"The Blind Side" is a book that was made to a movie about the life of Michael Oher and how some sports addicted white family took him in their household because he was large. The Leigh and Sean Tuhoy were a evangelical family that had two kids and wanted a football payer as sports and athletes were part of their life as it is for many Christian conservative Southern households.
Disappointed that their natural so offered o athletic prowess to becoming NFL player this Republican evangelical household hold adopted a big black kid and enrolled him in Briarcrest Christian school to pay football. Michael Oher was blessed by their God to be born big and they had money and new how to mold him into a NFL athlete that his natural Ron mother in a poor drug-affected neighborhood didn't. Why a liberal like Michael Lewis would write a story on this facade of American absurdity that made it to the big screens is very disappointing and perhaps Michael Lewis can write some day of the magnitude of injuries to former football players in later years playing this dumb collision sport. perhaps Lewis is a sports and football addict to willing to ignore the catastrophes American collision ball does to the human body. This book is pathetic as is this jock Christian family that only cares for poor kids if they offer some roster spot on an athletic school field to keep their cushy athletic sports administration complex well financed. The message Lewis gives in this book about the Tuhoy family is that if you have potential as a NFL linemen then this family is more than willing to invest in you and take care of you financially rewarding with free meals and desperate tutors for someone with low mentality. All the best schools and tutors couldn't change the fact that this guy had terrible grades and basically this is another example of where sports have opportunities that others couldn't share. Perhaps Michael Lewis and the Tuhoy family one day would care for the poor kids who are not giants and deserving of the equal chance in life but that likely would not be the case. The obsession and stranglehold that Christian have for sports in life and communities will only open up opportunities from those with tremendous athletic ability as these noble crusaders see this has a sign of talent being given from their creator in the sky. People like this stupid taco bell owning family only care for young people if they show athletic prowess and can somehow benefit life coaches who will use sports to spread the phony word of a crucified Sun God.
This family had no shame of even hiding the fact that they only took in this big buck because they thought he would make a great NFL lineman protecting the valuable asset of a quarterback. What his upper-income white family did with Michael other is shameful and history is full of these paternalistic people trying to change other cultures and adopting kids from other ethnic backgrounds and trying to turn them into preppy towns of good will from affluent whites. Numerous Native America children went through the same processor Mchael Oher and for some reason Michael Lewis in this book seems to give approval of this cultural forced assimilation. The only difference is the Touhey family knew there would be even more outrageous and financial rewards for themselves if this adopted kid made it to the NFL . Anyone doubting the similarities of slavery to modern day NFL and the sports industrial complex should read this book. Why a great writer like Michael Lewis would not highlight the silliness and absolute arrogance of this Christian family only caring for old Mississippi football program as the real goal of adopting this football freak in Michael Oher is disappointing Nd perhaps Lewis should concentrate more on writing about banks and less of sports.
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