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Letters to the Editor should be submitted via email media associates. to [email protected] or mailed to our perma- CONTACT US CONTACT 2 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2018 CONTENTS Refections Upon Silent Sam 4 Branson Inscore Moving Past Silent Sam 7 Alex Helms For The First Time I am Ashamed of my School 9 Nicole Divers Unity: The Ultimate Solution 11 Jonathon Wixtrom A Site For Sam 13 Waddy Davis and Kathy Arab Mob Rule Cannot Win 15 Jesse Oliver Editor-in-Chief: Jesse Oliver / Associate Editor: Samuel Mao / Staff Writers: Chris Antonello, Hinton Carter, Jesse Oliver, Jonathon Beatty, Wyatt McNamara, Richard Wheeler, Samuel Mao, Joseph Barnes, Christian DeSimone, Matthew McCullers, Brandon Inscore, Alex Helms, Victoria James, Jonathon Wixtrom, Nicole Divers. Editors Emeriti: Charlton Allen, founder; Nathan Byerly, Bill Heeden III, Scott Rubush, James Bailey, Steve Russell, Matt Rubush, Deb McCown, Adam Herring, Fitz E. 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TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 Refections Upon Silent Sam: From the Descendant of a Confederate Veteran BRANSON INSCORE Senior Communication w/ music minor Statesville, NC [email protected] There’s no reason for and assessing the full extent habit the political landscape this article to repeat the of the damage.” While this to think for ourselves. sequence of events that statement in its entirely was unfolded on the night of ambiguous, which was kind Last year was my first August 20th, 2018. If you of the point as far as I can at UNC Chapel Hill. Most are reading this, you likely tell, it was also a reflection mornings, I rode the Cha- already know the details. If of the way our university has pel Hill transit up Franklin not, there are plenty of ac- handled the entire situation. Street, to the intersection counts, more detailed than If that large bronze Confed- of Franklin and Hender- one I could give you in this erate Soldier had landed on son. There I would cross the short article. The process of a protester or bystander that street to McCorkle Place. It bringing this article to frui- night, he or she could have was usually sometime be- tion has been beneficial in very easily been killed. And tween 7:30 and 8:00 a.m. and helping its writer figure out destruction of public prop- the upper part of campus what he actually believes. erty, well, I’m pretty sure was almost always quiet. It And after bringing this piece that is against the law. How- became routine that I stop to fruition, I’m not afraid to ever, just because an action for a few moments, almost in say that I’m still unsure ex- is unlawful does not mean meditation, and look up at actly what it is that I believe, that it is inherently or mor- the bronze statue we know as which is a hell of a way to ally wrong. That being the Silent Sam, standing there, “And after bringing this piece to fruition, I’m not afraid to say that I’m still unsure exactly what it is that I believe, which is a hell of a way to begin an article, I know. But, maybe this complexity is the point. ” begin an article, I know. But, case, was it morally wrong to dashingly, on his pedestal maybe this complexity is the tear down the statue? That is amongst the tranquility of point. a question we should all be the morning. In those few asking ourselves. And while moments, I would sometimes Following the events of doing so, we should remove think of all the things I had August 20th, Chancellor Folt ourselves from the polar- to do throughout the day. It released a message, part of ity and malevolence that served as a moment to center which read, “…last night’s increasingly inhabits both myself, to give myself per- actions were unlawful and sides of the political spec- spective. Many mornings I dangerous, and we are very trum, not only in the ex- would think about the stu- fortunate that no one was tremities. This means leaving dents memorialized in the injured. The police are in- behind the pathetic agendas statue who, as the pedestal vestigating the vandalism and identity politics that in- 4 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2018 says, “… entered the war of Carr gave a speech in which joy today. That would be 1861-1865 in answer to the he boasted of horse-whip- my great-great-grandfather, call of their country and ping a black woman near the James H. Johnson. Jim was whose lives taught the lesson university grounds, and even a farmer Wilkes County, of their Great Commander worse, claimed the suprema- North Carolina drafted into that duty is the sublimest cy of the Anglo-Saxon race. the Army of Northern Vir- word in the English lan- Either of these facts seem to ginia in October of 1863. He guage.” I would think about be enough for some folks to served in Company D of the the gift of attending this demand the statue be torn 33rd regiment NC infantry: university without the worry down. They are not (neces- Lane’s Brigade, Heth’s Divi- of being called off to war. As sarily?) wrong. I sympathize sion, A.P. Hill’s Corps. Over far as I’m concerned, that is with those who feel Silent the past few years, uncover- one motivational way to start Sam has no place upon our ing information about him the day. To be given that campus. And while I cannot has taught me quite a bit perspective almost mandates empathize with those whose about the Civil War, and that one not take his or her ancestors were bound by the myself. There was a reason opportunities for granted. chains of slavery, I can look why Jim, a Southerner from “If the defecation of public property becomes a viable solution to social or political confict, the consequences could be far worse than the initial confict. ” With that being said, I’m to my own ancestors, who a longtime Southern family, not at all naïve enough to fought a rich man’s war, for waited until he was drafted think that the scenario I just insight. in late 1863 to enlist in the described is the way in which Confederate Army.