Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Collected responses to
Silent Sam, race and
University culture
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resent your own interests. of professors to save space. The
voices and perspectives are what is his Labor Day marks just
This issue features the voices
most important in this edition. the beginning of the third
of our community regardless of
The submissions for print were week of classes at UNC. In
viewpoint. I want you to see this
chosen randomly, and the rest of those three weeks, The Daily Tar
edition as one big sounding board
letter submissions can be found Heel has received over 100 letters
of public opinion.
online. to the editor.
It also highlights that what
And of course, this isnt the For reference, last Labor Day,
is happening in Chapel Hill Emily Yue
end of the issue, please keep writ- when I was starting out as the
isnt isolated to the town or the Opinion Editor
ing us about Silent Sam. We want assistant opinion editor, I strug-
students currently here. Alumni
to hear from you. gled to find enough letters to fill Senior journalism and studio art major
from all over are writing in too.
In conclusion, please read the two columns worth of space from Huntersville.
While this edition is a special
these letters with an open mind on the page. Now, my assistant Email: opinion@dailytarheel.com
moment for our opinion desk, I
and try to see that were all com- Zaynab and I have more than our
think it means much more than
ing to this conversation with dif- hands full of community opin-
that from a journalistic perspec- Board of Trustees approved a
ferent experiences. ions, thoughts and feelings. We
tive. request from the N.C. chapter
This issue is just a snapshot read all of these letters, archive
There is no way we could fit of the United Daughters of the
of what people in August of them, fact-check them and, even-
in this many sources into one Confederacy to erect a Confederate
2017 thought. Lets take these tually, print them.
story which can make it look monument on UNCs campus.
perspectives and keeping work- Almost all of the letters that
like there is a larger consensus on The UDC requested a handsome
ing towards progress. have flooded our inbox con-
what to do than there really is. and suitable monument on the
I hope future Tar Heels look cern the issue of Silent Sam, the
These letters were not solicited grounds of our State University,
back at this moment in history Confederate memorial on our
by a member of my staff. All were in memory of the Chapel Hill
and realize how difficult things campus. When Editor-in-Chief
organically submitted by commu- boys, who left college, 1861-1865
were, but I also hope they see Tyler and I were working out the
nity members. We tried to run as and joined our Southern Army in
how hard people worked to details of an all-letters issue of the
many as we could in this edition, defense of our State.
bring change. DTH, he was worried that the let-
no letter was turned down based On June 2, 1913, the monu-
ters would be repetitive, or monot-
ment was unveiled on commence-
onous. Each letter, however, came
ment day. In his now infamous
independently from a reader who
speech, Confederate veteran and
ARCHIVAL LETTER took time out of their day to share
Trustee of the University Julian
their perspective with us.
Carr praised the armys sav[ing]
Silent Sam should leave Of course, no two perspectives
are the same. I hope you find the
surprises in the bunch, the letters
the very life of the Anglo Saxon
race in the South, and recalled
The first letter to the editor calling for Silent Sams publicly horse-whipp[ing] a
you can relate to and the ones
negro wench for insulting a white
removal was published on March 17, 1965. you instinctively want to reject.
woman on Franklin Street.
Thats okay. In fact, thats great.
Editors, The Tar Heel: and those who have gone to Over 100 years later, Silent
You can write us a response and I
Although it may be argued that Alabama for the general welfare. Sam stands as a fixture of this
promise you that well get to it.
the Conderate statue known gen- In view of this situation which campus. His presence has always
Todays front-page archival
erally as Silent Sam has become so lately prevailed in other areas of been an issue, and the debate
letter Silent Sam should leave
a part of the UNC tradition; it the country, the existence on the over his removal is not new.
from student Al Ribak was first
certainly cannot be argued that UNC campus a monument to men But theres a gravity to todays
printed in March of 1965.
traditions should be maintained who were militant white suprem- discourse following the events
I urge the DTH and the
for traditions sake. ists and extremists of the worst of Charlottesville and Durham.
