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.
The story screamed “white savior” complex, they just say an opportunity to capitalize on Oher’s future while making themselves into fraudulent “heroes”.