Unc Can No Longer Remain Silent On Silent Sam

Julia Craven, Huffington Post: Politics
Tue, 07/07/2015 - 2:59pm

When I first laid eyes on Silent Sam, he made me uncomfortable. As I looked up at the Confederate soldier who stands watch over students in the upper quad of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I wondered if the university where I chose to spend four years of my life still secretly supported the legacy he represents. The bronze statue doesn't just raise the question of whether Confederate imagery belongs in the public sphere, a debate that's swept the nation in the aftermath of a massacre at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

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