Sandra Bullock’s New Film The Blind Side Promotes Misandry, Paternalism, & Racism!!!
Sandra Bullock’s new movie, The Blind Side, is so offensive and racist on multiple levels. First, yes I know the movie the Blind Side is based on a true story of a football player Michael Oher. Just because the movie is based on a true story doesn’t mean it isn’t racist! Hollywood promotes the racist magic negro stereotype. The Tuophys recognize that the black teen can play football because he is big, black, stupid, and male. Black men are forced into these racist and misandrist barriers.
However, the black male teen character in this movie is constructed as a monster and a brute that must be tamed. Sandra Bullock’s movie is certainly geared towards a white, liberal, heterosexual, audience. The film is about making white liberals “feel good” about helping poor blacks. The Blind Side is about reinforcing white superiority and it will be a hit at the box office.
The Blind Side reeks of paternalism and white supremacy. The film constructs the black male character as a beast he is a big, black, stupid, uneducated, male. The black male must obey his white master Sandra Bullock’s character. Bullock’s character is the white saviour in the film, she is the real hero of the movie. The film will make some white liberals feel great about helping out those poor unfortunate black folks. Of course, this movie will not examine or explore the interlocking systems of oppression that are deleterious for the black poor in America.
Where are the movies about young black men wanting to become writers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, teachers? Once again, another Hollywood racist film presenting the racist stereotype that young black men only have aspirations to become professional athletes.
34 responses to “Sandra Bullock’s New Film The Blind Side Promotes Misandry, Paternalism, & Racism!!!”
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- - Wednesday , March 3 , 2010
Gayblackcanada 
I am not surprised. I still can’t get over radio!
“Where are the movies about young black men wanting to become writers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, teachers?” I just started writing (3 weeks now) a graphic novel. Its science fiction adventure there is mature attractive (RICH LOL!) Black engineer that discovers secret of????? Well, I have said too much. It’s not movie but who knows maybe someday. Dont wait for white people to create positive strong and beautiful black people do it yourself, its fun and can be profitable. GO FOR IT!
If it indeed is based on a true story, i can’t call this particular movie racist.
But yea, i get your frustration. I too am sick of being bombarded with movies about a gifted black boy/girl and a white protagonist who comes into the picture & helps that “poor” black kid realize his potential. LOL. When i saw the trailer for this movie on tv, it instantly reminded me about the MAD TV parody “Nice White Lady”. Check it out on youtube. It’s hilarious & so freakin true.
It keeps bombarding us (for 4 years?): the princess frog, the blind side, etc…., yet another movie that big govt uses to brainwash us (the gullible ones) that interracial is good, White equals black etc. Obama voters and the politically correct will be drooling all over this sirupy movie…
The movie certainly wasn’t racist. Much of what I read on this page is.
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The theme is interesting, I will take part in discussion.
Another gentle, black, giant movie. Yawn…
I don’t agree with your statement about the movie being racist. If he never wanted to play football he didn’t have to and that would have been the end of that. Yes black men want to be doctors, lawyers, writers etc. But there are also some who want nothing more than to play the sport that they love. I get so tired of black males always yelling racism. Yes it still exists but its not in every inch of this world. You wanna see those movies created? Make it happen. Don’t sit around and complain about it and still do nothing. This is coming from a young black female who want nothing more than to see my people uplifted.
Nik, it is not as simple as you say to “make it happen”. I have written a play because I figure it would be easier to get a play produced than to get a movie made. The gate keepers in Hollywood are the Mythical Norm. Hollywood is controlled by white heterosexual males. My argument is, the racism is “socially constructed” the racism against young black men did not just emerge out of the air. The images, representations, in films enforce racism. Have you read bell hooks book “Outlaw Culture”? Check out bell hooks book “Outlaw Culture” she talks about this issue.
I don’t think this movie is racist when I first saw it. I just see a woman who tries to help a homeless teenager.
But maybe your argument is right.
No, it’s not. “The black male teen character in this movie is constructed as a monster and a brute”? Did this freak even watch the movie?
Just saw the movie. It is a beautiful and moving story. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
THE PRECIOUS BLINDSIDE OF INVICTUS
Not since the days of Amos N Andy have black folk been so assailed in cinema. 2009 illustrates the love/hate but mostly hate America has for black people. This is illustrated in three films: The Blindside Precious and Invictus.