Carolina student body to take up
We must not forget that Silent kind is no less an affront to the Where theres a conversation,
the cause of removing from the
Sam is a Confederate soldier. The Negro peoples and the intelligen- there are now consequences.
campus that shameful commem-
primary purpose of the memorial tsia than is the gaudy Confederate I am proud to be an opinion
oration of a disgraceful episode,
was to associate a fictitious honor flag flying from the lily-white writer at a paper that allows me
Ribak said.
with the darkest blot on American dome of Alabamas capitol. the freedom to participate in pro-
Nearly 50 years earlier, the
history the fight of southern I urge The Daily Tar Heel and tests that align with my beliefs.
racists to keep the Negro peoples the Carolina student body to take I am proud of our columnists,
in a position of debased subservi- up the cause of removing from the and our editorial board fifteen
ence. For this they were willing to campus that shameful commemo- students with different views who
destroy the Union. ration of a disgraceful episode. come together because they care
We have all been made pain- about this community.
fuully aware of the deprivation Al Ribak This community cares about
of inalienable rights effected by 407-D E. Franklin St. itself, deeply. I can tell from your
Alabamas white bigots on Negroes letters, and I care, too.
It certainly cannot be argued that traditions should be maintained for traditions sake.
AL RIBAK
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LETTERS TO Saunders on their lawns, per-
haps in full Klan regalia, for
Balance Sam with a TO THE EDITOR:
I am writing to urge that
8/23 students of Lincoln High
School with whom I sat in.
any way the social and politi-
cal equality of the white and
statue to Black soldiers
THE EDITOR their defense of our institu- Silent Sam remain where it is The Lincoln students were black races, that I am not
tion against Hurston Hall. TO THE EDITOR: 8/19 and as it is. the bravest and most inspir- nor ever have been in favor
Excuses to keep Silent Should they object, they Here is a solution to the I am a proud Carolina ing people I ever met, and of making voters or jurors
Sam do not stack up will simply have to learn to Silent Sam problem: alum, former US Ambassador it was an honor to be in jail of negroes, nor of qualifying
embrace our history, as the Have a statue of one of with 30 years of overseas ser- with them. them to hold office, nor to
TO THE EDITOR: 08/19 emblems cannot be removed. the US Black Troops from vice in 11 countries, including But now I believe both that intermarry with white people;
Silent Sam has been debat- Alternatively, they might sim- North Carolina, holding his Iraq, the Haiti earthquake Sam should be removed in a and I will say in addition
ed in The Daily Tar Heel since ply overturn the ban. rifle, facing south, in front of and, if it makes any difference dignified way to some other to this that there is a physi-
a plurality of voices first arose But why stop there? Our Silent Sam. This way, Silent to prove in no way am I moti- location on campus, and that cal difference between the
in public discourse in the legislators should be reminded Sam would not need to be vated by racism, 10 years liv- the monument to the young white and black races which
south during the Civil Rights of the Lost Cause through removed or even moved. He ing and working on economic civil rights activists should also I believe will forever forbid
movement. UNC adminis- statues in the restrooms at would simply be balanced by development in Africa. be erected. Monuments are not the two races living together
trators should stop hiding the General Assembly. Our a another memorial of histo- It is too easy and facile to merely historical markers but on terms of social and politi-
behind excuses and act. General Assembly has decided ry. Blacks served in the Union equate Confederate monu- also honor our central values, cal equality. And inasmuch
I have heard rationales to make restrooms so safe Army as Colored Troops, as ments per se with racism. I which should include most our as they cannot so live, while
about: through HB 2 that rabble- they were called. know my own North Carolina shared value and dignity as Tar they do remain together
A) history and heritage, rousers would not dare trans- There were even Union familys history with the Civil Heels and as Americans. there must be the position of
but why celebrate a history gress in that safe space. The Colored Troop regiments War. They/we owned no slaves superior and inferior, and I as
mythologized to hide its most statues would be protected form North Carolina. and were certainly not fighting Charles L. Thompson much as any other man am in
egregious aspect: the war was twice over. http://www.ncgenweb.us/ for slavery during that terrible Class of 65 favor of having the superior
fought to justify the enslave- Since our state has already ncusct/usct.htm conflict. They were fighting position assigned to the white
ment of 4 million human seen fit to erect Confederate The above site has a picture mostly because the other side Does the country learns race. That was Abraham
beings because of their color? monuments in places other of Sgt. Frank Roberts of the NC was down here. Lincoln, in an 1858 speech in
B) States rights, but for Colored Volunteers. He could
from its history?
than graves, museums, and When I was a young kid in Illinois.
