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Cocaine Bear (15): Pablo Escobear on the rampage.

#onemannsmovies review of "Cocaine Bear" (2023). #cocainebear. Ludicrously gory ursine drama, but a whole lot of cinema fun! 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Cocaine Bear” (2023). Not since “Women Talking” (which I grant you was only two days ago) has a film’s title most accurately described the contents of a movie. It’s about a bear. And about cocaine. It’s about a bear that’s taken cocaine! Bob the Movie Man Rating(s): Plot Summary: A drug trafficker offloads a massive cargo of cocaine out of a plane while flying…

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Things that happened in BoJack Horseman

A deep exploration of the 5 stages of grief through the stories of 3 people across time.

A realistic depiction of domestic violence, subtrance abuse, and how it all starts beautifully.

A story of a child Hollywoo star getting wrecked by life and fame which leads to an early death while also serving as a commentary of child celebrities and the way the industry can effect them.

A 50 almost taking advantege of a 17 year old and the long term effects on both of them.

A 20 minute monologue by the main character which is just a eulogy to his abusive mother (that got nominated for an Emmy).

A historically accurate story of a women from a luxurious family getting traumatized, and victimized by misogyny which leads her to a misrable life and becoming an abuser herself.

The full story of a couple getting married all the way to a divorce while unpacking why the marrige failed.

Also things that happened in BoJack Horseman

After many rewrites and changes, a movie ended up being a bimonthly curated box of snacks mid production.

Someone openned their own very unsafe DisneyLand, almost got sued but was saved because of a typo in the document copywriting DisneyLand.

An adult women dated 3 kids in a trench coat (which may or may not be a real adult).

A Hollywoo celebritie opened a store foor Halloween store for January with no floor, and Andrew Garfield fell down.

A character joined improv class that turned out to be a cult.

Character Actress Margo Martindale drive's another celebritie's bout straight to a ship full of spaggeti. Now the spagetti is cooking due to an ad that is actually a mirror, and because it's cooking, it's sinking straight to a city underwater. The Hot Sexy Killer Wale Uber and a celebritie who has just a bunch of spageti strainers laying around can stop it, but that person went to see a movie fir two hours.

A sex robot became a CEO of a company.

A Hollywoo celebritie challenged the governor of california to a ski race of which the winner will be the governor. His represent then does a bunch of legal gymnastics to make that happen. Said celebritie than admits to have no idea how to ski. In the end just some guy wins the race by accident and immediately resigns.

A house fell underground with celebrities in it so everyone kills and eats Zach Braff.

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All the actors you can find on this blog

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b: barry bostwick - bellamy young - ben barnes - ben mckenzie - benedict cumberbatch - benicio del toro - bernard cribbins - bill nighy - billie piper - billy boyd - brendan gleeson - brent spiner - brianna hildebrand

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g: gareth david lloyd - gary oldman - geoffrey rush - george eads - george takei - georgia tennant - georgina haig - gillian anderson - ginnifer goodwin - gwendoline christie - gwyneth paltrow

h: hadley fraser - harrison ford - harvey keitel - hayley atwell - heath ledger - helen mccrory - helena bonham carter - henry cavill - hugh dancy - hugh jackman - hugh laurie - hugh skinner - hugo weaving

i: ian mckellen - imelda staunton - inbar lavi

j: jack davenport - jack wolfe - jackie earle haley - jake gyllenhaal - james mcavoy - james spader - jamie lee curtis - jared padalecki - jason isaacs - javier bardem - jayne brook - jeff goldblum - jenna coleman - jennifer connelly - jennifer lawrence - jennifer morrison - jensen ackles - jeremy renner - jim beaver - jodie foster - joel rush - joey batey - john barrowman - john boyega - john hurt - john larroquette - john rhys davies - john simm - johnny depp - jonathan frakes - jose pimentao - joseph gilgun - josh dallas - jude law - julia stiles - julianne moore - julie covington - juliette binoche

k: kacey rohl - karen fukuhara - karen gillan - karl urban - kat dennings - kate capshaw - kathryn hahn - keira knightley - kevin alejandro - kit young - krysten ritter - kyle maclachlan - kyra sedgwick

