Friday, August 24, 2018

In the wake of Silent Sam

 Via  Dan Patterson

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I studied history at a college with a Confederate soldier monument during the biggest progressive social upheaval since the 1960’s. I know just about every single way that old boy can be interpreted. 

What those idealistic college kids and older antagonizers recently did in Chapel Hill will not fix racism, redeem the school of historical wrongs, or even do much to erase history. It was immature and will ultimately be a failure. 

The history Silent Sam represents is flawed, but it belongs to all of us and is important. Knocking him down did not make you a better person or end the problems you perceive. 

Why? Hundreds will rise in his place, and they’ll be flesh and blood, and loud. Not silent.

18 comments:

  1. From an earlier incident:
    https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article213187589.html

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  2. Beating Sam with a hammer.
    https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article212136209.html

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  3. Timeline of Sam.
    https://www.carolinajournal.com/news-article/after-more-than-a-century-at-chapel-hill-silent-sam-has-many-tales-to-tell/

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  4. What an imbecile.
    “It’s like, Silent Sam has been tucked in, put to bed,” Chang said.
    https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article217035815.html

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    1. Really.

      God comment: Thanks.

      bobby poon

      We have to wipe out school names, street names, and fort names redolent of the late Confederacy. And not just the Confederacy. The American slavocracy was large; it was powerful. Among its members: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, with their large monuments and even larger legacies. What makes Robert E. Lee a likelier target than the father of our country?
      This business of digging up the dead and exhibiting their shortcomings has no predictable end. Today’s heroes and heroines become fair game for great-grandkids: topics for future ridicule and disrespect. Seldom in our history has the counsel to look before you leap seemed more relevant, or more ignored, than right now.
      What about the democrats great hero, FDR, he put in concentration camps Japanese during WW11, and turned back Jews on ships in New York harbor escaping certain death camps. FDR has a massive Statue and park in DC. Should it come down now.

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    2. Union Gen, Ulysses S. Grant was a slaveowner, who as I've read sometime ago, kept his slaves until AFTER the "War of Northern Aggression" until the enactment of the 13th and 14th Amendments o returned the 1857 Dred Scott SCOTUS decision keeping slavery legal in the U.S. His name needs to be wiped out, at least off the $50 bill, according to these self righteous SJW's. --Ron W

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    3. Yes and I'm not sure of the truth about the slave only that they did have one.

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  5. Yes, I would say we have an attempted repeat of Russia's Red
    Terror. North Carolina passed a heritage protection law in
    2015, so where is the protection and where the hell is Attorney
    General Jeff Sessions - Isn't he a Southern boy?
    League of the South:
    https://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/league-of-the-south-releases-statement-on-silent-sam/

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    1. Good question. Thanks.https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2018/08/in-wake-of-silent-sam.html

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    2. Hello, Reborn: Silent Sam is to be put back up in ninety days
      and charges will be sought. Yea, Yea. Justice/Freedom:

      https://bigleaguepolitics.com/breaking-board-of-governors-announces-silent-sam-statue-is-going-back-up/

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    3. Thanks. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2018/08/board-of-governors-announces-silent-sam.html

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  6. Brock,
    Where's the comment "wiping out" comment from?

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  7. I'm shocked, disturbed, and disgusted at the childlike, tantrum, raging, behavior of those shown in the video of the statue toppling.
    They taped into some sort of deep insanity.
    Their actions, behavior, and shrieks are a look into the future.
    https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article217276705.html

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    1. Their actions, behavior, and shrieks are a look into the future.

      I am sure. Thanks.

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