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UNC student government groups want Silent Sam removed
BY JANE STANCILL
UNC-Chapel Hill’s student government groups issued a joint statement Friday, calling on university and political leaders to remove the Silent Sam Confederate statue.
“We encourage you to remove the monument so that it can be preserved and contextualized for future North Carolinians in a museum or library collection while making it clear that we do not glorify our violent past” ...
In their statement they cited a speech given by Julian Carr at the statue’s dedication, when he said he whipped a black woman near the site of the monument.
The student leaders said UNC already has a monument in memory of alumni lost in war, in front of Memorial Hall ...
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article172032827.html
