Stuck with Damon Young returns with more off-the-cuff conversations inspired by today’s most culturally relevant headlines and round ups of Damon-approved listener-submitted questions. Each episode, award-winning author Damon Young is joined by some of the best, brightest, and Blackest people he knows including special guests Kiese Laymon, Roy Wood Jr., Elaine Welteroth, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others. Come explore the uncomfortable, hideous, and hilarious absurdity of our human behavior. Listen to Stuck with Damon Young on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Stuck with Damon Young returns with more off-the-cuff conversations inspired by today’s most culturally relevant headlines and round ups of Damon-approved listener-submitted questions. Each episode, award-winning author Damon Young is joined by some of the best, brightest, and Blackest people he knows including special guests Kiese Laymon, Roy Wood Jr., Elaine Welteroth, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others. Come explore the uncomfortable, hideous, and hilarious absurdity of our human behavior. Listen to Stuck with Damon Young on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
On the heels of retired NFL player Michael Oher’s recent lawsuit against the Tuohy family, where he claims that they manipulated him into a conservatorship, University of Boston Professor Saida Grundy returns to help Damon unpack all of the problems with “The Blindside.” Including why the white savior narrative is so seductive (and so dangerous), and how both Michael Lewis (the author of The Blindside) and the Tuohy family have capitalized, for years, on an intentional mischaracterization of Oher possessing severe intellectual disabilities.
Chapters:
00:00- Cold Open
00:35 - Show Intro
01:58 - Saida Grundy Intro
3:00 - Explaining The Blindside/ Michael Oher Conservatory Saga
12:35 - Film Discussion
18:08 - Who are the Tuohy's
28:00 - Saida's White Savior Identity Theory
34:30 - What Happens Next?
38:55 - Outro
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Stuck with Damon Young
Stuck with Damon Young returns with more off-the-cuff conversations inspired by today’s most culturally relevant headlines and round ups of Damon-approved listener-submitted questions. Each episode, award-winning author Damon Young is joined by some of the best, brightest, and Blackest people he knows including special guests Kiese Laymon, Roy Wood Jr., Elaine Welteroth, Nikole Hannah-Jones and others. Come explore the uncomfortable, hideous, and hilarious absurdity of our human behavior. Listen to Stuck with Damon Young on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
