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DEAR READERS: A Letter From the Editor

Dear Reader,

School’s only been back in session for one month, yet so much has already happened at Chapel Hill this semester. Parties, rush week, boycotts and demonstrations, Richard Spencer’s random attempt at relevance, and a few unfortunate reminders that we really are a basketball school in Kenan Stadium.

Oh yes, and classes.

Silent Sam has been at the forefront of the campus conversation as per usual, though the events at Charlottesville have certainly intensified the cries to see old Sam put out to pasture. Should the statue go? The staff here at Carolina Review have a few things to say about it, some saying it won’t accomplish anything to take Sam down, others saying Sam ought to be re- contextualized, while others say things I won’t spoil for you here.

Silent Sam proved to be a popular topic for the writers in this issue, but others chose to tackle the evergreen topic of free speech on college campuses, tying in to the UNC School of Media and Journalism’s recent Free Speech Day celebration. I went in a completely different direction, and chose to write a piece on the mission of Carolina Review, seeking to clarify the role of our publication on campus to those who are unfamiliar with it.

We’ve got a lot to say, because there’s a lot that’s been going on. It’s been an exciting start to the semester, with promise of more excitement in store this year. I don’t imagine we’ll ever run out of things to write about.

Lux et Libertas,

Alec M. Dent

Editor-in-Chief

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2 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2017 CONTENTS

If Sam Goes Down, They Still Stay Down 4 Matt McCullers

The Past is Dead, Long Live the Future 6 Will Rierson

Speech For All (Except Some) 8 Jesse Oliver

Free Speech? What’s That? 10 Wyatt McNamara

Free Speech Repression in Russia 12 Ana Delgado

We’ll Stay Local, Thanks 14 Alec Dent

Through the Looking Glass 16 Chris Antonello

Staring into the Sun and Weathering the Storm 18 Hinton Carter 19 Letters from a Protestor

Editor-in-Chief: Alec Dent / Layout and Copy Editor: Paige Roberts / Associate Editors: Will Rierson, Ana Gabriela Del- gado / Staff Writers: Chris Antonello, Hinton Carter, Jesse Brooks, Jonathon Beatty, Sami Snellings, Wyatt McNamara, Matthew McCullers, Richard Wheeler / Editors Emeriti: Charlton Allen, founder; Nathan Byerly, Bill Heeden III, Scott Rubush, James Bailey, Steve Russell, Matt Rubush, Deb McCown, Adam Herring, Fitz E. Barringer, Brian Sopp, Taylor Stanford, Ashley Wall, Bryan Weynand, Elizabeth Merrit, Nash Keune, Zach Dexter, Anthony Dent, Alex Macey, Chase McDonough, Kelsey Rupp, David Ortiz, Francis C. Pray III.

Special thanks to the Collegiate Network, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the Carolina Liberty Foundation

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 If Sam Goes Down, They Still Stay Down

Why These Protests Do Nothing for African-Americans in Need

MATT MCCULLERS Senior U.S. History, English Raleigh, NC [email protected]

This past summer, I Americans. A liberal might standing in line to collect spent most of my time in say that all of this has to do their food stamps whether grocery stores as a seasonal with Silent Sam. They will or not the man on the face of merchandiser for Pepsi trace the current economic the dollar bill owned slaves? Bottling Ventures in North disparity of African- No, because they understand Carolina. I went everywhere Americans back to slavery and that an increased awareness in the greater Triangle area. the Confederacy. They will of the past won’t really help I serviced stores in affluent take the easy road and blame them. They look at these areas like north Raleigh slavery and the Confederacy protests against Confederate and Cary, and serviced for why there is such monuments and it may stores in less affluent areas economic disparity amongst appease them emotionally like Southeast Raleigh the black population. In turn, for a short period of time, and Henderson. It was in that means anything that but they will still remain in these less affluent areas memorializes or represents poverty. I guess it’s safe to say where I gained a powerful that should be expunged that a majority of poor blacks perspective. Frequently, from our society and our are more concerned with I’d witness lines of people history. surviving on a grossly limited getting their food stamps at income than a silly statue. All

