Paternalism

Some reviewers of Michael Lewis’s The Blind Side have complained about the “paternalism” of the Tuohy family who brought Michael Oher into their orbit.

Well, tu quoque . Is it just possible that some lost kids, even lost black kids, might actually need a pater ?

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