l: lana parrilla - lara pulver - lars mikkelsen - laura allen - laura dern - laura fraser - lauren german - laurence fishburne - laurie kynaston - laz alonso - lee arenberg - lee pace - leonard nimoy - lesley ann brandt - lesley sharp - lindsay duncan - lisa vicari - liv tyler - lizzy caplan - louise hofmann - lucas till - luke evans

m: mads mikkelsen - maggie gyllenhaal - majel barrett - margo martindale - marion cotillard - mark gatiss - mark pellegrino - mark ruffalo - mark sheppard - mark strong - mark waschke - martin freeman - matt smith - max schimmelpfenning - may calamawy - meat loaf - megan boone - mel gibson - melinda clarke - melissanthi mahut - meret becker - mia wasikowska - michael benyaer - michael bully herbig - michael cumpsty - michael des barres - michael fassbender - michael gambon - michael raymond james - michael sheen - michelle gomez - mikael persbrandt - miranda otto - misha collins

n: natalie portman - ncuti gatwa - neil patrick harris - nell campbell - nichelle nichols - nicolas cage - nicole kidman

o: olivia colman - orlando bloom - oscar isaac - owen wilson

p: paddy ohagan - patricia quinn - patrick stewart - paul bettany - paul chahidi - paul lux - paul mescal - pedro pascal - penelope wilton - peter capaldi - peter falk - peter hinwood - philip glenister - phoebe waller bridge - pierce brosnan - pip torrens

q: qorianka kilcher - quentin tarantino

r: rachael harris - rachel weisz - rafi gavron - ralph fiennes - rayner bourton - reece shearsmith - rene russo - rhona mitra - richard armitage - richard obrien - rob benedict - robbie kay - robert carlyle - robert downey jr - robin lord taylor - robin williams - ronald guttman - rose mciver - rupert graves - rupert grint - russell crowe - ruth negga - ryan gosling - ryan reynolds

s: sam neill - samantha smith - samuel l jackson - scarlett estevez - scarlett johansson - sean astin - sean bean - sebastian stan - sherilyn fenn - shohreh aghdashloo - sky du mont - sophia di martino - stanley tucci - stellan skarsgard - steven strait - susan sarandon

t: tan caglar - taron egerton - tilda swinton - tim curry - tim roth - toby maguire - tom conti - tom ellis - tom felton - tom hiddleston - tom holland - tom payne - tom sturridge - tomer capone - tony curran - tony curtis - tricia helfer - troy garity

u: una stubbs

v: val kilmer - vanesu samunyai - viggo mortensen - vivienne acheampong - vladimir burlakov

w: walter koenig - william shatner

y: yasmin finney

z: zachary quinto

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Get In Line: Cocaine Bear Review

Pictured above is the “Cocaine Bear” poster.

Image Credit: Universal Pictures

So, usually I cover movies that are straight horror, but I decided to do something different and discuss this movie. This movie has an insane premise with an interesting story that inspired the movie. Usually, horror comedies are hit and miss for me, but I decided to give it a watch. Let’s get straight to the spoiler free review and hope no cocaine addicted bears are around.

Cocaine Bear is a 2023 horror comedy thriller directed by Elizabeth Banks who also produced this movie, Produced by Max Handelman, Aditya Sood, Brian Duffield, Phil Lord, and Chris Miller. Cocaine Bear is written by Jimmy Warden, and the soundtrack is done by Mark Mothersbaugh. The cast involves Keri Russell as Sari, Alden Ehrenreich as Eddie, O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Daveed, Ray Liotta as Syd, Isiah Whitlock Jr. as Bob, Brooklynn Prince as Dee Dee, Christian Convery as Henry, Margo Martindale as Ranger Liz, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Peter, Kristofer Hivju as Olaf, Hannah Hoekstra as Elsa, Ayoola Smart as Officer Reba, Aaron Holliday as Kid (Stache), J.B. Moore as Vest, Leo Hanna as Ponytail, Kahyun Kim as Beth, Scott Seiss as Tom, Matthew Rhys as Andrew Thornton, and Allan Henry as “Bear Performer”.

The Plot:

An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after unintentionally ingesting cocaine.

Positives:

One positive I have about “Cocaine Bear” is that it knows what it is, and what I mean by that is that it’s a movie about a bear on cocaine, that alone sounds crazy, but they have fun with that premise. The real black bear died on December 23rd,1985 after eating a large amount of cocaine from the containers, the total amount of cocaine that was eaten was 75 pounds which was worth $20 million ($55.6 million, adjusted for inflation).