Does it really matter to those blacks living in poverty around the country whether or not a memorial for dead Confederate soldiers remains on the premises of UNC?” the store. There were times Though slavery is partly in all, dedicating mass efforts when I’d be filling up the responsible for this issue, and time towards removing drinks in the coolers near the there are other, more these statues do absolutely register where I’d see folks recent factors for why many nothing for the African- embarrassed because they African-Americans struggle American Food Lion shopper didn’t have enough money to economically today. But in Henderson who does not pay for all of their groceries. that’s not what’s important have enough money to buy It broke my heart. here. Does it really matter to groceries. those blacks living in poverty So what does this have around the country whether Again you may be thinking, to do with Silent Sam? A or not a memorial for dead what does the economic majority of the people that Confederate soldiers remains disparity of African- I saw this summer with dire on the premises of UNC? Does Americans have to do with financial issues were African- it really matter to those people Silent Sam? It has nothing to

4 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2017 “It’s assuredly more comfortable and easier hanging out in tents with your liberal friends, drinking donated coffee and eating donated food in front of a statue than going into downtown Durham and working in a soup kitchen.” do with the statue and front of a statue than going everything to do with the into downtown Durham and protesters. I have to admit I working in a soup kitchen. was pretty impressed with Ultimately, if this protest the resiliency and dedication will teach us anything it of these protesters who teaches us how misdirected occupied the statue for and lazy our generation is days…until campus police with serious problems like hilariously kicked them out. African-American economic These students somehow disparity. This reactionary found the time and the and counterproductive motivation to camp out at approach to this issue helps this statue for a full week. nobody. There is no lawfully It’s really incredible, to be protected systemic racism honest. Just imagine if these anymore thanks to the very people put their efforts Civil Rights Act of 1964 and towards actually helping several other laws in the disadvantaged African- 1960s. And just because UNC Americans, the same African- has a statue of a Confederate Americans whom they accuse soldier doesn’t mean we live Silent Sam of oppressing. in a society where blacks are What a wonderful thing it economically disadvantaged would be for these protesters because of racism now. It’s to do charity work for Habitat easy to blame the past for for Humanity, or Catholic current issues, but what does Parish Outreach, or Durham that do for the future? In this Rescue Mission. Though they case, absolutely nothing. would not be solving the large issue of economic disparity So again I ask, what does amongst blacks, they would Silent Sam have to do with be doing more for people in those African-Americans need than camping outside a living in poverty? If our statue could ever accomplish. generation continues to approach issues in this Despite the impressive careless way nothing will be dedication and effort these done to ultimately improve protesters have towards the lives of poor African- tearing down Silent Sam, Americans. CR. these people are lazy. Tearing down symbols of the Confederacy is much easier than actually finding solutions to issues that afflict African-Americans today. It’s assuredly more comfortable hanging out in tents with your woke friends, drinking donated coffee, and eating donated food in

FEATURED ARTICLE 5 The Past is Dead, Long Live the Future

We Cannot Change the Past, But We Can Contextualize It

WILL RIERSON Senior Public Relations, Political Science Winston-Salem, NC [email protected]

If you have been paying veteran and industrialist/ Klux Klan in North Carolina. attention to the newsworthy philanthropist, but also racist. However, the board of events happening on campus Speaking at the dedication trustees placed a moratorium this semester, it has been of the UNC memorial to on renaming campus impossible to miss the return Confederate soldiers known buildings and the protesters’ of anti-Confederate statue as Silent Sam, he recounted dream of completely protests. Progressives are whipping a black woman ridding UNC of politically again engaging in a periodic nearby once for offending a incorrect references was left flurry of virtue-signaling white lady. Quite unpleasant, unfulfilled. that is both unserious and but Carr no longer affects fruitless. local race relations. Protesters have called for the removal of Silent The latest round of protests Like Proverbs 26:11 says, Sam, but there are several is one of the strongest yet and “As the dog returns to its factors that make that goal has produced a very wacky vomit, so fools repeat their unlikely. First, removal of

