Precious and The Blind Side
Bret L
>> An excerpt from my new VDARE.com column:
http://vdare.com/sailer/091122_blind_side.htm
This weekend saw the national rollout of two crowd-pleaser movies
about impoverished 350-pound black teens: Precious and The Blind Side.
(What an amazing country we have, where a pair of poor waifs can tip
the scales at 700 pounds!)
Together, the two films reflect an emerging, if seldom fully
articulated, consensus among all right-thinking people in this Bush-
Obama era about what to do with underclass black children.
Precious is the story of an illiterate 16-year-old girl who was
made pregnant and HIV-positive by her rapist father, but her even
bigger problem is her abusive welfare mother with whom she shares a
Section 8 apartment. Still, with the help of tireless teachers and
social workers, she moves into a halfway house and begins to turn her
life around.
The Blind Side is an adaptation of Michael Lewis’s 2006 nonfiction
bestseller about Michael Oher. A homeless 16-year-old with a drug
addict mother and a father who was thrown off a bridge, Oher was
adopted by a rich white family. He’s now a rookie starting offensive
tackle for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL, with a five-year
$13,795,000 contract.
The Blind Side’s writer-director John Lee Hancock told Michael
Granberry of the Dallas News:
“He loves what he calls its nature vs. nurture story line.
'It's like a test case for nurture, and nurture wins in a big way.
You've got a kid who's cast on the junk heap of life, socially and
from an educational standpoint. And it's amazing what a roof, a bed,
meals and an emphasis on schools can do, when everybody had written
him off.'
The Blind Side is the rare movie in which white Southern
Republican born-again Christians are portrayed favorably. One liberal
commenter on IMDB.com raged, “I feel insulted (in the same way I felt
insulted when McCain chose Palin for his running-mate) …”
But, whether Republican or Democrat, white or black, everybody who
is au courant is coming to agree upon one solution for poor black
children: keep them away from their own families as much as possible.
Read the rest of my review The Blind Side here
http://vdare.com/sailer/091122_blind_side.htm
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