The Blind Side (2009) is a very popular film that some of you may have seen. For those who are not familiar with this movie the main character is Michael Oher. He is a young African American high schooler who struggles to call somewhere home, and his parents are not involved in his life. Oher struggles in school because he is not able to read and lacks education. Oher is a kindhearted young boy who loves sports and begins his football career for the high school when the head coach saw his size and approached him to try out. Although it took time and work to learn the ins and outs of the game of football, Oher got the hang of it. A local mother in town of the Tuohy family, watches Oher go through these struggles throughout his high school career of being uneducated and not having a mom and dad figure in his life and decides to essentially turn his life around. The woman and her husband decide to adopt Michael Oher and push him to be the best man he can be, they set up tutors for classes in school, talk to college coaches that are recruiting Michael in football and eventually this leads to Oher being offering tons of Division 1 college football scholarships because of his ability to play the sport. Although the film ends on a high note with Michael Oher being a big successful name and getting accepted into college, there were struggles along the way. Mrs. Tuohy deals with some racist and ignorant comments from women who claimed to be her friend when she told them Michael was soon to be her son. These women were all caucasian and wealthy in the town they lived in and thought it was not correct for Mrs. Tuohy to bring in a young black man into her family who came from a broke family, they made this assumption with out ever even meeting Michael Oher. Michael also felt with issues making friends at his new private high school because he was one of the very few black students and he was also the largest boy in the school , he was very quiet and shy in school and was scared to see how people were going to treat him for being black. The opponents that Oher faces were primarily white and during his football games they would yell racist slurs and rude things at him as he played football. These are all acts of racist injustice that occurred in the movie, which is based on a true story so this just shows the audience that things like this are not rare and it is sad and not fair that young high schoolers or any age people have to go through this injustice. I think that the director of this movie wanted the audience to take away the message that even through all of the hate and people doubting Michael Oher he still came out and is successful. He had one good family help him out to change his whole life around when he was nearly at the lowest. Michael Oher proved all of the people wrong that were treating him different because of his race and home history.