{"id":2009437,"date":"2023-08-23T14:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blindsided-by-the-blind-side-heres-what-actually-happened-with-michael-oher-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:24:48","slug":"blindsided-by-the-blind-side-heres-what-actually-happened-with-michael-oher-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blindsided-by-the-blind-side-heres-what-actually-happened-with-michael-oher-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth behind Michael Oher and &#8216;The Blind Side&#8217;"},"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\">18<\/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-2%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=2009437&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\u2064 The Blind \u200dSide: Movies that Tug at Your Heartstrings<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are some movies that just really pull on \u2064your heartstrings. \u201cRemember the Titans,\u201d for example, is one of those movies. It accurately portrays how far\u200c America has come in terms of race \u2014 without saying things are perfect. \u201cThe Blind Side\u201d is another \u2063<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\u2064 was about racial struggle, but because it was about racial harmony. The Tuohys were in a circumstance to help people, and they \u200cmade a huge impact on Michael Oher\u2019s life simply because \u200dthey took time to care about him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michael Oher came from a troubled home; \u200bhis mother \u200bwas an addict and when his father died, \u2063Oher was left penniless. He\u200c would stay with classmates\u2019\u200c families \u2014 until he met Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy. Oher said in past interviews that they made him feel like he was a part of their family. \u2062Eventually,\u2062 they decided to make him a part of their family, so they put him in a conservatorship because he had\u2062 aged out \u200bof adoption. The movie was not only a\u2063 success because of Sandra Bullock\u2019s portrayal of Leigh Ann Tuohy\u200b was so\u2063 powerful \u200bthat it\u200d earned her an Oscar. But the movie was\u2064 a success \u2014 earning over $300\u2064 million\u2063 at the box\u200d office \u2014 because of its emotional storytelling; it made people want to aspire to do more with \u2063their lives. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I remember when I watched this\u200d movie, I thought about my \u2063childhood because throughout my entire life, there have \u2064always been\u200c people who have helped me. We always had food on the table in my family and our needs were always met, but the reality was that\u200c 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 \u200ddid so much for me. I would go\u200d there every morning to have breakfast, and the mom would take me\u200b to\u2063 school, pick me up, and\u200b take me home. Experiencing that kindness might have been part of the reason why I became so attached to\u2064 the\u2062 story in \u201cThe Blind Side.\u201d It is a \u200dmovie that\u200d shows you never know who\u2063 is going to help you. There is no light cast on racial issues and tensions; it\u2019s just a feel-good American story. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Michael\u2064 Oher&#8217;s Lawsuit: A Shocking Turn of Events<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we know,\u200c we cannot have nice things in America anymore. \u2063We were all blindsided to learn that Michael Oher is taking the Tuohys to court. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To court.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  He has filed a lawsuit claiming that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy tricked him into making \u2062them his conservators\u200c rather than his adoptive parents nearly\u2063 two decades ago. The Tuohys have denied they kept the\u2063 conservatorship a secret, and they say they are devastated by the allegations, part of which includes that they profited handsomely from his\u200d story. <\/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 \u2064to go public.\u2064 They didn\u2019t give him the $15 million,\u2062 so Oher has filed a lawsuit because he says he\u200c was taken advantage of and\u200d didn\u2019t make any money from the film, despite its success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oher\u2019s conservatorship is not like the Britney Spears-type conservatorship by any means. Since he was already\u2063 18, it was necessary only because adoption was not an option. The Tuohys \u200dneeded to enter a conservatorship with Oher in order to make him a part of their family. It allowed them to make legal decisions for him,\u200c like sign contracts or school forms. But Oher is \u2062now\u2063 claiming this was wrong, even though he acknowledges <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in his own book <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that they sat\u2064 him down and explained why they were entering into this conservatorship. He\u2019s somehow wrenched that entirely from his \u2062memory and all of a <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.