“Like Proverbs 26:11 says, “As the dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.” virtue-signaling proposal. folly.” the monument requires That is, a petition to rename government approval and the Carrboro to Unicornboro. These protests happen most powerful government Seriously, the petition is every so often when racial body in the state, the General circulating around town and issues dominate the news Assembly, is staunchly online, according to The cycle. The Charlottesville conservative and likely dead- Daily Tar Heel. Two town white supremacist fiasco set against removal. A law aldermen interviewed by the inspired progressives in the passed by the legislature DTH seemed to support a Chapel Hill area to protest in 2015 protects public name change of some sort, Confederate monuments for monuments like Silent Sam though they did express a the first time since 2015. In from being taken down. It more serious concern for 2015, protesters claimed a gives the slow-moving state addressing racial equality partial victory, changing the historical commission, power issues in their town. Julian name of Saunders Hall—a to review monuments on a Shakespeare Carr, the building named for a 19th case-by-case basis, and makes namesake of the town, was century university trustee the university subject to the a prominent Confederate who helped found the Ku authority of the commission.

6 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2017 “Progressive and conservative students would do well to develop some monument proposals that can help heal the wounds of the past and represent the university’s diversity and tolerance in the present.”

UNC law professor and Some people would like university counsel Mark to see the school erect new Merritt explained this in a statues on McCorkle Place recent public meeting, to the to counter Silent Sam, great chagrin of the liberals largely because the Unsung present. Founders Memorial, a table near Silent Sam in honor Social movements on of slaves who worked at the campus are typically short- university long ago, is too lived and unsuccessful pitiful to count as an equal. because its promoters are Progressive and conservative only attention-seeking, students would do well to temporary fixtures. The develop some monument general student body doesn’t proposals that can help heal care, being concerned with the wounds of the past and their grades and social represent the university’s lives during a quick four- diversity and tolerance in the year stay. As Elliot Kaufman present. CR. explained the same difficulty experienced by conservative student activists for National Review, “They are always broke, their leaders are always about to graduate, and nobody on campus ever cares about what they have to say.” Silent Sam protests come and go with their leaders. I would be wrong to completely write off any legitimacy of the protests. Proverbs 26:12 says “Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.” However, the best way to combat free speech you don’t like is with more speech. This rule can be adapted for the monument issue. Some moderates have proposed contextualizing Silent Sam and other Confederate monuments. I would support placing instructional plaques and signs around campus if that’s what it takes to keep history in front of us.

FEATURED ARTICLE 7 Speech For All (Except Some)

The Left’s Crusade Against Diversity of Throught on Campus

JESSE OLIVER Sophomore Computer Science Lumberton, NC [email protected]

One thing college campuses campus speakers such as Ben Conservatives, however, seem in America love to take pride Shapiro, Milo Yiannopoulos, to not make much of a fuss in is diverse student body Kathleen Parker, Gavin when a leftist speaks on college populations. All Americans can McInnes, and others. These campuses. The disinvitation agree that diversity of thought protests result in some of attempts from college is a very powerful thing in these speakers being forced organizations that attempt to any type of group. It allows to end their speeches early stop speakers from appearing for the exchange of ideas and or not speak at all, and on campus are directed much information in order to find sometimes even end with the more often at conservatives the best possible solution for speaker being attacked. These than leftists. According to a any given problem. The Left, speakers are only there to give Foundation for Individual however, doesn’t seem to like their opinions and share their Rights in Education (FIRE) diversity of thought when that beliefs, while almost always database tracking college thought isn’t in line with its having a question and answer lecture disinvitations, the Left own. The Left’s behavior on session when anybody can ask was able to get conservative college campuses seems to questions and share ideas with speakers disinvited 41 times, mimic that of a dictatorship the speaker. That’s not good while the Right only got 5 where only certain schools enough for some members of leftist speakers disinvited in

“In any institution meant for learning and growing, the true potential of intellectual growth is extremely limited when only certain schools of thought are allowed the right to free speech.” of thought are allowed, while the Left. They would rather 2016 and 2017 as of April 3rd. It others are shunned. In any silence their opposition is absolutely disgusting to see institution meant for learning completely so they won’t have one school of thought treated and growing, the true potential to actually argue with facts with so much more respect of intellectual growth is and evidence, which is how and fairness than another extremely limited when only real intellectual growth is on campuses supposedly certain schools of thought produced in a college setting. dedicated to diversity of are allowed the right to free thought. speech. With all of the controversy surrounding Speakers are not the A developing example conservative speakers on only ones affected by the of the left’s destruction of free college campuses, some may Left’s attack on free speech. speech is the proliferation think that the same thing The general student body of protests over conservative happens to leftist speakers. population’s right to free

