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An Adoption Story More Dramatic Than ‘The Blind Side’: Family Takes In Troubled, Homeless African American Teen & Helps Him Turn His Life Around [Video]
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By now everyone has seen or at least heard of the movie 'The Blind Side.' It's the true story of how Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher, an African American was adopted by a white family who helped him turn his life around.
A similar story is developing in Seattle, Washington that is even more dramatic, but looks like it could have a very happy ending as well.
As a 16-year old Melvin Jones was bouncing around the streets of Seattle with no home and no real family structure.
His mother was dying of AIDS and although Melvin was attending high school, he had zero credits as a sophomore and no discipline in the classroom.
His high school coach Kasey Porrier, looked at Melvin as the younger brother he never had and decided to ask his mom if she would take Melvin in.
"Every time I took him home, I was taking him somewhere else,” Kasey recalled. “We drove around to four or five different places and there were no adults. He never had a curfew, never had to do homework, never had to get up and go to school."
Knowing all of that Kasey's mom, Jennifer Annable decided to let Melvin stay.
Annable had not had an easy life herself. She moved to Seattle when she was 6 months pregnant with Kasey, with only $50 dollars.
She worked hard to become a teacher, then Director of a School For Children With Special Needs.
So given the chance to take Melvin in wasn't a hard choice at all. She had done it five times when Kasey was younger.
It was very hard at first because Melvin didn't trust anyone. He kept the groceries Annable bought for him in his room, afraid they would get eaten up.
"He had been loved, but not parented," Annable said.
Even though Melvin rebelled against it, Annable forced him to study and do his homework.
"Jennifer was like a gnat, like you slappin' at a gnat and it just won't go away." Melvin said. “I tried to leave the house 1:30, 2 o’clock in the morning, and I’d get into fights with Jennifer.”
"Melvin was putting so much strain on my mother that it was kind of breaking her.” Kasey said, starting to think that maybe the whole thing was a bad idea.
Then one day Annable gave Melvin her ATM card and PIN number. Showing him she trusted him with her life and he could do the same with her.
"I didn't want to be responsible for Melvin not making it,” Jennifer said.
Now several years later the high school sophomore with no credits is flourishing at Portland State University. Where he is not only a star player, but a gifted student as well.
“Once he bought into the hard work, to the long hours, to the family, to the changes in his life, he made it." Kasey says.
"She threw a Hail Mary pass,” Melvin says of Annable “I guess I caught it"
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Comment by KEIZER SOZE on February 13, 2011 at 4:32am -
yall know if this gets made into a movie after THE BLIND SIDE already did white people all over the world gonna go single parent or abandoned black teenage hunting (lmao) thats not bad I guess though
I would love to see a FLIP SIDE movie get made though where they take in the black kind & he knocks up thier daughter or steals thier s*** (lol)
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Comment by XxJosxX on February 5, 2011 at 2:16pm -
Why the focus on race? Why cant it just be woman takes boy in and helps him. Why is it AFRICAN AMERICAN child taken in by nice WHITE folk to help turn his life around? Just say a nice lady helped out a boy in need, thats it.
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Comment by Konflict on February 5, 2011 at 2:15pm -
on another note, If you read "Man stfu" he does have a point!
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Comment by Konflict on February 5, 2011 at 2:13pm
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It goes to show that no matter how f***** up this world is, and how ignorant minded some people can be, theres still good people out there....respect is colour blind!
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Comment by RIZZ on February 5, 2011 at 12:15pm -
i bet there r alot of whites and blacks that think this is wrong...those ppl r the ones who are trash this lady is the bomb
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Comment by RIZZ on February 5, 2011 at 12:14pm
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it aint about black white were all human i hope we see the light before its ruin
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Comment by RIZZ on February 5, 2011 at 12:08pm
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stfu u racist red knecks im white and i cant understand y yall r like that im from the hood maybe thats y u b****** must be from a farm where u f*** ya cuzins and chickens or suburbs here u talk s*** but wanna be juss like a g but ppl need to get is being a g isnt a choice and it aint cool either all the real geez know at i mean
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Comment by RIZZ on February 5, 2011 at 12:05pm
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thats wassup these r ppl real pppl and good ppl not f****** racist red necks im happy for youngin thats wassup
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Comment by Man stfu on February 5, 2011 at 11:42am -
@Michael Wills Never turned it into anything racist I think some of you just don't like to think and that is why you automatically categorize what I said as racist because its easier for you to pass it off as racist than to consider the fact that you never see the reverse done in the media. Never. Theres always some "white couple saves lost black boy" reported. And thats great that this lady was kind enough and this young boy was fortunate. My beef here isn't with them. It's with the media and them constantly choosing to paint black people in the subordinate fashion. "Lucky boy if it wasn't for the white man he would be no where" Yeah maybe in this case that they picked out. @Nardi I give a f*** bot who adopted who but I give a f*** that the media ONLY reports white adopting black. Thats ALL they do. Has anyone here EVER seen the other side? Ever? Media consistently paints black people as weak and needy of the white mans help to salvation. This is why when a brother is well-spoken and intelligent they always ask you if you have white in your blood, and even if you don't they assume you want to be white, wish you were white, are white etc. Again this is a wonderful story of human beings helping each other out, but it just hit me that I've never seen the reverse reported ever. I challenge people to find a story like that.
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Comment by ThePotent1 on February 5, 2011 at 11:41am -
N***** be like f**** pets nowadays LOL. Everyone want one..
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