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    The New York Times‏Verified account @nytimes Aug 20

    Protesters toppled the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillhttps://nyti.ms/2MDuCb0 

    9:30 PM - 20 Aug 2018
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      2. Jeff Grace‏Verified account @jeffgrace Aug 20
        Replying to @nytimes

        I want Trump out as much as the next guy, but I don't think this helps anything.

        6 replies 1 retweet 7 likes
      3. elise holsonback‏ @eliseholsonback Aug 20
        Replying to @jeffgrace @nytimes

        This absolutely helps-As a UNC alumnus + as someone who helped produce a documentary on silent sam, the presence of the statue was a daily reminder that UNC valued money over the safety of its POC students; I’d be happy to give an inside perspective as to just how helpful this is

        2 replies 1 retweet 25 likes
      4. Ben Gunn‏ @MrLincolnsArmy Aug 20
        Replying to @eliseholsonback @jeffgrace @nytimes

        Silent Sam coming down has absolutely nothing to do with the "safety" of poc on the campus. Get real. All this destructive riotous disorganized energy could be channeled in actual positive direction like directly helping people. But no. Shouting and placards. This solves NOTHING

        4 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
      5. elise holsonback‏ @eliseholsonback Aug 20
        Replying to @MrLincolnsArmy @jeffgrace @nytimes

        This doesn’t “solve” anything but it’s sure as hell a start. I saw my friends and classmates see a reminder every day that UNC cared more about ensuring the safety of a statue over their own POC students’ bodies.

        6 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
      6. Jeff Grace‏Verified account @jeffgrace Aug 20
        Replying to @eliseholsonback @MrLincolnsArmy @nytimes

        I'm highly sympathetic to the urge to destroy symbols of our county's racist legacy, but I'm also concerned that this only gives more fuel to the cause you wish to extinguish.

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      7. elise holsonback‏ @eliseholsonback Aug 20
        Replying to @jeffgrace @MrLincolnsArmy @nytimes

        To the many activists on our campus, it was the only option. The administration wasn’t doing anything to remove it, and history won’t be reversed tomorrow, but it’s gone—it isn’t a towering symbol of white supremacy to the POC all across campus. That feels like a little victory.

        0 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
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      1. Blurt Nobrain‏ @blurtnobrain Aug 20
        Replying to @nytimes

        Now it properly represents the Confederacy. A truly accurate depiction of a failed rebellion.

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      2. Jean-Luc Pons‏ @JeanLucPons Aug 20
        Replying to @nytimes

        It reminds me when the Talibans blew up the Bouddha statues in Afghanistan. Same misunderstanting of history and culture.#history #CultureClash #Taliban

        9 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
      3. Ezekiel‏ @ezekiel11 Aug 20
        Replying to @JeanLucPons @nytimes

        Nah, the kids have the right idea.

        0 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
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      2. Long Island Bear  🇺🇸 🐼 ♉ ♓‏ @MichaelNorris61 Aug 20
        Replying to @nytimes

        Let that be a lesson to dirt poor farmers who never owned a slave who fight against an army invading their homeland

        6 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      3. Che‏ @mountainembrace Aug 20
        Replying to @MichaelNorris61 @nytimes

        Whatever else this statue tried to communicate, it was explicitly and openly meant as a symbol of "Anglo Saxon" purity and horse whipping blacks to keep them in line. Here's the whole dedication speech. http://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html …

        0 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
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      2. Magneto Rex‏ @MagnetoRex4Life Aug 20
        Replying to @nytimes

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      2. Lax #RMGCrew‏ @LaxmanRMGCrew Aug 21
        Replying to @nytimes

        This is madness I do not know the story of Silent Sam b/c it doesn't matter. This is not civility, this is lawlessness.

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Ramon Rondo‏ @VicMRodriguez Aug 21
        Replying to @LaxmanRMGCrew @nytimes

        yeah, you should work on that. kind of explains why it came down.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      4. Lax #RMGCrew‏ @LaxmanRMGCrew Aug 21
        Replying to @VicMRodriguez @nytimes

        HUH? Whatever nonsense point you are trying to make did not come across It does NOT matter the story of the statue, this is the same as the flag draped assholes who think it is ok to "patrol" the boarder on their own

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Ramon Rondo‏ @VicMRodriguez Aug 21
        Replying to @LaxmanRMGCrew @nytimes

        it's a monument to defending slavery erected after the Civil War. that's important. it's a big "fuck you" to freed slaves. that's why it had to come down. the story is why it was offensive and removed.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      6. Lax #RMGCrew‏ @LaxmanRMGCrew Aug 21
        Replying to @VicMRodriguez @nytimes

        And for you it is perfectly acceptable to destroy property you find offensive? There are ways to do things and then there is this bullshit lawlessness

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Ramon Rondo‏ @VicMRodriguez Aug 21
        Replying to @LaxmanRMGCrew @nytimes

        this is necessary, yes. it was there for over a hundred years, the administration clearly wasn't going to do the right thing.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      8. Lax #RMGCrew‏ @LaxmanRMGCrew Aug 21
        Replying to @VicMRodriguez @nytimes

        Violence and lawlessness is never the answer, it gives the right a rallying cry and diminishes your standing in the argument. Having a childish emotional outburst is for the right wingers not logical thinking humans

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Ramon Rondo‏ @VicMRodriguez Aug 21
        Replying to @LaxmanRMGCrew @nytimes

        this is what getting shit done looks like. it's neither pretty nor clean, and the other side is more than happy to stomp all over anyone refusing to engage in the name of civility. but do your thing.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
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