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Message
From: kynita Stringer-Stanback [atinyk@ucsb.edu]

Sent: 8/20/2018 11:54:29 PM
To: Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Deep Rooted Alumnist
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Good evening Chancellor Folt,
Today I was doing some research for an article I will be publishing next fall, the working title is, "From Slavery
to College Loans." My article looks at the arc of my ancestral history to my UNC academic career and how that
has shaped my career as a librarian for the past 18 years.
My research today focused particularly on the First Nation Indigenous Communities who were there prior to
Orange County becoming Orange County.
My fiance sent me a text this evening to tell me that Silent Adam had been toppled.
You see, my Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather, November Caldwell was a "gift", from the estate of Helen
Hogg Hooper's first husband.
As such he came with her when she moved to Chapel Hill to become the wife & First Lady, if you will, of
NCU(what they called UNC back then).
I just want you to know as a descendant of November & Rosa, Wilson & Susan, Emma, Bruce & Minnie,
Catherine & Leon, that I stand with the students and you can too.
We are at a point in our nation's history where we can stand up to the white, heteropatriarchal, hegemonic,
supremacy that has infested our global society.
Right now, leaders with the same rhetoric as those who lead our nation, continue to actualize and mobilize
political power the world over. We must stand in the small victories that send positive tides throughout the
nation as well.
I believe that white supremacy is a societal cancer that rots away at the moral fabric of our nation and world
each day. Denigration & dehumanization of people is wrong and it is all right to say so. Most confederate
memorials were placed during reconstruction to intimidate Black political agency in the south.
Put Silent Sam in a museum, but it's time to put him away.
I thank you for your time and attention to this matter. May the good Lord bless you & keep you.
Aluta Continua,
kynita
kynita stringer-stanback
Black Studies & Sociology Librarian
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
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Message
From: Susan Abken
Sent: 8/21/2018 7:13:15 AM
Subject: for Dr. Carol Folt from an former UNC-CH T.A.
Flag: Follow up
Good Morning!
Please pardon She is brave, and a good representative of her generation. I hope you will invite her into
your office for coffee or tea, or take her out to lunch somewhere. I earned an M.A. in German years ago at
UNC-CH. I am thankful for last night's activities. Perhaps Sam could be dragged out to the NC beaches
somewhere and lots of waves could wash over him on his side, or perhaps he could be buried at sea in silence.
Maybe the art department could design a new, replacement statue, one with hope for a peaceful future, on top of
and to put the sad history of slavery and racism into place, or the pedestal could go out to sea, too.
Sincerely yours,
Susan Abken
Message
From: Hugh Deaner
Sent: 8/21/2018 7:48:49 AM
Subject: Alumnus supports removal of Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Dr. Folt,
I received my masters degrees in regional planning and business administration from UNC Chapel Hill in 1996.
Acknowledging we could quibble over the methods of students who toppled the Silent Sam statue, I hope we
can agree it should *never* be reinstalled. In the strongest terms I implore you *not* to re-erect this monument,
which always reflected the white supremacy of its sponsors and in the present day threatens public safety.
To my mind, the only exception would be ifUNC Chapel Hill were to dedicate a museum to its racist past, then
Silent Sam might serve as a useful exhibit.
Thank you and best regards,

Hugh Deaner
Message
From: Don Baker
Sent: 8/21/2018 8:41:09 AM
Subject: FW: Stature destruction
Flag: Follow up
From: Don Baker

Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 8:40 AM
To: 'president@northcarolina.edu'
Subject: Stature destruction
Mrs. Spelling, My name is Donald Baker I live in Youngsville NC. I sent two of my children to UNC Chapel Hill and the
both have degrees from you university and I am very proud of them both and up to last night was proud of your and my
university. To see part of it destroyed as I did on TV should not be tolerated. When I think of all the hard earned money
that I have spent with this university it really makes me mad. I hope that you will do you very best to prosecute the ones
responsible for this destruction and return the property as it was, in other words replace the stature to its original shape
before last night. I have always been proud to tell people that two of my children graduated from Carolina, but today I
am ashamed to say that. Please help to restore the university that I paid for my children to attend so I can again be
proud to tell people that my children went there.
Thank you for your time,
Donald Baker
Message
From: Dibbert, Debbie [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: FW: Idea to forward to Carol Folt
Flag: Follow up
From: Parker, Rob

To: Routh, David S ; Dibbert, Debbie
Subject: FW: Idea to forward to Carol Falt
From:
Date: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 8:08 AM
To: Rob Parker <rjparker@emaiLune,edu>
Subject: Idea to forward to Carol Falt
Rob:
I don't have Carol's email, but wanted to give her an idea without editorializing.
She's faced with ah hard decision about 'what to do now?'. Here's an outside of the box idea:
Leave the statue in place, vandalized, as a statement about intolerance. Just that simple. Let people define it how they will, but the
statue can remain a stimulant of dialof:,'Ue on many fronts. If you put it up again, you run the risk of a repeat performance. If you tal<:e it
down, you cave to those who say they have the right unilaterally to determine what stays and goes in a public institution. As the Chair
of an Art Museum, I have to say I have strong views on the destruction of art for any reason....
Would you mind forwarding this to her? No reply to me of any sort is necessary.
Best,
Jim Alexandre
Message
From: Monica Eiland
Sent: 8/21/2018 9:29:55 AM
To: Dibbert, Douglas Steven [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =365d96a2f3d94d5eb948d4c lc9d7668f-Douglas Ste]; Chancellor
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Subject: Why is it so hard to say goodbye to Silent Sam?
Flag: Follow up
Dear Mr. Dibbert and Dr. Folt,
In my first waking moments this morning I heard on the radio the jubilant hoots of folks pulling Silent Sam
down from his pedestal and felt a certain misplaced wistfulness alongside my pride. We've all known for a long
time what an awkward issue he represented, but for whatever reason, no one could seem to get around to doing
anything about him until this admixture of the current inhabitants took matters into their own hands. So now
that the protesters have done the hard thing by pulling Sam off his pedestal, I suggest the university do what it
does best, put on its thinking cap, and come up with a thoughtful solution to this problem that does not involve
expelling and firing people for taking a stand. In this letter I'll make my own suggestions.
I'll preface this by saying that I know the complexity of the issue (for white people at least). Some of my
forebears go back to the 1600's in North Carolina; I was born and raised in North Carolina; and I got my start in
adult life at UNC before setting off into the wider world. We have all kinds of people in my bloodline, including
willing and unwilling conscripts to the Confederate Army and the near-obligatory one drop of blood from
Africa. In the little NC town where I spent most of my childhood, we had our own version of Silent Sam in the
town square and de facto segregation in our living arrangements, which my parents used quietly for our own
teachable moments. Although a favorite phrase in the area where I grew up between parents and children was
"Let's not be ugly," it seems strange that for so long it was possible to ignore the existence of this huge statue
memorializing being on the wrong side of a gut-wrenching war. Why is it so hard to let go of these hurtful
monuments? Why shouldn't we melt them all down? Is it on account of how much money and artistry was
spent on them, or do we actually believe that the South was a better place with slavery? Do we feel chastised for
something we believe we personally had no part in (though we've benefited)? Do we have an emotional
attachment to the past, whatever it is, or to specific long-dead relatives lost in the fray? Do we need to feel we
haven't just swept everything under the rug? But I digress.
At Chapel Hill we are big on sculpture gardens and quiet contemplation and context. Now that Sam is off his
pedestal, I suggest we move him to some quiet corner with room for two statues and a bench, maybe
somewhere near the Southern Historical Collection. Maybe some folks could take a little "time out" over there
and think seriously about that question "Who [did] it hurt?" to keep Sam in his old place (though numerous
members of the student body and faculty have been answering that for quite some time). Sam should stand at
ground level with the rest of us, accompanied by a plaque explaining a bit about his history, his new scars
intact. Consider, if he had been taken down when people started asking nicely, he might not be looking so
bedraggled now, and protesters wouldn't have had to risk life and limb to pull him down on their own (and
consider, that was their own adult choice to take that risk). Maybe Sam could share his space with a statue of an
African family - father, mother, child - in the process of escaping their bondage on the underground railroad.
Or perhaps we shouldn't make them hide their heroism alongside the banished Silent Sam at all, but give them
his old place on the quad. Giving this decision over to the Black Student Movement and faculty seems like the
right thing to do. I'll bet if every alum sent in $20, we could do this with minimal financial pain to any one
party.
And what about that big, empty pedestal on the quad now? There's the BSM option. Or perhaps a place for
some World War II hero? My eleven-year-old son suggests an inanimate object such as a rocket, or a book, or a
vote by all students (might make a fun campus-wide contest to lighten up the proceedings).
Or maybe we should leave it empty, waiting for another hero worthy of the whole university. Maybe every
student who enters should clamber up there and consider: What makes a hero worthy to stand above that quad
for everybody?
Best regards,
Dr. Monica M. Eiland, PhD ('95)

Message
From: Judy Edwards
Sent: 8/21/2018 9:54:44 AM
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(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/en=Recipients/en=9cebb5b9571a4744be32a1024bda3604-Winston BC]; Payne, Christopher A
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Subject: FW: Silent Sam Buddy Bench
Attachments: Silent Sam Buddy Bench.pdf
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In light of last night's events, our Buddy Bench suggestion is more relevant than ever.
I do hope we have the opportunity to meet and propose a means to have peaceful discussions.
Sincerely,
James Edwards (UNC MBA 2007) and Judith Hagopian-Edwards
From: Judy Edwards

Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 11:31 AM
To: chancellor@unc.edu; wbcrisp@email.unc.edu
Subject: Silent Sam Buddy Bench
Please see attached letter
Sincerely,
Judy Hagopian-Edwards
Judy Hagopian-Edwards
8/12/2018
Dear Chance llor Folt and Vice Chancellor Crisp,
I would like to meet with you to propose a solution to the Silent Sam situation. Have you
heard of the Buddy Bench? The benches are placed in playgrounds al! over the country.
My husband and I would like to donate 2 Buddy Benches to be placed by the Silent Sam
statue.
The purpose is simple. Instead of defacing the statue, encourage stude nts to sit on the
benches with those who may have opposing views and ta lk. Even t hough the ind ividuals
may never agree, they can learn to listen and try and understand the other persons
point of view. The key is to live and coexist and most importantly respect one another.
! don't think removing the statue solves anything but ignoring the feelings of those who
fee! so strongly about the past needs to be addressed.
As an Armenian-American, my parents and grandparents often reminded me of the

Armenian Genocide. ! have learned ; Forgiveness is not only a gift to the perpetrator; it
is also a gift to the one who forgives.
We look forward to the opportunity to meet with you.
Sincerely,
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Message
From: Anthony Bruno
Sent: 8/21/2018 10:31:11 AM
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ cn=Recip ients/en =34be32522a4549bcb309fddad4de 78 la-south_chan c]; Terry Stoops
[tstoops@johnlocke.org]; Terry Weigers Trey Baldwin
Subject: What does removing 'Silent Sam' really mean?
Flag: Follow up
'Silent Sam' had stood silent for over 100 years, quietly observing
ten decades
of academic successes, including the historic acceptance of Black
students
more than fifty years ago!
Yet, such accomplishments are meaningless to those that find

displeasure
in every direction, and this statue is the latest, no matter the reason
it was
erected in 1913, a memorial to the nearly 300,000 men and boys
that lost
their lives in battle, a deserving remembrance, especially a 'silent
one'.
The University of North Carolina and its board of governors may

breath
a collective shy of relief, believing this will bring calm; it will not!
They
are mistaken to believe with 'Silent Sam' taken down protests with
end.
The students and others that cheered last night will not be cheering
today,
their pleasure will be short lived, their 'work' not done. One
tumbled statue
will not fill the desire for as many "pounds of flesh" they can gather.
This tyrannical behavior will continue until confronted by leaders
with
spines, not weakness as seen from university officials here and
across
the country.
The removal of 'Silent Sam' will not sooth those filled with this
feigned
outrage or end of similar demands on UNC and others schools
where
organized student groups ferret out even the slightest hint of
anything
that disturbs them, intent to weaken institutional structure, a goal
universities leaders have yet to grasp.
With 'Silent Sam' gone, what he represented should not be

forgotten,
the sacrifice of so many.
A memorial should be erected, fitting for lives given. Whether the

school has the courage is a question I cannot answer.
Regards,
Anthony Bruno
Cary,NC
Message
From: Mitch
Sent: 8/21/2018 10:31:47 AM
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president@northcaro lina.edu
Subject: Sale of Silent Sam
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Dear Chancellor Holt and President Spellings,
I would like to purchase the remains of Silent Sam . Who should I contact about this possibility?
Thank you,
Mitch Parker
Message
From: Ted Leger
Sent: 8/21/2018 12:45:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam - offer to relocate to my farm
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Falt,
My name is Ted Leger and I own a small farm in rural Southwest Virginia.
I am contacting you to propose a solution to relocating Silent Sam.
You are more than welcome to transport the statue to my farm in Tannersville, VA.
I have a beautiful ninety acre farm nestled in the valley of Tannersville.
I have ten acres still in hay, and I would rather put those ten acres to better use.
This is a legitimate offer. We can work out the details.
I would love to turn my ten acres into a park that allow people to come and see the old confederate statues and
monuments, if they desired.
Why not start with Silent Sam. It seems appropriate.
Feel free to contact me at
Sent from Mai l for Windows 10

Message
From:
Sent: 8/21/2018 12:45:35 PM
CC: UNC Families [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor Folt:
As a UNC alum (M.A. '88, Ph.D. '93), a historian chairing an academic department at a sister institution, and
lastly I write to express my sympathy with your office's almost impossible
situation in addressing the issue of Silent Sam--an issue that took a precipitous turn last night with the toppling
of the statue. Besieged by faculty and students on one side and by the UNC BOG and right-wing alumni and
legislators on the other, either option legally open to UNC (i.e., the removal of the statue to a museum or letting
it remain in its location) would have engendered strong opposition. I take your communique reacting to last
night's events in that spirit.
That said--and also recognizing the unlawful nature of what transpired last night--I do want to express my
strong elation at the statue being gone and hope that it will now be moved to an indoor location where it can be
properly contextualized and will also not cause any further harm to the campus community. and especially the
African-American students and faculty who had to endure the statue all of these years. Silent Sam was already a
divisive issue in the 1980s when I first enrolled at Carolina, and the statue should have and could have removed
long before the politics of this state took a sharp rightward tum some 8 years ago. Like Rosa Parks, the
protesters realized that lawful action could not achieve justice, and they took matters in their own hands. As you
confront irate descendants of Confederates threatening to withhold their donations, please know that tens of
thousands of alumni (and in all likelihood, a majority) feel very differently.
I'm proud to be a Tar Heel today.
Best wishes,
Message
From: william@walkercsi.com [william@walkercsi.com]
Sent: 8/21/2018 2:23:24 PM
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Subject: Recommended solution for Silent Sam
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Dear Dr. Folt:
My name is William Walker. I am a former US Army officer and a graduate of UNC-CH '84.
I would like to make a recommendation that would quite possibly make all concerned parties satisfied with the presence
(or not) of Silent Sam.
May I suggest that UNC-CH replace Silent Sam with a statue representing all UNC students (male, female, black, white
and other) who fought and died in all US wars from the Civil War to the present era.
I could easily see this as a solution to other cities and universities that are experiencing similar problem.
I would personally love to see two figures from the Civil War one North and the other South in a fraternal embrace.
If this idea is appealing to you and the board, I personally know a world class sculpture, Blair Buswell
https://www.b1airbuswe1Lcom/monuments-1 whose work includes dozens of pieces for the NFL hall of Fame, Oscar
Robertson, Charlton Heston, Mickey Mantle, Jack Nicklaus, John Wooden and dozens of others, who may also be
interested in solving this problem for UNC-CH.
I love my alma mater, and do not want to see the University torn apart by this issue.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Respectfully,
William G. Walker
President
The Walker Consulting Group
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Waxhaw, NC 28173
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www.walkerCSl.com
Message
From: Ev Dove
Sent: 8/21/2018 2:47:54 PM
CC: margaret.spellings@unc.edu
Subject: Next Step
Flag: Follow up
The Sad Silent Sam Saga needs to end.

UNC is so much more than how we are being painted with this media attention.
Please take steps to have charges and honor court hearings dismissed against the doctoral student,
move the statue to Ackland museum, and let this sad, sad, sad issue end.
Kind regards,
Evelyn Dove
1st black UNG-Chapel Hill Student Body Secretary
Message
From: E. Anise Simon
Sent: 8/21/2018 9:53:48 PM
CC: Hertel, Amy Locklear [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: In support of student organizers
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Dear Chancellor Folt,
I hope this email finds you well. I am an alumni of UNC Chapel Hill & the former Chair of a UNC student
organization. Until recently, I was a community member and board member of several local organizations
supporting women's health and racial justice in the Triangle area.
I am also a person of color who had to walk past Silent Sam regularly while I was attending classes. North
Carolina slave owners and Jim Crowe supporters physically, sexually, and emotionally abused the ancestors of
the many in-state Black students on campus. The presence of Confederate memorials are harmful to the mental
wellbeing ofUNC's Black students. I am in support of the students who removed the statue in a non violent
way.
As a regular donor to the university and an engaged alumni, I am disappointed to hear about how many
resources have been spent protecting this racist monument and condemning the student organizers who
removed the statue.
I sincerely hope the university will use this opportunity to donate the statue to a Civil War museum, and
lead a conversation about how institutions of higher learning can confront racism within our communities.
We are at an important moment in our nation's racial history. Will you speak out against the supporters of
slave owners? Will you join me in supporting compassion and restorative justice for the organizers of
yesterday's protest?
Sincerely,
Anise
E. Anise Simon
UNC Class of 2011
E. Anise Simon
Pronouns: she/they
Message
From: Eddie Small [ESmall@palmharbor.com]
Sent: 8/22/2018 9:50:04 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Monument
Dr. Folt,
I writing to you in reference to the shameful act of the tearing down of a Historical monument. This is
sickening to me.
The reason I am wr1t1ng is because I am interested in buying the statue, preserving it as the incredible
piece of history that it is, and continue to show it off without it ever being vandalized again.
I am asking you at this time what the plan is to do with the statue? If it is to be destroyed I am
willing to stop this with a check to the University. I will pick it up, move it, do everything myself.
The University will have no obligation whatsoever, other than to accept the check to the University.
I would appreciate a call back, I am sure you are slammed fielding calls and emails, but I would still
appreciate a call or an email as to whether this is a possibility.
Please get back to me as soon as possible. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
Eddie Small
Message
From: James Spraker
Sent: 8/22/2018 10:20:43 AM
Subject: Fw: Please forward to Frank J. Ciri llo
Flag: Follow up

I am forwarding you a message I wrote in hast to Mr. Frank Cirillo, who justifies the vandalism that occurred at UNC.
I received part of my education at UNC, and my family has roots that go far back in North Carolina . My thoughts are with
you at a time when wisdom appears to be in short supply.
I am in favor, under the circumstances, of relocating the memorial monuments in the South to cemeteries, where they
would be in a venue more in keeping with their original purpose. Perhaps that could be one option to consider for Silent
Sam (in Wythe County, VA, where I live, our monument was placed placed in our town cemetery. We have had virtually
no controversy as a result)
Respectfully,
Jim Spraker
----- Forwarded Message-----
From: James Spraker
To: communications@nyhistory.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018, 10:08:28 AM EDT
Subject: Please forward to Frank J. Cirillo
Dear Mr. Cirillo,

I read with interest and consternation your article expressing your opinion on why protesters were justified in vandalizing a
Confederate monument at UNC Chapel Hill.
I received part of my education at Chapel Hill, and I am not only familiar with the statue but with the controversy
surrounding it.
There were several errors in your article.
First, Silent Sam is not a mass produced statue of an "anonymous" soldier. The statue was sculpted by Canadian artist
John A. Wilson. It was paid for by alumni and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who funded many memorial
statues in the South.
Let me tell you about my background. My great-great grandfather, Jonas Spraker, was one of the casualties of a war that
claimed every male of age in his family. Many Germans in Wythe County, Virginia, were anti-slavery, and the Sprakers
were among that group. Contrary to your generalization that slavery gave a white underclass dignity, my non-slave-
holding German ancestors were among the more affluent of the Germans who settled in the western part of our county.
The war also took the life of all but one of my Great-grandmother Susan Caroline Lane's brothers who were old enough to
enlist. Her brothers were Tennesseans who fought for the Union (the eldest is buried at Andersonville). My great-
grandmother, whose family were unionists, married the son of Jonas Spraker. I mourn for both sides, and my family is to
this day affected by the after-shocks of the conflict in which both sides of my family took part. You, Mr. Cirillo , are a typical
revisionist who lumps everyone into a comfortable block, the better to condemn them as a whole. The latest to do this is
our president; others have been Hitler and Stalin.
The fact is, Mr. Cirillo, that the primary objective of the statues you malign was to memorialize young human beings who
lost their lives in a horrible war. These young human beings left mourning parents and siblings, all attempting to make
some sense of the the carnage they had experienced. That goes for both sides .
You are also aware, if you are honest, that the North enriched itself from the institution of slavery while they were at the
same time supplementing injustice by exploiting virtually every vulnerable ethnic minority that had the misfortune to work
in the sweat shops and factories of the industrial hell that existed in the nineteenth century. I would be remiss if I did not
remind you of the genocide perpetrated by the Federal army on Native Americans, Mexicans, and other "non-acceptable"
minorities under the rationalization of Manifest Destiny. And please read Mr. Carr's speech carefully. I believe that you will
find some mention of the part Northern universities took in the war. You will rationalize, of course; but facts are facts. It is
time that the North begins to accept responsibilty for its role in the history and perpetuation of racism through, among
other things, unequal educational opportunities and deplorable housing and to desist from deflecting blame solely on the
South. Your self-righteous hypocrisy is getting very, very old.
I hope with all my heart that the memorials to Confederate soldiers will be relocated to cemeteries; the vandalism of these
monuments is tantamount to the desecration of graves, and the perpetrators of these actions should be subject to
prosecution to the fullest extent of the law.
Message
From:
Sent: 8/22/2018 3:41:13 PM
Subject: Idea
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Folt: First thank you for your service to our great University. You have done a remarkable job during
some difficult times, and I am grateful as an alumnus ('84), for your
outstanding work leading our University.
I'm sure your inbox is cluttered with suggestions and advice on how to handle the current situation with Silent
Sam, so I am reluctantly offering another suggestion at the risk of further cluttering it. Once the dust settles
with respect to what happens to the monument, if there comes a time for the statue to be replaced, perhaps a
statue of Dean Smith might take its place. Coach Smith helped desegregate ACC sports, and as you know,
was instrumental in efforts to desegregate Chapel Hill. On top of that, he is nearly universally revered by UNC
alumni and presumably a statue of him would be accepted, if not welcomed, by the University community, if,
for nothing else, than for his legendary career as a basketball coach.
I don't envy your having to manage this delicate situation, but I am so impressed by your even and steady
hand, so I know you will navigate the course well.
On a personal note, and as a quick aside, I spent some great times in your home in Chapel Hill. Watts Hill and
his family were great family friends, and I actually lived in one of the small homes on your hill as a senior,
thanks to Mr. Hill's kindness. I hope to get the chance to meet you in the coming years as we travel to Chapel
Hill even more now
Again, thanks for your service and best regards.