I thought Precious was funny. Seriously, I found all of it laughable, a feeble attempt to drain emotion from the collected prejudice of whites and the self-hatred of blacks. It is amateurish in its casting and depictions of dark skinned people as worthless and lighter-skinned people as virtuous. But this plays well to black and white because both races believe it to be true.
Black people are so starved for something more than cross-dressing fake Christian movies, we think this is our film to be proud of.
Which brings me to The Blindside, a film right up there with the best of the “magic negro” films of the past like The Green Mile and Bagger Vance and Radio. But wait, this one’s based on a true story so you can’t be mad! Sandra Bullock begging for an Oscar to go with her money from all those shitty romantic comedies, actually plays a woman her real age. She uses the time-honored trick of milking emotion out of the guilt white people feel for treating blacks like shit. Maybe this will finally get her some respect. Good luck, Sandy.
Invictus, the yearly old white man movie from Clint Eastwood is not about Nelson Mandela, the black Ghandi but some white rugby players and how they dealt with losing the country they stole back to its rightful owners. Are you fu@#ng kidding me?!
As long as black people don’t make their own movies, they will get fed this crap. As long as you don’t love yourselves, you will be forced to watch these images represent you.
It’s King Kong all over again – and the black man is lost – he becomes the dumb ape.
This movie is all about Sandra Bullock. It’s sort of also about the Touhy woman. It’s hardly anything about Michael Oher.
The rich white folks took in the dancing bear and applauded (themselves) that they were able to teach him some tricks. The white school and the rich white community embraced him like a mascot. A project – a safe, interesting bug. I wonder if that school and that community would like to open the doors to dozens or hundreds of kids from Michael’s neighborhood. If that school suddenly had a hundred black kids walking the halls looking for opportunties – oh boy. The lid would blow off that place in no time!
I’m glad for Michael Oher but this movie sucks. The ultimate humiliation is the scene where his petite, manicured, rich white mama had to tell the big dumb ape how to play football. Good Lord. Every one should have stood and walked out of the theater at that exact moment. 😛 Puke.
Earthmom & G. Garrity your analysis of “The Blind Side” makes a lot of sense. The film is all about Mrs. Tuophy’s character and not really about Michael Oher’s story. Oher is just a sideshow. The critics will say “the movie cannot be racist because it is based on a true story.” My argument is so what if the movie is based on a true story? The subliminal mesages in this film are entrenched with white supremacy and white guilt.
The film is just an Oscar vehicle for Sandra Bullock. I am not surprised the movie is a huge box office hit. I agree also that the movie definitely has a lot of racist undertones which no surprise the white mainstream critics tend to ignore. The message here in this movie is young black men are so stupid and dumb we require a white saviour to save us from ourselves.
G.Garrity – I need to add one more to your list of insulting movies this year and that is Avatar. The flashy, in your face Fern Gully/Dances with Wolves remake. All sizzle and pretty on the surface and humiliating to blacks and native American’s (and all non-white cultures) underneath.
The story is the same as always – the Great White Hope surfaces – a white male who himself is not very bright (even dumb whites are brighter than the brightest non-whites is the message) comes in contact with the black (blue) indigenous peoples and first becomes accepted by them and becomes their equal (in record time, because they’re just that easy to conquer) which is thrilling and wonderful for him (whites want to be black on so many levels) but that’s not enough. Now that this dim bulb white male is one of them, he has to rise up and LEAD them – show them the way – SAVE them.
Another white saviour movie and the herd of poor blacks (blues) trails along behind his wisdom with eternal gratitude.
It’s the same old white fantasy – told and retold and retold a thousand times. The Last Samurai, Dances with Wolves – it diminishes the civilization that the white man so easily becomes one of, and it totally diminishes them while totally elevating him to eternal saviour status – a figure to be worshipped by all forever.
Avatar has some ground breaking CG, it’s pretty, but it made me ill to watch and continues to make me ill hearing white people slobber over the “deep spiritual meanings”. 😛
McReligious McFantasy for the McWhite McMasses.
I read recently on a message board that these (white) people were so deeply moved by Avatar that they cried when the tree is harmed. I responded HUH? I tend to not cry when a cartoon tree is harmed by cartoon missiles. I asked if the people had seen the movie Hotel Rwanda. I was bawling in that movie – good God. It’s a true story and the humanity in it is deeply moving. It has stayed with me for so long.
Cartoon trees? Good Grief.
I can’t believe how many foolish people want to play the race card and call this movie racist. I guess it is liberal guilt kicking in. This is a TRUE story. It wasn’t made up. They adopted this kid well before he had football skills or any dream of playing in the NFL. Since when is it racist for white people to help black people? Some people can be so silly…Why can’t people do good things without people trying to bring them down?