8 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2017 “The Left’s behavior on college campuses seems to mimic that of a dictatorship where only certain schools of thought are allowed, while others are shunned.” speech is under attack as well. offend you doesn’t mean they At California State University, are not valuable and it certainly many words and phrases such doesn’t mean the other person as “man up,” “like a girl,” and has no right to say them. “coward” are all prohibited on campus. At Washington State If the Left wants to keep University, a professor has treating college campuses the right to fail you for using like their safe spaces and words and phrases such as disallow any speech they don’t “male,” “female,” and “illegal particularly agree with, then alien.” When teachers and America will be continuously staff are able to ban any word held back from its intellectual or phrase they deem offensive, potential. America is a place every college student in where freedom of thought and America should feel that their expression are the main gears right to freedom of speech is of success, and any country being threatened. that is not ruled with an iron fist should wholeheartedly According to Pew agree. If the Left would stop Research, 40 percent of classifying just about any millennials believe that the word spoken that they don’t federal government should find flattering as hate speech, be able to prevent individuals then maybe we could reduce from saying “offensive” the amount of hatred many statements about minorities. members of both political While offensive statements sides have for one another. can certainly hurt feelings, As Americans, we have to an individual’s right to free remember that we are all one speech is much more important team aiming to make the most than anyone’s feelings. The effective political decisions Founding Fathers didn’t that benefit the people of this ban offensive speech when country and celebrate that fact. they made the Constitution Disallowing certain groups because they believed that a of Americans to speak is the free society where ideas can opposite of what we should be be shared amongst everyone is doing. CR. the society that advances the fastest. Wanting to limit free speech just because something is “offensive” is dangerous. How broad is the definition of offensive and who are the people that decide whether what someone says is offensive or not? Banning offensive speech is the same as limiting free speech, and it’s extremely unsettling to see almost half of millennials take that right for granted. Just because words

FEATURED ARTICLE 9 Free Speech? What’s That?

There Should Be No Test of Offense for Speech

WYATT MCNAMARA Junior Communications New Durham, New Hampshire [email protected]

On March 29th, a California creatures with unshaved legs or whatever you want to call college student by the name and armpits, strangely colored it, but I am convinced that of Kevin Shaw filed a lawsuit hair, and often exposed when people relegate topics against the community college nipples congregate in fear and opinions as untouchable district of Los Angeles after of the aforementioned “free and sacrosanct, when people they allegedly refused to allow speech.”. Can you guess what forbid words and ban books him to distribute copies of the this region is? Nope, not the it only augments the urge United States Constitution. zoo... but you are close—these to turn rebel. Ironically, this Ironically, it was not the regions are called “liberal safe type of dictatorial restriction Constitution that Los Angeles’ spaces.”. is nothing new and in fact, Pierce College had an issue the Religious Right has been with but rather, the fact that We have all heard jokes equally culpable in the past. Shaw had wandered outside about being “triggered,” For instance, Monty Python’s the designated 616 square “snowflakes,” and “liberal Life of Brian in the late 1970s foot “free speech zone.” The tears.” This is all good and was widely banned, protested, story is so absurd that it really well in helping combat leftist and relegated as blasphemous makes you wonder who is dogma, but all joking aside, at the behest of various

“See, the way it generally works is that there is a very large area consisting of roughly four million square miles where we allow the freedom of speech—this area is called the United States.”

it is crucial to see that what religious figures. The studio heading up our modern day is propagating in college was forced to make cuts due public institutions. Sadly, campuses is a deliberate to its satire of Jesus and even Pierce College seems to be ideological shift. Instead of after, the BBC refused to air just one of many that has a free market of ideas and an the film. Granted, there were things disturbingly flipped. intellectual capitalism, what no blocked highways, innocent See, the way it generally works we are seeing now is rising people assaulted with pepper is that there is a very large conviction championing new a spray, or large scale riots, area consisting of roughly four leftist creed with a motto that however my point remains the million square miles where we reads: “I have an inalienable same. The thing is, it is not the allow the freedom of speech— right to be exempt from late 70s anymore, and weirdly this area is called the United hearing opinions that I don’t enough, the same leftists who States. Within this four million like.” Now maybe it is just my cite their countercultural square miles, there are then own schadenfreude or sadism hippie heritage have now small, pocketed regions where