Message
From: Scott Aycock
Sent: 8/22/2018 6:16:31 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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I am a Chapel Hill native and a UNC-CH alum. I grew up with Silent Sam at the center of my community and
my university, and had generally positive feelings about the statue.
That is, until I learned more about what the statue stood for and read the awful dedication speech by Julian Carr.
Further, I have been spending a lot of time lately working to better understand what it would be like to be a
person of color in our society, in general but also specifically regarding the issue of Confederate war memorials
and the Jim Crow environment in which many of them were placed. It seems that they were indeed about
celebrating history but also about making sure that everyone understood the order of things in the South - that
the white race was and remained dominant.
So, I'm personally more than willing to let Silent Sam go. It's just about the least thing we can do to make UNC-
CH feel more inclusive and safe for everyone. I urge you to resist the calls to put Silent Sam back. He belongs
ma museum.
On another note, I think Dean Smith would be a nice statue.
Scott Aycock, class of '93

Message
From: Catelyn Spencer
Sent: 8/22/2018 9:12:48 PM
CC: public@bog.northcarolina.edu; president@northcarolina .edu; haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com;
Thom@goolsbylaw.com
Subject: The long awaited end of Silent Sam
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I write as an alumna to say that students and community members did Monday night something that should
have been done years ago. Silent Sam was a shameful symbol that made students at best roll their eyes, at worst
feel unwanted and unwelcome in the Carolina Community. With UNC leadership failing for decades to do
anything about the statue, I'm proud to see these young Tar Heels take action to remove it.
Thank you in advance for helping new students acknowledge and move past the racist history of our state and
our nation. I am grateful that the statue is gone, and that the Carolina blue sky can shine on the quad
uninhibited. Perhaps a new monument acknowledging Dean Smith's contributions to desegregate Chapel Hill
would be an appropriate and beloved replacement.
Sincerely,
Catelyn Spencer, '05
Message
From: JillPainter
Sent: 8/22/2018 11:24:50 PM
Subject: Do Not Replace the Statue
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Dear Dr. Folt,

As a UNC-CH graduate, I implore you to let silent Sam move on to another resting place.
I was disappointed that the statue came down in the manner in which it did and would have rather had it
removed officially by the University. But it's down and it needs to stay down.
The dedication speech of Julian Carr is despicable and our University needs to rebuke THAT literal hate
speech in a strong and irrefutable manner.
I've read many comments the past couple of days regarding silent Sam's fall and so many of the ones who
are angry about the statue being removed are at best crude and at worst racist and violent. I'm appalled
at the ugliness that has come to the surface and I urge you to do the right thing. Put Sam in a museum
and tell his true story. Stand up against the evil of racism. I hope you, Carolina and all of us will be
able to be proud of this tale when it's told to future Carolina students.
Respectfully,
Jill Painter
Asheboro, NC
Journalism/Advertising '86
Message
From: Steve Martin
Sent: 8/23/2018 12:32:23 PM
To: Hertel, Amy Locklear [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ cn=Recip ients/en =92d8a 7a8 722f4 7 cfa35 ld3f9def5093 7-Amy Locklea]; Chancellor
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=34be32522a4549bcb309fddad4de781a-south_chanc]; Canady, Joseph R
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=3c1281d74 7c444c08 lf833b0fec9944f-M r Joseph R]
Subject: NC Citizen request regarding Silent Sam and protests
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Dr. Folt, Dr. Hertel, Mr. Canady;

As a 66 year citizen (Caucasian) and
taxpayer in NC, I'm asking that you:
. dismiss criminal charges against
for her April protest,
and any protesters identified who
took down Silent Sam this week.
These people acted only after
insufficient action was taken by
the University and the NC
Legislature to address the issue. In
fact, the legislature doubled down
in 2015 to block attempts to
redress real concerns of many
citizens and students who asked
for removal of Confederate
memorials which were primarily
intended to send a message of
suppression, and to glorify a war
intended to keep an entire race in
slavery .
. If you can influence the Honor
Court, I think that
appearance/charge to
should be dismissed as well .
. Do not re-erect the monument, or
at least transfer it into a museum
atmosphere. The predominant,
then-contemporary intent of the
monument was to celebrate the
attempt to continue/protect the
institution of slavery and failing
that, to suppress Black citizens.
This clear awareness continues
today and impacts all races,
obviously African Americans
being the most affected .
. Perhaps a monument to this
terrible time should go in its place
that more broadly memorializes
the impact and lives lost from the
Civil War, understanding that the
real span of time and impact
begins on colonization, including
the impact on Native Americans
as well as other groups, and which
continues to this day. The dead
can be honored, and responsibility
placed on all the contributors to
this conflict. (An interesting
juxtaposition is the dilemma in
Germany to remember their WWII
dead, while not glorifying Nazism:
http://www.spiegel.de/intemationa
1/germany/for-whom-the-bell-
tolls-nazi-memorial-embarrasses-
german-community-a-
800003 .html In this case, a
governor steps in proactively to
get rid of the offensive aspects of
a memorial)
North Carolina's own Department of Cultural and
Natural Resources website clearly documents that the
cause of the Civil War resulted primarily from decades
of political and physical conflict over slavery in the
Southern states and subsequently, new territories.
Arguments otherwise are intentionally misleading.
https ://civilwarexperience .ncdcr. gov/narrative/narrative
-1.htm
Thank you,
Steve Martin
Charlotte
Message
From: Stephen Deal [sdeal@carolinadigestive.com]
Sent: 8/23/2018 9:10:56 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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Dear Chancellor Falt,
As a UNC alumnus 1982 and 1986, I feel obligated to express my great disappointment at the event earlier this
week. The very nature of war means there are two vastly different opinions that led to hate and division. That
certainly is true for the wars of my lifetime (Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan) and it is certainly true for every
war between the Civil War and Vietnam. UNC students fought and died for their beliefs in every war since the
Civil and probably even before that. Perhaps a solution to this dilemma is to create monuments to UNC
students who fought and died during EACH of the major wars and conflicts. List their names on the side and
let's honor our classmates who made the ultimate sacrifice for their strong held beliefs. Ultimately these could
be located in the same area where Silent Sam once stood alone, but it would more appropriately recognize all
of our students.
There will always be some who want to silence those with whom they disagree. It seems more appropriate to
keep the focus on UNC students and not simply those from the Civil War.
Best of luck in this challenge.
Respectfu Ily,
Stephen E. Deal MD '82 & '86

Message
From: Eddie Small [ESmall@palmharbor.com]
Sent: 8/24/2018 8:30:40 AM
Subject: RE: Silent Sam Monument
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Please respond ....

Eddie Small
Internet sales Manager
Palm Harbor Homes
-----original Message-----
From: Eddie Small
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 9:54 AM
To: 'chancellor@unc.edu' <chancellor@unc.edu>
subject: RE: silent Sam Monument
Please respond ...
Eddie Small
Internet sales Manager
Palm Harbor Homes
From: Eddie Small
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 9:50 AM
To: 'chancellor@unc.edu' <chancellor@unc.edu>
subject: silent Sam Monument
Dr. Folt,
I am writing to you in reference to the shameful act of the tearing down of a Historical monument. This
is sickening to me.
The reason I am writing is because I am interested in buying the statue, preserving it as the incredible
piece of history that it is, and continue to show it off without it ever being vandalized again.
I am asking you at this time what the plan is to do with the statue? If it is to be destroyed I am
willing to stop this with a check to the University. I will pick it up, move it, do everything myself.
The University will have no obligation whatsoever, other than to accept the check to the University.
I would appreciate a call back, I am sure you are slammed fielding calls and emails, but I would still
appreciate a call or an email as to whether this is a possibility.
Please get back to me as soon as possible. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
Eddie Small
Message
From: Harper, Elizabeth (Beth)
Sent: 8/24/2018 3:54:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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As a Carolina alumna (M.A. 1975), I want to express my support for you and the university. You are in an
impossible position.
I remember walking past Silent Sam when I was a student and just shaking my head at the idea that a symbol of
hate and divisiveness had such a prominent place on campus. I grew up in the rural South and Confederate
statues were nothing new to me, but to have one on a University campus was incomprehensible to me. It still is.
I can't imagine the pain experienced by African American faculty, staff, and students over the years when they
had to walk past that statue.
When I saw the news articles about the statue's being toppled, my mind flashed back to film of protestors
bringing down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. As a Virginian, I can only say, Sic semper tyrannis!
If it's necessary to preserve Silent Sam, it should be placed in a museum with interpretive material to provide
context. Statues are placed in public spaces to honor individuals or ideals. There is nothing to honor here. We
can't forget our history, but we can choose whom and what we honor.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth P. Harper, Ph.D.
Sent from my iPad

Message
From: Mark Smith
Sent: 8/25/2018 12:58:14 PM
Subject: what to do with Sam
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Hi Carol!
Good luck w the whole Silent Sam thing!!
I was wondering whether it would be possible to just give it back to the Daughters of the Confederacy, and let
them find a nice place to put it?
Maybe a private park with all the statues that are around the state capital now??
Hmmm.
At any rate, it seems to me totally logical to reverse the decision of the University to accept the statue in the first
place, since it is now (and was then) an inappropriate emblem for a piece of state property.
All the best,
Mark Smith out in White Cross
Message
From:
Sent: 8/26/2018 7:12:03 AM
Subject: Please Move Silent Sam to Off Campus Location
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chanellor Folt, I have a on campus and regardless of our views or views on the
historical importance of silent Sam his presence is a safety risk for the students and faculty on campus
and for this reason it should be moved to a less inflammatory location. I ask you to stand up for the
safety of the students and staff that live, and are educated, on the campus. Something bad is going to
happen when emotions run this high. A historical and premier institution such as UNC chapel Hill needs
to stand up against the Rules and do what is safe for it's student.
Thank you.
Message
From: Cindy K
Sent: 8/26/2018 9:05:44 AM
Subject: Proposal for the relocation of the Silent Sam statue
Attachments: Not So Silent Sam.docx
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please find attached a proposal for your consideration .
Thank you
'Not So' Silent Sam
The statue of Silent Sam is anything 'but silent'.
It speaks in remembrance of students from UNG-Chapel Hill who died on the fields of
battle. Students turned soldiers who left their campus to fight in the Civil War.
Sons and brothers who surrendered their lives for what they believed in.
This statue speaks also of a time when many suffered and died in the fields of slavery.
Sons and brothers who lost their lives in a daily battle to exist. Who fought as well in
the Civil War surrendering their lives for what they could only hope for.
The campus of UNC today is not the campus of 1913. The doors of this renowned
university are open to a beautifully diverse population of students, entering from all
walks of life and securing the same grasp upon their futures.
In light of this I propose that the statue of Silent Sam be moved to a more appropriate
place than its current location and be installed on the grounds of the Old Chapel Hill
Cemetery.
A place where people come to quietly and reflectively remember the dead. A place
more fitting for this statue, placed upon the burial grounds where lay some of the Civil
War's student casualties.
Here Silent Sam can stand as a sentinel of the past and a memorial of its deaths,
sufferings and loss.
Our past should whisper but our tomorrows should speak of hope.
C.W.
Message
From: Spencer Everett
Sent: 8/26/2018 9:45:14 AM
CC: whargrove@brookspierce .com; ECarter_Voelkel@kenan-flagler.unc.edu;
cpan@uga.edu; forum@newsobserver.com;
McLean_voelkel@kenan-Flagler.unc.edu;
letters@starnewsonline.com;
letters@heraldsun .com
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Chancellor Folt
The statue should be reinstalled, but not on its former pedestal which should be left and preserved as it stands.
Sam should be conspicuously placed in a building frequented by students during the day and locked and secured
at night. The lobby of Wilson Library might be considered.
The vandals who pulled the statue down should be prosecuted in court; fined and/or jailed. Student participants
should be expelled from the University, or at least suspended. The rule of law must be respected and enforced.
To do otherwise will only encourage more unlawful protests and anarchy.
The history of student involvement in the Civil War, the "War of Northern Aggression", should be highlighted.
Student soldiers (like Sam) did not fight to preserve slavery - they fought to protest the unlawful invasion of
their homeland. As an educator it is your responsibility to reveal and publicize historical truth.
Sincerely
H. Spencer Everett, Jr
UNC '60, UVA Law '63
Message
From: Caro l Strickland
Sent: 8/26/2018 12:12:59 PM
Subject: Silent Sam replacement
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Dear chancellor Folt,
I am an alumna of UNC-CH, currently living a few miles away in Efland. I've been expecting for quite a
time that the university would do away with silent Sam in some way. He's extremely objectionable to many
people.
I was sorry that protestors took action on their own, but the university took far too much time to decide
what to do with him. However, it is NOT a good idea to reinstate Sam out there. That would be doubling
down on the insult.
Instead it's time to put Sam in some kind of historical context, maybe in a grouping somewhere MUCH less
public with other objectionable statues. Cities in Eastern Europe have done this, creating quiet spaces
where people could contemplate history's more egregious eras.
Instead of ol' silent Sam, I propose a new statue for that space: Senator Sam. Sam Ervin began as a
supporter of Jim Crow laws but later "converted" to help oust McCarthy and stand up for civil rights
laws. When I was in college, Sen. Sam was on TV every day, presiding at the Watergate hearings. I think
he stands for the great strides NC made in the Twentieth Century and the ability to become a better
person.
In conclusion: please don't put silent Sam back. Consider placing a muc h more positive symbol of society
and the university, like Senator Sam, in his place.
Thank you,
carol A. Strickland
Message
From: Tozzer, Meredith [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=E4C82D17F6094D87904CB0A4AE6D8CE4-MEREDITH TO]
Sent: 8/26/2018 3:06:42 PM
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From: Joe Austin

Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2018 2:56:47 PM
To: Joe Austin; Tozzer, Meredith
Subject: Re: Note from Carol Falt
As a loyal alumnus (AB '73, JD '78), history major, and a Tar Heel through and through the debacle of this past
week breaks my heart. The time has come for a measured and imaginative solution. I think the best idea I have
heard lately was that of Dr. Brundage who proposed to put Silent Sam in a curated space, which certainly aligns
with what I was suggesting over a year ago. I myself still believe that Bentonville is the appropriate place for
this monument and the others which seem to create rancor where they sit instead of thoughtful dialogue. There
needs to be a repository where these civil war monuments can be retired to. I hope that Chancellor Folt will lead
UNC out of the current disgrace and toward a responsible solution that is consistent with the best UNC
traditions.
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From: Joe Austin
Date: Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: Note from Carol Folt
To: Tozzer, Meredith <meredith tozzer(a)unc.edu>
Thank you for your response.
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:53 AM Tozzer, Meredith <meredith tozzer(a),unc.edu> wrote:
Dear Mr. Austin,
Thank you for contacting our office about the Confederate Monument, better known as Silent Sam. I
encourage you to read my recent messages to campus linked b©rn and I1s:1:©, which more fully explain the
situation. I very much appreciate your suggestions, and we continue to explore all options within the law
available to us.
The well-being and safety of the campus community are always our highest priorities, and we are especially
vigilant following the tragic and horrific events in Charlottesville and other demonstrations in the state and
country. If we had the ability to move the statue in the interest of public safety, we would, but the law does
not give us unilateral authority to do so. Last week, the Board of Trustees affirmed the University's obligation
to uphold state law, which requires us to receive permission from the State Historical Commission to move it.
I will not make decisions based on legal ambiguity, and we are seeking clarity from the UNC Board of
Governors about how the law should be applied.
Thank you again for calling.
Sincerely, Carol Folt
Office of the Chancellor
919-962-1365
Message
From: david dasher
Sent: 8/27/2018 6:52:16 AM
Subject: Front porch of our university
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Dear Chancellor Folt
I recently overheard a great idea regarding the space previously occupied by the Silent Sam statue and feel
compelled to share it with you.
As a UNC alum, I owe a great deal to this school. Living in Chapel Hill, it has been heart wrenching following
the story of the Silent Sam statue and the protests around it. That space is the front porch of our university.
Every year, we welcome students of all backgrounds and cultures. We need art that reflects that acceptance.
Unfortunately, we live in a charged political climate. I know that there is no solution that will please all parties.
However, this is a time to show what it means to be a Tar Heel. My friend David Greer, a development officer
for the Morehead Cain scholarship, recently told me that he would like to see a statue of Dean Smith with
Charlie Scott erected at that site. Coach Smith's relationship with Charlie Scott is a powerful demonstration of
the courage to do what is right. Furthermore, basketball has been a uniting force for this school for as long as I
can remember.
This is the time for decisive leadership. Move Silent Sam to a site where it can be properly studied and viewed
as a regrettable monument of our past, and let Coach Smith and Charlie Scott be the first people to greet
students as they start their education.
Thank you for your consideration.
LJ
Message
From: Laura Sell
Sent: 8/27/2018 9:36:05 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Statue
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I am a UNC alum and I strongly believe the statue of Silent Sam should not be returned to a prominent place on
campus. For students' safety and because of the bigotry and hatred the statue represents, I urge you not to
restore it to its former location. If the state legislature requires you to display the statue, I hope you will put it
somewhere less prominent and surround it with contextual information explaining when and why it was first put
up.
I will add that my ancestors fought for the Confederacy, but I do not believe we should celebrate treason or
white supremacy on the campus of North Carolina's great university.
Sincerely,
Laura Sell
MA (History), 1997
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From: Schoonmaker, Nancy Gray [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=B94C9951E6F44FC59E57F99A3B1DDD5B-NANCY GRAY]
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Subject: Silent Sam in context
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The core argument is that Silent Sam was erected in support of Jim Crow, and Julian Carr's dedication speech
made that impossible to deny.
As Fitz Brundage, a noted scholar of memorialization, observed: Silent Sam belongs in in on-campus museum.
Nancy Gray Schoonmaker, Ph.D.

Department of History '10
Message
From: Joy Reeber
Sent: 8/27/2018 10:11:29 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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I urge you to put Silent Sam where it truly belongs - to wit, in a museum where its legacy of white supremacy
can be properly contextualized, and not on a campus that purports to be a welcoming place for all students. I
have never understood why, when the majority of faculty, students, and staff wanted it gone (and the University
had permission to remove it!), it was nonetheless allowed to stay standing. Now that activists have taken action
where University administration refused, the entire community can move forward; a choice to continue looking
backward will be anything but silent about where the priorities of the administration lie.
Very sincerely,
Dr. Joy Reeber

(UNC BA [Classics], 2004)
Message
From: Faye Brandon
Sent: 8/28/2018 8:22:48 AM
Subject: A Proposal for change, George M itche ll, Artist
Attachments: GMitchellto Chancellor.docx
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Chancellor Holt,
Please review the attached documents for a possible solution concerning the Silent Sam controversy.
August 28, 2018
This is a proposal for change.
Due to recent controversies and events on the UNC Campus surrounding the
statue of the Confederate soldier, "Silent Sam" : I would like to offer my
sculpture design entitled, Freedom, as an alternative for change.
i\-1y sculpture is an abstract interpretation of the Statue of Liberty. It was in-

spired by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960' s.
Freedom can become a monument for change, diversity, unity and inclusive-
ness - for all people; no matter your race or ethnicity.
My name is George i\-1itchell. I am an artist/ sculptor, a UNC Alum, Graduate

School, MFA, 1974-75.
My relative was the first Black i\-1iss UNC. Professor Marvin Saltzman, Emeri-
tus, recruited me for the Graduate Program at UNC. Marvin helped to bring
diversity and change to the Art Department; while Coach Dean Smith was
bringing diversity to the Basketball Program with players like Charlie Scott,
Phil Ford, and Michael Jordan.
I was one of the first African-Americans to receive a MF A Degree in Sculp-

ture. I was the first in my family to attend college and I was also the only Afri-
can-American in my graduate class. UNC has done so much for me and my
family. I would like to show my gratitude and appreciation by giving some-
thing back - a monument of freedom!
i\-1y sculpture was done in 1976, while I was living and working as an artist in
New Jersey. "Freedom" was published in a book, Sculpture - Techniques,
Form and Content by Arthur Williams. I also helped construct the iconic life-
size replica of the Brontosaurus located at the Museum of Life and Science,
Durham, North Carolina.
The final project will be cast in metal and will be 6-8 feet in height, placed on
a marble pedestal.
Please make the student body, faculty, alumni and administration aware of this
proposal.
Sincerely,
George I'v1itchell, Artist

Silent Sam vs. Freedom
The choice is yours!
Silent Sam is a monument which represents a dismal past of slavery, embrac-

ing an ideology of racism, hatred, separatism and oppression.
My sculpture is a monument for change. Freedom is more reflective of a mod-

em, futuristic university; which embraces diversity, unity, freedom and inclu-
siveness for all people, no matter your race, gender, creed, or ethnicity.
Chancellor Holt I hope and pray that you will find it in your heart to keep Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.' s dream alive.
I hope your final decision will fall on the right side of history.
I would very much like your support; so that the dream can become a reality.
Please protect my identity. Do not share my address and geographical location

with anyone. This is for my personal safety.
Thank-you!
Sincerely,
George Mitchell, Artist

Message
From: Monica Green [Monica.Green@asu.edu]
Sent: 8/28/2018 11:12:55 AM
Subject: 'Silent Sam'
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I would like to add my name to the list of UNC alums objecting to plans to reinstall the 'Silent Sam' memorial. I have to
confess that I didn't pay much attention to the memorial when I was a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow in 1985-1987.
There was plenty else in the atmosphere then that was still caught in the South of the Reconstruction Era and made me
feel uneasy as a Black woman trying to find a path for myself in academia.
However, 'Silent Sam' has since become the embodiment of a kind of celebration of the antebellum era that is simply no
longer tolerable in today's society. 'Silent Sam' belongs in your museum, as a relic of a terrible period in this country's
history, to be analyzed by historians, not venerated by the general public of North Carolina, this nation, or the world .
Please do the right thing: send 'Silent Sam' where he belongs. In the museum.
Sincerely,
Monica H. Green
ORCI D: orcid.org/0000-0001-8978-9631
Fellow, Medieval Academy of America
Professor of History
School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Box 874302
975 S Myrtle Ave
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
U.S.A.
monica.green@lasu.edu
Message
From: Moye, Todd [Todd.Moye@unt.edu]
Sent: 8/28/2018 11:31:51 AM
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I write to you as a historian of the South and a proud Tar Heel (B.A., 1992). I also consider myself a North
th
Carolinian living outside the state; my ancestors first arrived in NC in the 17 century, and others of them
fought for the Confederacy.
Over the past several years I have watched with dismay as Carolina's leaders failed to listen to those who told
them clearly that Silent Sam was a source of pain, and who warned (accurately, as it turned out) that it would
serve as an organizing symbol for antediluvian racists who continue to cherish the ideals of a society that
fought, killed and died to preserve the institution of slavery. I learned to value free speech at Carolina. I
learned to think historically, to stand up and speak out against racism and its enduring symbols. The activists
who toppled Silent Sam lived the values I began to cherish as a student at Carolina. They deserve our praise. I
know well that you will not offer that praise publicly, but I urge you to use your influence to see that any and
all criminal charges against them are dropped, and I implore you to quash any discussion of returning Silent
Sam to his pedestal. The statue belongs in a museum, if not a trash heap.
Sincerely,
Todd Moye
Director, UNT Oral History Program
University of North Texas
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Message
From: Steve Estes [steve.estes@sonoma.edu]
Sent: 8/28/2018 12:33:53 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam should be moved off campus.
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As a native North Carolinian, UNC alum, university donor, and as a professor of southern history, I oppose the
move to put the confederate soldier monument known as "Silent Sam" back on its pedestal at UNC. The
student protests that tore down the statue may have been unwise, but they were the culmination of years of
more moderate protests (like ones that I participated in when I was a student).
Have the courage to place Silent Sam where he belongs, in a museum off campus with an explanation of both
the history of North Carolina's role in the Confederacy and the politics surrounding the commemoration of
that period of our state's past.
Sincerely,
Steve
Steve Estes, Professor

History Department, Sonoma State University
1801 E. Cotati A ve. Rohnert Park, CA 94928
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Message
From: Lynne Hicks
Sent: 8/28/2018 6:34:56 PM
To: Chancellor [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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I am wr1t1ng in support of not returning silent Sam to its prominent position on Mccorkle Place. I am in
favor of placing it inside a museum with supporting documents of its history. I am writing on behalf of
my family, who have a long legacy at UNC beginning with my father-in-law, a graduate of the early 40's.
My husband Charles H Hicks, MD, FACC is an associate Professor of Medicine at UNC. (He is too busy
teaching and working at UNC to write a letter.) He was an undergraduate at UNC during the tumultuous
late 60's and was Roy William's teammate. He is also a UNC medical graduate, '72. He also teaches
cardiology for the UNC physician assistants program. Both of my sons are UNC graduates and residents of
this community with my younger son working tirelessly for social justice issues, proud lessons he learned
as a student here.
I feel as long as silent Sam stays on top of the pedestal, for all the world to see, there will be
continued conflicts and safety issues, all of which drain time, resources and energy for UNC and the
surrounding communities. silent Sam has held it's place on the ground at UNC for 100 years. We are in a
new era, like the Berlin wall falling, it's time to move on to more optimism and hope for the future
generations. We can become good stewards for positivity, not hate. Imagine, the OLD Well and the grand
oak trees as the focal points at Mccorkle place, gracing UNC and chapel Hill.
I copied Linda Convissor because she knows me as a resident and homeowner in the historic Cameron-
McCauley neighborhood, adjacent to the university. Also, please cc Thom Goolsby, president of UNC board
of directors. I read his statement regarding silent Sam. I also know of attorney Goolsby, as we resided
in the Wilmington area for 15 years.
Thank you for your time in reading this letter. I took the time to write it and let you know of our
connections here at UNC. I know my husband loves UNC and works tirelessly there. I also feel that the
majority of the people want silent Sam to be placed in a protected facility, where it can be visited and
studied. I understand all the controversy surrounding its takedown. As a daughter of a policeman,
mayor, and member of the PA state house of representatives, I have witnessed my father endure many
adversities. Hopefully, the right decisions will be made so that we can peaceably move forward.
Respectfully yours,
Lynne K Hicks
chapel Hill citizen
Message
From: JOHN T CHRISTINE
Sent: 8/28/2018 9:49:07 PM
Subject: Re: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Your were kind and thoughtful enough to respond to my letter, but I didn't write back knowing you had
enough on your plate and not in need of another letter. I was however, very, very appreciative.
Here you are, still struggling with this issue and I've been thinking for some time of an idea. Would it be
possible to simply rededicate the statue, since the resistance was (at least initially) was with the racist who
commissioned it?
He is still a soldier and Lord knows we celebrate a multitude of heros who were far from perfect.
If we don't somehow change what is happening in this country, there will be few statues left.
My heart goes out to you and all you have to deal with.
Sincerely,
John T. Christine
From: Chancellor
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 11:10 AM
To:
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Mr. Christine,
Thank you for your thoughtful message about the Confederate Statue. I also appreciated your thoughts about service to
our nation as Carolina's 200-plus year history is deeply entwined with public service and support of our nation's armed
services and veterans. In fact, William Davie, who was a general in the Continental Army, founded Carolina in 1789.
Carolina's history is deeply personal to many in our community and state, and the current debate about that
Confederate Statue reflects a wide range of viewpoints. Back in 2015, I appointed a task force on UNC-Chapel Hill history
to make recommendations around implementing curation and education initiatives to tell all of Carolina's history. Last
year, the task force opened a permanent exhibit in the entrance of Carolina Hall and launched a companion website.
Now, the task force is developing a comprehensive interpretive strategy for Mccorkle Place that will include
recommendations for a mix of physical and virtual curation techniques with temporary and permanent art projects.
I guarantee that Carolina will always honor those who served our nation and continue to develop programs that support
active duty personnel and veterans. Thank you again for your thoughtful message about those who wear the uniform
and serve in defense of the United States of America.
Sincerely,
Carol Falt
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Hello Chancellor Falt,
While I suspect the great majority of campus would like Silent Sam to disappear forever, it is doubtful the more
conservative element of the NC power structure will allow that to happen. As a compromise, may I suggest the
following:
1. Find a room inside Morehead Planetarium and dedicate it to 'North Carolina and the Civil War' or 'UNC and the
Civil War'.
2. Place Silent Sam prominently on permanent display in this room.
3. Decorate the room with displays that tout how the University was affected by the Civil War, how NC was
impacted by the Civil War (before, during and after), etc.
Given the huge number of school children who come to the Planetarium each year, I suspect Silent Sam will get far more
exposure, and better advance the University's mission to educate, being on display inside the Planetarium than outside
on Mccorkle Place. The liberal element tugging at your coat sleeves should be modified, in that Silent Sam is in a
museum, in context, where such statues should be. The conservative element tugging at your coat sleeves should be
modified, in that Silent Sam remains on prominent display in a high-traffic area of campus. I realize the Planetarium is a
science building and not a history museum, so if you can think of a better high-traffic building for this statue and display,
by all means pursue that option. I don't think either the Ackland or Wilson Library has the cache the conservative
element seeks for Silent Sam. The Planetarium seems to be the best choice.
I wish you the best of luck between now and mid-November. Yours is a thankless task and no solution will fully satisfy
everyone.
Joel Harper
Account Tech
Finance and Research Service Center
ioel harper@med.unc.edu
UNC School of Medicine