In general it’s a true story, but it is a true story that has been processed through the Hollywood meat grinder – with a heavy hand on the extra ‘spices’ and fictional sauce mixed in.
The result is a sickening dish.
ugh, could not agree more, hideously sentimental and patronizing.
hollywood knows one thing though, these literal, saccharine, cliche films
with bombastic scores cueing the non irreverent to cry on demand exactly
like when a sit com laugh track makes them laugh without questioning.
EAT THIS STUFF UP and always will.
And really, this is not to be nasty or superior to the mainstream, I know they have “some”
purpose, but don’t you want more?
WHY not????
anyway, I concur w/ your thoughts and btw, how are those for run on sentences?
see the white lady isn’t ALWAYS more educated..
but she sure knows when the bullshit meter goes off.
How many Oscars have you won?
I liked the movie in general, but the scenes which the 7 yr old white boy was teaching a 16-17 year old Oher how to play football–I thought seemed ridiculous. But what took the cake for me–that I thought was particularly insulting–was the Kathy Bates scene in which she is telling Oher that there are ghosts under the football playing field to scare him into going to another school–that was unbelievably demeaning.
But to call a white person helping out a person of color–black (or even blue!!– my God the depths we will go) racist is just ridiculous.
John, you provide specific examples from the movie that the film is racist. I never said people of different races cannot help each other. However, the points you just discuss proves my argument that white saviour movies are racist. The reason I don’t like white saviour films is because of the deleterious notion that people of colour require white support all the time.
Yeah–I definitely saw a problem with the scenes I described–and if I had been looking more critically, I am sure I would have seen more. I agree–racism–no doubt.
I was going to say, “However…” but–as I write this I think I get it. My point was going to be the theme of people helping people is good–no matter what race. But I think I see what you are saying–these movies make one race superior, the other inferior, and the superior race has to help the inferior. And that theme is such a constant theme in movies–so much so that, although it appears to be a good thing–it actually is annoying, demeaning–and racist. I think I get what you are saying. Glad we could work this out.
What a refreshing reply – you have a good heart, John.
You are right, as a white woman I can see that this movie would not exist if it hadn’t been for the white woman rescuing the black child…it’s existence is what makes it racist. Had it been a black woman rescuing a black child or just whites involved, a movie would not have been made. Racism is when the stories focus on using Black characters to help redeem the whites or make them explore their values and become deeper (like the Curious case of Benjamin Button)
Yes could someone please direct me to the movie that shows a black woman rescuing/being the \saviour for a white child.
Lisa: please direct me to the real-life story in which that actually happened. Not saying it hasn’t, I’m just unaware of any successful white professional athletes that were raised by black parents. I would be interested in such a tale if it exists…
BTW, congrats to Ms. Bullock on receiving her well-deserved Academy Award.
Sure there’s a movie about a white child being taken in by a black family. It’s the best movie ever made! The Jerk with Steve Martin!! It’s perfect for all you racists who can’t stand it when one race helps another and then a story is told about it. The way you people talk in this forum makes me think that I should only help my own race for fear of hurting someone’s pride. Pride is what this is all about but your pride won’t let you admit that. I volunteer at the Open Door Mission but maybe I shouldn’t anymore for fear of someone actually calling me racist for helping another race in their time of need. Actually it’s not the helping you racists have a problem with is it? It’s the fear someone might tell the story of how a white man sacrificed his free time to serve the needy of every race and that just eats at your what? Pride.
Oh well. I’ll still be on that serving line hoping every one of those who come for help find just what they need. Heck I’m only 30 years old so I don’t even know what this ‘white guilt’ crap is you’re talking about and I like the movie. I guess I’m just racist that way?
You just don’t get it.
But you sure have the right username. Waaaaaaaaaaaaa.
this was a great movie, you guys are all idiots. :]
Of course its a racist movie along with The Green Mile.
It has some self-reflexive scenes but in general it is the naive black mass of a body that is to be put to good use by white intellect. It does not matter if it is a true story or not. Many movies are from true stories. This true story was selected because it will pay off – among a certain white neighbourhood.
The movie lies about the capitalist guilt. It is ok to own a whole million of restaurants and exploit millions of blacks working there as waiters and cooks and cleaners if you just have a pretty wife who adopts a poor stranded black guy from time to time. Of course not one who will turn into a union leader or a second lenin.