UNC system rejects $5M plan to house Confederate statue
Source: Associated Press
By JONATHAN DREW
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) North Carolinas public university system rejected a proposal Friday to build a $5 million structure to house a toppled Confederate statue, opting instead to go back to the drawing board to figure out what to do with the monument.
University of North Carolina System Chairman Harry Smith said cost was a primary concern in turning down the proposal to move the statue known as Silent Sam into a new building on the outskirts of the Chapel Hill flagship campus. The statewide Board of Governors passed a resolution Friday to have several of its members work on a new plan thats due in March.
Smith didnt indicate where the statue could end up, but said he believes any move off campus would require changes to a strict state law on historical monuments.
The $5.3 million dollars is, I think, pretty tough for a lot of us to swallow, he told reporters. Were going to go back to the drawing board, in a team-like approach, and try to get it right.
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Marcuse
(7,399 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open Court. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason."
Being a Confederate voluntarily is treason. By tradition treason is punished by hanging.
Wolf
(What is your Confederacy, your Secession? It is that poor white men shall fight and die, so rich white men may own slaves, and look down on poor white men.)
marble falls
(56,359 posts)of course I will hammer it down into small pieces so to be better displayed in the closet.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Glad I was right. What a JOKE.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)brush
(53,475 posts)Way past time to stop honoring traitors.
packman
(16,296 posts)and even pay for the hammer and chisel
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)I thought UNC was an institution of higher learning not a mechanism for perpetuating ignorance.
paleotn
(17,781 posts)Then recycle it into something useful instead of a monument to traitors and racists.
Takket
(21,425 posts)and we're debating spending 5.3 million to HOUSE A STATUE????????????? Are you fucking kidding me??????????????????? How many kids could that help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Melt the fucker down!!!!!!!!!!!
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)But does it say how it should be displayed?
Just dump it out in a green area somewhere. Im sure the art majors at UNC could get creative.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Still "on display" just takes a little more time to find it.
BlueWI
(1,736 posts)Maybe Steve Wynn has a display room somewhere. Move the statue to an appreciative audience and earn a few dollars - why not??