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From: linda.little
Sent: 8/29/2018 3:04:03 PM
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Dear carol,
Here's an idea about what to do about silent Sam.
It could even be a sort of giant kiosk, maybe with bullet proof glass or lucite!
Been thinking about this a lot--you hang in there!
Linda
Message
From: linda.little
Sent: 7/31/2018 9:14:06 AM
To: forum@newsobserver.com
Subject: Silent Sam
so silent Sam can't be moved? How about constructing a small museum around it, showing its history not
only as an anti-black symbol but as an anti-female symbol?
I certainly didn't
appreciate the snickers and comments when I walked past Silent Sam!
Linda W. Little
MSPH,1962, and Ph.D. ,1968, Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, UNC school of Public Health
(and therein lie some other stories, too, abo ut "wome n 's place" in those years)
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From: Sandra Rich
Sent: 8/29/2018 7:36:55 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Stephen and I would like to voice our support for moving the statue of Silent Sam to a secure indoor location on
campus with accurate historical information .. .including Julian Carr's dedication remarks .
Regards
Sandra Rich
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From:
Sent: 8/30/2018 8:59:25 AM
Subject: Silent Sam, please consider
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Dear Chancellor Falt, UNC BOG, and UNC Ad min,
the parent of a UNC 2018 graduate, a UNC 1989 alumni, the sister of a
UNC alumni, and the daughter of a UNC School of Education Professor, Eugene Watson, who worked for the
university for 30 years.
I am greatly concerned about the level of deference that has been given to the white supremacy groups with
regard to the Silent Sam Confederate statue. While I don't condone the way in which the statue was brought
down, I do understand the passion with which the protesters gathered in support of inclusion and against
racism. The history of the statue itself includes a grave speech upon the unveiling, during the Jim Crow Era, by
a white supremacist chest thumping about having whipped a black woman for saying something to a "white
Southern lady." This is not what we stand for in Chapel Hill. The idolatry surrounding this cheaply made,
massed produced statue cannot be allowed to be more highly regarded by the University than the inclusive
nature of Chapel Hill. I understand that your credentials when hired to the University were positive and
congratulatory on your own priorities for inclusiveness and interest in equality for minorities.
Now that the statue is down, please consider placing the statue in a museum, erecting a history-balancing
statue beside SS on campus that represents the conclusion of the War of the States, or simply leave as is, with
the concrete foundation in place as a reminder that history is not just in the past, but moving, shaping,
reminding, and hopefully educating.
As a University, we have to represent ALL of the people.
My Best Regards,
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Subject: Please do not reinstate "Silent Sam"
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Dear Chancellor,
I am an alumnus from the nutrition PhD program (2016) and I am highly disappointed that the Board of Trustees is
considering reinstating Silent Sam.
This is a great opportunity to address any past mistakes and be on the right side of history. Consider adding Silent Sam
to a confederate museum, which acknowledges past wrongdoings while also acknowledging that UNC is a honorable
institution.
I'm sure a lot of folks are asking you to return the statue to a prominent location, but I am sure that any negative
repercussions will be temporary and worthwhile.
I have not donated since becoming an alumnus but I assure you that I will if the statue is not reinstated! That is an
honest promise.
Best,
Pasquale Rummo
Assistant Professor
Section on Health Choice, Policy, and Evaluation
Department of Population Health
NYU School of Medicine
180 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor, #3-54
New York, NY 10016
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From: Joey Fink
Sent: 8/30/2018 2:20:38 PM
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Good afternoon Chancellor Folt,
My name is Dr. Joey Fink. I received my MA and PhD in History from UNC Chapel Hill in 2010 and 2015, and
I am now a Visiting Assistant Professor at High Point University. I had the pleasure of being in the audience
when President Qubein interviewed you in 2017. Many of your comments on the role of public education in a
democracy and the value of higher education resonated deeply with me.
I'm writing to express my concerns about the monument to white supremacy known as Silent Sam. As an
historian of modem U.S. history, with publications on gender and racial inequality in the American South, I am
deeply troubled that the institution at which I so proudly earned my dissertation might continue to be home to
this symbol of brutality, violence, and gross inequality. I doubt that I need to reiterate the troubling history
surrounding the creation and commemoration of this statue, just as I am sure that other students and alum have
articulated the pain and fear this symbol of Jim Crow and slavery evokes in men and women whose ancestors
were victims of white supremacy and racism.
Instead, I appeal to you as a fellow Tar Heel and American who, I believe, is deeply committed to the principles
and values of a free, open, and kind society. This statue belongs in a museum or historical site, where it can be
curated and contextualized, and where it can serve as a clear and useful teaching tool about our nation's past. It
does not belong on the campus of a university that purports to be a place of freedom and learning, and a place
where students are cared for by the institution and where they are asked to pledge, on their honor, to treat one
another with respect and compassion. I appeal to as a successful professional woman, to be a role model for our
youth (especially young women), to show them what real leadership and courage looks like. And I appeal to
you as an educated scholar, committed to enlightening those who come to your door to learn, to make UNC a
learning community that teaches about the past and the present responsibly.
I know that UNC administrators are, in many ways, limited by the Board of Governors, the Board of Trustees,
and the state legislature in the actions they can take. But I think you have a responsibility to put the interest of
UNC Chapel Hill first. If Silent Sam is allowed to re-occupy that prominent place on campus, the university's
reputation will be further damaged. It will affect the university's enrollments and alum donations. It will
negatively impact the current student body, and it will discourage UNC's out-of-state and international
applicants.
Thank you for your time, and I hope that the next email I write will be one thanking you for your leadership and
courage.
Joey A Fink, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History
High Point University
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High Point, NC 27268
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Dear UNC Officials,
As an alumna of UNC-Chapel Hill and faculty member at UNC Asheville, as a child of the South with ancestors
who fought and died in the Civil War (as well as the Revolutionary War), and as an American citizen who votes
I am writing to you today. I am reading with dismay in the media that you are considering returning the
Confederate statue commonly called "Silent Sam" to campus, I urge you not to do this. The statue in its original
context during the Jim Crow era is a sad reminder of the hatred and violence against African Americans that
followed the War Between the States. We must, for the sake of our United States, move forward from that
terrible time and continue to work on healing the wounds that still fester. If you return the statue to our beautiful
CH campus you are signaling that you care more about furthering the divides that currently haunt our nation
than about healing them. The Bible teaches that we must love one another; for the Christians among you, I urge
you to speak to your brethren and help them to see that this statue, this symbol of heritage to one group, and a
symbol of oppression and fear to another, has no place on an inclusive campus and in an inclusive nation where
everyone has the right to be loved and cherished and the constitutional right to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness." Its rightful place is a museum where it can be contextualized properly so that its message of hate
does not overshadow its message of heritage.
Thank you for reading this message, and for doing the right thing.
Sincerely yours,
Lora L Holland
Associate Professor and Chair
Classics Department
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Asheville, NC 28804
http://classics.unca.edu
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Sent: 8/30/2018 4:56:58 PM
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To the Board of Trustees,
As a Durham resident and former Duke employee, I have been lucky to have colleagues at UNC, one of the top
public universities in the country and a source of pride for my state.
I am dismayed at the possibility that Silent Sam might be returned to the spot where the statue has stood for
over a century. As Julian Carr's speech makes clear, the statue was always about white supremacy and racism.
It is an object of shame. Bad enough that it stood on public property; worse that the North Carolina Historical
Commission has concluded that there is no legal route to removing such monuments, and worst of all that there
is pressure to return the statue to the original site. Please find another location if necessary, but don't return the
statue to the campus.
Sincerely,
Julie Johnson
Durham
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From: MAC
Sent: 8/30/2018 5:39:05 PM
Subject: Sam
Flag: Follow up
Hello, chancellor Folt,

I'm a wake Forest-based journalist and history buff, and recently looked
into a trip to Richmond so my wife could see the American civil War
Museum. I learned that the museum has opened an annex at the historic
Tredegar Iron Works, and that construction is still ongoing. I wonder if
that location would be a good resting place for silent Sam and other
Confederate monuments from the area, provided museum officials were on
board, and, of course, that you and the board of trustees agreed. It
would preserve the monuments while displaying them in their historic
context, which might defuse some of the recent controversy. I don't
really have a dog in this fight, but felt it might be one solution to
the issue.
Best,
Mark Cantrell
www.markcantrell.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markcantrell
Twitter: @maccanwrite
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-cantrell/0/86a/6b4/
A Weird-oh World: The Art of Bill Campbell - http://www.schifferbooks.com/a-weird-oh-world-the-art-of-
bill-campbell-5537.html
Triang l e Association of Freelancers: http://www.tafnc.com
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From: Stremlau, Rose [rostremlau@davidson.edu]
Sent: 8/30/2018 6:27:55 PM
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I am emailing as UNC alum. I earned two degrees -- my M.A. and Ph.D. -- from UNC Chapel Hill, and I cherish
the outstanding education that I received in the Department of History. I am a specialist in the history of the
American South, particularly of its Native peoples. I am now on the faculty at Davidson College. My students
know I am a Tarheel. My office is covered in Carolina Blue.
Since I was a graduate student at UNC, I have been involved in recruitment and retention efforts for minority
students, and three American Indian students who have completed or who are currently enrolled at UNC are
there because I actively mentored them to prepare them for grad school, worked with them on their
applications, and cheered them on as they succeeded and struggled as all grad students do.
I am disgusted by the failure of leadership re: Silent Sam. I'll give you that this never should have been your
problem. The statue should have been removed in the 1960s. But, now, truly, there is no excuse. Sam is relic,
and he belongs in a location where he, with proper context, can serve as a teaching tool and represent the
failure of white supremacy and a reminder that even those who are educated can engage in small-minded
thinking. He doesn't belong back on his pedestal or in a place of prominence.
Each year, I advise some of best and brightest students in this state to consider UNC for graduate school, but I
can no longer do that work for you while my beloved alma mater remains an unsafe place for students of color
and hostile for students of conscience. History is not kind to the white supremacists who put up these
moments to their Lost Cause, and it will be even less so to those who fail to act now to eradicate this toxic
thinking from our society.
I look forward to donating money to the graduate school and sending you my best students again in the
future, but I will not do either while this crisis in ongoing.
Sincerely,
Rose Stremlau, Ph.D., 2006
Rose Stremlau, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Malllng Address: Sox 7042., 209 Ridge RD., Davidson, NC 28035 ..7128
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From: Martha Copp
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Dear UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and Chancellor Folt:

I am an alumna of UNC Chapel Hill (MA 1987 and PhD 1993, Sociology), and have been closely watching
recent events at my alma mater. The news that students and their community allies peacefully took down a
statue that commemorated white supremacy was encouraging and a positive step for UNC.
Protests that have occurred repeatedly over the decades indicate that the statue is a mark against the university's
educational mission, not a quaint piece of "tradition." Now is the time to take a cue from the will of students,
faculty, alumni, and those who are considering joining the university in the future: Please oppose any efforts to
put this statue back on its tainted pedestal. It is an embarrassment and a monument to hate.
If the Board of Trustees seeks to promote a positive future for UNC-CH, the statue must be permanently
relocated off campus. An additional step could be to endorse a plaque that explains the historical context from
UNC's days of racially segregated education that continued in the Jim Crow era. The actions of the Daughters of
the Confederacy in the early 20th century must be reexamined and shared with the public. UNC Chapel Hill's
racist history should not be whitewashed. And it should not be repeated.
Sincerely yours,
Martha Copp
Professor of Sociology, East Tennessee State University
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From: Eisdorfer, Erica [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Silent Sam
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I am a North Carolinian, born and rai sed. My mother worked for the UNC Press for twenty years. My brother
graduated from UNC. I worked at the UNC Student Stores for over 30 years. There is a Chancellor's scholarship
in my brother's name to which we give annually--the Marc Eisdorfer Award in Linguistics.
You can argue historical methodology all you want but one thing's pretty clear: the hundreds of UNC students
of color probably don't see Silent Sam as a brave young soldier. They likely see him as a symbol of state's
rights--in this case, the state of North Carolina's right to keep slavery legal. To them--to me, too--Silent Sam is a
perfect vicious reminder that UNC continues to honor evil.
Ifl were a Jew, say, I'd pretty much hate to have to pass a statue of Goebbels as I was walking to math class
every day.
Silent Sam should be in a place where his context is obvious--a museum devoted to North Carolina history, for
example--rather than in a place of honor in the middle of a major campus quad.
The time has come. Do the right thing. Get on the right side of history, Chancellor Folt.
Thanks, yrs, Erica Eisdorfer
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From: hwhawkinspublish
Sent: 8/31/2018 7:29:10 AM
Subject: Mccorkle Place: A Positive Solution
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Carol Folt, Ph.D., Chancellor

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
As an alumnus, I propose that the UNC System replace UNC-CH's recently destroyed
Confederate monument with a ground-level, lifesize likeness of President William C.
Friday, who served the University so long, so honorably, and so wisely through a number
of crises.
I oppose any effort to salvage the Confederate statue or its message, because North
Carolinians are not going to forget what it stood for, nor the despicable racism with
which, a half-century after the Civil War was over, a Trustee unveiled it to our people. My
great grandfather in Stokes County owned a number of slaves, but I must say that this
ugly artifact's overthrow in our own time was courageous and conscientious. No legal
actions ought to sully the names of its demolishers, and clearly, it is futile to restore
anything so inflammatory and offensive. Let us therefore start anew with a more positive
alternative.
H.W. Hawkins
Message
From: Robert Dodson
Sent: 8/31/2018 8:34:07 AM
Subject: Idea
Flag: Follow Up
Good morning. Just an idea on the Silent Sam statue. We all have ideas of why the statue was erected but if we look at
what the plaque actually says about honoring those who left the university and died fighting we recognize the sacrifice
made during that period of history. Instead of removing the statue why not expand the monument. In other words, keep
the bronze placard depicting the student setting down his books to answer the "call", keep the confederate plaque but
add others to recognize those who left the university and died fighting in all the major conflicts, WWI, WWII, etc ..
Involve the veterans groups in the wording and this becomes a site of Memorial Day/Veterans Day recognitions. The
original intent of Silent Sam is not lost but the recognition of others who left the comfort of the university setting and
gave the ultimate sacrifice is also remembered. If there is a need to place something on top of the base, place two large
bronze flags joined together, one the NC State flag and the other the UNC flag. This way history is not lost but expanded
with the hope that all students will put themselves in the shoes of those who left the beautiful setting of the university
to give it all for the cause at the time. It truly was going from "blue" heaven to a real life hell. We should remember.
Thank you for "listening".
Bob
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From: Corey Frost
Sent: 8/31/2018 10:51:50 AM
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Subject : Do not reinstall Si lent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dears Members of the UNC-CH Board of Trustees:
As an double alum of UNC-CH, I am deeply disappointed in the way the UNC-CH administration has handled
the controversy over Silent Sam, choosing to ignore the demands of students, staff, and faculty of color that the
statue be taken down and placed in a more appropriate location (e.g., a museum).
Chancellor Folt waxes poetic about how the safety of students is her utmost concern. But in allowing a
monument to Jim Crow and lynching to stand, encouraging white supremacists to come to campus, she has
shown that she cares much more about keeping wealthy, white donors and the Board of Governors happy. I also
learned that law enforcement used pepper spray on peaceful demonstrators on campus last night. I guess
Chancellor Folt and I have different understandings of what "keeping students safe" means.
If the Chancellor and Board of Trustees recommend to the Board of Governors that Silent Sam be reinstalled on
McCorkle Place, I will never give another penny to the university and will discourage all of my fellow friends
and family who are alums from giving any money as well. It's high time UNC-CH administrators and governing
bodies take a stand for human rights, and also recognize that those of us who care about human rights are a
financial force to be reckoned with as well.
You know what the right thing to do is. Please don't disappoint us any further.
Sincerely,
Andrew Corey Frost

UNC Law Class of 2016
UNC Undergraduate Class of 2008
Message
From: Jennifer Eichenberger
Sent: 8/31/2018 11:13:20 AM
Subject: Silent Sam in museum
Flag: Follow up
Please put an end to the danger on campus by relocating silent Sam to the NC History Museum or some other
building where people can choose to go instead of having it forced upon them. And please announce it
quickly. This situation is creating a danger for the UNC students.
Thank you, Jennifer Eichenberger
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Message
From: Kim Porter
Sent: 8/31/2018 12:06:44 PM
Subject: Alum supporting the permanent removal of Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor Falt and others who it may concern:
As an alumni of UNC-CH, I support the permanent removal of the Silent Sam statue. I would like to see Silent
Sam relocated to a museum or off-campus location where it can be viewed, fully contextualized, by those who
choose to see it. I will not support UNC as an alumni if Silent Sam is returned to campus. The dedication
speech when the statue was erected proves that this statue represents racist views, and causes harm and ill-
will for many students and alumni, and is not representative of the views of the majority of our UNC family. I
also request that the remaining pedestal on the central quad be removed from that location.
I hope that you will do the right thing and advocate for this stance.
Sincerely,
Kim Porter
UNC Chapel Hill Class of 1991

Message
From: stevearich
Sent: 8/31/2018 1:50:35 PM
To: Public BOT [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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CC: Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: Silent Sam, relocation
Flag: Follow up
I am sorry the monument came down as it did but feel strongly that it needs to be relocated. The information that has been revealed in
recent years, including Julian Carr's dedication speech 105 years ago, reveals one of the monument's most glaring purposes ... to
intimidate non-whites.
Let the monument and its base be relocated into a UNC-CH campus building. There should be information with it to describe all of its
perceived meanings.
Thank you for your attention.
Stephen Rich., Chapel Hill, 1964 UNC-CH graduate
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Message
From: Liz Lindsey
Sent: 8/31/2018 2:51:33 PM
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juliagrumbles@gmail.com; jeffbrown@mvalaw.com; Caudill, Walter Lowry [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange
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Subject: Alumni and Resident's Letter against Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
August 30, 2018

Dear Board of Trustees at UNC Chapel Hill,
I write as a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, a decade long resident and homeowner in Chapel Hill, and as a descendant
of a Confederate soldier from Guilford County, North Carolina.
I urge you to leave Silent Sam down.
Confederate monuments are a violent celebration of racism, white supremacy, and slavery. ,Julian Carr's speech
when Silent Sam was erected boasts of violently assaulting a local black woman. This leaves no room for doubt that
the monument is meant to be a reminder to black people of the violence they should expect -and indeed untold
numbers have incurred-when they challenged slavery, and an forms of inequality and injustice. To this very day,
there are black students and community members who have received verified threats of violence.
I am proud that Silent Sam is down. It is shameful that it loomed over us for over 100 years. The UNC and Chapel
I-ii11 community have respectfuHy requested in myriad ways over the decades for this to happen legally, and
nonviolently. Time and again the voices so brave to speak against racism were not given due respect. Today, please
find respectful ways to heal our sky blue community. Do not further rot our community-a bright, beautiful bouquet
of many colors-by resurrecting this hateful ghost. Please, heal and help grow the peace and justice. Please
reconsider officially proclaiming (Zora Neale) Hurston Hall. As a folklore graduate, I would be immensely proud of
UNC to connect to such a gifted scholar, writer and folkforist. What a powerful and healing statement you could
make by honoring a black woman near to where Carr's celebration of a violent assault of a black woman took place.
Sincerely,
Lizzie Lindsey, ALA. [!NC-Chapel Hill, 2003
Message
From: romason124
Sent: 8/31/2018 4:00:39 PM
Subject : Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
To some Southerners, Silent Sam is a testament to their homeland, the South. Sadly, that understandable
affection for the place where many came from is tangled with the history of slavery. I am not African American,
but I can understand how African Americans feel about facing Sam in their educational home. Picture how we
who are of European background might feel if Nazi Germany were so honored on our campus by a statue of a
German soldier who fought for the Reich in World War II.
I regret the good aspects of Southern culture rest on the pain of others. Sam's presence causes pain for good
reason, and, therefore, he should find himself a home where those who want to remember him can seek him out.
He should no longer be welcome in the midst of us, but go, as other dead, to a place of remembrance.
Ro Mason
Message
From: Marc Jeuland [marc.jeuland@duke.edu]
Sent: 8/31/2018 6:11:51 PM
To: Marc Jeuland [marc.jeuland@duke.edu]
Subject: Please do not reinstall Silent Sam at Mccorkle Place
Flag: Follow up
Dear Trustees and Chancellor Falt,
I am writing as an alumnus (MSEE and PhD from the School of Public Health in 2006 and 2009) and (still) local who
participates actively in many UNC events, including serving on several faculty recruitment committees, collaborating
with UNC researchers on various projects, and regularly attending lectures and Carolina Performing Events (as well as
donating money to the school).
I am extremely disappointed that the Board of Trustees is considering reinstalling "Silent Sam" at Mccorkle Place. To be
sure, this "monument" has a complex and troubled history, which needs to be told, and not swept under the rug just
because it is offensive. But the correct way to do that is to place it in context with a set of appropriate and requisite
explanations, and not with little explanation at the entryway to the campus of this great university. A more appropriate
location, for example, would be in a building where its origins and history could be explained with accompanying text or
other media, as well as both academic and other perspectives on what it means to them.
You all have a unique opportunity to take responsible action that protects public safety, while standing for Lux et
Libertas, and not "sustaining and enforcing the symbols of human cruelty" as recently stated in a letter to you from the
faculty. We are fortunate that the events that toppled this statue were not more violent than they were; in fact I was
particularly shocked by language from some leaders suggesting that this was the doing of a violent mob. In fact, there
was nothing violent about the protests, unlike what has happened in other locations. For that we can all be thankful.
As a concerned alum, I thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Marc Jeuland
Message
From: Thomas W Murray
Sent: 8/31/2018 6:50:26 PM
Subject: Silent Sam suggestion
Flag: Follow up
Put the statue in the campus cemetery..... undoubtedly there are UNC grads who fought in the war buried
the re ... and it's far enough out of the way not to cause a ruckus (I hope)
1W Murray
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From: Jade Dell
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Subject: The Silent Sam Statue
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor and Board of Trustees at UNC Chapel Hill:
I have been following the events at UNC for 3 years now as the issue of the Silent Sam statue have been in the
news, even going to Chapel Hill to see it (I live in Raleigh).
After reading about its history, I believed that it should be removed from the campus and put in a place where it
could be observed as a piece of history with that history explained: that it was dedicated decades after the Civil
War by persons who did not agree with the freeing of the slaves and the right of formerly enslaved persons to
take their part and role in this nation's destiny.
And now that it has been taken down, I am of the mind that it should not be replaced, but housed off campus
where people who want to be informed about how racism has poisoned this country can go to view it along with
other statues of Confederate Generals, etc.
I have also heard another disgusting story about why the statue was named "Silent Sam" - that Sam would only
speak if a "virgin" walked by. I understand that Mr. Carr who spoke at its dedication (and for whom the town of
Carrboro was named) was actually a member of the KKK. This story about the statue is damaging to any young
woman who has to function in that sexist atmosphere.
It is time to let that statue go.
Sincerely,
Jade Dell
Raleigh 27603
Message
From: Arthur Hayes
Sent: 8/31/2018 7:23:14 PM
Subject: Fwd: ANNOUNCEMENT from UNC: Message from the Chancellor - August 31, 2018
Flag: Follow up
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Message
From: Kenley, Charles Robert [kenley@purdue.edu]
Sent: 9/1/2018 8:07:45 AM
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Subject: Selling the Statue
Flag: Follow up
Your development people should be able to find donors who would be willing to contribute to a foundation that
could purchase the problematic statue and locate it elsewhere.
C. Robert Kenley, PhD, ESEP, INCOSE Fellow

