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"The Blind Side" is a beautiful new film based on a magnificent and heartwarming true story.
But I hope that the many who see it do not simply walk out all aglow. It should also produce concern.
This story about hopelessness transformed into achievement should be a typically American story. We should be concerned that, increasingly, this is not the case. That this is the exception that should be the rule.
Michael Oher's story has already received much attention. How a homeless black 15-year-old winds up in a Christian private school and how a white Christian couple adopted him and helped...
'The Blind Side' should trouble as well as inspire
And the contrast with the government's solution was stark. The "projects" on the other side of the tracks in Memphis were created (and perpetuated) by uncaring, unknowing government agencies which grow in size each year without ever solving the problems they are tasked with fixing. Indeed, the government is a key destroyer of the family unit in the projects, by making fathers even less relevant with welfare programs.