Letters: ‘There Was Honestly No Good Solution’
Readers weigh in on the University of North Carolina’s recommendation that Silent Sam, a monument to a Confederate soldier, be housed in a new, $5.3 million building.
Dec 07, 2018
3 minutes
Silent Sam Survives
On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced its recommendation that Silent Sam, a monument to a Confederate soldier, be housed in a new, $5.3 million building. What would it mean, symbolically, to get rid of the statue altogether, and what will it mean to keep it on campus? “It’s easy enough to remove a name … or a statue,” , “but more difficult to root out an idea—one that, at some level, continues to grip the nation.”
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