MORELSON'S LETTER TO SANTA!

YOU HAVE TO VIEW THIS IT'S JUST TOO DARN SWEET!  THANK YOU STEPHANIE FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER AFTER VISITING WITH OUR GUY EARLIER THIS MONTH!

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Sean Tuohy, Michael Oher and Leigh Anne Tuohy

The Tuohy's are the family depicted in The Blindside released this week.  They are played by Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Quinton Aaron.  

As an adoptive mom to be of a son of African heritage I read all of the hype centered around this movie based on the book The Blindside: Evolution of the Game, by Michael Lewis.  I'll begin by saying I didn't think I would like the movie, I figured along w/ plenty of others that it would carry a "tone."  That tone being one of "Only white people w/ money of the do gooder sect could possibly turn around and "save" a black boy from the wrong side of town."  Well that is ultimately what happened!  Whether you like it or not, Michael Oher is partly who he is today thanks to the Tuohy's.  Reality isn't always what we want it to be or wish it weren't!  Yes the movie comes across as very touchy feely, and I'm sure that not every single thing in the movie is absolutely 100% accurate down to each word, hug and look.  Yet in every single article or interview I've read when Michael himself is asked about the book and movie he agrees w/ everything that has been published or portrayed with the exception of his IQ.  If that is the only piece that is up for debate than I would say both Mr. Lewis and Hollywood have done an admirable job! 

Michael Oher was brought into this world under conditions that no child should ever have to know.  Born to a crack addicted mother of 13 who wasn't even sure who his father was at the time, he ended up living in many different foster homes, staying with whatever friend would take him in at the time or being left to find a warm floor to sleep on.  

My thoughts on the film are it can a teachable moment.  Let's not make it out to be a slam on the black community in the sense that they can't "save" their own.  In Michael's case he happened to be part of an immediate community that really was incapable of intervening.  That certainly doesn't mean that all members of the black community are unable or unwilling to adopt, foster or offer help to black children in need.  I don't think that the movie left people believing that is the case.  There are bad seeds in every walk of life.  People of all color, race and religion are capable of doing wrong by their children.  We have all heard of many cases where the black community has stepped  in and raised other people's children.  In Michael's case this just wasn't one of them, it's that simple.  The Tuohy's stepped up, saw a child of this world in need and did what it takes to make him successful!  That's where the teachable moment comes in:  when you see another fellow human being in need, and you have the means to meet those needs and your heart is in the right place, irregardless of color, religion, society's norms, etc.. you need to go for it.  It's no more complex than that.  A human being is a human being, and we all have far more in common than we do not in common.  


I have done a ton of reading on trans racial adoption and realize there are a mountain of things to be aware of.  I would never be so naive to think that as a white mother I can solely arm my black son with all that he needs as a black male in today's world.  In Michael's case his basic needs were not even being met, we can not fool ourselves into thinking that we can continue to ignore the fact that this is the case for millions of children world wide.  First let's give the world's children a safe, loving home, three nutrional meals a day, a predicatable routine, a solid education and an arsenal of extended community members that can help foster the child's whole being.  When that is being done on a large scale that's when we can pick and choose the homes these children in need go to, that's when we can really worry about whether a black family vs. a white family is best for any particular child.  Meanwhile we don't have the right to decide that a black child or hispanic child or asian child is better off being raised in a abusive home, foster home or orphanage because a family that shares the same skin color or cultural identity isn't stepping forward to raise them properly!  Nor should we worry about "saving face" of those that are abusing, neglecting, or in anyway harming the total well being of a child because it's politically incorrect or potentially damaging to a particular group of people.  


Watch the movie, enjoy the success that Michael finds and realize that the Tuohy's have learned much more from Michael than he will ever learn from them! 

Here is Morelson's November Smilebox.  He is getting SO big!  Our boy needs to come home!

http://smilebox.com/playEmail/4d5449304e5459794d6a42384d6a45324e5451314e44673d0d0a&sb=1

Winter Fun Has Begun!  First big storm hit October 28-29th.

