Yes it is.Dr. Watson said:
It's $5 million for initial construction with $800k a year for maintenance and security, etc. Seems ridiculous.
CanyonAg77 said:Yes it is.Dr. Watson said:
It's $5 million for initial construction with $800k a year for maintenance and security, etc. Seems ridiculous.
Would have made more sense to leave it the %$&!! alone.
ChiliBeans said:
This isn't the SPLC fundraising board. Please keep your extremist political propaganda on the Politics Board. Thanks.
I didn't insult anyone, chief, and your cute little "I know you are but what am I" insults aren't going to work.Quote:
I'm not insulting anyone (unlike you
What is the history behind this statue?Cen-Tex said:
I hope Sam gets a new home. History is for everyone, good or bad. Not someone's close-minded interpretation.
Smokedraw01 said:What is the history behind this statue?Cen-Tex said:
I hope Sam gets a new home. History is for everyone, good or bad. Not someone's close-minded interpretation.
Sam was erected to honor the approx 1000 UNC students & employees that defended their country during the War Between the States. According to the UNC General Alumni Assn, 287 UNC alumni lost their lives In the war. Here's the verbiage from the monument:Smokedraw01 said:
What is the history behind this statue?
JJMt said:That language is reminiscent of that of many of the intellectual liberal elites throughout the 19th and first half of the 20th century. It wasn't until the horrors of the holocaust came to light after World War 2 that the so-called "scientific" basis for racial superiority was discarded into the ash bin of history.Quote:
"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.
why insert "liberal" in there?JJMt said:That language is reminiscent of that of many of the intellectual liberal elites throughout the 19th and first half of the 20th century. It wasn't until the horrors of the holocaust came to light after World War 2 that the so-called "scientific" basis for racial superiority was discarded into the ash bin of history.Quote:
"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.
are you saying that the people who fought to keep slavery and then segregation because it was the "natural order" of things were the "liberal elite"?JJMt said:
Why not? I don't understand why you question my use of that word.
Today's liberal "elites" try to use examples from the past, like this, to make the rest of us appear like moral Neanderthals. In reality, it was the direct ancestors of those today's intellectual elites that provided the intellectual justification and leadership for the very behavior that they decry today.
JJMt said:
No, and I apologize for the confusion. After the Civil War, and up until World War 2, the idea that blacks were genetically inferior to whites and should be removed from the human DNA was an idea common among and widely spread by the western academic and intellectual elites.
The German "Final Solution" was the logical and perhaps inevitable consequence of that thinking, and it also provided the basis for the origins of Planned Parenthood (a government sponsored and organized effort to reduce the number of black babies and other "undesirable" babies).
I'm not sure what the part about the 14 counties means.Quote:
- SCV will forever maintain possession of the monument outside any of the fourteen counties currently containing a UNC System constituent institution;
- Using non-state funds, the University will fund a charitable trust to be held independently by a non-party trustee in the amount of $2,500,000, the proceeds of which may only be used for certain limited expenses related to the care and preservation of the monument, including potentially a facility to house and display the monument; and