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"All Are Welcome" Mixed media, deconstructed icon, acrylic paint, pine, maple plywood, #8 x 3” stainless steel sheet metal screws The new limited series 1923 is a prequel to the Paramount+ series Yellowstone. 1923 stars Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. Although just a side-plot, 1923 vividly displays the monstrous barbarity that Roman Catholics visited upon indigenous children through their "schools." It's just fucking horrible. Not the program - the history. The acting is spot on. The imperious, pious, swagger of the Catholic Clergy is completely accurate (at least from my memory anyway)... Here's a link to a clip from the 1923 series that I found deeply satisfying.. The situation portrayed in the clip is very realistic. Nuns at the schools I attended would often hit children for wrong answers. Some even exhibited the rage portrayed in the clip.. As in the clip, sometimes my classmates would fight back - but nowhere near as forcefully.. Perhaps if we had fought back with more regularity and more vigor, the good sisters would have lost their taste for beating children.. ~ |
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