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OldBaldy1701E

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2. Bear in mind...

Reply to underpants (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 14, 2020, 09:05 AM

Feb 2020

this was a way to kind of refute the growing diversity and progressiveness that UNC was starting to turn into. Especially when they started allowing people darker than a snowbank into the university. The racism there was still in full force back when I first started visiting Chapel Hill, and this was in the late 70's. Removing that statue was long overdue and it has no place on the grounds of an institute of higher learning. Otherwise, UNC might as well be an 'place of hihar larnin'...

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Silent Sam settlement scrapped -- but questions remain [View all] TexasTowelie Feb 2020 OP

First, F the SCV. Second, I was surprised at how easily it crumbled. underpants Feb 2020 #1

Bear in mind... OldBaldy1701E Feb 2020 #2

Thanks, TexasTowelie. ❤ nt littlemissmartypants Feb 2020 #3