Protesters tore down the statue known as Silent Sam on the University of North Carolina campus in 2018. Now the school is giving $2.5 million to a confederate group to preserve it, sparking outrage among students and faculty. wunc
Protesters tore down the statue known as Silent Sam in 2018. But outrage has grown among students and faculty who say the university refuses to reckon with its racist past.
"They specifically released the information of this settlement when students were home for break for Thanksgiving to stifle student response," said Julia Clark, one of about 200 UNC Chapel Hill students at a demonstration to oppose the settlement earlier this week. Fitz Brundage is a history professor at UNC Chapel Hill, who has advocated for a resolution that would put the monument in the context of slavery, the Civil War, and the student activism that brought it down.
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