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Protesters toppled the Silent Sam Confederate statue on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday night.

The monument was ripped down after 9:15 p.m. Earlier in the evening, protesters covered the statue with tall, gray banners, erecting “an alternative monument” that said, in part, “For a world without white supremacy.”

Protesters were apparently working behind the covering with ropes to bring the statue down, which happened more than two hours into a rally. It fell with a loud clanging sound, and the crowd erupted in cheers....

People rushed to the remains, taking photos and stomping on the monument that had been erected in 1913 with donations from the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The statue has been the focus of protests and vandalism for decades, but especially in the past year. UNC had installed surveillance cameras and spent $390,000 on security around the statue last year.

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Aho Old Guy wrote:

Protesters topple Silent Sam Confederate statue

BDKJMU wrote: Hey, did you hear Manafort pleaded guilty to 8 counts?

Skjellyfetti wrote:

BDKJMU wrote: Hey, did you hear Manafort pleaded guilty to 8 counts?

You're getting your Trump consiglieri confused.

Hard to keep track, I know.

Ibanez wrote:

Skjellyfetti wrote:
You're getting your Trump consiglieri confused.

Hard to keep track, I know.

Hahahahaha. Fucking awesome.


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kalm wrote:

Ibanez wrote: Hahahahaha. **** awesome.


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I keep suggesting to the lad to quit using the dunce emoji...just in case...but does he ever listen? No.

BDKJMU wrote:

kalm wrote:
I keep suggesting to the lad to quit using the dunce emoji...just in case...but does he ever listen? No.

Pled guilty vs found guilty- BFD.
Starting a new thread as if its breaking news on something we’d been been talking about for 2-3 days is

css75 wrote:I think there is a better way of handlings these other than by mob rule.


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. . . What if the Greensboro Four had followed the rule of law and not sat down at that Woolworth’s lunch counter? How much longer would segregation have persisted without that brave act of civil disobedience? What if the crowds had not crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and endured Bloody Sunday? How much slower would civil rights progress be without that insistence on equality?

What if protesters hadn’t boarded ships in the Boston Harbor and thrown chests of tea overboard? What if Susan B. Anthony had respected the rule of law and not voted illegally in the 1872 election?

Mob rule? Mob rule was what happened at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 when black students, even armed with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, were turned back by an angry and violent white mob.

Though their actions carry less significance than those landmark examples, the students who took down Silent Sam on Monday – a statue raised 50 years after the Civil War out of pure and publicly acknowledged racial hatred – are now part of America’s long history of civil disobedience...

Aho Old Guy wrote:

css75 wrote:I think there is a better way of handlings these other than by mob rule.


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Oops . . .
Mob rule at Silent Sam? No, it was something far different

. . . What if the Greensboro Four had followed the rule of law and not sat down at that Woolworth’s lunch counter? How much longer would segregation have persisted without that brave act of civil disobedience? What if the crowds had not crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and endured Bloody Sunday? How much slower would civil rights progress be without that insistence on equality?

What if protesters hadn’t boarded ships in the Boston Harbor and thrown chests of tea overboard? What if Susan B. Anthony had respected the rule of law and not voted illegally in the 1872 election?

Mob rule? Mob rule was what happened at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 when black students, even armed with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, were turned back by an angry and violent white mob.

Though their actions carry less significance than those landmark examples, the students who took down Silent Sam on Monday – a statue raised 50 years after the Civil War out of pure and publicly acknowledged racial hatred – are now part of America’s long history of civil disobedience...

Educational adminicrats dithered, politicians waffled at the NC Generous Assembly, and students at *The University of The People* took initiative. Good for them.

Aho Old Guy wrote:

css75 wrote:I think there is a better way of handlings these other than by mob rule.


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Oops . . .
Mob rule at Silent Sam? No, it was something far different

. . . What if the Greensboro Four had followed the rule of law and not sat down at that Woolworth’s lunch counter? How much longer would segregation have persisted without that brave act of civil disobedience? What if the crowds had not crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and endured Bloody Sunday? How much slower would civil rights progress be without that insistence on equality?

What if protesters hadn’t boarded ships in the Boston Harbor and thrown chests of tea overboard? What if Susan B. Anthony had respected the rule of law and not voted illegally in the 1872 election?

Mob rule? Mob rule was what happened at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 when black students, even armed with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, were turned back by an angry and violent white mob.

Though their actions carry less significance than those landmark examples, the students who took down Silent Sam on Monday – a statue raised 50 years after the Civil War out of pure and publicly acknowledged racial hatred – are now part of America’s long history of civil disobedience...

Educational adminicrats dithered, politicians waffled at the NC Generous Assembly, and students at *The University of The People* took initiative. Good for them.

Aho Old Guy wrote:

css75 wrote:I think there is a better way of handlings these other than by mob rule.


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Oops . . .
Mob rule at Silent Sam? No, it was something far different

. . . What if the Greensboro Four had followed the rule of law and not sat down at that Woolworth’s lunch counter? How much longer would segregation have persisted without that brave act of civil disobedience? What if the crowds had not crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and endured Bloody Sunday? How much slower would civil rights progress be without that insistence on equality?

What if protesters hadn’t boarded ships in the Boston Harbor and thrown chests of tea overboard? What if Susan B. Anthony had respected the rule of law and not voted illegally in the 1872 election?

Mob rule? Mob rule was what happened at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 when black students, even armed with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, were turned back by an angry and violent white mob.

Though their actions carry less significance than those landmark examples, the students who took down Silent Sam on Monday – a statue raised 50 years after the Civil War out of pure and publicly acknowledged racial hatred – are now part of America’s long history of civil disobedience...

Educational adminicrats dithered, politicians waffled at the NC Generous Assembly, and students at *The University of The People* took initiative. Good for them.