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Down Goes Silent Sam


Disgusting how quickly UNC worked to funnel $2.5M to white nationalists. If you're a descendant of a Confederate veteran, you should be ashamed and actively working to destroy what your ancestor wanted to build.

Related story. It's old but it does a good job of starting the discussion. Poor white people still sign up to fight wars for the rich, reject labor unions, vote for politicians who are against tax increases on the wealthy and against returning taxpayer money back to their own communities.

And when you point this out to them, they whine about the “elites” who don’t understand their culture.

[h=3]The Confederacy was a con job on whites. And still is.[/h]
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article136721193.html

As I grew up and acquired the strange sensation called empathy (strange for boys anyway), I learned that for black folks the flutter of that flag felt like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. And for the most prideful flag waivers, clearly that response was the point. I mean, come on. It’s a battle flag.

What the flag symbolizes for blacks is enough reason to take it down. But there’s another reason that white southerners shouldn’t fly it. Or sport it on our state-issued license plates as some do here in North Carolina. The Confederacy – and the slavery that spawned it – was also one big con job on the Southern, white, working class. A con job funded by some of the ante-bellum one-per-centers, that continues today in a similar form.

You don’t have to be an economist to see that forcing blacks – a third of the South’s laborers – to work without pay drove down wages for everyone else. And not just in agriculture. A quarter of enslaved blacks worked in the construction, manufacturing and lumbering trades; cutting wages even for skilled white workers.Thanks to the profitability of this no-wage/low-wage combination, a majority of American one-per-centers were southerners. Slavery made southern states the richest in the country. The South was richer than any other country except England. But that vast wealth was invisible outside the plantation ballrooms. With low wages and few schools, southern whites suffered a much lower land ownership rate and a far lower literacy rate than northern whites.

How did the plantation owners mislead so many Southern whites?They managed this con job partly with a propaganda technique that will be familiar to modern Americans, but hasn’t received the coverage it deserves in our sesquicentennial celebrations. Starting in the 1840s wealthy Southerners supported more than 30 regional pro-slavery magazines, many pamphlets, newspapers and novels that falsely touted slave ownership as having benefits that would – in today’s lingo – trickle down to benefit non-slave owning whites and even blacks. The flip side of the coin of this old-is-new trickle-down propaganda is the mistaken notion that any gain by blacks in wages, schools or health care comes at the expense of the white working class.Today’s version of this con job no longer supports slavery, but still works in the South and thrives in pro trickle-down think tanks, magazines, newspapers, talk radio and TV news shows such as the Cato Foundation, Reason magazine, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. These sources are underwritten by pro trickle-down one-per-centers like the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch.For example, a map of states that didn’t expand Medicaid – which would actually be a boon mostly to poor whites – resembles a map of the old Confederacy with a few other poor, rural states thrown in. Another indication that this divisive propaganda works on Southern whites came in 2012. Romney and Obama evenly split the white working class in the West, Midwest and Northeast. But in the South we went 2-1 for Romney.


 
Yep



But better’n lettin’ them thar Yankees ahtell us’n whut t’ do.

Of course that’s exactly who is running their party now, a bunch of Yankee billionaires.
 
State law is the reason why UNC can't just get rid of it, so yeah, it's taxpayer money.
 
Yeah, fuck this shit. Glad the interim chancellor who is gunning for the permanent job offered up his thanks right as they sneaked this through. Fuck this place, fuck Guskiewicz, fuck Roper, fuck Folt and Spellings and most who came before them, fuck the BOG. This shit is dirty.

"Dear Carolina Community,

Today the UNC System announced that they have reached a settlement agreement regarding the final disposition of the Confederate Monument. This means Silent Sam will never return to our campus. I offer my deepest appreciation to Interim President Bill Roper, UNC Board of Governors Chair Randy Ramsey and members of the UNC Board of Governors – particularly Darrell Allison, Jim Holmes, Wendy Murphy, Anna Nelson and Bob Rucho – for resolving this matter.

Sincerely,

Kevin M. Guskiewicz
Interim Chancellor"
 
Fuck UNC as a staff, university, and as a motherfucking crew. And if you’re down with UNC, fuck you too.
 
Fuck UNC as a staff, university, and as a motherfucking crew. And if you’re down with UNC, fuck you too.

That's why I fucked Chancellor Guiskiewicz's wife, that appeasing mother fucker!
 
It's just so dirty and shady, from the Legislature, to the BOG, to the System President, to the Chancellor's office, and University Counsel. Tough to stomach.
 
Bob Rucho is on the Board of Governors ? Holy shit !
 
This University/System/State are trash. Cowardly BOG all teleconferenced in to their public meeting today, only to move for it to be closed, refusing to address the Silent Sam payout. Rumors are that the interim chancellor, who has just been sucking up and enabling this shit instead of trying to find any kind of moral standing, will be named permanent chancellor. Fuck this place, bunch of greedy, corrupt cowards.
 
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