10 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2017 “If something offends you, that is fine. Stand up, share your ideas, and engage in the type of discussion that lends itself to profitable intellectual exchange.”

become wardens, while the fragile psyche. If something Right, continually pushes the offends you, that is fine. bounds of accepted speech Stand up, share your ideas, and opinion. and engage in the type of discussion that lends itself Arguably, the worst to profitable intellectual injustice inherent in the recent exchange. At the end of the oppression of right wing day, we should all have nothing free speech is that through to fear. Facts cannot victimize enforced silence, the left wins you or oppress you, in fact, in their efforts to continually they do not give a damn about mainstream delusion. Whether your feelings. And neither do it be the wage gap, Black Lives I. CR. Matter, or patently false claims regarding the genetics and statistics of transgenders, it seems that whenever the left manages to keep conservatism quiet, falsehoods wreak havoc on popular opinion. Somewhere along the line, fact gets muddied and lost in the waters of “feeling” and prevailing sentiment. So, for the sake of science, for the sake of ideas, for the sake of drawing Muhammad and mocking Jesus’s divinity, and at the very least, for the sake of freedom, stop encroaching on free speech while hiding behind claims of “victimization” and various other disturbances to your

FEATURED ARTICLE 11 Free Speech Repression in Russia

How Autocratic Government Inhibits Liberty

ANA DELGADO Senior Political Science; Peace, War & Defense Waxhaw, NC [email protected]

Putin’s Russia has become and media, stopped and being beaten by guards and the poster child for tyrannical arrested peaceful protestors, was subsequently transferred oppression. The government and ruthlessly promoted its to another prison. hijacks telecommunications own nationalistic propaganda. and muzzles its opponents, Russian journalists with making the Bolshevik In 2015, Ildar Dadin was dissenting voices face a great Revolution of 1917 seem like it arrested—and later tortured— deal of danger. Oleg Kashin is was yesterday. for taking part in protests. a prominent journalist known The peaceful activist was for his political reporting. He Freedom House, an arrested because of his was almost beaten to death independent organization repeated involvement in anti- in 2010, when an attempted dedicated to the development government protests, and murder left him in the hospital of freedom and democracy sentenced to three years in with a broken jaw, fractured around the world, deemed prison. He was the first to skull, broken leg, and broken Russia “not free” in 2016. The be jailed under Article 212.1 fingers. In 2015, Kashin sent an Russian constitution provides of Russia’s criminal code, open letter to Russia’s leaders for freedom of speech, but which was added in 2014 and claiming that Pskov governor the notion is not practiced. In held that if a court has issued Andrei Turchak ordered

“The Kremlin has continuously silenced nonconformists in the public and media, stopped and arrested peaceful protestors, and ruthlessly promoted their own nationalistic propaganda.”

fact, the government retains two rulings on “repeated the attack. Kashin’s letter the authority to impede and violations of the established argues that his assailants are terminate any speech or rules of organizing or holding employees of a factory which is activity that it doesn’t support. public gatherings, meetings, controlled by Turchak’s family Furthermore, the government rallies, marches, and pickets,” and that these suspects told controls all national television citizens could face serious investigators that they had networks and most print outlets, penalty. Dadin’s sentence was been paid to commit murder. ensuring the proliferation and reduced form three years to He states that the authorities dissemination of the Kremlin’s two and a half, which he is refused to charge Turchak message. The Kremlin currently serving in a prison because of the governor’s has continuously silenced and labor camp. In November close, allied connections to nonconformists in the public 2016, Dadin claimed he was President Vladimir Putin.

12 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2017 “Russia has attempted to blindfold its citizens while simultaneously duct-taping their mouths.”