what? The answer is slav- battlefields, this memorabilia be a model for the statue of the Winston-Salem, I remember TO THE EDITOR: 8/27
ery. Articles of secession has just as much place in the Union soldier.This is appropri- listening to my great grand- Some are railing against the David Robinette
of Mississippi and South NCGAs hallowed halls and ate since the model for Silent father speaking about the cost of guarding Silent Sam Class of 91
Carolina state so quite clearly. stalls as they do in front of Sam was a northerner. terrible hardships of growing on the campus of UNC. Isnt
As a UNC alum and a courthouses or on the UNC up in Reconstruction-period it worth that small amount to Confederate descendant
white guy from the south campus. Lets make sure our Mike Conrad North Carolina. The point is preserve peace and prevent
whose ancestors fought for Class of 74
condemns Silent Sam
history is not erased. that it is too easy and inaccu- possible wanton destruction of
the Confederacy, Id suggest: rate to automatically equate the statue? TO THE EDITOR: 8/24
Take Silent Sam down as a Andy Plante-Kropp Build the future, dont symbols of our history for When many look at the I am related to one of the
disgraceful reminder of when Class of 12 destroy the past better or worse with simply statue they see a symbol of 300+ Confederate Carolina
Lost Cause myths coincided nefarious and negative values. the Confederacy that enslaved alumni in whose honor Silent
with the rise of Jim Crow laws, Removing Silent Sam TO THE EDITOR: 8/23 I think Silent Sam should black people for generations. Sam was supposedly erected,
the KKK and lynchings; or When I was a student at be seen as representative of I do not see a general with as well as members of the
contextualize him with the
maintains UNCs legacy
UNC, in the early 70s, the the many UNC students of epaulettes riding a beautiful Daughters of the Confederacy,
real history of our communi- TO THE EDITOR: 8/23 only concern we had about the day who fought and died horse; rather I see an ordi- the same group that funded
ties in a monument overshad- The very purpose of the Silent Sam was whether or according to the values and nary soldier with an empty its installation in 1913.
owing him with the horrors Confederacy was to preserve not his gun would go off. belief that they saw no ammunition pouch. He may Silent Sam must go.
of slavery, racism and white the institution of slavery. And The story was that if a virgin matter how we judge them be thinking of returning to My family has a long
terrorism built on a process the purpose of Confederate walked by, his gun would today as right, fitting and an impoverished family and history at UNC and North
of inclusive dialogue by the remembrance is to embrace go off. But then we had even noble. country and of his fellow sol- Carolina and a deep affec-
UNC community. those principles of white dealt with desegregation in Please consider taking the diers who died in the war. tion for both. It frustrates me
In my professional life, I supremacy. Silent Sam and our schools, Vietnam, and long and reflective view and Silent Sam makes one when people with no real con-
have worked with people put in other statues were erected whether or not we would be not act in a spasm of short- think of the stupidity of war nection to Carolina insist that
concentration camps, women in attempt to revise history. bombed by Russia. sighted emotion. and that nobody comes out of a a monument that has upset so
raped and young men recruit- Keeping them up does not help I am sorry that todays stu- war without injuries to the soul many people for so long must
ed into fighting for the wrong us remember our past, but dents do not respect the past Lewis Lucke or of the devastation wrought. remain in place in the name
ideas for the same principles instead creates false memory in and learn from it more. The Class of 73 He reminds me that we of my ancestors. Every living
of racial or ethnic superiority which racism didnt exist. Civil War in our country was as a nation never learn from descendant I know (most are
that underlie this monument. This fake history prevents devastating to both sides. Sam should be history but keep repeating it also UNC alumni) agrees that
Take Silent Sam down now, or us from being able to under- It left families torn apart, over and over. they do not want this monu-
build a monument around him
removed, now
stand our present, in which people without homes, land, ment to remain in its current
which tells the whole story. racism is clearly alive and well. work or even food. TO THE EDITOR: 8/22 Eunice Brock location if it causes any mem-
Putting the statues up was an To tear down statutes, I am a veteran of the sit-ins Class of 67 bers of our community to feel
Milburn Line effort to erase history. Taking change the names of build- for civil rights here in Chapel hurt or disrespected.
Class of 86 them down moves us one step ings or take chapters out of Hill during the 1963-64 aca- If we remove Silent I cant understand how
closer to better understanding history books, you are say- demic year. I was arrested anyone can say that their
Sam, what is next?