IT'S OFFICIALLY A NO SCHOOL DAY!  THAT'S RIGHT IT'S ONLY OCTOBER 28TH AND OUR FIRST SNOW DAY HAS BEEN DECLARED!  SOMETHING TELLS ME WE ARE IN FOR A LONG WINTER!  

 

I look outside my window
and what do I see?

Six inches of fluffy snow
waiting just for me.

School is cancelled for one day.
Buses cannot run.

That’s ok with me because
I’ll have lots of fun.

I grab my boots, coat, and hat.
I run, jump and play.

Scoop it. Toss it. Crackle. Crunch.
Snow Day! Snow Day! Yeah!

We awoke to snow on Saturday morning here in Denver! This was the scene in our front yard. A scarecrow and pumpkins sporting winter's white is typical, but always a sad reality that fall isn't a season we get to have around for very long :(

Capitalism!

It doesn't matter where you stand politically or if you have a stand at all, this movie is a must see! You have to realize that we are in a mess as a country, we the people allowed and created this mess and the time has come that we the people play clean up!

The definition of capitalism:

Economic system characterized by the following: private property ownership exists; individuals and companies are allowed to compete for their own economic gain; and free market forces determine the prices of goods and services. Such a system is based on the premise of separating the state and business activities. Capitalists believe that markets are efficient and should thus function without interference, and the role of the state is to regulate and protect.

Here is the deal folks we have ALL allowed capitalism to run a muck! The idea is great! Create a free market, promote healthy competition, and sit back and reap the rewards of our hard work and ingenuity! Sadly that is only happening for the top 1% of our population. Did you know that those on the very top have more wealth then the combined worth of the rest of the 99% of us? This isn't because they are SO smart and have worked SO much harder than us, it's because they have pulled the wool right over our eyes and we have become defenseless against them thanks to the twisted interests of the good ol' U. S. of A!

Our government is not doing what is said above, they are not "regulating and protecting" they have fed us to the lions! It's been happening for a very long time now, and it will continue to happen until we let them know under no circumstances are we going to allow it to continue. We can do this you know, afterall we do live in a democratic nation right? Oh, wait a minute we actually live in a "bought" union one where money equals power and the more power one has the more they want so they use more money to "buy" more power and it goes on and on and on!

Our politicians are owned and operated by corporations! The key to unlocking this ownership is to have total and I mean 100% set in stone campaign finance reform! The days of a presidential candidate taking millions of dollars from puppeteers needs to stop. You know the old saying "he who has the gold makes the rule!" By allowing our politicians to be bought and therefore controlled by these corporate Goliath's, because let's face it, that's exactly what is happening, we have opened our entire country and all it's citizen to their way or the highway!

This movie is not about putting fear where there is none. You honestly can't watch this movie and not question what you are hearing, it's impossible unless you simply can't think for yourself!

The sad truth is none and I do mean NONE of our political leaders are above the ugliness of this blood sucking game! I voted for Obama and to this day I really, really like the guy! I still feel that he has the potential of doing some good. I'll even go so far as to say that I bet he wishes he hadn't had to be a sell out to get where he is, but the truth is he wouldn't be president if that were the case. If Obabam hadn't taken the mulitple millions of dollars so easily placed into his hands by people such as Goldman Sachs for instance he would be back in the windy city today singing the blues with the rest of the folks sad about not getting the 2016 olympics!

You can't take money like that from corporations and not be expected to play their game, that is the simple truth folks. Money = votes = power. It's certainly not a complex formula! We have dealt the corporations that run this country, yea, the same ones that ran the economy into the toilet due to NO REGULATIONS OR PROTECTION A "FULL HOUSE!" They are gloating that CAPITALISM has allowed them to mascarade an army of unethical, immoral behaviors that if anyone of us were to behave in the same manner we would be utterly ashamed of ourselves!

Please watch the movie. Don't watch it without question, do question, question every last bit of it! Do your homework, read, research, seek the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth! I can promise you it won't be pretty. It's embarrassing what we have allowed this great nation to become. We are loathed around the world becasue we don't know when to leave well enough alone. We can't educate our children good enough to compete in a global market and we can't provide quality healthcare for millions of our own people. But we can produce a free market where the top 1% control and manipulate the other 99% of us all in the name of CAPITALISM!