Posted on 08/20/2018 7:35:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Protesters on the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus on Monday night brought down a controversial monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers, according to media reports.
The Daily Tar Heel posted a series of photos and videos that showed protesters surrounding the monument and shrouding it in banners around 8 p.m. The monument was covered in a canvas that read “For a World Without White Supremacy.”
By about 9:30 p.m., protesters had toppled the monument, and began burying its head in dirt.
Police appeared to form a boundary around the statue and its empty pedestal a short time later, The Daily Tar Heel reported.
A student took credit earlier this year for dousing the monument with blood and red ink amid a national pushback to monuments that honor the Confederacy. Maya Little now faces criminal charges for defacing the statue. The Silent Sam statue was built on the UNC campus in 1913, but has emerged as a source of tension in recent years. UNC Chancellor Carol Folt told the News & Observer in April that while she believes the statue is “detrimental” to the university, it cannot be moved.
The fate of monuments honoring Confederate soldiers have become a hot-button issue in the wake of last year's violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
The "Unite the Right Rally" was planned in August 2017 in response to the city's plans to remove a state of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
A number of municipalities have moved to take down Confederate monuments following the rally, where a woman was killed when white nationalists clashed with counter-protesters.
President Trump, who drew widespread condemnation for his response to Charlottesville, opposed removing the statues, saying the removals amount to the "history and culture" of the United States "being ripped apart."
If they were students, they should be expelled.
If the vandals are not arrested and tried, our history will be erased.
A number of municipalities have moved to take down Confederate monuments following the rally.
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This was the reason for the Charlottesville play.
Soros paid for both sides to be there and Clinton’s Bag Man made sure the cops pushed them together.
All to erase history.
“Police appeared to form a boundary around the statue and its empty pedestal a short time later . . .”
School administrators, police, politicians, and national “leaders” are encouraging this behavior - and worse - by their silence and inaction.
President Trump’s election has bought the nation some time, but not much time. We could be a nation at war with ourselves within months.
I would rather eat bread and water than to have to pull a trigger.
What's troubling is those in authority giving in to their actions.
In a sense, The Terrorists Have Won.
Black liberal judges in Chapel Hill probably helped tobble it.
the next time someone accosts another person about racism and slavery, ask, what slavery? there was no slavery. no civil war. What are you talking about? Where is the proof?
“Where were police?”
Too little too late...
“Police appeared to form a boundary around the statue and its empty pedestal a short time later, The Daily Tar Heel reported.”
More than one thousand members of the university fought in the American Civil War in either the Northern or Southern armies, comprising at least 40% of the student body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Sam
And what freedoms did this bunch of jamokes defend?
I attended a relatives wedding at the SAE (Sigma Alpha Epsilon) Chapel. Suprised to see the beautiful Tiffany &Co. stained glass windows depicting each war and a roll of members lost.
Will they be in Evanston Illinois next?
A few photos (too few):
http://www.dees-stribling.com/2016/10/18/the-francis-willard-house-museum-the-levere-memorial-temple/
Has anyone else noticed on CSPAN1,2,3,*** and most PBS stations they have been running The 1968 Riots and Crap like that ?
Seems to Me they are trying to get people all worked up to start TROUBLE!!!
Useless!
Democrat police stand by and encourage them on. Confederate monuments are protected in NC and the thugs and cops know but don’t care because they know for they’re arrested some democrat judge will set them free. That’s exactly what happened on the Duke campas last year.
My Dad use to tell me that the faculty at Duke and UNC are crazy. I never found and reason to think him wrong. Apparently, the crazy has now spread considerably.
They will attack Whites.
They will attack the homes of Whites.
Watch what is happening to Whites in other countries.
Was it ISIS, the Taliban or Al Qaeda that blew up centuries old Buddha statues?
Thugs the world over have the same approach to history - blow it up...
A**holes. Cops complicit in the destruction.
Sorry Ma, not much time for TV this last week or so. Haven’t noticed anything other than a Flash Flood Watch last week.
Absolutely true, the left is destroying it’s history of civil war and KKK-racism...simple. Once the monuments are gone, and minds are pliable, they rewrite their history. Democrats will rewrite the South’s history once Trump is no longer President.
#7. Not at the Un. of No. Carolina - Chapel Hill.
Do I hear “Lawsuit”, Alex?
The Left and Black Extremists are “slow learners”.
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