Former NFL star Michael Oher’s lawsuit against Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy has only bolstered the criticism of white savior films.
with a Tennessee court on Monday to end a conservatorship that he alleges the Tuohys tricked him into under the guise of adoption. He has been under the conservatorship since he turned 18, and now, at 37, he said he had only recently learned that the arrangement does not create familial ties. He alleges the Tuohy family made hundreds of thousands of dollars as part of the deal they negotiated for his life story, while he was paid nothing.
“White savior films are particularly attractive or even seductive for a lot of white people who want to think of themselves as a good white person yet not really have their own whiteness or the racial order interrogated too deeply,” Hughey added. “Quinton Aaron did a great job acting the part, but I could not figure out why the director chose to show me as someone who had to be taught the game of football,” he wrote. “I knew more people were going to watch the movie than read the book and I really didn’t want them to think I was someone who was so clueless about something I had always taken pride in being pretty smart about.”
White savior narratives have been a fixture in film since the medium was first created, Hughey said. He pointed to 1915’s “Birth of a Nation,” directed by D.W. Griffith, as the first in a long line of movies that portray white people saving Black people from themselves — and, in the case of “Birth of a Nation,” protecting white people from Black communities.
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