UNC law faculty: Confederate statue 'sends a message of white supremacy'
BY TAMMY GRUBB
OCTOBER 27, 2017 12:57 PM
CHAPEL HILL
The call to immediately remove the Silent Sam statue from the UNC Chapel Hill campus grew stronger this week when law school faculty added their voices in a statement.
The statue of an armed Confederate soldier "sends a message of white supremacy that the university should refuse to endorse," read Thursday’s statement signed by 34 UNC School of Law professors.
Silent Sam has been "a symbol of white supremacy, violence and indignity" from the beginning, they said, citing the speech that Confederate war veteran Julian S. Carr gave at the statue’s dedication on June 2, 1913. Carr’s speech famously included his account of horse whipping "a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds" .. for insulting "a Southern lady" ...
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