Angela Tucker, a transracial adoptee and mentor, on the impact of The Blind Side and the reaction to Oher’s claim that it was based on a lie.
that he thought it was faster for the Tuohys to go through the conservatorship process than to adopt Oher. “They showered him with resources and love,” Lewis said. “That he’s suspicious of them is breathtaking. The state of mind one has to be in to do that — I feel sad for him.
How do you think this film helped shape narratives around adoption, especially around transracial adoption? Another reason adoptive parents often get the mic and have the power to tell these stories is because when you bring in adoptees, we’re then also talking about all those -isms, like racism and classism, why poverty is involved. Then we bring in our birth parents, and how we might really love them even though perhaps we’ve endured abuse or neglect.
Absolutely. We don’t glamorize guardians. There are a lot of adoptees who advocate for guardianship instead of formal adoptions, because we don’t feel that in every case birth parents’ rights need to be terminated in order for us to have a family and be cared for. Adopting and the severing of those rights, giving another parent ownership over us — our society really likes that. The word adoption insulated Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy from any potential wrongdoing.
It’s the quintessential white-supremacy moment. What do Black and brown people have to do in order to be seen as fully human and deserving of being believed? As Black adoptees, we don’t get that benefit of the doubt. There can never be an accusation that we make without people defending white people first, looking at us sideways, thinking,When I was doing the film-festival circuit for, which is a documentary about my search for my birth parents, I would give a Q&A afterwards.
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