Dadin and Kashin’s blindfold its citizens while stories are some of many simultaneously duct-taping that exemplify the Russian their mouths. The Kremlin government’s intolerance feeds its own propaganda of dissent. It seems like and blocks the broadcast of repression will only worsen, opposing voices, creating a as amendments that boost vulnerable majority and a security services’ surveillance powerful center. Freedom powers and interfere with of speech, expression, and privacy rights were signed protest are near inexistent in into law by President Putin in the country, making it a case July 2016. 2017 is looking more study of how authoritarian and more like 1984, as Human regimes minimize personal Rights Watch notes, “the liberty. CR. amendments require cellular and internet providers to store all communications data and also ban religious activities outside of officially recognized religious institutions, increase penalties for vaguely defined ‘public justification of terrorism’ online, and severely penalize involving people in so-called mass unrest.” It is clear that the Kremlin has eyes on its citizens and is not fearful to act in its own interest. Russia has attempted to

FEATURED ARTICLE 13 We’ll Stay Local, Thanks

Carolina Review is a Publication for UNC, Not the Outside World

ALEC DENT Junior Journalism Lumberton, NC [email protected]

I was approached earlier this thought it might be of interest of campus we take such stories month about Carolina Review to our readers for me to reprint to North Carolina think tanks joining a larger network said email here: like the James G. Martin Center of independent student for Academic Renewal or news publications. The idea, quickly I am very sorry, but I’m afraid sites like The College Fix and explained, was that one larger I won’t be budging on the matter. Campus Reform. In between website and phone app would such pieces, we busy ourselves be created where conservative Carolina Review exists to with articles aimed at our student papers and magazines serve two primary functions: to progressive classmates, arguing would be able to share their give UNC conservatives a voice in favor of conservatism through work. My interest was piqued. and to make the intellectual case the lens of campus politics and After all, there’s nothing for conservatism to our liberal issues. Again, I appreciate your journalists love more than peers who don’t come in contact interest in adding the Review people reading their work. with such ideas elsewhere. We to your network, but our target And the more people the do not exist as a “bubble” news audiences are too different for

“Carolina Review exists to serve two primary functions: to give UNC conservatives a voice and to make the intellectual case for conservatism to our liberal peers who don’t come in contact with such ideas elsewhere.” better. But I had to pass on the opportunity, partly because I outlet for conservatives, rather me to accept your kind invitation. question the feasibility and our target audience is, in fact, I would rather there not be any sustainability of the plan as campus progressives. Aligning confusion among my staff or the outlined for me, but more our magazine with a news student body and faculty as to importantly because I do not aggregating service specifically who Carolina Review is being feel it was in the Review’s best intended for conservative readers written for. interests or in line with our such as you have suggested, mission to serve the Carolina would, I am sure, get us more Regards, community. My initial reply to clicks on our website and a wider the email was a brief “I don’t audience, but it would also run Alec Dent think this would be a good fit” contrary to this principle. Fox yada yada yada type response, News is a very popular news I recognize that this may but when pressed on the channel, but it does little to change seem counter-intuitive to issue again I wrote a lengthier minds. When my staff writers or I some. It isn’t typical for a response in which I outlined feel there is something going on publication of any kind to what I believe to be Carolina at Chapel Hill that would be of turn down an opportunity to Review’s role on campus. I interest to conservatives outside reach a wider audience. But, as

14 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2017 “But, as writers for Carolina Review our duty is not to chase clicks or likes—as a journalism major it pains me to write that phrase— but minds.”

writers for Carolina Review local level. We want to be our duty is not to chase clicks read by our classmates, our or likes—as a journalism professors, people we know major it pains me to write that and care for, and sometimes phrase—but minds. And we people we know and don’t do this through promoting particularly care for. It is our civil discourse at our very mission, one which I hope this local level. It isn’t always magazine carries out for as glamorous. People are always long as there’s a UNC to carry willing to read articles when it out at. CR. they’re about division and strife, about campus craziness and absurd liberal actions. They love to read articles when they’re about students trying to tear down statues, but less so when they’re about reasons the statues should stand or a compromise should be struck. The former incites the passions, flaming anger, the latter does not pluck any emotional heartstrings.

