taken a family who acted out of the goodness of their hearts and turned them \u2062into villains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I guarantee Oher likely had an entire cast of characters around him that supported this. He got married last year, and he probably had his wife\u2019s \u2064full support \u2014 as one does when married. When you\u2019re married, these decisions aren\u2019t made by just one person. He probably has friends who told him the\u200b Tuohys did\u200c him wrong, treated him like\u2063 Britney Spears, withheld movie money from him, used him.\u200d Eventually, this \u200call just probably started to make sense to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead of examining his life and the beautiful blessings he has received, Oher is destroying one of the most crucial relationships he\u2019s ever built in his life.\u2064 He\u2019s destroying a relationship that brought \u200chim the life he has today, aside from his\u200c talent \u2014 but talent will only get\u2064 you so far. You\u200d still have to apply to school, \u200bfor example, which he probably never would have done without the Tuohys. But he is not looking at any \u200cof those blessings because Black Lives Matter has rotted\u2062 his\u2064 brain. \u200dNow, this feel good American story that brought us\u200c all closer \u2064is being tainted by a lawsuit that he is not\u2064 going to win. He will win in the form of the Tuohys \u2064saying \u200dthey will \u200cacquiesce to Oher leaving the conservatorship because they are not \u200cattempting \u200bto control him or his decisions. They have already\u2062 filed that they want the\u2062 conservatorship \u2062gone. I\u2019m sure \u2064they do after he\u2019s done such a horrible\u2063 thing to them, to \u200cthe people who cared about him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What a\u200c horrible thing to do to a couple who loved you for\u2062 no reason other than \u2063the fact they felt a connection to you \u2014 and wanted to love and care for you. Shame on him. He should drop this legal filing immediately and\u200d adamantly apologize \u2063to the family for\u2064 everything he\u2019s done, including the $15 \u2064million\u2064 payment he \u2064wanted before going public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CLICK HERE \u2064TO GET THE DAILY WIRE\u2062 APP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it showcased the power of compassion and resilience. These movies remind us of the progress we have made in overcoming racial barriers, while acknowledging that there is still work to be done. 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