\">sudden feels duped<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now there seems to be a financial dispute, because Oher is claiming he never\u200c saw one \u2063red cent from the movie. \u2064According to legal filings, the Tuohys \u200cand their two birth\u2064 children each earned $225,000 \u2062from \u201cThe Blind Side,\u201d plus 2.5% of the net proceeds. Sean Tuohy himself says he\u2019s only received $60,000 to $70,000 in royalties over the years \u2014 not a lot of money. The Tuohys\u2019\u2063 family wealth\u2064 comes from a conglomerate of \u200b<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\u2063 sold for more than $200 million. Interestingly, the \u200cTuohys have said they put money in Oher\u2019s conservatorship, but he just hasn\u2019t touched it. Likely, he \u2064hasn\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 as a pro NFL football player<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u200c This means, Oher 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 Tuohys\u2019 abundance of wealth, they conspired to meet\u200b this athlete who they had \u2063no idea would \u200cmake \u200cit \u200cto the NFL and had no idea \u200che would write \u200ca book that would be \u2064turned into\u2064 a movie, all so they could steal a couple \u200dextra $100,000 from him, which are conveniently sitting in his conservatorship. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  is\u200b foolish. It\u2019s sad, but it\u2019s incredibly foolish. Placing him in \u2063a \u2063conservatorship, picking him up from \u2064his mother\u2019s house (just like the movie showed), allowing him to live\u200b in their home, taking him\u200b to practice, making sure he got into a good school \u2014 everything \u2062the Tuohys \u200bdid, they did out of their hearts. There is no\u200d question about that. They were just good people who cared about him and loved him as though he was their own son. 20 years down the line,\u2062 he\u2062 has turned his back \u2062on the\u2064 Tuohys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, what is happening with Oher is the same thing\u2064 that happens all the \u200ctime: Black Lives Matter has rotted people\u2019s\u2062 brains. Oher made it to the NFL, and he\u2019s seen the\u2064 media and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blindsided-by-the-blind-side-heres-what-actually-happened-with-michael-oher-2\/\" title=\"The truth behind Michael Oher and 'The Blind Side'\">black versus \u200dwhite messages<\/a>. Now, people can\u2019t even see their friends the same way. We now see these stories about people who have been friends for decades but they no longer so much as talk because the black friend woke up one day and realized \u200btheir white friend was actually racist \u2064the entire time because the media told them so. It\u2019s media brainwashing that \u200bAmerica\u2062 is existing under, and it\u2019s causing us to\u200b go backward as a society. Michael Oher\u2019s lawsuit is\u200d a perfect example of just that. He \u2063has quite literally \u200dgone\u2063 backwards, turning beautiful things in life into villainous events. He\u2019s taken a family who acted out of the goodness of their hearts and turned them into villains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I guarantee Oher likely had an entire cast \u2062of \u2064characters around him that supported this. He got married last year, and he probably had his wife\u2019s full \u2063support \u2014 as one does when married. When you\u2019re married, these decisions aren\u2019t made by just one person.\u200c He probably\u200b has \u2064friends who told him the Tuohys \u2064did him wrong, treated him like \u200bBritney Spears, withheld movie money from him, used him. Eventually, this all just probably started to make sense to him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead of\u200b examining his\u200d life and the beautiful blessings he has received, Oher is destroying one of the most crucial relationships he\u2019s ever built in his life. He\u2019s destroying a relationship that brought him the life he has\u2064 today, aside from\u200c his talent \u200c\u2014 but \u200btalent will only get you so far. \u200dYou \u2063still have to apply\u200c to school, for\u2063 example, which he probably \u200bnever would\u2064 have done without the Tuohys. But \u200dhe is \u2062not looking at\u2062 any of those blessings \u200dbecause Black Lives Matter has rotted his\u200d brain. Now, this feel good American story that brought us all closer is being tainted by a lawsuit that he is not going to win. \u200dHe will win in the form of \u200dthe Tuohys saying they will acquiesce to\u200c Oher\u2062 leaving the conservatorship because they are not attempting to control him or his decisions. They have already filed that \u2062they want the\u200d conservatorship gone. I\u2019m sure they do after \u2062he\u2019s done such a horrible \u200bthing to them, to \u2063the people who cared about him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What a \u2063horrible \u200bthing to do to a couple who loved you for no reason other than the fact they felt a \u200dconnection to you \u2014 and wanted to love and care for you. Shame on him. He should drop this legal filing immediately and adamantly apologize to the family for everything\u200b he\u2019s done, including\u200c the $15 million payment he wanted before going public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CLICK \u200dHERE TO GET THE DAILY \u200cWIRE 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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