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The Blind Side

What drives one person to help another? What is the motivation? What is the reward? What could go wrong? This is a great movie that shows one side of the race issue. There are issues and important questions for our society that this film explores. Can a child raised around the atrocities of the projects, with a destroyed home seize an opportunity if it were offered to him or her? What does it mean for educators to teach kids that clearly have had years of inadequate education, in a way to still help them learn just enough for them to become a value to society.

Many critics will see in this movie a statement of Black people cannot help themselves, unless a rich white family comes in to save the day. That will be quite moronic if thats what one walks away from this movie with. Some in an idiotic way will criticize it for being a fairy tale with a happy ending, and the fools will miss the point of the little miracles and blessings that do happen around us all the time. Regardless of race, through the servant attitude of a humble heart, God still does miracles on Earth regardless of race.

This is the true story of Michael Oher (Read Or) who was drafted 23rd overall by the Baltimore Ravens in the 1st Round of the 2009 NFL Draft. The Blind Side movie is based on a book by Michael Lewis, and directed by John Lee Hancock. 128 minutes of pure drama is what has resulted from this collaboration of great talent.

The reality of the South is anchored in its inter-racial dogma for many years. During the slavery years, there were good slave owners (if such a thing is even possible), and there were the abusive ones. Some folks went to Church and counted themselves as Christians and yet participated, approved, and/or did not stand in the way of some of these events, we are all so shameful to ever talk about. Then the war came and the slaves got free. However they did not all go to back to Africa. This was their new home, and they tried to make a living. Then their rights were refused and segregation rocked the South. In some areas Lynching was used as a crowd control system (Texas). Civil rights came and at least on paper, their dignity was restored… on paper. Since then it has become a great debate about entitlement, or whose fault is what.