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Pass The Mic

Michael Oher Corrects the Blindside

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Recently, retired NFL player Michael Oher has made public statements correcting the record of his adoption from the Tuohy family. The story was the basis for the 2009 Oscar winning film “The Blindside”. Little did he know that he was being blindsided himself. In this episode, Jemar and Tyler talk about the perils of the “white savior” narrative and how crucial it is for Black people to own our stories and how we tell them. Support this podcast at patreon.com/passthemic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dynamic Voices for a Diverse Church

0:12.0

Greetings and God Bless. Welcome to another episode of Pass a Mic. Dynamic Voices for a Diverse

0:16.1

Church powered by the witness a black Christian collective I am your host Tyler Burns. You can

0:21.1

follow me on Twitter and Instagram and threads in any social media at Burns clan. Please follow

0:27.1

at your own risk. And joining me as always is the founder of the witness. He has a very

0:32.3

extensive bio. The man, the myth, the legend, but two time best selling author Mr. Blue Check

0:37.2

verified himself. You can follow him at jimartisby.subsec.com. Dr. Jamar Tisby was going on brother.

0:44.7

What's up, man? What's up, man? Listen, man, we were having this discussion. I want to take

0:48.2

it to the people. If you had to create the infinity gauntlet of white savior films, like the five

0:54.9

that you just got to get to level up to do the snap. I was thinking, and you know what was funny

1:01.6

when we started having this conversation, we're like, oh, yeah, we got to like two or three. Yeah,

1:06.2

and we're like, hmm. And then the floodgates opened the floodgates. There's a disturbing amount of

1:13.2

film. We would go back and we could we were thinking about so many. Okay, so we'll alternate and we'll

1:22.6

give the five. Obviously, I'll know the infinity gauntlet. If you imagine, Thanos has

1:28.3

blonde hair and blue eyes. If you imagine, if you imagine that Thanos has white

1:34.8

and purple skin, it's a subtle. Thanos is black, right? I mean, we've established this,

1:40.1

right? Thanos is black, right? That's a whole conversation. Is he black? Is Thanos black?

1:44.7

Okay, I'm sorry. I'm getting off track. I'm sorry. Bo's looking at me like, come on. Get

1:48.7

back on track. Okay, so I'll start with one. Okay, one that I think is pretty obvious that we can

1:54.0

all get behind the help. Oh my. Oh, yes, quintessential. You as kind. You as a spa. You as important.

2:02.8

And everybody was like, everybody was tearing up like, oh, this is so beautiful. This is this

2:08.0

a white saver film. And this is pretty bad. Yeah, because the center of the story is the white

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