At Carolina Review, our focus has always been at the

FEATURED ARTICLE 15 Through the Looking Glass

Our New, Fallacious World

CHRIS ANTONELLO Senior Journalism Raleigh, NC [email protected]

We have entered into a the American Civil War. It is continued standing of this reality distortion field. a statue. Rewind to the Selma monument, then I will eat my to Montgomery marches, the hat. On the evening of the first day Greensboro sit-ins, and the of classes at UNC-Chapel Hill integration of Central High On the other side of this fall, students associated School with the Little Rock things—notice how I am with the UNControllables, Nine. Tensions were so high mentioning the “other side,” UNC’s own anarchist during the Civil Rights era but I am not saying there are group, staged a protest of that it seemed every other only two sides—the despicable the infamous Confederate day the National Guard was monsters who seek to tyrannize Monument, better known called in. Protest, anger and members of races they view as as Silent Sam. Surely there fear filled the air for so many lesser also reflect a ridiculous were some counter-protestors Americans—black, white, pro- mockery of democratic values. present from the alt-right, too, integration, or segregationist. They harass and terrorize

“We’ve entered a backward world created by the media in which being against one extreme means we must be in full support of the other. This is simply not true.” but I didn’t see them. That’s irrelevant. The point is that we And that’s how it had to be. everyone who disagrees with have transfixed ourselves on, People of color were being them. They spew hate and as a close friend aptly put it, wrongfully and heinously bigotry, and one would not be “stupid people being stupid.” oppressed by laws on the welcome at my dinner table. And by giving these stupid books in much of the South people the slightest attention, that did nothing but allow Here’s what’s happened. we have, in turn, joined that the continuation of racial We’ve entered a backward crowd and made even more tension and bigotry. All men world created by the media noise. are created equal, and it is in which being against one crucial to fight when they are extreme means we must be in Let’s begin with the very not treated as such. But what full support of the other. This essence of what these people are is happening today is absurd. is simply not true. It is rare in screaming out against. There Silent Sam is a statue. If there life that definitive superlatives is a statue that commemorates is one black student on this are in order, but here is one the alumni of the University entire campus whose chances case: All right-wing extremists of North Carolina who fought of succeeding at Carolina and are in the wrong, and all left- for the Confederacy during beyond are hindered by the wing extremists are equally

16 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2017 “Neo-Nazis have one friend in America: themselves. However, they have found a new one: attention.”

wrong. Here’s the last piece they have to say. The exact same in America today will still of this seemingly unsolvable goes for the other extreme. be there tomorrow, whether conundrum: I am still a the Confederate Monument conservative Republican who is By the way, this is what the remains in its place, is irritated that Virginia governor Silent Sam protest looks like. relocated, vandalized or Terry McAuliffe ridiculed This is how many people destroyed. CR. the president for sending his are truly demonstrating how prayers to Charlottesville and oppressed they feel. yet resents President Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn Silent Sam was erected in the white supremacists for the 1913. Harvey Beech, James violence in the town. Lassiter, Kenneth Lee, and Floyd B. McKissick, Sr., Chew on this. Removing became the first black students Confederate monuments in to enroll at UNC in 1951. While response to an extremist rally the protests against Silent Sam in a Virginia college town gives have been consistent, Sam has those very extremists a voice. generously allowed blacks and Suddenly, neo-Nazism is a other minorities to peacefully trending topic on social media. attend this institution for Neo-Nazis have one friend in more than six decades. I have America: themselves. However, a feeling that, whether he lives they have found a new one: or dies, they will continue to attention. Recognizing their enroll at the university of the cause grants them legitimacy. people. Similarly, and sadly, It signals that we care what whatever racial tensions exist

FEATURED ARTICLE 17 Staring into the Sun and Weathering the Storm

America is at Her Best When Race Doesn’t Divide Us

HINTON CARTER Senior Business Administration Powellsville, NC [email protected]