Build racist monuments our past and hopefully making ing that none of that mat- on six counts of trespass- tepid nostalgic affection for a
on Pat McCrorys lawn a better future. tered. But it did. We should ing and resisting arrest and TO THE EDITOR: 8/25 monument to strangers who
I would like to remind be learning from it not spent almost a month in the It seems protesters call- died over 150 years ago is
TO THE EDITOR: 8/17 Chancellor Folt that UNC destroying it. The things Chapel Hill jail at the corner ing for the removal of Silent more important than the fact
The General Assembly and students have been on the students do today will be the of Columbia and Rosemary Sam and other Confederate that this monument causes
Governor Pat McCrory prohib- vanguard of social changes for history of tomorrow. How do Streets. memorials have ignited a genuine pain to any of our fel-
ited the removal of Confederate many decades, and our state you want to be remembered? I am also a native North movement to remove memo- low living humans today.
monuments by law in 2015. is the better for it. Even stu- How would you feel if your Carolinian and thus, a rials to anyone who has done Keeping this monument in
In light of recent events, and dents that never picked up a grandchildren want to tear native Southerner. As or said something offensive. its current location of high-
to ensure that those who favor sign or chanted a slogan ben- down and change what you Southerners, my wife and I For example, a candidate for est honor on campus sends
Confederate monuments can efitted from experiencing this are trying to build? once walked the heartbreak- mayor of New York City has the message that the dead
keep seeing them, I have a place of learning and possibil- To destroy the remnants ing path of Picketts Charge called for closure of Ulysses are more important than the
modest proposal. ity. The entire state benefits of our history, to tear down at Gettysburg, right up to S. Grants tomb because she living and that pride is more
I propose installing a from the optimism, creativity, the reminders of what people the split rail fence where so said he was anti-Semitic. By important than kindness.
replica of the fallen Durham and change that emanates (good or bad) fought for, is many young men from North logical extension, if racist The future of this state
courthouse statue on from UNC year after year. like killing those people all Carolina died about a hun- statements made by someone and our nation will be in the
McCrorys lawn, or the near- This legacy of activism over again and repeating dred years before our sit-ins. at the dedication of a memo- hands of the UNC students
est public sidewalk. As a pro- and social change is part of their mistakes. Leave the past The combination of these rial to students of UNC who who set foot on this campus
tector of these monuments, what makes UNC and North where it is and work to build two identities makes the issue died in battle as Confederate every fall. How can we ask
I am sure he will not mind. Carolina great. Taking Silent the future, not tear it down. of Silent Sam an excruciating soldiers justifies its removal, them to love Carolina when
If he declines, Im sure the Sam down will be another one for me. surely the following state- this statue sends the message
NC legislators who voted for step in forging our better Teresa McLemore For some time, my prefer- ment made by this famous that Carolina doesnt love
the bill will accept their own future together. Class of 76 ence would have been to leave public figure justifies removal them?
copies. the statue in place but to pair of monuments to him: I am
UNCs trustees may also Ruby Sinreich Not all Confederates it with an equally large and not, nor have ever been in Rachell Underhill
wish to have William L. Class of 93 impressive monument to the favor of bringing about in Class of 01
fought for slavery
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LETTERS TO to many people; displaying it
on public lands sort of adds
actually understand why they
are smearing an entire profes-
wounds but from disease, with
dysentery being the number
What were the people who
established the monument
symbol of justice is found,
we suggest a life-sized
THE EDITOR insult to injury. On the other sion? I doubt it. one killer during the Civil War. trying to accomplish? Why monument in the form of a
hand, the statue is a symbol No person should be hon- in 2017 does it still exist? question mark serve as the
Dont enlist of historical fact, and when Janie Wagstaff ored or glorified for killing What do the caretakers of replacement. As the univer-
Confederates today we as a society go down the Durham another person. If someone the monument believe to be sal symbol of the Socratic
road of trying to erase facts we takes another persons life, the constructive result of the method, the question mark
TO THE EDITOR: 8/16 simply dont like is certainly then they should do it only to monument in regards to the ties in directly with the mis-
In 2015 after a white
Rejection of liberalism
dangerous and fascist in its defend themselves. But even quality of relationships of sion of the University of
supremacist massacred nine own right; having it on public is a good thing in self-defense, there should be people to each other? North Carolina, that is, to
people at a black church in land has allowed me to see it TO THE EDITOR: 8/28 no memorial statues, no special Compensatory law requires improve the quality of life
South Carolina the General as an educational artifact very Its rather humorous that recognitions, no celebrations, that when any monument is for people in this society and
Assembly passed a law block- conducive to further thought UNC-CH students are only no parades, no awards and no removed, something (even if solve the biggest problems on
ing local governments from and learning. Whatever comes now demonstrating for the medals for killing someone. its just air) must replace it. the planet.
