Maya Little, Univ. N.C. PhD Student,"Silent Sam" Confed. Statue Protest Organizer, DN!

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Maya Little, UNC Student Whose Protest Ignited A Movement to Topple A Racist Confederate Statue, Democracy Now! Aug. 22, 2018.

We end today’s show in North Carolina, where hundreds of student protesters in Chapel Hill toppled the “Silent Sam” Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina Monday night, on the eve of the first day of classes. The statue was erected in 1913 to honor Confederate soldiers, and has been the target of repeated protests.

For more, we speak with Maya Little, UNC doctoral student facing charges of property destruction and possible expulsion for pouring red ink and her own blood on the statue during an earlier protest in April. Transcript is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form...More at https://www.democracynow.org/2018/8/22/meet_maya_little_unc_student_whose
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'Silent Sam' is down: Protesters topple Confederate statue at UNC campus,' Aug. 20, 2018. Protesters on Monday night toppled the controversial "Silent Sam" statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More than 300 protesters first gathered at the Peace & Justice Plaza at about 7 p.m., before marching to the base of the statue, calling for its removal. By 9:30 p.m., the statue was on the ground and the crowd erupted in cheers. "Silent Sam' had been standing on the campus since 1913..https://www.wral.com/-silent-sam-is-down-protesters-topple-confederate-statue-on-unc-campus/17783175/
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Transcript of Dedication Speech in 1913 By Julian Carr,*Excerpts:
http://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html

Julian Carr's Speech at the Dedication of Silent Sam: “Thy Troy is fallen; thy dear land, Is marred beneath the spoiler’s heel; I cannot trust my trembling hand, To write the things I feel." “Unveiling of Confederate Monument at University. June 2, 1913”: There are no words that I have been able to find in the vocabulary of the English language that fittingly express my feelings in this presence of this occasion. But you know and I know, that though I might speak with the tongue of men and of angels, neither song nor story could fittingly honor this glorious event. The whole Southland is sanctified by the precious blood of the student Confederate soldier. Their sublime courage has thrown upon the sky of Dixie a picture so bright and beautiful that neither defeat, nor disaster, nor oppression, nor smoke, nor fire, nor devastation, nor desolation, dire and calamitous, and I might with truth add, the world, the flesh nor the Devil has been able to mar or blemish it. The tragedy of history fails to record anywhere upon its sublime pages anything comparable to it. All the time will be the millennium of their glory...
They served, they suffered, they endured, they fought, [and died – crossed out] for their childhood homes, their firesides, the honor of their ancestors, their loved ones, their own native land. This noble gift of the United Daughters of the Confederacy touches deeply and tenderly the heart of every man who has the privilege of claiming the University of North Carolina as his Alma Mater... Of the students and alumni of the University of North Carolina, about 1800 entered the Confederate army, of whom 842 belonged to the generation of 1850-1862..

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1. "Hands Off? Police Response To 2 'Silent Sam' Protests Far Different" Aug. 23

Chapel Hill, NC - The police response to Monday's protest on the UNC campus was far different from what happened last summer when hundreds of people showed up to protest the Silent Sam Confederate statue. Barricades circled Silent Sam for that event, roughly a week after a counterprotester was killed during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. UNC Police and Orange County sheriff's deputies blocked UNC's statue from the protesters, while N.C. Highway Patrol and Chapel Hill officers provided support.

Three people were arrested at that protest, which sparked a year of sit-ins, rallies and protests involving students, faculty and community members. On Monday, however, police presence was far less intense before a crowd of protesters pulled the Confederate statue to the ground. "I was a little surprised that the police didn't interfere earlier," said State Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, on Tuesday. Insko joined other local legislators this year in filing a bill that would have moved Silent Sam indoors. The bill never got a hearing..More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hands-off-police-response-to-two-silent-sam-protests-were-far-different/ar-BBMhUWN?li=BBnbcA1