The Other View - Liberals Dance On Top Of Toppled Silent Sam

Got to give credit (nice try) to Chuck Pierce as he continues the metrics of the liberal agenda with his journalistic effort via Esquire on Silent Sam: 

On August 26, 1913, in Mecklenburg County in North Carolina in the United States of America, a mob of some 35 white men descended on Good Samaritan Hospital in Charlotte and dragged an African-American man named Joseph McNeely out into the street practically naked and riddled him with bullets. (McNeely had been accused of wounding a local policeman.) The Charlotte Observer's account of events noted that there had been a "mysterious delay" in transferring McNeely from the hospital to the county jail, and that this mysterious delay "was of great assistance in making the lynching a possibility." 

Two months earlier, on June 2, a statue of an anonymous Confederate soldier had been dedicated on the campus of the University of North Carolina. At the dedication, an industrialist and Confederate veteran Julian Carr delivered the address, saying, in part: 

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.

I trust I may be pardoned for one allusion, howbeit it is rather personal. 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, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head.

This was in a public address. Presumably, people applauded. 

That's the history of Silent Sam, the statue pulled down Tuesday night by activists who decided that we have long enough honored treason in defense of slavery, and the horse-whipping of uppity black women, and the murder of African-American men by mobs. Because Silent Sam wasn't a memorial to the Confederate dead, it was a testimony to the new forms taken on by the evil for which they fought the war. It was a monument to Jim Crow, not to Chancellorsville, the marble manifestation of the lynching culture. I wish they'd taken the damn thing out into a field and blown it to smithereens. 

      - Chuck Pierce 

Cedar's Take: 

Interesting how the people who condemn the mob violence and lynching of Emmett Till and so many others, joyously celebrate the same type of mob action and disregard for the law in the toppling of Silent Sam right down to the rope around his neck. 

Banners Block The View As Anarchist Use Torches To Cut The 2 Inch Bolts Allowing Sam To Fall

Using the words of Julian Carr who died nearly a century ago, is a typical ploy of the liberal socialists, where Carr is painted as a racist and supporter of Jim Crow laws. Carr was indeed a racist by today's standards, and a founding member of the Klan at a time when being a racist was purely in vogue, so his comments were neither seen at the time as racially charged or bigoted. Carr being a successful businessman, for whom Carrboro is named, was highly regarded at a time when success was rather elusive in the South. 

His words cherry picked from the pages of history to fit the liberal agenda, and support the position that Silent Sam was erected as a symbol of white supremacy. 

What is left out for the purposes of the left's narrative are the words of so many other speakers that day and during the days leading up the dedication of the statue. The words of the weeping parents of UNC students who did not return from the deadliest war our nation has ever fought are lost to history and time. 

The Governor of North Carolina, Locke Craig, spoke on the same stage as Carr, yet his words are seldom referenced. 

"Ours is the task to build a State worthy of all patriotism and heroic deeds," he said, "a State that demands justice for herself and all her people, a State sounding with the music of victorious industry, a State whose awakened conscience shall lead the State to evolve from the forces of progress a new social order, with finer development for all conditions and classes of our people" said Craig. 

Craig, a democrat supported the Confederacy and as a state representative in Raleigh worked on efforts to disenfranchise African American voters shortly after the war. As the years passed he became more progressive and as governor, focused on roads, conservation, and development of the Western North Carolina's industry. He led the way to build a state parks system and was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Still his speech of inclusiveness is seldom noted. 

Pierce uses a news story in his opening paragraph about the "Lynching of Joseph McNeely" to build his case that Silent Sam was a monument to lynching, but fails to mention that the same Governor Craig who spoke of unity at the dedication of the statue, immediately condemned the Charlotte mob violence that resulted in McNeely's death. The Governor stated in part: "The persons who committed this crime will be prosecuted and punished to the limit". 

The continuous refrain from campus snowflakes is that Silent Sam does not represent us today and therefore should be destroyed. Poor snowflakes, of course it doesn't represent the entitled little twits of today, which is why the statue is inscribed:

"To The Sons Of The University Who Entered The War Of 1861-65 In Answer To The Call Of Their Country And Whose Lives Taught The Lesson Of Their Great Commander That Duty Is The Sublimest Word In The English Languge."

The statue represents the nearly 1000 UNC students and employees who fought in the war and the 287 who died. The depiction of Sam is that of a very young war tired private returning to Chapel Hill his ammunition spent his life forever changed. In his eyes is not the look of hate but that of sorrow, of youth lost and fear.

Thinking about a century ago, or even yesterday is apparently difficult for the nanny state students at UNC and in a way that's understandable they live for the now, via Instagram and Twitter history has no context and therefore it is not needed since only the now and their ever reducing centric circle of life is all that matters.

I'm not surprised that students say the statue makes them feel uncomfortable, again not surprising these entitled snowflakes have never not had everything their way. I mere idea that something could differ from what they think is so traumatically disturbing to them that upon seeing Silent Sam they immediately seek out the comfort of a nearly sorority cry room. 

This narrow mindedness of the left - pray they never understand that destructive behavior, civil unrest, and violent protests more than anything else drives the right to the polls each November.