Associate Professor of Engineering Practice
School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University
Room 370, 315 N Grant St, West Lafayette, IN, 47907-2023
Phone: REDACTED • Mobile Phone:
E-mail: kenley@purdue.edu
Web: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ckenley/
Message
From: Kathryn Reklis [kreklis@fordham.edu]
Sent: 9/1/2018 9:13:31 AM
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =94 fb6385ce9041a 19d4dcf447 a9d4009-South _pa pub]; Chancel Ior
Subject: Do not restore Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Board of Trustees and Chancellor Folt,
I am an alumna of the University (class of 2001), a Morehead Scholar (now Morehead-Cain), and now an
Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University, having earned my PhD at Yale University in Religious
Studies.
I am writing now to express my strong and unequivocal support that Silent Sam NOT be returned to any place
of public display at the University. Returning the statue to any prominent location would reaffirm the values of
white supremacy that motivated its original installation. We cannot erase the history of racism and racist
violence that are part of our University's past, but we can choose in this moment which values and principles
will guide our present action. The values that the statue represent are inherently opposed to the principles of
light and liberty that guide the educational mission of UNC Chapel Hill.
The only possible public display of Silent Sam that is fitting to the values of our university is perhaps a
museum, where the history of its creation and the controversy around it could be explored with true scholarly
and historical honesty.
I am a proud alumna who watches in hope that my alma mater will act in line with the principles that have
formed me morally and intellectually.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Kathryn Reklis
Kathryn Reklis
Associate Chair of Graduate Studies, Theology Department
Associate Professor of Modem Protestant Theology
Affiliated Faculty, American Studies and Comparative Literature
Fordham University, Rose Hill
Message
From: chuckpeacehawk
Sent: 9/1/2018 9:32:36 AM
Subject: Davie statue for Mccorkle Place
Flag: Follow up
As an alumnus and student of history, may I suggest what I think is the obvious and incontestable
winner of any contest to select a heroic figure to replace Silent Sam: William Richardson Davie,
patriot, war hero, Founding Father, and founder of the University. In sight of the venerable Davie
Poplar is where a statue of him would have a unique and appropriate presence, and nothing could
represent the University more dramatically from Franklin Street's perspective. Several portraits of
him exist, including an excellent profile view that hangs in New West in the Dialectic Society's
chambers. Please keep my suggestion in mind. Thank you!
Chuck Hawkins
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From: Jim Finigan
Sent: 9/1/2018 10:26:41 AM
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Subject: Another college grapples with fel ling of Confederate statue - Frances Sellers, Susan Svrluga - The Washington Post -
Friday, August 31, 2018
Flag: Follow up
notes on united we stand....
To: Ms. Carol Falt, Chancellor

Chancellor Falt, Re the "Silent Sam" statue at UNC, the issue really has nothing whatsoever to do with what it means
today. It's what was intended when the statue was built and installed by racists.
According to Wikipedia » "At the unveiling on June 2, 1913, local industrialist Julian Carr gave a speech espousing v,rhite
supremacy."[
Your attempt to mollify black citizens, civil war families and white nationalists with a back lot statue relocation and
scholarly history lessons is a solution where none is possible. This isn't Hanover NH.
Many in the south are still fighting a civil war that ended over a century and a half ago. Tear the statue down completely,
have a nice ceremony and donate its plaque to some elderly historical society.
Regards,JF
Message
From: Tom Barnette
Sent: 9/1/2018 1:57:07 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam announcement email, 8/31
Flag: Follow up
chancellor Folt,
Thank for the email update to the UNC community.
I am writing in response to that email to offer not a solution, but a process suggestion.
As the process to develop a recommendation goes forward, I urge your team to focus on surfacing ,
understanding and seeking to address the interests of the stakeholders, not their stated positions. Your
email was a good start in reframing the various interests. From what I have heard so far, a large
contingent of students, professors and staff and alumni want to ensure that their UNC does not
countenance racism or white superiority in any form. others want to not forget the sons of the
University who they believe were fulfilling a military duty that was often thrust upon them by their
families, churches and civic leaders. It's very early, but that may suggest an out of the way spot
(graveyard?) with written context that clearly states the going forward reason for the statue being on
campus. It should be somewhere that the university community would not typically encounter, but a place
where one could go if they so chose.
I retired last year from a career as a corporate ombudsman and my experience was that seeking to satisfy
interests can often lead to compromise solutions that multiple stakeholders can accept, if not endorse.
Tom Barnette
BSBA UNC 1978
MBA Harvard 1988
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Message
From: Richard Sills
Sent: 9/1/2018 3:40:52 PM
CC:
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
While I wish the statue could have remained exactly where it was, I would not want to see it subject to
being pulled down again.
I am not sure how tall the statue itself is, but perhaps it wo uld fit in the Nort h Carolina collection in
Wilson Library. The memorial plaque(s) could also be moved to the library.
Finally, I suggest leaving the base empty and blank.
Respectfully,
Richard sills, '76
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Message
From: Carleton Barbour
Sent: 9/1/2018 8:59:08 PM
Subject: Fwd: Silent Sam's future
Flag: Follow up
---------- Forwarded message ---------

From: Carleton Barbour
Date: Sat, Sep 1, 20l8publicbot@unc.edu at 8:51 PM
Subject: Silent Sam's future
To: Chancellor@unc.edu <Chancellor@unc.edu>
Chancellor Folt,
As an alum, I acknowledge Silent Sam's place in the history ofUNC Chapel Hill. I also realize that different
members of the UNC community attach various meanings to Silent Sam's placement at the university. I believe
that the best next place for Silent Sam is in a museum and not at another campus location. I always found Silent
Sam to be a peculiar symbol of the university. I also find it difficult to comprehend how fellow university
supporter could believe he is an appropriate late 20 th century or 21 st century symbol ofUNC.
Please add my input to that from other alums. I believe Silent Sam should not have a future at UNC-CH.
Respectfully,
Carleton J. Barbour, PhD
UNC-CH, 1991 (Chemistry)
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From: Mary Whee ling
Sent: 9/1/2018 9:41:06 PM
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Subject: Do not al low Silent Sam return to Mccorkle Place
Flag: Follow up
Dear UNC Board of Trustees:

I attended graduate school at UNC-CH from 1987-1994, earning my M.A. and Ph.D. from the English
department. I am writing today with a plea for you to prevent the university from reinstalling Silent Sam in his
original position. He must not return to McCorkle Place.
In order to educate the public about UNC's and the South's history, the statue could usefully be displayed
indoors as part of a museum or educational exhibit, accompanied by information about the conditions of the
statue's original commission and dedication, as well as the 21st-century controversy concerning its placement
and its eventual toppling.
Whatever is done with it, it must not be replaced on its original pedestal to insult and degrade the University's
community. This is a moment to do the right thing. Do not tarnish our pride in the Southern part of heaven.
Sincerely,
Mary Wheeling (M.A. 1989; Ph.D. 1994)
Message
From:
Sent: 9/2/2018 8:02:58 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor Fultz
My name is Thomas Cheek I am one of the direct dependents of the local farmer who
Donated the first piece of property for the University to be built on Matthew Mc Cauley.
I am contacting you with an proposal to keep Silent Sam. The problem we have is a Confederate Monument,
identity comes from definition. I am working on a design to redefine Silent Sam. Silent SAM would stand for a
monument that is Silent Supporting American Military. We would reidentify him not as a Confederate Soldier
but as a Minute Man. The Minute man was a farmer. shop keeper, a regular citizen who was prepared to pick
up arms and defend our rights for the freedom we have today.
I propose that we identify him as a Minute Man who is Silent Supporting American Military, Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marines, and our current time Minute Man the National Guard. There would have to be some
modifications made to the pedestal, and I have some ideas on that which i would like to share with you and
possibly The Board of Governor's. If you fell like this is a good solution to a bad problem that even with
modifications would be cheaper than moving the entire monument Please let me know and I would be happy
to share my ideas in the modifications needed. You can communicate with me thru e mail if you wish.
Thanks for taking a look at other ideas to save Silent Sam.
Thomas Cheek
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Message
From: Tori Reynolds
Sent: 9/2/2018 11:13:14 AM
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Subject: re: restoration of Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear UNC Board of Trustees,

We are firmly against the restoration of silent Sam to the UNC campus. It's inconceivable to think that
UNC - an educational institution supported by public tax dollars and tasked with the responsibility of
teaching, learning and education - would even consider upholding the inequality and subjugation that the
the Confederacy stood for.
Statues are always and forever symbols. symbolic gestures, symbolic objects, symbolic practices - all
carry enormous meaning and weight in representing our cultural, political, moral and spiritual values.
We ask you, in the evolution of our democracy, what can silent Sam stand for other than a war that was
fought and over which countless lives were lost to uphold slavery and an economic system dependent on
slavery?
No matter how imperfect practices as a state and as a democratic country, slavery and the enslavement of
any people is not something we should aspire to morally, politically, spiritually or culturally. Period.
A commemoration of lives lost in the pursuit of such practices can no longer be valorized. To privilege
these lives in a symbolic statue represents a form of racism, and necessarily represents the values of
UNC if you choose to resurrect the statue.
Leave silent Sam down, put the statue in a warehouse, create a symbol that boldly and clearly encourages
an accurate view of our history.
Sincerely,
Tori Reynolds & John Beerman
Message
From: Julia Jessop
Sent: 9/2/2018 11:53:46 AM
Subject: Silent Sam needs to go
Flag: Follow up
Is this really the image that the University of North Carolina wishes to put forth to the students it welcomes to
campus? A statue commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and officially commemorated by
Julian Carr, with a speech espousing white supremacy? Certainly the Civil War is an important part of our
history, but should we be honoring the Confederacy and its support for slavery? That is the reason the UDC and
its supporters of that time erected the Statue. It may be a historical monument, but not one we should proudly
display in the Upper Quad ofUNC or in any public place at the University.
Please DO NOT display it!
Sincerely,
Julia Jessop
-J
Message
From: Phil Holland
Sent: 9/2/2018 12:38:12 PM
Subject: the Monument
Flag: Follow up
I see from the New York Times that you are open to comments from citizens outside of North Carolina.
It's not enough to repudiate Julian Carr's remarks at the statue's unveiling in 1913, as you have done -- Mr. Carr
perfectly well articulated the white-supremacist ideology that the statue represents, and that, apparently, a
majority of State legislators continue to support. Since the laws of North Carolina forbid the statue's destruction
(or even relocation), I suggest that one of those fine people be invited read out every word of Carr's speech at
the rededication, so that all in attendance understand what the statue stands for and what "Southern heritage"
really means.
That statue should be melted down, and that metal used for a new statue. Anything less extends the message of
bigotry that the now toppled statue stands for.
Sincerely,
Phil Holland
Shaftsbury VT
Message
From: Ennis Baker
Sent: 9/2/2018 10:44:34 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam needs a new home
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As an alumnus, class of 1992, and a permanent chapel Hill resident since 1999, I beg you to develop a
committee made up of stake holders who represent the diversity of the community to plan for where silent
Sam will be relocated and how it's honest and accurate history can be shared and discussed.
Ennis Baker
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Dear UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and Chancellor Folt:
As citizens, artists and professors, we urge you to refrain from reinstalling the Silent Sam monument that sows
so much discord, causes pain to so many, and propagates a racist cause that was lost long ago.
Let the space it occupied breathe again, absent of an offensive and oppressive symbol. Let it be gone forever.
Sincerely,
Susanne Slavick and Andrew Ellis Johnson

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Art and Associate Professor of Art
School of Art, CFA 300
Carnegie Mellon University
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 USA
Message
From: Jessica Loverde
Sent: 9/3/2018 12:20:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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Good morning,
I was watching the news this morning, and I understand you are taking suggestions from the public on where to
relocate Silent Sam. My name is Jessica Lo Verde, and I am a 2017 graduate ofUNC Chapel Hill. I feel that I
understand both sides of the issue regarding the statue; students of color feel that their ancestors' oppressors are
being literally put on a pedestal, but descendants of Confederate soldiers want their history to be remembered.
Silent Sam is to remember the UNC Students that lost their lives fighting for the Confederacy. Because of this,
it has always seemed like a gravestone or metaphorical resting place to me.
I think the best place to relocate Silent Sam would be the cemetary on campus. It would no longer be UNC
appearing to support Confederates, and descendants would still be able to pay their respects. I am sure some
students and members of the public would still take issue, but in this no-win situation I truly feel that relocating
the monument to the cemetary with a plaque putting the statue in historical context would be the best case
scenario for both sides of this difficult issue.
I appreciate that you are taking suggestions, and even if mine is not chosen I hope it is at least read.
Thank you for your consideration,
Jessica Lo Verde
UNC Chapel Hi 11 Class of 2017
Message
From: Holly Coldiron
Sent: 9/3/2018 2:42:05 PM
Subject: ACTBAC rally and Silent Sam
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Chancellor Folt
As a double alum ofUNC-CH (undergrad and law), i have watched the most recent protests calling for the
removal of Silent Sam, including the recent event where the statue was finally taken down. I first attended UNC
in the early 80's and even then Silent Sam was a symbol of deep racism and casual misogyny (only firing his
"weapon" if a virgin passes). Time has only deepened the heavy symbolism of this monument. And UNC's
continuing refusal to move or remove this statue is a reminder that systemic and institutional racism runs deep.
The UNC Board has continually shown that the feelings of a small group of white North Carolinians are favored
over those of the historically oppressed and powerless, why else fight this cause for so long over a memorial
with such a problematic provenance and history?
Recently I was at the event where ACTBAC was under UNC security and police protection given special
protected access to hold their event at the now statueless pedestal. I have some honest questions about this event
and why this group was granted such protection. did ACTBAC have a special permit for their protest? did they
pay for the additional security? And did they pay or register for the special event parking at the Morehead
parking lot?
The entire setup of the event by the security served to escalate the situation before even the first ACTBAC
member or counter/dance party protestor arrived. ACTBAC and the confederate memorialists were given a
special protected space, but at no time did the security or police grant similar protection to the counter
protestors. Both sides could have been offered equal protected space - you stay out of their space and they stay
out of your space. but this is not what happened. The confederate memorialists were protected from
counterprotestors, but the police at no time attempted to protect the counterprotestors from the confederate
supporters or other rightwing agitators. I am sure you have seen the video from the News and Observer that
clearly shows a police officer (identified as from Greensboro) assuring ACTBAC that they (the police) were
there for their (ACTBAC) protection (i.e. not everyone's protection) and the excessive violence and anger
exhibited toward the counterprotestors.
You now have an opportunity to stand up and take action to support your students and community against the
continued mythology of this lost cause. Do the right thing and if you must keep the statue, move it to a place
where it can be given full context, including the initial dedication, protests through the civil rights era and
eventual removal. Personally, i would rather it just be melted down, but there is a solution that can honor the
UNC community. I urge you to find it.
Holly Coldiron
Message
From: Charles Fazio
Sent: 9/3/2018 6:42:29 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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Dear Chancellor Falt:
So much for Light and Truth. Now that the Commie/Nazis tore down a statue, it's time to strike back.
First of all, I understand from some news reports that the perpetrators weren't even associated with
the school but were just a bunch of rabble rousers who don't give a hoot about the issue of slavery.
Their only purpose in life is to find an excuse to destroy something; just like the Nazis did with the
Jews. Now, it's time to strike back. It's not the so-called white supremacists who are destroying
property and killing police. America is being torn apart by people who support democrats and are, in
turn, supported and encouraged by democrats. And sooner or later, they will burn down your vaunted
ivory towers.
Put the statue back up. Encase it in bullet-proof glass and surround the area with vehicle barriers. We
protect building and politicians with layers and layers of security. Silent Sam is no different.
You may touch off a new Civil War; however, the time has come to take a stand. Do we defend
America against her domestic enemies? Or, do we allow the lowlifes of the liberal left to do to
America what their soulmates did over a hundred years ago when they overthrew and assassinated
Czar Nicholas and his family and brought living hell to over half the world? Our political leaders are
good at deceit. They keep talking about stopping Communism over there before it gets here. We
never stop to think that Communism is already here. It is the "democratic" party. There's nothing
democratic about it.
Chuck Fazio
Quincy, MA
Message
From: Edwin Fountain
Sent: 9/4/2018 5:26:52 PM
Subject: Silent Sam - a suggested solution
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Chancellor Folt,
I am literally in the business of war memorials. I am general counsel to the American Battle Monuments
Commission, a federal agency which builds and maintains U.S. military memorials and cemeteries around the
world. I am currently leading the development of the national World War I memorial in Washington DC. I was
also a member of the design jury for the National Native American Veterans Memorial being established by the
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. If my perspectives can be of any assistance in
addressing the current situation, I would be only too happy to be involved.
In the meantime, let me offer this suggestion. I speak as one who thought the memorial should remain and
would prefer that it be restored, and who objects strongly to the lawless way in which it was removed, in
defiance of the ongoing public discussion and process about its fate. I have much to say about that debate, but probably
nothing new. AU that said, if Silent Sam is not to be restored to his original location ------ and I think it likely that he will not------ then I
make two suggestions: One, that the statue be returned to some visible place on campus, not in some basement but also a place of1ess
prominence, in the interests of history and remembrance. Two, in keeping with the widespread practice in this countly of, for instance,
expanding the scope of World War I memo1ials to include World War II and later conflicts, that Silent Sam's surviving plinth remain
where it is and be rededicated, with an appropriate plaque or other additional elements, as a memorial to all the members of the
Carolina community who gave their lives in aII the nation's wars (both sides of the Civil War included), and who thereby, in the words
still written on the plinth, "taught the lesson ... that duty is the sublimest word in the English language."
As an aside, I noted that one of your recent posts on the issue alluded, as many others have, to the dedicatory comments of Julian Can-.
As I understand it, Mr. Can- was one of about a half dozen speakers at the dedication. A full context would require consideration of
what other speakers said. I believe at least one of them spoke of the memorial ve1y much in tenns of remembrance of the dead, with
no comment about the races or "the lost cause." Mr. Can-'s comments may be relevant, but they should not be taken in isolation as the
only interpretation of the memorial.
Again, I would be happy to contlibute to this discussion in any way I can.
Respectfully,
Edwin Fountain
BA '86
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From: matt ezzell
Sent: 9/5/2018 10:31:31 AM
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Subject: Plans/Placement of Silent Sam
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To the members of the UNC Board of Trustees and Chancellor Carol Folt,
I write to you today as three-time graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I attended as an
undergraduate Morehead Scholar and completed a BA in Women's Studies with honors in Creative Writing in
1999 before returning and completing an MA (2004) and PhD (2009) in Sociology. I am also a North
Carolinian by birth whose ancestors fought and died in the Civil War.
Silent Sam, erected on the "gateway" to campus 50 years after the end of the Civil War by the United Daughters
of the Confederacy as a part of the broader "Lost Cause" movement, was a stain on the UNC campus and
broader community. As is evident not only from Julian Carr's dedication speech (in which he refers to the
"pleasing duty" of horse-whipping a "negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds") but also from the
broader efforts and record of the UDC at the time, Silent Sam always stood as a decontextualized
monument to white supremacy in North Carolina. As Professor Jim O'Hara noted, in 1913 the UDC
"unanimously endorsed and promoted for use in schools a history of the KKK that praised the heroic
work they did to preserve white supremacy. So putting up these statues was unambiguously part of
the white supremacist movement of the Jim Crow era"
The statue was and remains an affront to peoples of color and all people who stand for racial justice and
equality. Monuments do not represent historical truths, after all, but interpretations of history. Silent Sam cannot
be separated from the racist interpretations and ideologies of the Lost Cause movement and the UDC, which not
only openly endorsed white supremacy but which effectively erased North Carolina's vibrant anti-Confederate
history in the process. Protest against the presence of Silent Sam in its place of honor was ongoing since
students of color came to the university in the 1950s. In truth, those in positions of power over the decades
should have heard the calls for change and a more grounded and contextualized commemoration of our
collective history and moved the statue from its literal and symbolic pedestal. In the absence of such leadership,
the people acted in an expression of civil disobedience and political protest.
Silent Sam is down, as it should be; but, the statue and its place in our history should not be forgotten. The best
way to provide the context needed to understand Silent Sam and reckon with the complexities and
contradictions of our past as we move forward toward a brighter future is to place the statue in a museum or a
local/state historical site that can provide the historical and material backdrop of North Carolina's past, present,
and future.
With hope for that future, and with appreciation for your service to UNC,
Matthew B. Ezzell, PhD
UNC Alum ('99, '04, '09)
Staunton, VA
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Subject: RE: No Censorship on Campus- Silent Sam Fate Deliberation
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Alan, Thank you for your thoughts on this. We will take this into account as we determine our path. My best, Chuck
Duckett
From: Jones, Alan M

To: Duckett, Chuck
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Subject: No Censorship on Campus- Silent Sam Fate Deliberation
Dear Mr. Duckett,
I am writing to you as this pertains to your duty on the Board of Trustees, now deliberating on the fate of the
Silent Sam monument.
Let me state emphatically that I do not support censorship on campus and argue that we must leave the Silent
Sam statue in place. We must not judge the past by the present and we must not erase history at risk of the
present being interpreted by a single party.
The arguments on both sides are visceral, not log ical. Please take time to filter out those visceral arguments to
consider the consequences of deleting history. It is true that the monument has different meanings to different
people today but we cannot know what it meant to people before us.
Instead, use the monument to teach; a most fitting endeavor for a world-class university. One solution is to turn
Silent Sam southward accompanied by a plaque that explains our present discussion.
Thank you for your service to the university and for your due diligence in this matter.
Sincerely, Alan Jones
Dr. Alan M. Jones

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Department of Biology
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University of North Carolina
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From:
Sent: 9/5/2018 3:00:51 PM
Subject: idea for Sam
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I've been following with interest developments related to Silent Sam and his future. I am an alum and
as of this semester,
I also had the privilege to participate as a community member in UNC's Leading for Racial Equity
mini-course a few years ago. I learned so much in that experience and also how much I need to learn
about white privilege, policy and "gate keepers," with relation to racial equity. Since taking that course
I have tried to listen and read about the history of racism I never knew. Of course the situation with
Sam brings out all sorts of perspectives. I hope that in planning Sam's future you will be bold and
stand up to white privilege, which I believe is at the heart of much of the clamor to return him to the
UNC campus.
I also wanted to offer a suggestion for relocating the statue of Sam and perhaps other similar
statues/memorials. Have you heard about the NC Civil War and Reconstruction History Center
underway in Fayetteville? It's envisioned as telling North Carolina's full story during the Civil War, and
for the first time Reconstruction. The advisors and board members include a distinguished group of
people, including some with UNC ties, such as retired history professor James
Leutze, for example. Here is a full list: http://nccivilwarcenter.org/about/advisors-d irectors/
I propose that your commission consider approaching the history center about becoming a home for
significant artifacts such as Silent Sam along with full context of their commissioning, art, funding,
history, etc.
Thank you for consideration.

Message
From: Louis Weeks
Sent: 9/5/2018 4:31:42 PM
Subject: Possible solution for the Silent Sam statue
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I am writing to you as a graduate of UNC and a relative of several generations of students and graduates of
UNC. As your recent letter stated, this statue symbolizes many very different things to many very passionate
people. I am sure that there were students, graduates and staff that fought and died for both sides of the Civil
War. I have a relative that was a student there that left to fight in that war and died at home from infection from
wounds sustained in it. It seems to ask very little to honor those students, staff and graduates that died as a result
of that war. I suggest that the current statue be remodeled to have no markings to indicate either US or CSA
affiliation and be re-established as a memorial to ALL UNC students, staff and graduates that perished in that
needless war. It seems that most wars, like the war in Iraq, the Vietnam War and the Civil War are entered into
at the direction of just a few people and then many men and women must suffer much loss due to the decisions
of those few. The Civil War forced many people in NC to fight for reasons other than to preserve slavery or
white supremacy and it is unfair to place the stigma of those horrendous reasons upon them because of the
thoughts and actions of a few. There needs to be a memorial for ALL UNC students, staff and graduates that
suffered from that war. Just as the actions of a few should not be able to send so many to war neither should the
lawless actions of a few be allowed to disgrace the lives of former students, staff and graduates that fought for
honorable reasons. This solution allows for both viewpoints to obtain the main goals that they are seeking: to
honor those from UNC that died in that war and to not honor racial injustice or white supremacy.
Very truly yours,
Louis Batchelor Weeks

Message
From: Kasey Poole Decosimo
Sent: 9/5/2018 8:54:24 PM
Subject: Support for removal of Silent Sam
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As a UNC alumnus ('04 and '06), North Carolina native, and descendant of Confederate soldiers, I am in full
support of the removal of Silent Sam. I'm so glad no one was hurt in the removal, and I hoped it would come
down with support of all involved, but its prominence on a public university campus (and its Jim Crow
memorialization of a past where people of color were not considered fully human) is completely inappropriate. I
agree it should be in a museum or library instead. I know you are faced with a tremendous amount of pressure
from all sides. Please know there are many to support you in making the right decision for Tar Heel history.
Best regards,
Kasey Poole Decosimo
Kasey Poole Decosimo

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Subject: Re: [FORMAL NOTICE] Message from Chancellor Carol L. Folt
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Thanks for circulating this information. The University now has an
opportunity to move the silent Sam war memorial statue (and, I hope, its
pedestal) somewhere less prominent, preferably a dignified but secluded
place where people can see it if they want to, but don't have to pass by
it every day. I have heard that you are getting a lot of complaints from
donors who want the statue back where it was, and I hope that you are
getting enough emails like this one from faculty, staff, students, and
alums to offset them.
I would be interested to know if the students who are memorialized were
officially encouraged by the University to join the Confederate army. If
they were, the University did its own students a disservice, and it might
want to consider acknowledging that fact in the memorial 's new location.
Sincerely,
Elliott Moreton
on Tue, 28 Aug 2018, no_reply@email.unc.edu wrote:

>
> Message from the chancellor
>
> Dear Carolina Community:
>
> Today, the UNC system Board of Governors passed a resolution directing the UNC-Chapel
> Hill Board of Trustees and the University administration to develop and present a plan
> by November 15 for the Confederate Monument's "disposition and preservation." I am
> grateful to the Board of Governors, chair Harry Smith and President Margaret Spellings
> for the opportunity to provide a "lawful and lasting path that protects public safety,
> preserves the monument and its history, and allows the University to focus on its core
> mission." I also wish to thank the Board of Trustees for their leadership and
> unwavering commitment to your safety and the mission and guiding principles of
> Carolina.
>
> I also am very mindful that this is the second week of the term. We just welcomed more
> than 5,000 new students, and I continue to be grateful for the way our students,
> faculty and staff come together to achieve the important work that takes place in
> classrooms, labs and offices every day. The Board of Trustees, my leadership team and
> I also know that you care deeply about the plan for the monument. We will work with
> you and find ways to engage and keep you informed throughout this important process.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Carol L. Folt
>
> This message is sponsored by: office of the chancellor
>
>
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Subject: Silent Sam reaction from an elderly alumna now UNC Affiliate Emerita
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I hope this letter will be read by someone in a position of influence.
Frances A. Campbell, Ph.D.