removing them without the of Sam, I hope any decisions removal of Silent Sam. Why? Because we should value In a world full of death, According to logic, all
states permission. There are are not based on raw emotion Where were they during all life and longevity. destruction, disease, and problems are solved through
about a hundred monuments but are carefully reasoned, Obamas presidency? It only As problems solvers we non-justice, UNC Walk for the process of questions and
to the Confederacy in North considerate, and arising from shows you politics and liberal must ask many direct ques- Health recommends that answers.
Carolina. They werent erected diverse viewpoints. political bias are the motiva- tions concerning any histori- when Silent Sam is removed
immediately after the war tions. cal monument. What is the it be replaced with a sym- William Thorpe
to honor the fallen; rather, Rob Daleiden Trump handily beat Clinton purpose for the monument? bol of justice. Until a better UNC Walk for Health
most were built decades later Chapel Hill in part because a lot of decent
to send a message to African moral people are getting really
Americans about who was
Police are unfairly dis- fed up with liberal judgmental-
want
really in charge. Silent Sam ism, liberal self-righteousness
is a memorial to the 321 UNC respected by students
to feel
and liberal name-calling .
alumni who died during the TO THE EDITOR: 8/29 Left-wing hypocrites will
We
Civil War. During its dedica-
you
I watched in amazement whine about, for examples,
tion, former Confederate sol- the video from the Silent bullying and name-calling,
good
dier and industrialist Julian Sam protests on campus. The then they will engage in bul-
Carr recalled that just one group was chanting the same lying and name-calling. They
hundred yards away, he had line as the communist group, like to whine about censor-
horse-whipped a Negro Workers World Party, who was ship, then try to engage in
wench, until her skirt hung responsible for taking down censorship. They are so
in shreds, because upon the the Confederate statue at the blinded by hate they cant see
streets of this quiet village old Durham County court- how ridiculous they look.
she had publicly insulted and house. Cops and the Klan go Some liberal bigots are so
But when
maligned a Southern lady. hand in hand. What would extreme they actually believe
Confederate monuments have inspire the young students it is okay to discriminate
always been symbols of white to use the same meme as the against and legally persecute
you dont,
supremacy. The heyday of WWP - unless the protest was decent moral businesspeople
monument building, between instigated by the WWP? who merely dont want to
1890 and 1920, was also a time Durham is the same major- cater to heterophobic homo-
of extreme racial violence, as
Southern whites pushed back
against what little progress
ity minority city as Houston.
In Durham, police officers
sexuals! Truly bizarre.
More and more people were here
for you.
protect more black people are seeing what liberals really
had been made by African- every single day than any are and are soundly rejecting
Americans. Take it down. other group. I know, my 24 yr. them. Thats a good thing.
Let the dead lie still in old son is one of them. Would
their graves. They already these students, with little or no Wayne Lela
fought in one war. Dont real world experience, explain
enlist them for the one youre to me how their chant helps
fighting today. UNC Walk for Health
anyone? Does their collectivist
chant mimicking that of com- questions Silent Sam
Gloria Faley munists who are responsible
Chapel Hill TO THE EDITOR: 8/28
for the deaths of millions For many UNC students,
across the world save any alumni, faculty and employ-
Resident hopes for lives? How about in Houston? ees, the Confederate Soldiers
logic Was the police officer who Monument (Silent Sam) prom-
died today leaving his home to
TO THE EDITOR: 8/21 help with rescues basing his
inently displayed upon the
hallowed grounds of the main Fast in and out with online check-in
Im torn and Ive got a feel- decisions on whom to rescue northern entrance of campus is
ing Im not alone. Given all based on race? Absolutely not. a symbol of slavery, segregation Were locally owned and managed.
of the recent protesting of Would the black citizens and racism/white supremacy.
Confederate statues, I keep of Houston prefer that the For others, it represents sedi- Offering fast and caring treatment for wounds,
asking myself whether the police department didnt
Silent Sam Statue should help during an epic flood?
tion, secession and treason. burns, sickness, injuries, accidents and more.
More than 620,000 sol-
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