Liberals only support free speech that they agree with, which is why they squeal like stuck pigs when corporations are allowed the same rights to speech as labor unions, and why, when they ignorantly screw up and make a movie that tells the truth about 9/11, they hold it behind their backs and say, "Movie? What movie?"

And while I understand the sentiment behind the file-sharing and Youtubing and bootlegging ideas, it is unfair to the artists who created this film for them to be cut off from its revenue stream because of the ideology of a petty tyrant like Iger.

Brilliantly stated, Mr. Tapson.

You say: "Precious never even THINKS to stand up to her mother until (in order) a lesbian-archangel straight out of Alice Walker ("My favorite color is purple"? C'MON!!) health-food slinging male nurse and an omniracial hard-case social worker give her the strength. In neither case is the subject actually capable of rescuing themselves until Magical White People or Magical Government come along."

Are you familiar with the term "child"?

Sorry, but it is true, and it is provably true with a simple google search. The National Association of Black Social Workers has long been against transracial adoption. I have experienced resistance from these social workers myself firsthand, and if your friend didn't have trouble, then she either got VERY lucky or she just didn't share it with you. Here's the link: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mmcman1/

And here's the crux of it: "The National Association of Black Social Workers has hindered the transracial adoption process by calling it "cultural genocide" (The New Republic, 1994).....The National Association of Black Social Workers is one group opposed to the placement of black children into white homes. This group is opposed to transracial adoption for these reasons: 1)to preserve African-American families and culture; 2)to enable black children to appreciate their origin by living with a family of the same race; 3)to enable black children to learn to cope with racism and learn how to function around it; and 4)to help make it easier for African-American families to adopt."

Sounds like they're against it to me!

She was probably also dressed provocatively when her Daddy raped her.

Message to abused children: just take it, don't provoke your mean old Mom, and hang on for 16 years or so, and the system will save you -- IF you happen to run into an exceptional individual like Ms. Rain, who does stuff OUTSIDE the system to help you. Sounds like a plan!

If you call saving Precious teaching her to read at age 16 after she has two children by her father and contracts HIV, then you have a very low threshold for salvation, brother. But, hey, the system worked! She got saved!

Oh and yes, Precious, a child, "chose" to stay for all the abuse, and if she hadn't talked back to Mo'Nique and stuff, she wouldn't have had a frying pan and a TV set thrown at her. She was ASKING for it, that Precious!

Here you go....

http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-11-18/film/the-blind...

THAT DIDN'T TAKE LONG! WHO'S NEXT?

"I saw "The Blind Side" and I didn't think much of the "white savoirs" theme of the movie...until I read this article beretting black people."

Just to be clear, I have never advocated putting berets on black people, or any other color people, for that matter. I decry all beretting as unfashionable and pretentious, and think that noone in our country should be beretted.

Upper middle, maybe.

Point taken. I used the term "mongoloid" because it was used in the movie, and should have used quotation marks. My apologies.

So if you can't be a professional athlete, then your life is not worth saving? Precious's life is worth less than Michael Oher's?

I found more redemption in this film than in THE BLIND SIDE. Not to mention that, from an actor's viewpoint, the performances in THE BLIND SIDE, excepting Sandra Bullock and the young man who played Michael Oher, were uniformly distractingly atrocious. TERRIBLE acting outside of the Mom and the adoptee. Just terrible.