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​Activists correctly call Silent Sam racist (NC)
We are faculty members who specialize in the study of the American South. We support students who are both educating the UNC community about its past and pushing the University to take appropriate actions for our collective future. Their argument that the monument to Confederate soldiers was an integral part of the white supremacy campaign that swept the South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is historically sound ...http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/10/letter-activists-correctly-call-silent-sam-racist