September 7, 2018
Chancellor Folz
UNC at Chapel Hill
South Building
Campus
Thank you for leading us through this difficult period concerning the commemoration of
the history of North Carolina for its citizens. I speak for a minority of the UNC community in
that my grandmother spent most of the childhood living as an au pair-type member of an aging
brother/sister bachelor/spinster household who needed a pair of youthful legs to help out and
run errands. Her post-war poverty stricken county family agreed for their 11 year old daughter
to take the position ($3/month plus a home to live in). The old couple agreed to send the girl to
school and they did, provided they had no errands they wanted done that day. However, as
reflected in my mother's stories of that time, my grandmother became a much loved member
of that family and maintained a relationship with them even after she married a UNC graduate
and moved to Alamance County. During my mother's childhood, the family enjoyed coming
back to Chapel Hill each year for "Commencement" and they stayed with "Aunt Belle" on
Franklin Street. Mother recalled when the cement horse trough now tucked behind the
Planetarium was up on the street, fulfilling its proper function of watering thirsty horses. My
mother never referred to Silent Sam at all.
What I knew of Sam is that I met him when I came to Chapel Hill as a graduate student
in Psychology in the fall of 1955. Word was that, if a virgin ever walked past Sam, he would fire
his gun. Hence the name, Silent Sam. That he commemorated a Confederate dead soldier was
just background noise to a white person reared in North Carolina. However, my family history
is that my great grandfather, whose son was the UNC graduate, died ingloriously of measles in
an army camp in Halifax, having been conscripted along with his brothers after the Civil War
started. A letter, never sent, written to him by his young wife talked about "our babe" who was
six months old. The young husband was already dead when she wrote it, so it was put away by
our family of packrats, and I still have it, silverfish holes and all.
Our family did not own slaves: we were too "poor" but rather made a modest living as
small farmers and tradesmen. The death of the husband and father meant that my great
grandmother had to try to farm her small acreage herself, plowing the fields with a single horse
or mule to grow the corn necessary for them to survive. Long story short, she remarried an
elderly widower whose frankly unsentimental proposal was that she leave baby and
grandmother in their modest farmhouse and come to the neighboring large farm, marry him to
make it respectable, and keep house for him, his slaves having deserted him (a fate he richly
deserved from what I know of him). Her second widowhood gave her the basis for survival and
the eventual graduation of the baby son from UNC in 1891. He was almost 30 years old.
Growing up, all that history was just wallpaper to me as I made my way through UNCG
(WCUNC. Class of 1955) and to Carolina where my fate awaited me. However, I never lost a
certain sense of poignancy when I thought of what my Great Grandmother went through all
those years ago. I admire her determination to survive. I respected the deep grief that the lost
Confederate soldier represented. Therefore, I was offended and grieved last summer when I
read in the Tar Heel an editorial where the young editor referred to Sam is "xxxx" (I won't
dignify it by quoting it). It seemed so obvious to that, to her, any right-thinking person would
agree with that designation. For her information, here is one who did not. Nor would I have
referred to her ancestors as "XXXX" since my mother never tolerated that word.
I acknowledge that much of our past is a very painful story and I abhor the entire system
that treated human beings as property to be bought and sold. I wish I could wipe it from the
face of the earth. But the griefs of none of our forebears can be undone. I respect the pain
that all involved suffered, and my prayer is that we can all move forward and let the past
remain dead. I think Sam might be accepted in a corner of the Southern Historical Collection in
Wilson Library, out of sight. What we need is to work toward a better future for all our citizens
and the University is a major means of bringing that about.
Signed:
Frances Alexander Campbell, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist Emerita and Affiliate of the FPG Child Development Institute
Message
From: Janelle Royal Harris
Sent: 9/7/2018 10:47:48 PM
Subject: Greetings from Concerned UNC Alum
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Chancellor Folt,
I am concerned about the next steps the University will be taking in regard to the return of Silent Sam. It is my
strong belief that the statue should not return to McCorkle Place, and I encourage you to engage with the
University's History Task Force to maintain the historical accuracy and truth of our shared Carolina past, to
assure a more inclusive Carolina future for all students, faculty, and alumni and leave the statue down.
As a black alumna of UNC, the history of Silent Sam is saddening to me and a reminder of the Jim Crow era
that terrorized my family through fear, intimidation and murder. Jim Crow institutionalized economic,
educational, and social disadvantage for people who look like me. The era restricted my grandparents
and parents' generations from equal rights that should have been given to all citizens of this country. Silent Sam
and memories of the Confederacy of this time have a place in a museum, but not on our campus. This painful
reminder of the past and this obvious blemish in the nation's history should not be monumented at Carolina.
Please consider leaving the monument off of our campus and placing it at Bentonville Battleground or another
local Civil war museum.
Best,
Janelle (Royal) Harris
Message
From: Elizabeth Elsen
Sent: 9/8/2018 12:31:29 AM
To: president@northcarolina.edu; Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: Silent Sam
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Greetings to the person who checks this email account.
I know this will likely go into a huge pile of emails that you all are getting about this, but it's been on my mind
for 2 weeks, and so I'm sending it.
I am grateful that Silent Sam in no longer on campus. I wish that you all had been able to take it down, and that
you had fought harder for it's removal into a museum where he belongs.
I have family who have gone to Carolina before me (and after me) and family who fought in the Civil War (and
hopefully no one after me will have to fight in CWII) so please know that I'm not some random yankee
weighing in.
I am proud that this year the new Black UNC students will not have to walk past that statue and wonder if they
belong at Carolina. How you respond to this incident will impact that feeling, however.
I beg you to not return Silent Sam to the quad. Put him in a museum. Put him somewhere with context, put him
somewhere you have to choose to go to, and know what you are going to see and read about.
Please also act compassionately toward the students, faculty, and staff protesters and people who have stood up
against the statue. They do not deserve to be punished for doing something that you were not able to do, but that
needed to be done.
I appreciate your taking the time to read this message. If you are making checkmarks for votes, please consider
checking this box twice because that's how much I love Carolina. 200%.
Thanks,
Liz Elsen
Class of 2004
Message
From: Francis F. Hobart
Sent: 9/8/2018 11:32:13 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Location
Flag: Follow up

It is suggested that an appropriate location for Silent Sam would be in or adjoining University Memoria Grove
on South Rd.
Let the dead bury its dead.
Thank you for your service to UNC-Chapel Hill.
Sincerely,
John D. Hobart
Message
From: Jeff Morgan
Sent: 9/9/2018 4:58:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Location Proposal
Flag: Follow Up
I am writing in regard to the Silent Sam statue and all of the controversy. In this day and age, it seems that half the
people are for something and half the people are against. Unfortunately, we are living in divided country at this time.
Hopefully, this will change in the near future.
I am an architect in Charlotte, NC and went to North Carolina State University and Georgia Tech. I also have an MBA
from New York University. I worked in New York City for eleven years and met my wife while there. She is also an
architect and went to Syracuse University. We moved to Charlotte in 1999. We have two sons who are recent graduates
from UNC Chapel Hill.
This Silent Sam controversy has been a topic of conversation between us recently. My wife and I would visit our children
a few times each year while they were students and we enjoyed our walks thru the campus. We have covered all areas
of the campus and have given some thought about where this statue could be placed that would not cause so much
angst and controversy.
First, realize what the true purpose of this statue should represent. In simple terms, it would be to honor the 287 UNC
alumni who lost their lives fighting the Civil War. Were these individuals heroes for fighting for their cause and beliefs or
were they traitors to the United States of America? This can still be debated. What cannot be debated is that they lost
their lives for something they felt was worth fighting and dying for.
When I saw that the UNC Board of Governors was seeking ideas on where this statue should be located, I started giving
this some thought. So, where are lost lives honored ? The answer is a cemetery. The Old Chapel Hill Cemetery on the
UNC Chapel Campus is the ideal location for Silent Sam to be relocated to. A small pavilion should be created with brick
columns and iron gates and a solid roof that the statue would be placed in. Thus, the statue would be visible, but it
would also be protected from future vandalism. Silent Sam should not be placed on a giant pedestal as before, but on a
modest pedestal only a couple of feet high. On this pedestal, a simple inscription should read: "Silent Sam: this
monument is dedicated to the 287 University of North Carolina alumni that lost their lives during the Civil War".
Even in our family, there are differences in opinion on what should happen not only to Silent Sam but other Confederate
monuments in our country. But, we all have reached a consensus that honoring the dead in a cemetery is appropriate
and that if Silent Sam must be placed on the campus somewhere, then the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery is the least
controversial location. We are hopeful the he could find peace at this location and that both sides of this issue would
respect this decision, location and final resting place.
I would appreciate a response just stating that you have received and reviewed this suggestion.
Thank You.
Jeff Morgan
Message
From: Carney, Bruce William [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Silent Sam
Hi Carol and Bob --
I have followed the news about Silent Sam and sympathize with the challenge you and your colleagues in
South Building face. Like almost everyone else, I have thought about whether the statue belongs on campus
and, of so, where. To the first question, I believe strongly that it should not be replaced at its former site. It
was placed there with intentions that might have been common a century ago, but definitely not now.
So if it is to be erected somewhere else, where might that be? I have heard suggestions of the Bentonville
Battlefield, but in my view, Bennet Place in Durham would be even more appropriate. It was where Johnston
surrendered to Sherman (after Appomatox) and where the latter offered generous surrender terms in a spirit
of what Sherman felt Lincoln would have wished (but which was repudiated by Congress). As I recall, the
displays paid homage to the North Carolina dead, which exceeded in number those of all the other states.
But what if you are compelled to re-erect the statue on campus? This came to my attention in an article in last
week's N&O, which mentioned that the Administrative Board of the Library had rejected that suggestion, and I
believe will be the subject of a Friends of the Library telecon later today (which I cannot join, but I have shared
my feelings with Elaine). No library nor any building on campus is appropriate, for it only moves the lightning
rod indoors. As I see things, the only place on campus that might be appropriate is the old cemetery. That
could provide a quiet spot and, perhaps, some historical context for the campus, while being somewhat out of
the way. Who knows? Maybe over time the statue could lose its sexist name.
An advantage of relocating it would, of course, offer the University an opportunity to erect a more forward-
looking monument in its place, as I assume you have already considered.
Good luck with this, Carol. You have my best wishes here.
--Bruce
Message
From: Alyx Beckwith
Sent: 9/10/2018 3:04:28 PM
Subject: Please keep our campus free of Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I want to thank you for your leadership of my alma mater and university that I love deeply. As a graduate of the
class of 2002, I firmly stand against Silent Sam and ask that the campus remain free of Confederate statues that
seek to glorify a painful time in our history. I am saddened that it has taken so long for this statue to come down
and I believe that it should be in a museum, not in a place of prominence on our beautiful upper quad. Thank
you for taking the time to read my email and for your public service.
Best regards,
Alexandra Beckwith
Class of 2002
11
"Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
- Cornell West
Message
From: Allan
Sent: 9/11/2018 4:01:19 PM
To: Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administ rative Group
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Subject: Davies
As a North C arolina Mason, I believe that William Richardson Davie (1756-1820) now deserves unprecedented honor
and visibility at the University of North C arolina. Davie is one of our country's Founding Fathers, the third Grand Master
of North Carolina's Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons, a heroic cavalry officer of the Revolutionary War, governor, and
founder of the University of North C arolina. As you likely know from recent news accounts, UNC-CH's statue of a
Confederate soldier was lately removed from its pedestal and may henceforth occupy a more secure place on the
campus, thus vacating the historic and conspicuous spot where the University was first conceived. Five good likenesses
of Davie exist, two in Philadelphia's Independence Hall and three at the University of North C arolina, providing the basis
for a splendid sculpture. If we take part in an effort to ennoble this historic and conspicuous site with a tribute to the
founder's memory, North Carolinians will forever thank us. Will you kindly keep my suggestion in mind, and possibly
lend your own support to the idea?
W.Alla n Mann
PM. CM Setzer Lodge #693
PM Knights of Solomon Lodge #764
Secretary KOS# 764
YORK RITE
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Message
From: bob schmitz
Sent: 9/12/2018 10:03:55 AM
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Subject : Silent Sam,
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Dear Members of UNC Board of Governors,
I have lived in North Carolina for 40 years. My daughter, Jessie, attended UNC Chapel Hill and I feel a great
affinity for this great university and it's dedication to all the people of North Carolina and to public service. My
daughter was a Public Service Scholar and I was very impressed that the school would have an organized,
funded program to encourage public service and that the sash that my daughter wore at graduation was Carolina
Blue.
I have often heard from my Southern friends that the civil war was about states rights and not slavery. I looked
up the Ordinance of Secession for the first state to secede, South Carolina. It is short and makes interesting
reading and it is clear that the only right that they seceded for was the right to have slaves. The words slave and
slavery are mentioned 14 times in the short document. The war was about slavery and the rebel soldiers were
fighting for a cause whose main purpose was the right to enslave African Americans. With Jim Crow statues of
rebel soldiers were placed in front of court houses, town squares and on the UNC campus clearly to mark the
cause of slavery and intimidate blacks. Why else would they be put where they were put? If they were to honor
the dead why not in grave yards or battlefields?
I do not agree with pulling down public statues, however, I am glad to see them disappearing from prominent
public spaces. If UNC is truly dedicated to the well being of all the citizens of our great state then it should not
prominently display a symbol that represents to many of its citizens both black and white a horrible aspect of its
past. If the statue is put back up, and I prefer that it is not, it should be placed on a battlefield such as Bennett
Place State Historic Site. It belongs there as a tribute to the brave men who fought.
Thank you,
Bob Schmitz
Message
From: Whitney Brown
Sent: 9/17/2018 1:09:47 PM
CC: Public BOT [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: Regarding Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I hope this finds you safe from flooding and storm damage.
It seems the wrong moment to address the Silent Sam situation, given all that is happening across the state, but
it's the weather that has finally given me a moment to write you. I've been fired up about this since long before
Silent Sam toppled to the ground.
I am a 2010 alumna of the University (MA, Folklore), and I realize that my voice is needed in the larger
discussion over the fate of that lump of racist metal.
I'll give you the meat of my feelings upfront, and I'll justify after: if that wretched, racist statue EVER goes
back up on that pedestal or anywhere else on campus, the university will never see a CENT of my money. I was
proud to have graduated from a university with a long, clear history of progressive work and values-
particularly where the south and southern culture and society are concerned--and that seems less and less the
case these days. I don't know whether that is due to the Board of Governors, you, President Spellings (whose
installation I protested from the SECOND it was announced), or wealthy donors, but many of your alumni are
disturbed by what we see.
Firstly, on the matter of Silent Sam's recent fall, I would like to praise the work and leadership of the Center of
the Study of the American South, which is increasingly the only part of the University I feel any connection
with. In most university communications, all we hear about sports, medicine, and sciences, and increasingly
from a global standpoint. That's fine to a point-globalization is real-but I feel UNC has begun to neglect and
even ignore what is happening in its own region despite its mandate to serve the people. CSAS cares about what
is happening here and now, and they want to be on the right side of history BECAUSE THAT'S THE RIGHT
THING TO DO. Though I know she did it in full consultation with her staff, it took great courage for Professor
Lowry not only to allow it, but to encourage the discussion-and to take that discussion public. Professor
Lowry does not shy from complex issues. May she be recognized and rewarded for that. These discussions are
more important that ever given the political climate in this country right now and the obvious and unchecked
uptick of racial violence and racist speech and gatherings.
Like CSAS, I want to examine the truth of the statue's installation. It's not as if we are pulling down a statue of
a specific person-a war hero like Robert E. Lee, for instance. It's not as if this statue has murky origins either.
The message it was meant to send was explained quite explicitly by the people who attended its dedicated. Carr
was an avowed racist, and a violent one. This garbage has no place on our campus. I'm sorry if it is now
considered a historical artifact by some, but it has to go. Have you asked your African-American students how it
makes them feel? Do they feel welcome? I'm particularly interested in whether they feel welcome walking past
that statue on their way up from predominantly white Greek party houses on Franklin Street, and on their way
up to buildings often bearing the names of other politically questionable individuals. Note that I'm not asking
for every sketchy building on campus to be renamed, but for a racist statue to be left off its pedestal now that
the damage is done.
Why, by the way, did you wait so long to deal with this? Why did you leave the students no option but to take
matters into their own hands? Why didn't you listen to them?Gov. Cooper had already given his blessing for it
to come down. Most of the faculty want it down, and many departments have publicly decried its presence. You
did nothing. I'm sorry if what they did was illegal, but no one was hurt, and in my opinion, this was the best
way it could have happened, all things considered. This is what happens when people feel they have no voice.
This is what happens when people feel insulted and embarrassed by something they are forced to live with, all
while they are paying to be there on campus.
Why, while we're at it, didn't the conflict-avoidant university administration do the smart thing and quietly take
the statue down over the summer while the students were away so that it wouldn't become such a political
football?
I don't understand why. And I don't understand why there is ANY discussion of putting the horrible thing back
up. I don't want it anywhere on campus, but it certainly better not go back where it came from. There's NO
legitimate justification for that except for appeasement of racists-period. People need to stop using the
"historical significance" cloak, and those in power need to stop kowtowing to it.
Please don't. UNC is supposed to be a beacon of tolerance and learning and enlightenment in the state. It no
longer feels that way. Sports scandals have been embarrassing. The state has embarrassed itself with those
ridiculous gendered bathroom bills. Enough. NC needs to right the ship. UNC should lead the way.
May all the hurricane news wash the conflict away and let Silent Sam quietly die.
Thank you for your time. I know you don't have an easy job, but it's time for you to take a stand. Please join us
on the right side of history.
Sincerely,
Whitney Brown
Message
From: William Harding
Sent: 9/18/2018 12:43:40 PM
Subject: Re: Dedication speech
Thank you for your reply to my email. A lot of time and effort has been required to address this issue-and even more is
deserved.
Addressing the contents of the 1913 dedication speech directly, and more forcefully repudiating its message, might help
to ensure that this clear-cut moral issue is not reframed as a matter of historic preservation or honoring our soldiers.
Some Confederate monuments have been moved to cemeteries. As a founding member of the Association for
Gravestone Studies, I wish to forcefully express my opinion that they do not belong in cemeteries, and placing
monuments in cemeteries invites vandalism.
The most eloquent example of balancing the complex messages of historical monuments is the juxtaposition of the
African American Museum of History and Culture with the Washington Monument. Placing "Silent Sam" in a secure
indoor location with educational information and an appropriate contrasting memorial is worth the investment to
prevent future conflict and to promote healing.
Thank you for your attention to this very important decision.
Respectfully yours,
William E. Harding MD
On Sep 18, 2018, at 12:09 PM, Chancellor <chancellor(@unc.edu> wrote:
Dear William,
Thank you for your email and we apologize for the delayed response. We understand that people
feel strongly and deeply about the Confederate Monument and its future. We regret the
impersonal nature of this response, however due to the large volume of emails we have received
and the complexity of this issue, we are unable to personalize each response. Please know that
each email is being read.
On August 28, the UNC System Board of Governors passed a resolution directing the UNC-Chapel Hill
Board of Trustees and university administration to develop and present a plan for the Confederate
Monument's "disposition and preservation." In the near future, Chancellor Falt and the Board of
Trustees will announce a process to create a "lawful and lasting path that protects public safety,
preserves the monument and its history, and allows the University to focus on its core mission of
education, research, economic stimulation and creating the next generation of leaders."
You can find the most recent statements about the Confederate Monument here. We encourage you to
read these statements and to check back for the most up-to-date information.
Respectfully,
The Office of the Chancellor
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 8:30 PM
To: Chancellor <chancellor@uncedu>
Subject: Dedication speech
Dear President Falt,
In the light of excerpts from the 1913 dedication speech for "Silent Sam" by Julian Carr-easily
accessible online - reinstallation of the monument would be shameful.
William E. Harding MD
Message
From: Michael Thomsen [Mike .Thomsen@asu.edu]
Sent: 9/19/2018 6:43:10 PM
Flag: Follow up
As suggested below, I did take the opportunity to read your Labor Day message regarding Silent Sam. I was
heartened by your acknowledgment that the Confederate monument does not belong "at the front door" of the
UNC campus, near the Davie Poplar. Ironically, the same powerfully emotional but opposite sentiments that
place the University in such a difficult position also dramatize the importance of taking immediate and decisive
action.
The reason sentiments are divided is that the same reprehensible mentalities that characterized the antebellum
South survive and prosper today among an alarming proportion of citizens, legislators, and perhaps even
trustees of the University.These were a racially defined and privileged people who, by and large, considered
themselves entitled to imprison, oppress, exploit, buy, sell, beat, torture and murder another racially defined
group of people. To what end? To promote their own wealth and comfort. How dedicated were they to this
repugnant goal? So dedicated they were willing to take up armed rebellion against their country and even give
their lives to preserve and promote these profound injustices.
That the oppressors were spared the gallows was an act of mercy, intended to heal the wounds of war, and to
lead to a society united in brotherhood, justice and kindness. Again ironically, this act of mercy had the opposite
effect. It permitted the defenders of oppression to assume positions of honor at parity with the defenders of
freedom and human rights, laying the foundation for a century or more of "Jim Crow," enshrined in the law in
many places through the mid-twentieth century, and practiced more furtively by employers, law enforcement
agencies and commercial enterprises to this very day. It is this loathsome surviving mentality that permits a
police officer in today's news reports to claim he was justified in firing sixteen bullets into the body of a young
man of color who was walking away from him, some of the shots fired while his victim was lying on the
ground.
One more observation about Silent Sam. Perhaps you know that, in addition to symbolizing and honoring
Confederate soldiers, Silent Sam was also used by twentieth century male students as the basis of a beloved
tradition of insult and degradation of women. Legend had it that Silent Sam would fire his gun if a chaste
woman ever walked by him. No gunshots, no chaste women. The tradition, it appeared, was part of the
mystique of the "Carolina Gentleman."
My suggestion? If Silent Sam deserves to be displayed, it would be in a Museum oflnfamy, "cheek by jowl"
with Attila the Hun and the rest of the murderous oppressors that have plagued human history. Lest we forget
that humans can be the most inhuman species on our planet. Thank you again for your attention.
Sincerely,
Michael.A., Thomsen, Ph . D, Amanda M. Thomsen

MAC UNC 1967
On 9/17/2018 11 :44 AM, Chancellor wrote:
Dear Michael,
Thank you for your email and we apologize for the delayed response. We understand that people
feel strongly and deeply about the Confederate Monument and its future. We regret the
impersonal nature of this response, however due to the large volume of emails we have received
and the complexity of this issue, we are unable to personalize each response. Please know that
each email is being read.
On August 28, the UNC System Board of Governors passed a resolution directing the UNC-
Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and university administration to develop and present a plan for the
Confederate Monument's "disposition and preservation." In the near future, Chancellor Folt and
the Board of Trustees will announce a process to create a "lawful and lasting path that protects
public safety, preserves the monument and its history, and allows the University to focus on its
core mission of education, research, economic stimulation and creating the next generation of
leaders."
You can find the most recent statements about the Confederate Monument here. We encourage
you to read these statements and to check back for the most up-to-date information.
Respectfully,
From: Mike Thomsen

Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 3:57 PM
To: Chancellor
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Folt:
I earned my master's degree at Chapel Hill a bit over fifty years ago. I don't agree with
vandalism, but the statue we called Silent Sam should never have been erected in the first place,
and should long since have been removed from a place of enlightenment and social justice such
as the UNC main campus. The monument honored those willing -- nay eager -- to kill their
fellow citizens in order to preserve an economic system based on the barbaric practice of slavery.
The lives of the leaders of the armed insurrection were spared only because of the compassionate
desire of Lincoln and others to forgive, heal the wounds, and reunify the nation. Since the end of
that war, the descendants of those whose blood and sweat enriched those more privileged, have
time and again been denied security, justice and equal opportunity by those hoping to reverse the
outcome of that war, ranging from Jesse Helms to David Duke. While we cannot condone
vandalism, we can, and should, temper our reaction with some understanding of the injustices
and the resulting frustration that led to it. Tar Heel leaders should be ashamed of having given
Silent Sam a haven for so long.
Dr. Michael A Thomsen

Mesa, Arizona
Message
From: Simmons, Randy L [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=40bae0173bec4c5e8ddd9e3b2a0a8e63-Randy L Sim]
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:59:51 AM
To: UNC Monument [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Silent Sam
Leave the statue where it has always be e n. You can't erase history, To me it does not stand for racism
Randy Simmons
Facilitie s Manager
UNC Che mistry Dept.
Ke nan Labs B024
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From: Swanstrom, Ronald I [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Suggestion
Move the statue and pedestal to Durham Station where the Civil War officially ended. This is already a
historical site nearby and context for the statue could be provided.
Message
From: Robert H. Vickery [rhvickery@northcarolina.edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:05:04 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam
Option 1 - move the statue and pedestal to a museum and create a new monument to the recent events at the original
site.
Option 2 - move the statue to a museum and create a new monument to recent events at the same site using the
existing pedestal somehow.
(short and simple)
Robert H. Vickery
Director of Financial Reporting &
ERP Systems Integration
Finance and Administration
140 Friday Center Drivel Chapel Hill, NC 27517
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From: Criffield, Robin R. [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro
Hello,
I was in a meeting last week with John Swaine the CEO of the International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro and they
would be interested in having the statute as part of their permanent collection. This is where the permanent exhibit of
the Woolworth lunch counter and A&T sit-in in 1960 is housed https;//www.sitinrnovement.org/.
Regards,
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Program Administrator for Myron S. Cohen, MD
Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases
2116 Bioinformatics Bldg, CB# 7030
Chapel Hill, NC, USA 27599-7030
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From: Bunch, Ricky S [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 11:07:16 AM
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Subject: silent sam
To whom it may concern:

Put that sculpture in a monument or art gallery, whom ever wants to worship it, let be available to them 24/7,
365 days! Problem solved
Message
From: Southey Blanton
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:09:57 AM
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Subject: Confederate Monument Plans
As a class of '05 alum, and now a current employee of UNC I am ashamed at the way this university has bent
over backwards to placate racists and white supremacists just because they have threatened to stop donating big
bucks to a university with a multi-BILLION dollar endowment.
Get rid of the statue, if racists want it, then just donate it to someone in the ACTBAC group that continues to
come to campus and punch students and activists and they can put it in their backyard.
The statue is a symbol of hate and evil, and it should not be present anywhere on campus, not even in a broom
closet.
Melt it down and make it into a bench and then throw that bench into the ocean.
STOP PROTECTING RACISTS AND RACISM BECAUSE YOU ARE SCARED OF LOSING
DONATIONS.
YOU ARE BEING COWARDS AND EMBARRASSING ANYONE WHO HAS EVER ATTENDED THIS
UNIVERSITY AND BELIEVED IT TRULY WAS A PLACE WHERE DIVERSITY MATTERED.
-Southey Blanton
Class of 2005
Message
From: White, Peter S [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 11:11:51 AM
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Subject: Where a statue once stood
Dear Chancellor Falt and others involved in the plan for the Silent Sam monument,
I write because I think this moment is an opportunity not just to discuss the fate of a single statue and not just an
opportunity to talk about historical context, but also a moment to proclaim the University's values in a way that is as
much about the future as the past. The arc of history bends towards human rights and better lives-and universities play
an irreplaceable role in that arc. Thus, I wanted to explore the ways that we could create a positive and forward looking
statement in the place where Silent Sam once stood. I can see this taking three possible forms: 1) a welcoming plaque,
sculpture, or monument to the University's values, the role of universities, and the unfinished work ahead, 2) a
gathering circle (a low stone wall in a circular pattern) to invite all University folks into the place that formerly felt
exclusionary, and 3) an empty stretch of lawn within that beautiful quadrangle, returning it to the pre-Silent Sam
conditions and conveying the sense that this was always a place to walk through on the way to class, library, meeting, or
laboratory, the places that are a reflection of the University's values.
I can't think of a way to retain the Silent Sam statue on campus, even if accompanied by the story of the historical
context. When I imagine this, I keep thinking that you would need the Silent Sam statue placed among other statues or
monuments that would show the historical development of which Silent Sam is a part and embed him or surround him
with the diverse human world that is North Carolina now, perhaps including North Carolina slave descendants and North
Carolina civil rights figures. To develop the historical context in text only (whether on plaques, brochures, or the web)
while Silent Sam is so prominent as a physical statement feels unbalanced. Perhaps Silent Sam can go to a museum or
civil war battlefield where many other statures and monuments have already been placed and the historical context for
the Civil War, slavery, and racism is the established purpose.
Peter
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Hello,
I suggest putting Silent Sam in Wilson Library with other North Carolina historical artifacts. This way, it will be better
preserved and available to anyone who truly wants to learn more about that period of our state's history. Thanks!
Take care,
Tammy
TAMMY C DOZIER
Scholarship Develop1nent Coordinato1·
UNC Office of Scholarships and Student Aid
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From: Gray, Clark L. [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Silent Sam
The statue should not be returned to a place of prominence given its historical context as a monument to
slavery and racism. Preferably, it should not be displayed on campus at all. If it must be displayed, it should be
displayed with its historical context front and center. The display in Carolina Hall is a good example.
Clark Gray
Associate Professor of Geography
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From: Williams, Michael [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Silent Sam's Future
Petitions, requests, and polite conversation have been used for ha lf a century to point out the pall Si lent Sam casts on the
experience of the University's students of color and its credibi lity as a diverse and welcoming environment. Those polite entreaties
fell on deaf ears. Now activists have done the work the University should have done. A year or more ago I was one of the people
calling for something creative: a contest to have students redesign or replace it, some way of engaging the University community in
ridding ourselves of something none of us should want in a constructive and educational way. Too late! The statue is gone and it
should stay gone, and the University should drop any charges or investigation into who did that work for them.
The Un iversity's plan to restore the statue, if one is required by law, should be to find the farthest and dimmest corner of the North
Carolina Collection, stand it up there, throw a sheet over it, and hang a sign around its neck that reads, "Please excuse our mess." It
should never see the light of day again, and the University should disavow such monuments altogether. Does that mean renaming
Carr? Or other buildings? Other sites? Probably so. Rename Carr after the first woman of color to attend UNC. Rename it after the
most prominent abolitionist alumnus. Rename it - and every other reminder we've given ourselves of the Confederacy's treason -
after someone who deserves acclaim, and put a sign next to it explaining the history of its name and why it was changed. The
University was created to look to the future, not to glorify the worst of our past.
Regards,
Michael Williams
Class of '99
Michael G. Williams
michael_williams@u nc.ed u
UNC Information Security
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From: Ca labrese, Mauro [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Idea about the future of the monument
I would love for UNC to commission a separate monument to sit adjacent to Silent Sam. This new monument would
highlight our unity, our diversity, and the strength that we derive from our shared experience. It would be a symbol of
strength and beauty, and of hope. A new monument would make UNC a cultural leader. It would set a precedent for
others who are struggling with similar relics of their past.
Rather than tearing Silent Sam down, let the old monument stand, so that we will never forget our past. History is not
always beautiful. Those who forget that destine themselves to repeat it.
The alternate views that Silent Sam espouses still exist and poison the minds of a minority of young people in our
society. Let them have their monument, and give us our own.
Mauro Calabrese
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From: Storrie, Mindy [Mindy_Storrie@kenan-flagler.unc.edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:25:26 AM
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Subject: Confederate Monument
I urge you to put the monument in a museum where facts from both sides of what the statue represents to our
community can be included. I recognize the value of freedom of speech on our campus, but we should never be using a
reminder and symbol of slavery to represent us (students, faculty, staff.) Perhaps since it is related to a war, it should go
in the ROTC building to honor soldiers who answered the call of their country, even if that call was misrepresented
and/or a mistake, when we look back on history.
THANKS for offering the opportunity to express personal opinions on this matter.
Mindy
Mindy Storrie
Executive Director, Smith Leadership Initiative
Director, Hodges Leadership Center, Undergraduate Business & Master of Accounting
M indy Storrie@unc.edu •· www.kenan-flaaler.unc.edu/Leadership
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Subject: Silent Sam
I think that if we don't destroy Silent Sam, that the statue needs to be displayed on campus along with a statue
of a prominent civil rights leader. Both of the statues need to be accompanied by historical information and
interpretive information at a minimum.
Personally, I'd advocate that we need a civil rights center that encompasses the history of all peoples that have
had to struggle to have their rights recognized, including but not limited to:
• African Americans,
• Female Americans,
• Japanese Americans (WWII internment camps),
• Italian Americans,
• German Americans,
• Polish Americans,
• Jewish Americans,
• Muslim Americans,
• Gay Americans,
• Trans Americans,
• Arab Americans,
• Native Americans,
• Americans living in poverty
Sincerely,
James Tsuruta, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Message
From: Matt W Reinheimer
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:27:43 AM
Subject: What To Do W Silent Sam
To Whom It May Concern,
As a Southerner born and bred, I believe that the Silent Sam statue either should be placed in a Civil War
museum where proper context can be included (e.g. images and true accounts of the true circumstances of
chattel slavery) or should be melted down to make hats for all the people who are super concerned about
honoring their slave-holding heritage.
Hats should read:
"My great-grandfather 'earned' his fortune thanks to free labor secured by murder, rape, sales of babies, and
countless other forms of unimaginable violence ..... and all I got was this hat (and the continuing benefit of that
fortune which I enjoy today)"
If possible, I'd also like one of these hats as I'm sure they'll be collectors items once the rest of the monuments
celebrating slavery around the state and the South are rightfully taken down.
Cheers, and happy Monday!!!
- Matt Reinheimer
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From: Platts-Mil ls, Timothy [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 11:28:29 AM
Subject: 3 thoughts
Thanks for all your work on this and considering these suggestions:
1. I think the monument should be physically standing somewhere.

2. That place should be inside - which seems like it would make it less a rallying point and less a danger to
the campus.
3. The speech that was given at the time of the dedication - particularly the offensive parts - should be
next to it somewhere - so that someone who doesn't understand the issues can see why so many
people are offended by the statue.
4. Additional contextualization about the statue - including the contributions/sacrifices of soldiers from
the area/University during the Civil War should be provided.
I thought Dr. Folt's recent e-mail on this - describing the many different views - was outstanding - and provides
a really healthy starting point for the contextualization. The goal is not to erase this past, but learn from it and
let other people learn from it.
Yours,
Tim
Tim Platts-Mills, MD, MSc

Vice-Chair of Research
Dept. of Emergency Medicine
tplattsm@med.unc.edu
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From: Baron, Laura A. [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Removal of Silent Sam from its Current Location
Hello ~ I'm writing about the future of the Silent Sam monument I foel this monument can provide many
opportunities for discussions of the history of the Confederacy, the slavery of African-Americans, the Civil War. etc
, b ut that it must aU be put in the context of today's racial dynamics in our country, I believe i t is wholly
lE?.PPropriate for this monument to be restored to its original locatio n at the entrance of our fine University, I
trust members of the History Department, the Stone Center, the Center for the Study ofthe American South, etc. to
find a 21st century solution to the dHemrna of hov; to preserve this monument
If vve restore SHent Sam to its previous location, we wffl lose aU credi.hi.Hty in terms of our mission of diversity and
inclusio n. not only amongst our fc a ulty, staff and students., but th roughout our country and the vvorld. Please do
the right thing! Thank-you,
Laura Baron /HR Consultant

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From: Kimrey, Travis Elton [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 11:31:14 AM
Subject: Silent sam
Please put this monument back up and put a fence around it
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Subject: Idea for monument
Good morning. As part of Carolina's "Arts Everywhere" Initiative, I would love to see some sort of artistic display made
out of the monument that encompasses stories and sentiments from both sides of the aisle. From the student who put
her own blood on the monument, to the groups holding up large confederate flags, the slaves for which the civil war was
fought, the soldiers who lost their lives in that war, etc. I think we could take something painful and divisive and make
something beautiful out of it that tells everyone's stories and adds to the overall Carolina story. I am even award of
potential funding opportunities for such a project and believe we could find others. Thanks for the opportunity to
provide some input.
Respectfully submitted,
kcmdoce Dovis i::or Tcir -, J,D,

.Assistcint Director- d Corpctote und Foundotion Re lotions for Ace es'; F'rogrrnYis
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From: Rosen, Maureen Dolan [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Silent Sam
Suggest you brick in such monuments to comply with the NC state law prohibiting
removal of same, and add a plaque explaining in detail the abhorrent activities in which
those represented by such monuments engaged.
Maureen Dolan R osen, MGA

Staff Writer, Office of Student Affairs
University of North Carolina, School of Medicine
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Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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From: Hudnell, Marla [Marla_Hudnell@kenan-flagler.unc.edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:34:08 AM
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Subject: Confederate monument
Hello,
I think it makes sense to donate the Silent Sam monument to some kind of museum for those who wish to preserve it. Is
there a museum for the history of the South, or something similar?
Or ... another option ... how about a Hollywood prop studio?
I do not think it should be housed anywhere near Chapel Hill, or even in North Carolina, since many people find it
upsetting to have around.
Thanks for the opportunity to comment!
Marla
Marla Hudnell
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UNC l<enan-Flagler Business School

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From: Dittus, Christopher [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Museum of History Donation
Hi,
A relic such as this deserves a home in a museum. I recommend donating it to the NC Museum of History in
Raleigh.
Regards,
Chris Dittus
Christopher Dittus, DO, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Lymphoma Program
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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From: Keeler, Andrew George [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: monument disposition
I was born in Chapel Hill in 1956 and grew up seeing "Silent Sam" without even thinking about it until my
family moved away in 1969.
When I returned to Chapel Hill as an undergraduate in 1974, all I knew about the statue was the hackneyed
story about when the soldier fired his gun. My friends and I dressed up the statue as a witch and an MX missile
on successive years in the late 70s, but never spared a single thought for its historical context. I was a member
of the North Carolina Fellows Program, which at that time was housed in Pettigrew Hall by Silent Sam and had
a racially diverse membership. I never heard a single comment about the fact that a monument to a Confederate
soldier was so prominent on campus from either Caucasian or African-American students.
In looking back at this, I am appalled at my own cluelessness and the collective ability to ignore what was -
literally -staring us all in the face. I join what I believe to be the overwhelming sentiment that this statue
should absolutely not be returned to its former place unchanged. But I also think it represents an opportunity
for us all to be able to reflect and learn from the way that history matters, and how our collective conception of
public morality changes over time and, hopefully if slowly and haltingly, "the arc of the universe bends toward
justice." So I strongly favor an outcome where the history of this monument - from the hateful speech that
marked its unveiling, to its long tenure on the campus with so little comment and notice, to protest and violent
removal -- can become a part of the public and visible historical record on the UNC - Chapel Hill campus. I
defer to those with expertise and background in archiving and display about how this should take place - but I
add my voice to those who think this should be part of the UNC community's ongoing reflection and
understanding of our highly imperfect history and our effort to understand the past in order to avoid at least
some of its mistakes.
Andrew G. Keeler
Program Head, Public Policy and Coastal Sustainability
UNC Coastal Studies Institute
Professor of Economics
East Carolina University
Director, Outer Banks Field Site
http://coastalstudiesinstitute.org/about/faculty-and-staff/andy-keeler/
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From: Frye, Stephen [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 11:37:16 AM
Subject: Future of Silent Sam
I am writing in response to the request for comments to the Chancellor, UNC System President, Margaret Spellings, and
the Board of Trustees on the future of "Silent Sam".
To place a person on a pedestal is to hold them in honor or reverence. The practice of slavery and the erection of
monuments like this one on our UNC campus are the product of a philosophy of white supremacy that is antithetical to
the ideals of this University and our country. The glorification of the Confederacy is an ongoing and shameful part of the
legacy of the Southern states that rebelled against the USA over the right to own slaves. As a NC resident since birth, I
am all too familiar with the misinformation and inadequate teaching of this horrific history in our State.
Southern states have yet to face the reality of slavery, the civil war, and years of Jim Crow and racism that continues
today- there is much to learn from this history, but there is nothing to be proud of based on the actions of the majority
of whites in the South. In contrast, there are many stories of courage and perseverance among African Americans in the
South and some whites that stood against the injustice of slavery and racism. Let's put up a monument to honor and
revere some of them and take Sam permanently off the pedestal and put him in a setting where the history is clearly
visible and the persistent, romanticized version of Southern rebellion is rejected. Germany is not proud of the Nazi's or
the holocaust, and they teach this painful history instead of re-writing it. You will find no Nazi's on pedestals in Germany.
Slavery is the American Holocaust and should be taught as such.
Sincerely,
Stephen V. Frye, Ph.D.

Fred Eshelman Distinguished Professor
Director, Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
Eshelman School of Pharmacy
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From: Briggs, Thomas Dane [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Silent Sam
It's unfortunate that some people have mistaken a memorial to those who fought for this state as a hate
symbol. At no time was this monument erected in the name of Racisim. Misguided youths have once again
invoked their own will to remove a historic monument and change history to their liking.
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From: Bradley, Richard A [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Feedback
I like the idea of the statue being in Ackland where they can contextualize the history of the monument, the
Confederacy, and slavery.
I also like the idea of replacing the former site of the monument with a welcoming and unifying symbol for the campus.
Rick Bradley
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From: William
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:40:12 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I have read the posted statement about the plans to submit some kind of
plan to the UNC Board around Nov. 15. Unfortunately for the University,
that date does not comply with state law. I know you do not wish to be in
violation of state laws. A North Carolina law, adopted in 2015 and
codified as North Carolina General Statute (G.S.) § 100-2.1, requires that
objects of remembrance on public property cannot be removed or
relocated except in certain circumstances. "1\n object of rcn1en1brance
that is te1nporarily relocated shall be returned to its
original location within 90 days of completion of the project that required its
temporary
removal, An object of remernbrance that is permanently relocated shall be
relocated to a site of
silnilar prominence, honor, visibility, availability, and access that are within the
boundaries of
the jurisdiction frorn which it was relocated. An object of remembrance may not
be relocated to
a museum, cemetery, or mausoleum unless it was originally placed at such a
location. As used
in this section, the term "object of remembrance" means a monument, memorial,
plaque, statue,
marker, or display of a permanent character that commemorates an event, a
person, or military
service that is part of North Carolina's history. The circumstances under which an
object of
remembrance may be relocated are either of the following:
You must replace it within 90 days. The clock is ticking.

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From: Ackall, Viviane [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Silent Sam
Attachments: ATT63889; ATT09137
I would like to add to the list of people supporting the moving of the statue to another location for a series of reasons:
1 I am afraid for my personal safety and the safety of my students
2 Our student with psychological issues do NOT need to be worried about riots and safety issue because of a block
of dead material (a monument)
3 I understand that Sam is part of the NC state history as much as Hitler is part of German history, and that does
not mean I want a statue of Hitler on my backyard
4 This statue was placed here many years after the end of the war, therefore, it could be placed somewhere else
where one will appreciate it
5 You are not destroying the statue. You are just moving it to a better place where it can be liked
6 The money saved on not having to protect a statue, can be directed to constructing new parking lots which are
much more needed that a statue.
These are my 2 cents.
Thank you for putting time and effort on trying to please all pe ople . Good luck with that.
Viviane
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Put i t back where i t was.
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From: Hudson-Barr, Diane [Diane.Hudson-Barr@unchealth.unc.edu]
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Subject: monument feedback
I am a Carolina grad times 3 (BSN '81; PhD '93; MSN'18). As a white woman, it is difficult to understand what
the presence of that statue MEANS to people of color. I had the opportunity to read several pieces recently
about whiteness - I found the second one below to be the most helpful in increasing my understanding of the
experiences of those of color.
I don't think the NC Legislature will permit the statue being disposed of and not replaced. If that is the
constraints that the University must function under, then I support the idea of placing it somewhere that it can
be avoided by those who are hurt and/or offended by its presence. We cannot change history, but we can try
to put it in its proper place. And listen to the voices of the students and faculty who support UNC-CH as a
progressive institution.
Here are three essays that help open conversations about whiteness:
"What I Said \Vhen.1Vfv \Vhite .Fri.end Asked for1Vfv Black O inion on White Privik!\{e'' by Lori Lakin
Hutcherson
\Ve can begin to understand each other by asking the right questions - and listening to the stories we
receive in turn. Lori Lakin Hutchinson sheds frank and essential light on the reality of racism in
America.
"Transforrning \Vbitc Fragility Into Courageous l.mperfection'' by Courtney E. Martin

A passionate, grounded plea to recognize white privilege and the gut level pushback - the "white
fragility" - that happens when talking about race.
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time around.
Diane Hudson-Barr
Diane l··ludson··Ban-, PhD, RN, CNS, CPNP

Clinical Nur·se Spec1al:st,
Newborn Critical Care Centi?r,
UNC Hospitals, 4th F!oor Children's Hospita!
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Subject: Where Silent Sam should go
I feel very strongly that Silent Sam, as a piece of history, belongs in a history museum ... on a section about Jim Crow.
Monuments erected during that period were an important part of public intimidation and separation, and should be
remembered as such.
I do not feel that it belongs in any public, outdoor space, and especially not on UNC's campus. If it needs to stay
affiliated with UNC in some way, I think you need to put together a museum exhibit to deal with it. The History
department would at least consider an offer to lead the effort.
Jonathan Horowitz
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carolina Population Center
PhD in Sociology from UNC-Chapel Hill, 2017
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Subject: Confederate Monument's Future - Idea Submission
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Personally I would not want the monument to be plac ed back on campus at all. If you can't destroy the thing, just lock it
in a basement somewhere; however, if you do have to put it back up, I suggest you place it at the Center for the Study of
the American South and contextualize it with a historical marker explaining its original dedication and role as a marker
for white supremacy.
Michael Smith
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UNC Summer School
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Subject: Monument Relocation

Since the Silent Sam monument was erected to honor Carolina students who fought and/or died during the Civil War, it
is most appropriate to have it relocated to the University Memorial Grove, if space allows it.
Bethsaida Sanes Seagroves
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Hi /\II,
I propose the statue to be re--located to the museum of history or any other museum in Triangle.
Zarnira
From: no_reply@email.unc.edu <no_reply@email.unc.edu>

Sent: Monday, September 24, 2018 11:01 AM
To: Gleason, Zamira <zgleason@email.unc.edu>
Subject: [FORMAL NOTICE] Message from Chancellor Carol L. Falt and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees
Dear Carolina Community:
As you likely are aware, recently the UNC System Board of Governors gave the UNC-
Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and me a clear path to develop a plan for the Confederate
Monument's "disposition and preservation." We have been asked to present our plan to UNC
System President Margaret Spellings and the Board of Governors by November 15, 2018.
I know that many in our community and beyond feel passionately about the monument. As a
next step, we have created a dedicated email address, uncmonument(a),unc.edu, for anyone to
submit ideas about the statue's future. While we will not be able to provide individual
responses, we will carefully review and consider all ideas as we prepare a plan to present to
the Board of Governors in November. Please note that all email submissions will be subject
to disclosure under North Carolina's public records law.
Thank you in advance for your input on this important topic that will help shape the future of
Carolina.
Sincerely,
Chancellor Carol L. Folt and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees
This message is sponsored by: Office of the Chancellor

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From: Paul Thompson
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:46:20 AM
Subject: Sam
Put Sam in a space that honors the memory of those for whom he was dedicated. Open a UNC southern History
museum. We have a southern history after all.
Paul Thompson (1968)
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Subject: Confederate Statue input
Greetings, thanks for providing an opportunity to voice my opinion.