In the midst of political come together again, this time people cannot stop fighting turmoil, civil unrest, and a in the face of crisis. After the over meaningless things. Take plethora of other “cultural severe flooding caused by for instance the aftermath of inadequacies” that are Hurricane Harvey, everyone Hurricane Sandy in 2012, where seemingly ruining the United put aside their differences there were 0 reported cases of States, the topic of race seems to to support those in Houston looting or opportunistic crimes be root of many conversations who lost everything, their in Newark. Think about groups about what is leading to the entire lives in many cases. It of all races holding hands downfall of our country. Many is incredible how something and praying after Hurricane pundits and Twitter eggs like horrible can bring people Katrina in New Orleans hotels, to offer solutions that only together, but the outpouring which were being used to seem to divide the country love and sacrifice shown by shelter the newly homeless. more, even if this division is those assisting in relief efforts What about the aftermath of most often found in the echo is the epitome of the American 9/11? America will always come chamber that is the internet. spirit. In what other country together to rebuild and grow Today I do not wish to offer could you see a highway full stronger together, even if it the be-all end-all solution to of Louisiana residents willing takes grave disasters. why race divides America as to drop everything and drive much as it does. Rather, I want hours to come and help save Look, I’m not trying to shy to talk about small instances those in need? away from the fact that there in recent history where race are problems in the United ceased to divide us and peace In the stress and tense States and the greater world “During the eclipse in August for 2 minutes and 40 seconds, everyone stopped fighting and stared at the sun.” was found, even if only for moments of a natural disaster, today. But we must try to be mere minute moments. cell phones, the internet, and kinder to each other and show material things don’t really respect to those around you. A These moments can occur matter. For small moments, very meaningful person in my at the highest and lowest communities, families, life told me, “It doesn’t cost moments in communities and friends realize what is anything to be nice to people.” across America. During the important to them and learn Learn to love, learn to care. eclipse in August for 2 minutes of the preciousness of life. It Turn the other cheek. Extend and 40 seconds everyone is in these low moments in life a helping hand, and never stopped fighting and stared where ordinary people realize expect one in return. We, as at the sun. The pointless that it takes a communal effort a nation, will weather storms Facebook arguments stopped, to rebuild, and differences long into the future, literally the political bickering ceased, are cast aside to assist those and figuratively, and if we and the feat-mongers took a that need support because value and care for each other break. And this only shortly at the end of the day we are we will all come out stronger. after the Charlottesville all human and we all have an CR. unrest. Then only a few weeks innate response for survival. later we saw a divided country Survival isn’t possible when

18 CAROLINA REVIEW • SEPTEMBER 2017 LETTERS from a PROTESTER

A Haiku by Silent Sam

The protestors say I should not be standing, yet Don’t offer a chair

In the process of gathering information on the protest, the Carolina Review investigative reporting unit intercepted some correspondence from a protestor who had been camping out at Silent Sam. Letters from participants in the Revolutionary War and other important moments in American history provide important insights into the movements and people that shaped our country. We hope that these two letters may prove similarly enlightening.

Dear Parent,

This is the fourth night I’ve spent at Silent Sam. Here in our makeshift camp, surrounded by my siblings at arms I cannot help but feel I am in the trenches of social war. If anything, what we’re doing is even more important than what those who fight in real wars do. They hide behind their guns and body armor, fighting innocents to spread American imperialism. We promote change through peace—well, except that one student who got arrested for pushing cops—and catchy vulgar chants. Like the American troops illegally in the Middle East, we too endure bullets, the verbal ones hurled at us by that man who keeps suggesting “there are two sides to the story” and saying we should “talk it over.” He believes because of his Whiteness and his Maleness he has a right to be heard, but we will not acquiesce to his demands. That one man represents all we are fighting against, and serves as a stand-in for the countless racists who stand opposed to us.

I know you worry for my safety, and I would be lying if I said I didn’t as well. There is a 24/7 police guard posted nearby, keeping an eye on the statue in order to protect it. The presence of those two police officers only heightens my sense of anxiety, but the university has refused my requests to have them moved, despite the personal anguish they cause me. I fear if we tried to tear down the statue they may try to stop us.

Every day I see my classmates walk by. They go to classes, but I am the one who is truly learning. Every day I learn about the nature of evil. And I learn it from watching my fellow students. Their refusal to join us shows their complacency, their willingness to accept the status quo sickens me. I hate them all.

You should be proud of me Parent. I have taken a stand, and with my fellow protestors have vowed not to leave this Monument to Hate until it is removed. We will not be denied. We will not give up. We will not leave.

Much Love,

Sam P.S. Could you send money please?

Dear Parent,

The campus police asked us to vacate the premises so we left. To be honest I was getting tired of all this anyway. Confederate statue protests are a bit old.

Much Love,

Sam P.S. Could you send money please?