Pictured above is the ambulance scene from “Cocaine Bear” (2023)

Image Credit: Universal Pictures

The second positive I have about this movie was the dark humor throughout, the reason I loved the dark humor throughout as some of the death scenes are so unexpected and over the top that you can’t just help but laugh. The dialogue was creative and some characters’ reactions to certain situations had me laughing.

The final positive I have about this movie was the cast as they understood the assignment, the acting reminds me of an 80’s b-horror movie. Keri Russell nailed her performance as Sari, and I must give props to the child actors (Brooklynn Prince and Christian Convery.) But this does have some drawbacks which we’ll get to.

Pictured above is the door scene from “Cocaine Bear.”

Image Credit: Universal Pictures

Negatives:

One negative I have is the lack of character development. I know it’s not supposed to be taken seriously, but I would’ve enjoyed seeing how each character’s story progresses since they are all intertwined. Another negative I have is that I felt that the movie wasn’t scary enough, I know the real bear died via overdose, but can you imagine how terrifying would it be to have a 500-pound black bear high on cocaine chasing you. I honestly wish they could have played up on the fear factor.

My Overall thoughts:

While this movie has some negatives, don’t let them affect your viewing experience as it’s one of the movies where you turn your mind off and eat some popcorn. If you enjoy campy, gory, and darkly comedic horror movies, this one is for you. But I’m glad that studios are letting directors make the movies they want even if they are based on…as I said before insane backstories. This movie is amazing in its own way with its over the top violence, comedic timing, and action throughout which only increases its re-watchability.

Pictured above is Cokey the bear getting high on cocaine. “Cocaine Bear” (2023)

Image Credit: Universal Pictures

Where to watch “Cocaine Bear” (2023)?

Peacock

Blu-Ray and DVD

Digital Retailers.

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Title: Table 19

Rating: PG-13

Director: Jeffrey Blitz

Cast: Anna Kendrick, Craig Robinson, June Squibb, Lisa Kudrow, Stephen Merchant, Tony Revolori, Wyatt Russell, Amanda Crew, Becky Ann Baker, Thomas Cocquerel, Maria Christina Thayer, Andrew Daly, Andy Stahl, Chris Whitley, Margo Martindale

Release year: 2017

Genres: comedy, drama

Blurb: Having been relieved of her maid-of-honour duties after being unceremoniously dumped by the best man via text, Eloise decides to attend the wedding anyway...only to find herself seated with five fellow unwanted guests at the dreaded Table 19.

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Cocaine Bear

Elizabeth Banks’ COCAINE BEAR (2023, On-Demand) opens with a fun comic scene. Andrew Thornton II (an un-billed Matthew Rhys) desperately throws bags of cocaine out of a failing plane and then tries to bail out, only to take a deadly pratfall as he exits. You might as well go to another screen in the multi-plex after that because there’s little that follows that reaches that level of inspired lunacy. It’s not that Rhys takes all the humor and talent with him. There are some good performances in the film from Keri Russell as a single mom looking for runaway daughter Brooklynn Prince in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest (poorly played by Ireland), Margo Martindale and Jesse Tyler Ferguson as an unlikely romantic couple and Aaron Holiday as an addled member of a teen gang rolling park visitors. But this less-than-inspired goof on the story of an actual bear killed when it ingested cocaine thrown from a plane is so wildly uneven in tone that it often ends up being desperately unfunny. You keep wishing the better actors (and that includes Ray Liotta in his last role) were in a film more worthy of them. There are some well-timed bits. Banks is a good director who also deserves a better script. But after slapstick dismemberments and eviscerations, it’s hard to shift gears to take Russell’s fight to save her daughter seriously. One reviewer said this film was miles better than SNAKES ON A PLANE (2006), another picture whose title went viral on-line before anybody had ever seen the picture. There’s no accounting for taste. I mean, some people willingly eat scrapple. Me, I’ll just hold out for ATTACK OF THE METH GATOR (2023).