I believe that the statue should not go back to its original spo t, but should go into a museum or other venue that
acknowledges the divisive nature of Confederate monuments while documenting the historical significance o f related
events.
Sincerely, Teresa Reed
Teresa Reed, RN
Nurse Coordinator I Division of Cardiology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
160 Dental Circle I Campus Box 7075
6013-B Burnett-Womack Building I Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7075
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Subject: Silent Sam
I think it should be put into a museum. I suggest signage like in all museums that gives the history (the good, bad and
ugly) of the monument. (Who it represents, bring in the Jim Crow era, and the recent protests.) It's historical and should
be a museum piece. It's also a piece of art and should be treated as such despite it's history.
Mary Boyer
Business Services Coordinator
Construction Management
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Subject: Placement of Silent Sam
To whom it may concern,
I am of the opinion that Sam should be placed in a museum. Or better - the confederate cemetery in Atlanta.
If the Board of Govs insists that it stay on UNC's campus, then it must be made clear at the site what was said
when the statue went up, what the goals of the statue were (to reminds blacks of their place) and it must be
noted that UNC rejects the philosophy and culture the statue represents.
To me, this is not morally ambiguous. They statue was built to reinforce white supremacy and nothing
else. To defend it, is to defend white supremacy.
Sincerely,
Campus Box 7363

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Subject: This monument is a safety hazard
Thank you for setting up this email for comments from our UNC community.
The country is changing and people will continue to draw attention to all monuments erected to glorify the
Civil War and those that fought to defend southern succession and the system of slavery.
The statue cannot go back to where it once stood. One of the stipulations in the recent law enacted to protect
monuments is that safety should be considered. The toppling of the monument could have injured some of
those present - even if they were the ones who pulled it down. If it goes up in the same area or erected
somewhere else around campus, it will be toppled again.
I feel that it make sense to make a space for it in Wilson Library - Southern Historical collection area, perhaps?
I would also leave the paint and blood stains on it, and include this new chapter of history in a description. I
know there are relics and artifacts of UNC history located here.
It is bad PR to learn UNC has spent $400,000 protecting and preserving. Costs will only increase if it is erected
where it stood or in another area of campus not designated for history research.
Best,
Jennifer Hodgkinson
Jennifer Hodgkinson
Social/Clinical Research Specialist
Sheps Center for Health Services Research
725 MLK Jr Blvd, CB# 7590
Chape!Hill, NC 27514
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Sent: 9/24/2018 11:49:22 AM
Subject: Suggestion for Confederate Monument
Dear Board of Trustees members,

Thank you for the opportunity to make suggestions about the disposition and preservation of the Confederate
Monument.
I think this monument would be "at home" in a civil war/ confederate cemetery in the general vicinity of Chapel Hill
(within 50 miles). I would suggest the Historic Confederate Cemetery on Oakwood Avenue in Raleigh, NC. Another
option would be the Maplewood Cemetery in Durham, however this cemetery has had vandalism in the past.
May I also ask the following questions and ask that they be addressed (not necessarily to me) as part of a press release
in the near future: What plans are being put in place to ensure that the statue is not damaged? If it is damaged, what
plans are being put in place for the repair or replacement and who would be responsible for the costs?
Thank you kindly,

Angie Korchnak
UNC employee
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Subject: Silent Sam
I feel like it should be put back up and better protected and maybe better education on t he history of
this monument. For the people who took it down are much more racist than the statue. For it doesn't stand
for racism. Witch I'm sure you are aware of that.
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Subject: In a museum
Dear Board of Governors,

I believe Silent Sam should be placed in a museum where he can be displayed safely as part of the US North Carolina
history.
Saludos,
�� MPA, CCRP
Social/Clinical Research Specialist
UNC- Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center
123 W. Franklin St., Suite 450, CB# 8030
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From: R Kagan
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:57:33 AM
Subject: Re: [FORMAL NOTICE] Message from Chancellor Carol L. Folt and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board ofTrustees
Thank you for this forum .
Despite restrictive, regressive oriented state law and policy, as well as UNC's direct responsibility thereunder, I would
suggest:
PLEASE, Look at WHEN (1913) this statue was created and erected, AS WELL AS the abhorrent dedication speech,
which will be attached to it forever.
IF you:
1 - cannot publicly destroy this thing;

**2 - cannot melt this down and create a newly sculpted paean to the slaves who built UNC (perhaps with some further
explanation of its history); then,
3 - Allow some regressive, racist, hateful descendant of treasonous slaveowners to claim it and put this in his own
backyard, but do NOT put it in public - With OR Without further explanation.
Good luck to us all,
Looking forward -
Rick Kagan
UNC lecturer
Chapel Hill
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Sent: Sep 24, 2018 10:58 AM
To: spacedreams@mindspring.com
Subject: [FORMAL NOTICE] Message from Chancellor Carol L. Folt and the UNG-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees
next step, we have created a dedicated email address, uncmonument@unc.edu, for anyone to
Carolina.
Sincerely,

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Chancellor Falt
The monument was an attack on the mental health of the LJNC and Cha pel Hill con11rn.mity. Silent Sam was an att ractive
nuisance that put the safety of the UNC c ommunity at risk.
Please do not put it back where it was unless it is enclosed in a shell that limits its visibility and historical context is
provided.
I want to use the relocation of the relic as a teac hing moment.
Suggestions:
1) Put the monument i nto a repurposed part of C arr Hall with a new entrance. Sil ent Sam should be disp layed
exhibi ts that describe the con text from the time of its dedication and the h istory of Julian Shakespeare Carr.
2) P ut the monument into a multimedia museum on ca mpus tha t gives a data--driven picture of the c ause and
effects of the civ il war, the history of recons truction., Jim Crow, the Kl an, Redlining, "the Bell Curve," and t he civil
rights movement.
Thanks again for your service and leadership of the University.
Kirk
Kirk C. Wilhelmsen MD PhD
Carol Master Schiller Distinguished Scholar in Neurology

Professor LJNC Department of Gene tics and Neurology
Chief Domain Scientist for Biology and Director of Biolnformatics at
Renaissa nce Computing Institute
Carolina Center for Genome Sciences
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120 Mason Farm Rd
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To: Wilhelmsen, Kirk C <kirk_wilhelmsen@med.unc.edu>
next step, we have created a dedicated email address, uncmonument(al.unc.edu, for anyone to
Carolina.
Sincerely,

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Subject: statue suggestion
I think it should be moved to the cemetery. It was built to serve as a memorial for those who lost their life in the civil
war. Move it to the UNC cemetery or other place of remembrance within the state.
Katie
Kathryn L Sorensen, OTD, OTR/L, J\D/\C

Clinical Assistant Professor
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Hello�
Could the Stone Center be considered for a possible relocation site? This would allow for teaching, continued
education as a learning example of the history of this statue.
Debbie
Deborah J. Bousquet LEED rM AP ID+C
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From: Ethan
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:59:59 AM
Subject: Silent Sam proposal
silent Sam should be restored to his last resting spot, face down in the dirt next to the pedestal. The
existing bronze plaques should be removed from the pedestal, and replaced with new ones depicting the
crowd that toppled the statue.
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Subject: Not on UNC campus
I am opposed to placing the monument anywhere on UNC campus. The crimes against humanity that it
represents, both the holding of slaves and sending young men to die to protect that system, are just too
heinous. I suggest that the University reach out to those who want to preserve the monument and suggest that
they raise funds for a Confederate memorial park on their private property and then give the statute to them.
Dan
Daniel F. Read '78, MA '81, JD -83

Attorney at Law
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Subject: monument destination
I am a parent - The monument needs to be in a museum.

Done and done!
Best Regards,
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Subject: Thoughts on the Silent Sam monument
• Writing as a librarian, libraries are not museums while those at UNC are
physically not suitable for such a large structure, ranging from inadequate
building physical infrastructure that was would be required to support such as
massive structure to its large size being totally out of scale visually with
available spaces.
• Given the level of controversy about the appropriateness of the Silent Sam
monument, housing it in library space would pose significant dangers to
patrons and to the collections, especially the unique and irreplaceable items in
Wilson Library-and do so even if the University found the funds to provide
around-the-clock close surveillance on an on-going basis.
• Writing as a historian, because the Civil Was was fundamentally a treasonous
rebellion to enshrine states' rights to preserve chattel slavery and absolute
white supremacy at all costs, it is morally inexcusable and offensive for the
University to display a monument to those who fought such a war precisely
because it is absolutely in conflict with basic morality in general and
American ideals in particular.
• Writing as a member of the UNC Chapel Hill community, insofar as the
university and its libraries represent intellectual and social commons in the
best sense of the words, displaying Silent Sam in a prominent campus space
absolutely sends the wrong message-and does so in an especially
objectionable and offensive manner.
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Collections Management Officer
Davis Library CB #3918
Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
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Subject: Monument
I do not believe it appropriate for the monument to be returned to the UNC CH campus. I base this viewpoint
in no small part as reaction to Julian Carr's 1913 remarks which - for me - contexualized the monument's
dedication and purpose in disturbing ways. Differeing opinions and perspectives must be encouraged on any
college campus, but not necessarily celebrated in this form.
I know that this is a highly controversial issue - one fraught with a variety of political land mines. I appreciate
your reaching out to seek community input.
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Sent: 9/24/2018 12:15:27 PM
Subject: Silent Sam ideas
Dear Chancellor Falt and the UNC-CH Board of Trustees,
Thank you for the opportunity to weigh in on the fate of the confederate monument known as Silent Sam. As both an
alumna (class of 2010) and current staff member (Dept. of Romance Studies), it is very important to me that Carolina
fosters an inclusive, safe, and welcoming environment for all students and continually strives for improvement in that
regard.
Recently Dean Guskiewicz posed a series of three questions to those of us employed in the College of Arts & Sciences. I
am choosing to share with you my personal responses to those three questions below, as I am proud to sign my name to
them.
Knowing what you do now about the history of Silent Sam and what this statue represents to different people, what
would you like to see done with it and the site where it stood in Mccorkle Place?
The statue absolutely should not be reinstalled to its former location, a place of prominence on this campus. We cannot
credibly call ourselves "the university of the people" while boasting a monument to white supremacy on our front steps.
The statue should instead be moved to a museum or an appropriate historic site (such as a confederate cemetery or a
civil war battlefield) where it can be studied in its proper context. Any such context should not omit the remarks made at
the statue's dedication and the timing of the erection of the monument during the Jim Crow era.
While initially I thought Wilson Library might be an appropriate location, I have read the concerns of the Library Board
and now understand that the statue would likely pose too much of a disruption and security threat to that venue.
I find it difficult to think of a realistic and appropriate on-campus venue and instead think an institution with more
resources, such as the NC Museum of History, would be best. It is an affiliate of the Smithsonian, and admission is free,
so there would be no more financial barriers to the public than when the statue was installed on Mccorkle place.
Furthermore, UNC's civil war dead already have a place of remembrance at Memorial Hall, so I see no reason why the
statue must remain on campus.
As for the pedestal and original site, I would like to see some recognition of the African-American members of the UNC
community who persisted in contributing to this University, despite the long shadow cast by Sam's presence here for
more than a century. Whether this could best be achieved by removing the pedestal or by adding to it could be left up to
artists who would submit proposals/plans for consideration. The nearby "unsung founders" memorial is merely one
small (and often overlooked) part of the story, and the juxtaposition of it with Silent Sam appeared to exalt the latter, at
least physically and visually.
How do you think we can take this moment as an opportunity to lead and to teach-showcasing that this is what a great
public university does best?
We can use this moment as an opportunity to lead and to teach by emphasizing the historical context around Silent Sam
in particular and the erection of Confederate monuments across the South during Jim Crow in general, and by using that
context to inform our decision. While the monument may "represent different things to different people," ultimately we
have documentation from the time that allows us to illuminate the patterns throughout the region as well as the
intentions of the individuals (such as Julian Carr) involved. We should also use this opportunity to point to the historical
record to dispel myths about the "true" aims of the Civil War and a disturbing tendency among certain groups in the
South to try to completely divorce the war from the institution of slavery.
Do you have any other constructive feedback you would like to share on this topic?
It is imperative that the University leads on this issue. At times it has not felt like the University has considered all of its
options or used all of the resources at its disposal to tackle this issue. Administration has seemed far too content to sit
back and claim its hands are tied to reinforce the status quo, which resulted in ~$4D0K spent over the course of one year
to protect the statue, which certainly sends a message as to who or what the University prioritizes.
Best regards,
Heather
Heather Minchew
Managing Editor, Publications Office
237 Dey Hall, CB# 3170
Department of Romance Studies
Schedule: Mon-Thurs B am - 4 pm
Message
From: Jimmy Fay
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:16:24 PM
Subject: Plan for Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor Falt, Board of Trustees, and others concerned,
I write to express my support of reinstalling Silent Sam at his previous location. I am against the capitulation to mob
justice which does not represent the will of the people. UNC is the flagship university of our beloved state, it belongs to
all of her citizens and such politicized subjects should be decided by elected bodies, not the protesters. With the above
in mind, it is clear that reinstallation alone fails to heal any division caused by its installation, dedication, and continuing
presence. I suggest two courses of action.
The first is much more difficult for those involved, but thus are the burdens of leadership. At the reinstallation there
must be a rededication of the statue. This involves our honored chancellor who must swallow her pride and suppress
her personal feelings. This rededication must denounce the evils of slavery, Jim Crow era laws, and the confederate
cause (the easy part). However, perhaps more importantly, she must assert that this monument is to UNC students who
went, fought, and often died not in service to philosophical ideals, political leanings, nor the dread institution of slavery.
Rather fought and died for their homes, their families, and countrymen. These students, while often the scions of
wealthy, slave-owning families, were not the ones who chose succession nor acted to perpetrate and propagate slavery.
Who amongst us can judge them on actions not taken, potential unmet, lives unlived. The chancellor must recognize
they were us, students here to learn but torn away from our Alma Mater in some ways to die for it. For UNC belongs not
the United States, it belongs to North Carolina. They too were tar heels, attendees of our precious jewel and we should
offer them honor.
Secondarily, and perhaps much more palatable to the chancellor and protesters, we should commission a similar statue
honoring a black figure or cause. Here is my suggestion though perhaps a better can be found. Backing Silent Sam and of
equal stature, should be a figure of a black man on a pedestal facing south. Let there be broken chains around the man's
bare feet. Rising up the clothing should change to a professional jacket and slacks reminiscent of the late SO's or early
60's. In the man's hand there should books symbolizing education and the other raised, in a fist, towards the
administration and lands that kept him oppressed. Victory must be apparent. It is a proud statue representing the brave
and valiant men who withstood the slings and arrows of powerful men and his peers to attain acceptance and excellence
at UNC. I think this would be a poignant and powerful statement that UNC recognizes its past and finds honor and pride
in its students.
Sincerely,
James Fay
Class of 2012
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From: Zamora, Daisy [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 12:17:10 PM
Subject: Re: [FORMAL NOTICE] Message from Chancellor Carol L. Folt and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board ofTrustees
Thank you for addressing this issue. When I was a graduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill, I remember feeling very weird when I
came across Silent Sam. I was confused. I did not understand what it meant for it to be there, in a place of honor. While
some people may have different interpretations of history, we all know Silent Sam is not a symbol of peace, of community, of
wisdom, of greatness and good for humanity. I'm not of African American descent, but I now have a and cannot
imagine attending a school with a statue that when built was meant to honor a German war commander during the
Holocaust.
I believe Barbara Rimer's essay on the topic is worth reading, if you haven't already:
http://mondaymorning.web.unc.edu/toppling-of-the-silent-sam-statue/
As for the future of Silent Sam, a photograph of it, along with the fundraising letters and photographs of the dedication, could
be put in a museum as an example of common actions during the Jim Crow era, or as part of a study of the long-term
repercussions of slavery, through Jim Crow times and today. But there is no need to keep the actual statue, it could be
disposed the way other University property no longer useful is disposed. Or it can be used as a base to build a monument to
hope and healing. I believe keeping the statue in a museum, regardless of the inscription, would keep honoring Jim Crow
values.
Sincerely,
Daisy Zamora
Message
From: Andrew Sullivan
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:19:02 PM
Subject: Dwayne Dixon has to go!
Hello Chancellor,
I understand your receiving many emails regarding Silent Sam and you have established a group to work on
such matter. However, this is not enough. The rational for taking down Silent Sam is completely idiotic and if
such rational arguments are taken to their logical conclusion, there is no end to what will be done. The whole
history of UNC Chapel Hill could be used to burn the University down.
You need to fire Dwayne Dixon and expel and suspend the students involved in taking Silent Sam down. This is
the only way UNC Chapel Hill will be able to preserve history and appreciation of the arts. If you leaves these
people in place, they will look for something else to tear down. The accreditation and credibility of the
university is at state.
Regards,
Andrew L Sullivan
Honesty is violence to the ego.

PS Hindsight is known for its accuracy, foresight is known for being absent.
PPS I am not the Andrew Sullivan of New Republic fame and I am not related to Mort Sullivan
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From: Gist, Jacquelyn Michelle [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Move off campus
Thank you for this opportunity
The statue and its base have no place on our campus.

I suggest moving it to the NC History museum to be part of an exhibit on Jim Crow in NC and how these statues were
used to assert white supremacy
I would also suggest that UNC follow Carrboro's example of creating Truth Plaques to tell the story of racism
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Sent: 9/24/2018 12:20:33 PM
Subject: monument plan
Dear All,
Thank you for providing this opportunity to convey opinions.
I strongly believe that the statue should not be returned to Mccorkle Place or any place of
public prominence and that the pedestal should also be permanently removed.
Thank you,
Kathleen DuVal
Kathleen DuVal
Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of History
History Department, CB #3195
http://kathleenduval.web.unc.edu/
Message
From: Turner, Jessica Anderson [turnerj3@indiana.edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:22:02 PM
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Subject: suggestion--monument
Have a funeral for the statue as a respectful symbol of its passing and then place it in a
vault. Hold remembrances and teach-ins on the history (and current climate) of racism and bigotry. But do
not preserve for display what has become a symbol of division and hate.
I am not currently connected to UNC-CH, but I am a graduate of the larger UNC system.
More importantly, I have two sons nearing their college years, with a third son trailing behind. I will not allow
any of my children to attend schools who do not choose to stand on the right side of history, regardless of
their longstanding connections to complicated Confederate/Southern history.
Respectfu I ly,
Jessica Turner
Jessica A. Turner, PhD I Executive Director I American Folklore Society

Indiana University, Classroom-Office Building, REDACTED, Bloomington, IN 47405-3657
REDACTED office I REDACTED cell I afsexec@indiana.edu I www.afsnet.org
Message
From: Zach Paulovits
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:26:20 PM
Please replace silent Sam with Coach Dean Smith statue.

Best regards,
Zach Paulovits 06'
Message
From: Farrell, Crista [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Sent: 9/24/2018 12:34:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam statue
Thank you for setting up this account to receive emails from people who wish to share ideas about the future of the
Silent Sam statue. I previously emailed comments to Chancellor Falt, but I wanted to send some of my comments to this
account as well. Here they are:
In my understanding, when the statue was dedicated many years ago, it was clearly done so as a means of preserving
a racist paradigm championing white supremacy, one in which violence against people of color, especially Black
people, was not just tolerated but glorified.
The statue's existence on campus was a towering, in-your-face, and appalling reminder of a racist and oppressive past
that is still all-too-present in the lives and experiences of many Americans today.
It would have been beneficial for that statue to come down long ago at the direction of both University and State
leaders. But in absence of that historical leadership, it was inevitable that public opinion would evolve such that the
statue would come down one way or another-in an authorized manner or not.
Regardless of the manner in which the statue came down, it should never ever be put back up on UN C's campus, and
the base of it should be removed too. The fact that the statue formerly existed prominently on UN C's campus for
over 100 years provides a more-than-sufficient opportunity for the University to continue to discuss it and teach
students and other citizens about it in the context of history going forward. Outside of it being discussed and
understood in an historical context, the statue should have no place in and be no part of the University's future.
Thank you for taking the time to read my comments.
Sincerely,
Crista Farrell
UNC Employee
Message
From: Anne Trent
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:38:15 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think the statue needs to be replaced nobody alive was a slave and nobody alive owned slaves the statue
represents part of American history and it should be shown a lot of respect because a lot of Americans
died defending everything that statue stood for
Sent from my iPhone
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Subject: Replace Silent Sam with Michael Jordan Dunking Statue
I believe there is nothing that would tie the Carolina community together more than the greatest to ever
play the game of basketball and UNC's own: Michael Jordan.
Picture this- you're walking through Mccorkle Place on a beautiful Carolina morning, and ascending into
the sky is a Michael Jordan statue getting ready to slam a dunk on an opponent .. probably from duke. The
fact that we do not currently have a Michael Jordan statue on campus should seriously be evaluated and
what better of a time and place than now and replacing silent Sam? Tarheels old and young alike would be
inspired by such a monument.
As far as silent sam- throw it in a museum somewhere and make space for Jordan.
Sincerely,
Jarod Waybright, PhD
UNC class of 2017
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From: Arbuckle, Benjamin S [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 12:43:19 PM

I have a couple of suggestions for how to deal with the 'Silent Sam' statue.
1) relocate the statue to one of the peripheral but accessible areas of old campus such as the quad in front of
the Asian Studies Building. Display the statue at ground level (without the pedestal) and place the bronze
plaques from the pedestal somewhere nearby along with information on the historical context of the statues'
dedication including details of the dedication ceremony, the finances, and the generally oppressive behavior
of the university and the State government towards many of its citizens at the time.
2) In addition, I would suggest planning a new large monument to be located where 'Sam' once stood. This
monument should be a clear signal for how the University hopes to welcome people to its campus and what
the institution stands for moving forward.
3) It would not be a bad idea to raise money for a modest monument or commemorative object
respectfully acknowledging the UNC alumni who fought and died in the American Civil War. This could be
added to the other commemorative objects located, I believe, near Person Hall.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Arbuckle
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From: Kime, Jeremy Wayne [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 12:44:00 PM
Subject: silent sam
I believe the monument should go back up to where its stood proudly for over a century. I understand that some may
see it as a "racist" monument but in my personal opinion it stands for all the brave students that left there safe campus
lifes to fight in a civil war either side doesn't mind the statue stands for both sides north and south and should not be
moved and forgotten. You cannot erase history or it will always be doomed to repeat its self
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to express how we feel as we are as much a part of this university as the students
Message
From: Travis Hardy
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:45:00 PM
Subject: Confederate Monument's disposition and preservation .
Chancellor Folt,
I would like to suggest the monument be moved to Bentonville battlefield in Bentonville, NC.
- Travis
Message
From: chris jordan
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:51:41 PM
Subject: Where to put Sam
To the esteemed whomever,

I am a 20 year Chapel Hill resident and small business owner. It has been brought to my attention that you are
seeking a new location for the historic and historically terrible idea known as Silent Sam. I would like to help.
My ideas are as follows:
1) trebuchet it in the general direction of Alamance county
2) use it for anti-personnel shot the next time the new Confederate States of America invade
3) melt it into a giant bronze power fist for Thom Goolsby to sit on.
NC gs 100-2.1100-2.1. Protection of monuments, memorials, and works of art. Subsection c3. An object of
remembrance for which a building inspector or similar official has determined poses a threat to public safety
because of an unsafe or dangerous condition.
Question: Is civil unrest a threat to public safety? Maybe your building inspector doesn't think so, but maybe
a similar official could determine an elbow from Uranus with a map and a flashlight.
Please do not re-erect that monument to hatred and glorified revisonism. It never belonged.
Thank you,
Chris Jordan
Message
From: Ken Chamblee
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:52:09 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam should be placed upon the pedestal from which it was unlawfully removed. Under state law the
University has no choice but to do so. If it is not restored then I guess we live in a state of men rather then
laws. Thus, if we do not agree with the law we can, through unlawful and violent acts, violate the law
whenever we feel justified. Sets an awfully bad precedent doesn't it?
Ken Chamblee
Class of 1976
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From: Kilb, Megan Griffin [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: considering Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor Falt and members of the Board of Trustees:
Thank you for taking the time to deliberate this important issue. As you consider the best place to relocate the Silent
Sam monument, I hope the safety of UNC students, staff, and faculty is your primary concern.
No matter where you choose to relocate the statue, Silent Sam will pose a safety threat to all members of the UNC
community who occupy and move around the selected building/ location. To maintain the bare minimum of campus
safety, the university has had to divert thousands of dollars to security at the previous site of Silent Sam, dollars that
could be used to directly support classroom teaching and learning, faculty excellence, and other, more important
campus initiatives that don't tacitly support a longstanding symbol of racism and discrimination. Housing the statue in
any other prominent place on campus will continue to support an unsafe physical working and learning environment on
campus and prolong this diversion of resources away from the university's core mission.
To many of our students and staff, Silent Sam represents a symbol of hate and oppression. Elevating the statue to
another place of prominence on campus continues the unfortunate campus tradition of centering whiteness and the
white experience at Carolina. Re-positioning the statue elsewhere on campus further perpetuates an unwelcoming,
hostile learning and working environment for many members of our campus community.
Finally, continuing to house the statue and condone its presence on campus directly defies many of the supporting
themes listed in the Blueprint for Next - embracing the state's evolving diversity; commitment to being a humane
community that cares how we treat each other; embracing change and possibility, willing to take risks. No matter what
other successful initiatives the campus may launch in the backdrop of this issue, if it mishandles the placement of Silent
Sam in a way that willfully jeopardizes the health and well-being of students and staff who are on campus every day at
the expense of appeasing external stakeholders, the campus will have fundamentally failed to fulfill the strategic vision
outlined in the Blueprint for Next.
It is my strong belief that this statue does not belong anywhere on campus that is publicly accessible or in close
proximity to where any UNC affiliates work and learn. I encourage the board to think creatively and consider solutions
that will prioritize the safety of the campus community and its members over deferring to the political will of the state
legislature in a way that still follows the bare letter of state law - a hostile law that was constructed to uphold the state's
regrettable legacy of glorifying the white experience at the expense of other populations who our campus and state
university system supposedly seek to serve.
Sincerely,
-Megan
Megan Kilb
E-Resources Librarian
UNC-Chapel Hill
PO Box 8890
Davis Library CB#3938
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To: Kilb, Megan Griffin <griffma@email.unc.edu>
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next step, we have created a dedicated email address, uncmonument(al,unc.edu, for anyone to
Carolina.
Sincerely,

