I recently read an article that should have been shocking, but wasn’t at all.
A quick summary of the article; “Retired NFL star Michael Oher, whose supposed adoption out of grinding poverty by a wealthy, white family was immortalized in the 2009 movie ‘The Blind Side’, petitioned a Tennessee court Monday with allegations that a central element of the story was a lie concocted by the family to enrich itself at his expense.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; it’s time Storytelling as an industry gets a lot braver and we start supporting stories from the underrepresented.
And by support, I mean publicly advocating for đź—Ł and financially investing in them! đź’µ
We need to aggressively lean into narratives that are told from underrepresented communities.
Nothing about us, without us!
Enough is enough.