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A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Lee Wakefield Lacker: Meryl Streep Bessie Wakefield: Diane Keaton Hank Lacker: Leonardo DiCaprio Wallace “Wally” Carter: Robert De Niro Marvin Wakefield: Hume Cronyn Ruth Wakefield: Gwen Verdon Charlie Lacker: Hal Scardino Robert “Bob” Carter: Dan Hedaya Charlotte Samit: Margo Martindale Retirement Home Director: Cynthia Nixon Coral: Kelly Ripa Lance: John Callahan Beauty Shop Lady: Olga Merediz Bruno: Joe Lisi Gas Station Guy: Steve DuMouchel Janine: Bitty Schram Novice: Lizbeth MacKay Nun on Phone: Helen Stenborg Nun #3: Sally Parrish Film Crew: Costume Design: Julie Weiss Producer: Robert De Niro Producer: Scott Rudin Producer: Jane Rosenthal Original Music Composer: Rachel Portman Executive In Charge Of Production: Meryl Poster Production Design: David Gropman Casting: Ilene Starger Editor: Jim Clark Dialogue Editor: Magdaline Volaitis Supervising Sound Editor: Wendy Hedin Dolly Grip: Dave Lowry Still Photographer: Phillip V. Caruso Co-Producer: Bonnie Palef Music Editor: Dan Lieberstein Hair Designer: Alan D’Angerio Director of Photography: Piotr Sobociński First Assistant Director: Ellen H. Schwartz Set Decoration: Tracey A. Doyle Co-Producer: Adam Schroeder Script Supervisor: Anne Rapp Director: Jerry Zaks Screenplay: Scott McPherson Camera Operator: Rob Hahn Art Direction: Peter Rogness Executive Producer: Tod Scott Brody Leadman: Scott Rosenstock Boom Operator: Andrew Schmetterling Associate Producer: John Guare Stunt Coordinator: Frank Ferrara Orchestrator: Jeff Atmajian Co-Producer: David Wisnievitz First Assistant Editor: Mitchel Stanley Property Master: Tommy Allen Construction Coordinator: Nick Miller Chief Lighting Technician: Russell Engels ADR Editor: Lisa J. Levine Makeup Artist: Allen Weisinger Art Department Coordinator: Rhonda Moscoe Wardrobe Supervisor: Timothy Alberts Wardrobe Supervisor: Patricia Eiben Location Manager: Antoine Douaihy Seamstress: Laurie Buehler Construction Foreman: Gordon Krause Dialogue Editor: Stuart Emanuel Foley Editor: Raymond Karpicki Dialogue Editor: Michael Shore First Assistant Editor: Debra C. Victoroff Music Supervisor: Chandra Beard Executive Producer: Lori Steinberg Associate Producer: Craig Gering Movie Reviews:

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New Constellations - Hot Blooded (Official Music Video) Directed / Edited by Travis Abels Director of Photography: Connor Limbocker Stylist/Art Department: Keasha Brown Tunnel Construction Lead: Alisha Lorentz Producers: Leighana Martindale, Kendall Watkins, Chase McDaniel, Chase Faulkner, Harlee Case, Travis Abels Makeup Artist: Chelsea Sinks, Morgan Muta Makeup Assist/Hair Stylist: Grace Brunner Hair Artist: Sarah Ann Gaffer/Grip: Chase McDaniel Gaffer: Vincent Carlston Lighting Programmer: Randy Bremrose SPFX Atmosphere: Zach Humphreys AC: Griffin Koerner, Makayla Caldwell Harlee Animator: Ryan McKinnon BTS Photography: Craig Jefferson Actors: Harlee Case, Josh Smith, Ashley Arasaki, Andrew Arasaki, Alisha Lorenz, Kyle Farook, Zuri Rivera, Tapu Williams, Tyler Joanou, Ethan Wallick, Nickia Delaware, Dresden Devera, Rodney Sanchez-Rosa, Candis Hertz, Jyss Yelas, Ash Mudra, Mylea Parker, Carson Case, Kayla Darr Production Assistants: Tatum Duke, Kayden Cowan, Tyler Joanou, Jyss Yelas, Alex Howell, Kyle Farook, Ashley Arasaki, Tucker Pyne, Clara Charmak, Kayla Darr, Jerilyn Armstrong, Beau Leslie, McKensey Slibsager, Quil McIntyre, Andrew Arasaki, McKinsey Slibsager, Steve Fancler Listen to New Constellations: Spotify: https://ift.tt/yKN31iS Apple Music: https://ift.tt/rIoi3RC Subscribe to New Constellations YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NewConstellations/?sub_confirmation=1 Follow New Constellations: Instagram: https://ift.tt/0O6snfH Facebook: https://ift.tt/5Iv27Od Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCMusic420 TikTok: https://ift.tt/F0Jmk6L Spotify: https://ift.tt/yKN31iS Website: https://ift.tt/xL1UYtR Video Credits: #NewConstellations #HotBlooded via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIAB_GNmGw

