'Silent Sam' is down: Protesters topple Confederate statue on UNC campus

Correct, the history of racists trying to scare freed slaves letting them they're still lesser in the Racists eyes.

Here are some exercepts from the one of the top comments about how noble and great this statue was meant to be to let those pesky blacks know their place on the pecking order

http://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html

One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady

The present generation, I am persuaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the welfare of the Anglo Saxon race during the four years immediately succeeding the war, when the facts are, that their courage and steadfastness saved the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South – When “the bottom rail was on top” all over the Southern states, and to-day, as a consequence the purest strain of the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States – Praise God.

Truly a history worth preserving.

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