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8: Cocaine Bear

Like Snakes On A Plane before it, Cocaine Bear's success was helped along by prerelease hype due to its ridiculous title and premise. [Not so ridiculous, as it turns out - the story was inspired by a real-life incident in which a black bear ingested cocaine jettisoned by drug smugglers.] The marketing team was savvy enough to realize that social media's incredulous reaction would translate to ticket sales, and went out of its way to stoke it.

The film was directed by Elizabeth Banks, whose long stint at 30 Rock is evidenced by some hit-or-miss cutaway gags. Like most horror/comedies, it's the "comedy" part that Cocaine Bear struggles with; the film probably would have benefited by emulating the Looney Tunes sensibilities of splatter auteurs like Sam Raimi or Peter Jackson. [The title character is animated, after all.]

As it is, Cocaine Bear delivers on its premise and little else. Setting the movie in Tennessee during the Eighties (ostensibly to maintain its connection to the real event) results in period appropriate needle drops, but also risible attempts at a Southern accent. Plus, there's two different subplots about parents and kids that never pay off - as if giving the bear's victims a back story would make them more compelling.

Speaking of kids and not paying off, nepo baby O'Shea Jackson Jr. shows how little he brings to a role beyond his dad's likeness (and yet still manages to score one high profile studio gig after another - daps to his agent for earning that bump like a motherfucker). Alden Ehrenreich, brilliant in the Coens' Hail Caesar, is wasted here, as are Isiah Whitlock Jr. and Margo Martindale (who has the additional indignity of being the punchline to a joke about a dusty beaver).

The movie's popularity means a sequel is inevitable; hopefully it also means that Banks will get to shoot the one about mothers and daughters that she seemingly really wanted to make. The most compelling story, however, is the one that takes place before the title card: The true story of Andrew C. Thornton II, drug cop turned trafficker who died in a smuggling operation - but not before dropping kilos of cocaine on some unsuspecting wildlife. No doubt one of the streaming companies has a Narcos/Breaking Bad type series about him in development as I type this.

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Cocaine Bear

Release Date: February 24, 2023 | Theaters

SYNOPSIS:

After a 500-pound black bear consumes a significant amount of cocaine and embarks on a drug-fueled rampage, an eccentric gathering of cops, criminals, tourists, and teenagers assemble in a Georgia forest.

REVIEW:

The film is inspired by the real story of a 175-pound (79 kg) American black bear that died after ingesting a duffel bag full of cocaine in December 1985. The cocaine had been dropped out of an airplane piloted by Andrew C. Thornton II, a former narcotics officer and convicted drug smuggler, because his plane was carrying too heavy a load. Thornton then jumped out of the plane with a faulty parachute and died. The bear was found three months later in northern Georgia alongside 40 opened plastic containers of cocaine. The bear is currently on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington, Kentucky,[10] which named the creature “Cocaine Bear” in 2015.

The film’s plot differs from real-life events in a number of ways. Notably, the real-life Cocaine Bear is not known to have killed anyone after consuming drugs, and what transpired in the time leading up to its death from overdose is unknown.

I have to say after watching this I was left thinking ‘What the hell have I just watched?’ and these days in an almost disposable world of blockbuster movies, was genuinely refreshing.

CAST: Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Margo Martindale, Ray Liotta

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**Shots of the Movie**

Practical Magic (1998)

Director: Griffin Dunne Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn

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Steinberg Law Firm Receives Martindale-Hubbell® AV Peer Review Rating™ for Associate Annie E. Andrews

Steinberg Law Firm Receives Martindale-Hubbell® AV Peer Review Rating™ for Associate Annie E. Andrews

Attorney Annie E. Andrews Charleston, SC (Law Firm Newswire) December 1, 2021 Attorney Annie E. Andrews, an associate at the Steinberg Law Firm, recently received the Martindale-Hubbell® AV Peer Review Rating™ from her peers, which means that she was deemed to have very high professional ethics and distinguished legal ability. The Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings evaluates attorneys based…

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Slave Manifest for Sloop Nancy and Sally, 6/27/1817.

After the “Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves” took effect in 1808, documents like this recorded the transportation of enslaved people between American ports.

Series: Slave Manifests, 6/27/1817 - 6/27/1817

Record Group 36: Records of the U.S. Customs Service, 1745 - 1997

Transcription: 

Names                                                           to whom belonged                                      place of residence

Negro Woman Rachel                             William Baden                                                 Baltimore

                               Ellen                                 Mr. McCoy                                                         Baltimore [County]

                               Rosetta                            Mr. McCoy                                                         Baltimore

                               Anna                                 Captain Nisbett                                              Dorchester County

                               Sarrah                                           Do.                                                                      Do.

                               Annie                                Nathan Bell                                                     Accomac County, V.

                               Rachel                              Francis Eric                                                      Dorchester County

                               Maria                                Mr. Ford                                                             Cambridge

                               Leah                                 Jacob Missic                                                     Quantico

                               Venus                               Mr. Tam                                                              Sussex County V

                               Elee

                               Mary                                 Doctor Sullivan                                              New Market

                              Elizabeth                            do             do                                                       do

                              Lillah                                 Mr. Bowten                                                      Smyrna

                              Lynda                                William La Compte                                      New Market

                              Cassa                                Mr. Boyer                                                          Smyrna

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                              Cassa                                  William McKean                                         New Market

                              Dido                                    William La Compte                                   New Market

                              Maria                                  William McKean                                         New Market

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                              Henry                                             do                                                               do

                              James                                            do                                                                do

                              Phoebe                                Mr. Lilly                                                       Baltimore

                              Alexander                           Jesse Ray                                                   Annapolis

                             Jack                                        Mr. Martindale                                         near Easton

                             John                                       Mr. Talbott                                                 Milford

                             Joseph                                  James Andrews                                       State of Delaware

                             Charles                                 James Ponder                                          Sussex County Delaware

                              Bill                                         James Clark                                              State of Delaware

                              Antoni                                   Thomas Owen Williams                      Prince Georges County

                              Robert                                   James Mitchell                                       Baltimore

                              Peter                                       Henry McCoy                                           Elk Ridge

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TW: Residential Schools

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Following my posts about the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children in Kamloops, BC, it is saddening to say that more have been found on former residential school sites with unmarked graveyards. As Andrew Martindale comments: who builds a school with a graveyard attached?

A reminder that Canada Day is coming up on July 1st and there is no reason to celebrate genocide on stolen land.

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For background, Nicholas Flood-Davin infamously wrote the Davin Report (1879) about the American Residential School System in which he further accentuated his belief that ‘isolating Indian children away from their parents would solve the ‘Indian problem’’.

Originally introduced in 1876, the Indian Act was revised in 1884 to include an amendment that made it mandatory for families to send their children to residential schools. They were not allowed to speak their language and were essentially stripped of their cultural identity in favour of converting to the dominant paradigm. The term used for this was called, ‘planting out’ which means placing Indigenous children ‘at the age character is formed’ with ‘respectable white people’.

As I mentioned, the conditions of these schools were unpleasant and were extremely abusive. They were distanced from Indigenous communities so that parents were not able to visit as often to check in on their children.

The establishment of the Indian Residential School (IRS) system was an effort of the Canadian government to solve the ‘Indian problem’. They saw Indigenous peoples as individuals of ‘savagery’ and helplessness that they must be transformed into a citizen of good standing and as useful members of society.

Children in these schools were used as hostages in exchange for Indigenous elders to not take action about the continued stealing of their land to accommodate for new settlers. The government alluded that the education the children will receive will help ‘prepare to meet […] welcome and facilitate. . .the settlement of the country’.

150,000 children attended these schools. There are only 80,000 survivors.

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They found the bodies of some 751 children in unmarked graves in Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan. Andrew Martindale summed it up best when talking about the discovery in Kamloops: “Who builds a school with a cemetary attached? Well, the Canadian government…” This is intent. You do not construct a school with a built-in cemetery if you aren’t intending or counting on these children to die.

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Dad and grandma John Krasinski and Margo Martindale photographed by Andrew E. Freedman at Google HQ in August 2016 ❤️