Message
From: Eric Riley [eric@crescentstructures.com]
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:55:18 PM
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Subject: Opinion about Silent Sam............
Ms. Falt,
Good afternoon ma'am. I trust that all things with you today are well.
I am writing to you today to express my concern for the Silent Sam monument being placed back into its original location
in its original condition.
A few items of note are:
1) The only course of action available to the University under the law is to restore and protect the memorial. This is a
state law that we as citizens must follow. This law is not up for debate nor review or opinion. The law is the law and as a
citizen of the great State of North Carolina, I am expecting those responsible for re-installing this statue and monument
to its original state to do just that.
2) Because of the terms of the existing state law, no one has the authority to move Silent Sam so that they can re
contextualize or curate it with modern-day lies about white supremacy. This is a subject very near and dear to me and
my family and should be near and dear to you and yours. Using the political or public education platform to promote lies
and non-truths should scare us all to death as the results of those actions could take YEARS to correct - if ever. Don't be
fooled - what we see going on around us today with these monuments and these protests has so much more to do with
a much bigger, ill-intent movement to totally change the landscape of our culture and society - that we all should be
outraged and therefore not stand for these injustices. And all of those folks guilty of participating in the breaking of this
law should be held to the highest level of the justice system so as to send a message that these type of actions will NOT
be tolerated!
3) The University belongs to the people of North Carolina and NOT an extremist minority of paid activists. Let us not
project the wrong message to our state citizens nor anyone around us who would think otherwise!
I truly appreciate your time today and I look forward to Silent Sam going right back in place - in his original, undamaged
condition.
Eric L. Riley
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Gastonia, NC 28056
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eric@crescentstructures.com
Message
From: Dennis Johnson
Sent: 9/24/2018 12:59:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Sent from Yahoo put silent sam back soon as possible please u have broken the lawMail on Android
Message
From: Kainz, Kirsten [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=3FlB15451E7E4FlA940F22A74626CBE6-KIRSTEN L K]
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:00:07 PM
Subject: respect for Black faculty
Chancellor Falt,
Thank you for the opportunity to provide input regarding next steps following the removal of the statue called
silent sam. Considering the letter circulated by Black faculty at Carolina (pasted below), I cannot see any
future for the statue on our campus. The letter sent by Black faculty makes a clear and logical argument: "A
symbol of racism, violence, and white supremacy has no place on our 21st century campus often called the
"University of the People."
There may be strong and diverse feelings shared by stakeholders in Carolina. However, strong feelings should
not dissuade us from doing what is right. Wisely, Black faculty members have reminded us that: "there are not two
morally valid sides to the history the monument represents nor to its current significance."
November 15 brings with it an opportunity to be clear, to be logical, to be just.
With respect,
Kirsten Kainz
Social Work
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
Statement from UNC Black Faculty on Silent Sam
As UNC Black faculty, we occupy a unique position relative to the Confederate monument
known as "Silent Sam." When the Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the monument
for the University, when University donors offered resources to support its completion, when
the University paid the remaining balance, and UNC Board of Trustees member Julian Carr
delivered his racist remarks at its dedication, we doubt any envisioned Black faculty as vibrant
and necessary members of the University's intellectual, cultural, and social community. In
1913, the Confederate monument did not stand in opposition to the stated values and mission
of the University. In 2018, it most certainly does. It has done so since the University chose to
admit the first Black student or offer the first Black faculty member a contract for employment.
We have witnessed a monument that represents white supremacy in both the past and present
be venerated and protected at the same time that we have been asked to serve as examples
of diversity and inclusion. That is a demoralizing burden.
A monument to white supremacy, steeped in a history of violence against Black people, and
that continues to attract white supremacists, creates a racially hostile work environment and
diminishes the University's reputation worldwide. For us, arguments of moral equivalency are
extremely problematic; there are not two morally valid sides to the history the monument
represents nor to its current significance. Without brave acts of civil disobedience that changed
the moral character of the nation and advanced the cause of justice, Black faculty, staff, and
students would not be here. To reinstall the Confederate monument to any location on UNC's
campus is to herald for the nation and for the world that UNC is not a welcoming place for
Black people.
We, the undersigned faculty, urge the Chancellor, Provost, Board of Trustees, and Board of
Governors to permanently remove the Confederate statue and its pedestal from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There is no way to re-erect the statue without valorizing an
incomplete version of history. A symbol of racism, violence, and white supremacy has no place
on our 21st century campus often called the "University of the People."
Message
From: Mary C. Whitton [whitton@cs.unc.edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:00:11 PM
Subject: Sam
Give it to the NC History Museum as a start on a new, permanent exhibit on Jim Crow.
Mary Whitton
Research Professor
Department of Computer Science
whitton@cs.unc.edu
Message
From: Mucha, Peter J [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=8a07c453f72645fca161bfd2182d4bd2-Peter J Muc]
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:01:01 PM
Subject: Build an educational and historical wall
I wrote the following suggestion and circulated it among various colleagues back when "silent Sam" was
still standing. My own preference would be to never see him back in any place of prominence. I am also
aware of the language of the current law. In the unfortunate circumstance where he goes back to anywhere
prominent, I believe this general idea to amend his context with educational information retains merit.
Good luck.
cheers,
Peter
Build a wall. Not just any wall: an educational wal l . We're an educational institution, after all. We
could even have part of the top of the soldier peek out the top and stay visible, as an historical
teaching monument.
side 1, off the soldier's left, could be an entire panel of text devoted to the role of slavery in
pre-civil War society and the importance of the unsung founders of the University.
side 2, in the front, could describe the context of soliders fighting for the Confederacy. Some of
the motives involved were terrible; but not all. Particularly here in NC, as one of the last two states
to secede and with an economic diversity aligned with our geographical diversity impacting the feeling of
our residents towards slavery, I think there is a lot that a knowledgeable historian could write on this
panel about the variety of reasons that NC residents took up arms in defense of their home state.
side 3, off the soldier's right, could be used to describe the societal context at the time of
erecting the statue in 1913, including lessons about the atrocities of the Jim Crow era and raise
questions about the purpose of the statue.
side 4, in the back, could describe the debate over the statue over the past 50+ years, and the
decision to act.
I'm not wedded to any of the specific details of the above, but I believe in our role as an
educational institution and that this kind of preservation with appropriate context is within the scope
of our mission. surely others have great ideas that might be merged with which this kind of historically-
accurate contextualization.
Peter J. Mucha
http://mucha.web.unc.edu
Professor of Mathematics & Applied Physical Sciences
chairs Leadership Program Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
University of North Carolina-chapel Hill
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From: Stacks, Stephen Andrew [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Sent: 9/24/2018 1:04:00 PM
Subject: Idea for disposition of Silent Sam

I would like to offer a suggestion for a way to deal with silent Sam that may give the University the
opportunity to reverse some of the damage it has done in this process. As a clear symbol of white
supremacy's historical and contemporary hold on American life, I don't believe the statue deserves to be
afforded any respect or deference in its disposition, and in fact, giving it such only props up hatred
and violence in a way I'm sure the university's leadership is eager to avoid. Therefore, I propose that
the University plan a silent Sam demolition ceremony-a public event at which the university repudiates
its white supremacist past and destroys the statue in full view of the university community. This event
should be protected from white supremacist violence and interference by campus police, at least as
zealously as the white supremacists who have been demonstrating on campus have been protected. This is
the only option, in my opinion, that will allow the university to move forward healthily from this crisis
of moral leadership and signal to the student body that people of color and other minorities are welcomed
and affirmed unequivocally.
Rev. Stephen Stacks
Associate Pastor of Worship and Faith Formation, Greenwood Forest Baptist church, Cary NC
Master of Sacred Music, Boston University
PhD candidate in Musicology, University of North Carolina at chapel Hill
Message
From: Joe Farrar
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:04:33 PM
Subject: Monument
I recommend removing the base and planting some flowers in its place.
The monument has no place on our campus. It was and is a symbol of racial oppression and bigotry.
Joe Farrar, Jr. AB '76

Message
From: GLENDA JONES
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:10:04 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As someone who loves and supports this university and its mission, I urge you to take this opportunity to
remove the statue from our campus.
Sincerely,
Glenda Parker Jones
Message
From: John Eick
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:13:09 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thank you for the opportunity to submit comments about the future of the Confederate Monument on UNC's
campus.
I would be remiss if I did not first express my disappointment in how the UNC administration and campus
police allowed the events of August 20, 2018 to transpire in the way they did. While the placement of the
Confederate Monument has become an emotionally-charged and painful subject for many, mob action is never
the answer and can never be condoned. I sincerely hope the UNC administration, campus police, and the town
of Chapel Hill work together to pursue criminal convictions against as many of those involved as possible so as
to dissuade this sort of activity going forward.
As to the future of the Confederate Monument, I would recommend placing it within or adjacent to the Old
Chapel Hill Cemetery. Symbolically, this would be a fitting place for a monument memorializing a bygone era
while still allowing those who may be interested in viewing the monument the opportunity to do just that. At the
same time, by being in a less prominent location on campus, the monument can be more easily avoided by
anybody who would prefer not to walk alongside it.
Sincerely,
John Eick '11

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From: Hofheimer, Julie A. [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Suggestions for dispensation of Silent Sam statue
As a UNC-CH faculty member for 30 years, I have observed many campus-wide struggles here and want to
express my appreciation for your invitation to all for responses. Also am sending support for your reasoned
and calm approach to this horrendous situation.
My suggestion is to propose 3 alternatives to President Spellings: To transfer the statue to either (1) the NC
Museum of History, or (2) the NC Civil War Center in Fayetteville, as those curators will likely have the
resources to best decide next steps. If that is not agreeable to either of those sites, it would seem reasonable
to next propose to (3) transfer it temporarily to the NC legislature to decide and dispense it to its most legally
appropriate location.
I am speaking as a developmental psychologist here, but it seems within legal and historical guidelines to
conclude that no symbol of slavery, racism, bigotry, or hatred of any kind belongs on this inclusive and diverse
campus - or any State of NC campus for that matter. Regardless of what alternative explanations its
proponents put forth, to have that statue here creates the equivalent of a "hostile" learning environment for
all of our students, faculty, and staff. This statue has also invited and prolonged violent conflicts that are so
out of reason and context on this campus. There is plenty of First Amendment freedom afforded to all citizens,
and those afforded by law and UNC practice do not include the safety threats of this current statue's
magnitude.
Wishing you, the Trustees, and the BOG the best of luck with this!
Julie
Julie A. Hofheimer, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
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Subject: Put the statue
Somewhere in the South ern Historical Collection housed in Wilson Library.
Drew Lasater
HR Specialist - UNC School of Social Work
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From: Reisner, Howard M [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Sent: 9/24/2018 1:14:27 PM
Subject: A Suggestion
Let me start by thanking you for the opportunity to express my somewhat preliminary ideas. I should start by saying that
given my political and social background if the decision were solely mine to make I would remove and destroy the
monument. But we live in a world of many opinions and political necessities which often constrain our ideas and desires.
Hence, we need a solution which is sensitive to the concerns of those who find the monument an insult (and to be
truthful I am in that group) and those who see it as homage to their ancestors and a period of Southern history to be
remembered. If there is anything good for me to say about the monument, it commemorates fallen Confederate youth
who were students at UNC. Whatever the cause they died for, they believed it to be noble and necessary. I would move
the monument to a location in the campus cemetery; a traditional and fitting place to commemorate the deceased. But I
would go further. I would start a process to design a monument to the Black folk at UNC, students and others, which
taught about the suffering and inequalities that group suffered. I would have a design committee certainly including
black and minority students and faculty work out the plan for such a monument to also be placed in the cemetery in
some proximity to "Silent Sam" I would solicit ideas and contributions from all those associated with UNC. I believe the
setting would tend to engender respect for both monuments-and if not respect, at least consideration for the location.
Respectfully,
Howard M. Reisner PhD
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From: Birken, Wi lliam Joseph [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=A734DBA6B5A74C8697EFDB36DE6219AA-WILLIAM JOS]
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:15:14 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I suggest Alumni Hall, subject to their approval from Alumni. Alumni Hall has the scale and the security necessary for the
plinth and monument, and Sam was a part of the lives and campus life of those who attended UNC. Barring that, I doubt
that there would be a safer place on our campus and that would protect Sam from the elements and vandalism. There is
no guarantee even here, but we could cross that bridge when we come to it. Sam is not a monument to UNC's students
and faculty who died in the Civil War. Memorial Hall already does that. Putting Sam and the plinth into storage would
probably be best for right now. I suggest in that spot a statue to William Friday or Howard Lee, Moses Horton, or the
black students from Lincoln High School, who did so much for Civil Rights in Chapel Hill. A new meaningful monument
would ease some of the angst over Sam, particularly alumni who I think would react positively to a Friday memorial
where Sam stood. This is a very difficult issue. Ultimately, Sam might eventually show up in an unbuilt Civil War
Museum, which should also include the Reconstruction period, which has been virtually erased from North Carolina
history, as has the period of restored white supremacy that Sam represented. Recently, I caught a glimpse of what
Estonia has done with its many monumental depictions of Stalin, etc. They now sit in a park for that purpose. Hopefully
that park would be available for those interested, but far enough away and secluded enough, as to not offend anyone.
There Sam could be placed, within the context of Jim Crow, segregation, and the re-awakening of white supremacy, in
the South and elsewhere. I think the black community should be given a large voice in this, while the Daughters of the
Confederacy might join into the discussion. I also think our many fine historians of the South should also be brought into
the debate on a better location for Sam. There is also the possibility of leaving the plinth unmoved in place, with
extensive contextualization, to provide educational lessons on the nature of history. I think Governor Cooper's idea of
the Bentonville battlefield as a collecting area for all such monuments, is an excellent one. Joining forces with the
Governor on this, a united front, makes sense, too - William Birken
Message
From: Danielle Parini
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:17:54 PM
Subject: Silent Sam removal
To keep Silent Sam on campus is a direct insult to our African-American student body, neighbors, friends,
colleagues, and professors in the Carolina community and beyond. This statue has no place on campus and is
not only a disgusting symbol of America's horribly racist past, but is a safety hazard to students and community
members on campus.
The statue should be permanently removed from UNC's campus.
Danielle Parini
Message
From: Charles Mozingo
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:18:49 PM
Subject: re: Silent Sam
Ms. Folt, you & your group must restore the monument to its pedestal
and start protecting it.
This University, should not, & can not move it., as the 2015 Monument
Protection Bill states.
The University belongs to the people of North Carolina, and

not the the extremists minority of PAID ACTIVISTS.
The Young Men of UNC, who left their studies in 1861/62 and took
up arms against a northern agressor - to fight for North Carolina.
Charles Mozingo
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From: Cogan, Elizabeth Sara [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/CN =RE Cl Pl ENTS/CN =F 15 710DE4 73C4F8D8FE253F88E5A42AE-COGAN E]
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:21:44 PM
Subject: Silent sam statue
Hello,
The place for confederate status is a museum, not on our campus. It is oppressive, offensive, and disgraceful
to the ideologies that the university publicly claims to ascribe.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Cogan, PhD.

Postdoctoral Trainee
McElligott Lab
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies
Message
From: Emily Reisner
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:31:38 PM
Subject: Future home for Silent Sam
In a sense Silent Sam is a memorial to all the young people lost in war. Suggest the statue be moved to a guiet
part of the old UNC cemetery to be coupled with a modem memorial to all the young people lost in non military
actions such as lynching. Further suggest that the statue be laid on it's side (gun side down) and incorporated
into a planted garden modeled on the picture of Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels where Gulliver is tied down by
the Lilliputians. This changes the context of the statue in a very meaningful way.
An interested citizen of North Carolina

Message
From: Kevin Pierce
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:32:22 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Quit playing coy, chancellor Folt. You are well aware of the context of the erection of silent Sam at the
height of the racial nadir. Julian Carr's speech makes clear that the statue is a beacon of white
supremacy and an ominous symbol of oppression.
As a veteran of the 82nd airborne and a NC native, I am disgusted that these symbols of hate are allowed
to stand in my home.
what's worse is that your leadership during this issue has been abysmal. You have failed to protect your
students and have allowed armed fascist groups to do harm and promote terror. That is unforgivable. Your
final act before your resignation should be the absolute and final removal of the statue.
We will continue to fight. There is no room for compromise.
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From: Schuler, Mary E [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=47C902BBBF024A80BDB649242DC33372-MARY E SCHU]
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Subject: Thoughts on Silent Sam
I believe the statue should be placed in a museum like enclosure with the background and history of the statue
presented. This should include the controversy surrounding the statue from both sides. If it is destroyed the history and
how it is a symbol of racism may be lost. I am basing this thought and concept on a memorial park I witness in Budapest
Hungary that truly moved me. Link: https://eru1vikipedia.org/wikf/Memento Park
Sincerely,
Mary Schuler
Mary E. Schuler, Ed.D., R.N., C.N.E.

Statewide AHEC Nursing Liaison
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Carrington Hall, CB# 7460
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From: Ziegler, Christopher Michael [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 1:42:29 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Leave i t where i t was

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From: Chuck Holley
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:43:54 PM
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Subject: Silent San and other Confederate monuments
Dear chancellor Folt and UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees,

silent Sam should be restored to its original location and other Confederate monuments, as well as other
monuments to war dead and veterans, and American historical figures should be not removed or relocated.
We should be using our energy and resources to discuss and address actual problems in our communities and
with our society.
Allowing groups like ANTIFA to damage or destroy historical monuments only encourages more unlawful
actions. Having law enforcement stand down and not enforce law and order is outrageous and in complete
contradiction of their title and reason for existing.
In closing I will simply state that true diversity involves recognizing the op1n1ons of all members of a
commun ity and realizing that even though you may vehemently disagree with an individual or group's
viewpoint, it should be respected if one wants the same courtesy in return.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Holley,DVM
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Sent: 9/24/2018 1:44:37 PM
Subject: Monument
It belongs in a history museum which should satisfy anyone wanting to preserve the historical significance.
Sincerely,
Brenda Trapp
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From: West, James Christopher [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =94d8ee3621724aed9 lb0e429256856de-Ja mes Chris]
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:48:29 PM
Subject: Monument put it back up.
The Silent Sam Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was erected in 1913 in honor of UNC
alumni who died in the Civil War. Now while that part of U.S. history is a black mark on our country and Americans died
on both fronts due to the war there are somethings that should be considered.
After the civil war in 1865 other battles were taking place. The battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux
Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, resulted in the deaths of 300 Sioux men,
women, and children. The massacre at Wounded Knee was the last major battle of the Indian Wars of the late 19th
century. This is just one example of different injustices during the time frame of the civil war.
Being part First Nation Peoples (As you might say Native American) on my father's side, I ask this question where is the
line drawn. Should the Lakota people demand the removal of Mount Rushmore as the sacred land was stolen? Should
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial be removed? How about the Jefferson Memorial? The list goes on and on. If we start
removing those things that remind us of our history no matter how terrible it may be; no matter how people may feel,
as history has shown we will repeat it.
In conclusion, the monument should stay where it is and history should be taught completely and accurately.
Thank you for allowing me to speak on this matter.
James C. West
Message
From: David Farrow [daf467@nyu.edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:55:08 PM
Subject: Permanent Removal of the Confederate Monument Known as Silent Sam
As an alumnus(' 17) of the University, I was delighted when anti-racist activists tore down the reprehensible
conferate monument known as Silent Sam. The statue was a stain on our campus and actively made the lives of
students of color more difficult.
The confederate monument should never be returned to campus. A reinstallation of the confederate monument
would only embolden white supremexists and neo-nazis, creating a more hostile campus and contributing to the
normalization of racist politics. If the University reinstalls the conferate monument, I will never donate or
support the University again as it will be showing it prioritizes the opinions of bigots over students and the
community.
David Farrow
David Farrow
New York University '19

Masters in Media, Communication, and Culture
B.A. in Cultural Studies and Public Policy
Message
From: Eddie
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:56:42 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The statue is part of history, US history and should be put back up where it was once standing and anyone who
damages it in any way should face charges. If it is a student ofUNC they should be expelled. A small group
should not be allowed to rewrite history to suit them. This isn't a racist thing except they are trying to make it
into one.
Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

Message
From: Chris Fonville
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:57:35 PM
Subject: Silent Sam and Monuments In General
st
Being so far removed from the Civil War and now in the 21 century, perhaps the overriding question should be if a
University should have monuments and if so, to whom should they recognize and honor? Depending on one's view
point, I offer three suggestions:
1. It would resolve a lot of issues to go to a "No Memorial Statue" policy. This would eliminate the tangible signs
that generate conflict, such as honoring the segregated South and by association, the myth of the "Lost
Cause." This policy would apply to all monuments, including honoring African Americans (or any minority group)
that toiled on campus or perhaps broke a barrier.
2. If the University feels that we must have monuments, then perhaps the criteria needs to change to honor only
UNC's most esteemed educators. A statue of Bill Friday or Frank Porter Graham would be an ideal replacement
for Silent Sam. If an administrator or educator helped advance equal rights, fine. But the honoree's
contributions needs to be for a long-term body of work to the university. One needs to avoid identifying a single
event such as the first XYZ person to be admitted or for a single accomplishment.
3. If the Silent Sam issue is entrenched as opposed to a broader conversation, then I ask the following, "Why Just
Sam?" UNC alumni and students have fought in all wars, including those who fought for the Union. Perhaps as
part of ROTC and the Curriculum of Peace, War and Defense, the University could establish a special area or
park, to honor ALL students who left to answer the call. Is a Confederate Civil War solider any more brave that
a UNC student that was drafted mid-term for Vietnam? Were enrolled WWII vets that were called for Korea any
less noble? A new park would ironically require additional statuary along with appropriate contextual signage
that could explain the history while honoring all. The names listed in Memorial Hall could be moved to this area.
"UNC's Warriors" - regardless of conflict. This would finally put Silent Sam into its military context and help
remove the continual and I suspect purposeful symbol of aggravation to African American students.
th
I am a native, 9 generation North Carolinian and UNC graduate I can name a great grandfather and several great-
great grandfathers who fought for the Confederacy. None were UNC students or alumni and as such, I do not view
Silent Sam as a tribute to my specific ancestors. In contrast, I suspect that the vast majority of the most vocal "Silent
Sam" enthusiasts and demonstrators have absolutely no connection to the University, be it themselves or their
ancestors.
Thank you,
Wilson Christopher Fonville
UNC 1976
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Subject: recommendation for statue
Confederate monuments of NC should be given a new home somewhere else if they should be preserved. Since they
create so much discomfort (understandably!) for folks at universities or other public or state locations, why not give
them a designated home elsewhere? Perhaps an NC outdoor confederate monument museum of sorts where people
can visit and view them safely, but also not be forced to view them if they do not choose to.
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Message
From: Stephen Uhalley, Jr.
Sent: 9/24/2018 1:59:44 PM
Subject: Restore Silent Sam
The statue was unlawfully removed. The hoodlums who committed this crime should be punished accordingly.
The statue should be restored. Any future plans for Silent Sam should be made by due process.
Thank you,
Stephen Uhalley, Jr.,

Message
From: Shauna M Hines [shaunah@clemson .edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:00:44 PM
Hello,
I am an alumnus (Class of 2018), and during my time at UNC the Silent Sam had a negative impact on students. I
understand the history and initial intent behind the statue, but the intent no longer matches the desired impact. If the
university wishes to respect the wishes of its students and remind UNC of those who fought/died for their cause, then
resurrecting Silent Sam is not the solution. Instead, I think a permanent/stone podium where students can speak about
whatever topic they feel prevalent would be helpful. Or to continue promoting the arts at UNC a piano with an
overhand/cover should be bolted down for free play.
Please let me know if there is anything else you need!

Thank you,
Shauna Hines
Shauna Hines
M.Ed Candidate
Graduate Assistant
Cooperative Education Program
Clemson University
Message
From: Sam Newell
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:02:15 PM
Subject: "Silent Sam"
The issue of Confederate iconography is more complex than it appears at first view.
Confederate memorials have currently become a vehicle for special interests to advance a political
agenda. Their meaning has been "hijacked" to gain visibillity for certain groups. Regarding "Silent Sam" it
appears from what I've seen in the media, that the people involved in illegally destroying this monument are not
Chapel Hill students or even of Southern heritage. And, some are claiming that the memorials, in general, were
put up to cower or intimidate African-Americans during the "Jim Crow" years. I do not believe this to be
true. Almost one-third of military aged men from NC who fought, died in the Civil War meaning wives,
daughters, mothers, and sons, etc., lost a loved one and a family breadwinner.They left families whose futures
were terribly damaged by this horrible conflict. By the late 19th Century the remaining veterans were dying off
and these families wanted to honor or memorialize their family members the same way we do today with
Vietnam and WW II memorials. .
North Carolinians did not want war; after initially rejecting a convention to even consider secession, a
convention was finally called and the state voted to seceed because President Lincoln was believed to have
exceeded his Constitutional authority in calling for troops to put down the secessionist movement. In North
Carolina's case at least, preserving slavery was not the motivational issue in secession. Instead it was Lincoln's
decision to use force to stop state voters from exercising their right of self determiniation under the Constitution
as it was then written.
These monuments were erected to our family members who fought in a war they didn't want but supported,
however reluctantly, because their state governments, to which they felt a primary loyalty, told them they were
needed for defence of their homes and families from the horrors of war. And those horrors came in the form of
raids which brought widespread destruction in the form of looting, burning of property, in some cases rape, and
other forms of terrorism. The historical record bears this out plainly.
The memorials deserve to be seen in this broader light, not solely as some claim, a tribute to a horroribie
slavery system, but as a tribute to men who answered their state governments' call to defend their homes from
an invading enemy. Therefore the monuments should stay and deeper explanations as to their meaning need to
be provided. I am not so much concerned about "Silent Sam" as I am concerned about this single perspective
smear campaign against all things Confederate.
Chapel Hill is an educational institution. Be that, and tell the full story of the conflict by keeping Silent Sam
and adding to the story as professional historians, who are qualified to see all facets of the conflict, see fit.
[I think the Chapel Hill History Dept. is too close to the issue to be objective. Please cast a wider net.)
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From: Sit, Roger C [/O=EXCHANGE LABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Suggestion from a victim of racism
Bkgd: I am Asian American and I grew up in Mississippi, so I have a lifetime of experience with racism. Asians were even
victims of "legal" racism with the Chinese Exclusion Act that did not get fully reversed until about 1965. My hometown's
(Vicksburg, MS) livelihood is due to Civil War history tourism. The concept of "removing" confederate statues, if applied
to a place like my hometown would lead to the demise of the town and I don't think that's constructive. What works for
my hometown is that there are as many, if not more, Union Soldier (Army) memorials for balance.
Suggestion: Replace Silent Sam and raise a Union Soldier (Army) memorial next to Silent Sam for balance and full
revelation of history. I don't know for sure but I would guess that there were North Carolinians who served in the Union
Army so the idea of a Union soldier memorial would not be wrong.
Respectfully,
--Roger
Roger Sit, Ph.D., CHP

Radiation Safety Officer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adjunct Faculty UNC Schools of Medicine and Public Health
Adjunct Faculty NCSU School of Engineering
Department of EHS, 1120 Estes Drive
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From: Hirschey, Rachel [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=A734E93B1A49428298A5E6A1D487E02D-RACH EL HI RS]
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:05:39 PM
Subject: Please do not put the monument back on campus property.
Message
From: Lauren Fine
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:07:14 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Folt and Board of Trustees,
As a former employee at UNC, it is of grave importance to me that Silent Sam not be put back up. The students
and community have spoken countless times and in countless ways to make it clear that Silent Sam is a
detriment to the campus community. It is the job of administration to make UNC a safe and productive place of
learning and to be an example to the surrounding community and the world of how to create inclusive anti-racist
spaces. So far, UNC has failed to do that.
In this moment, the community is holding their breath waiting to see what action you will take. What an
opportunity to be that example, especially because UNC has fallen so short of supporting students of color so
far. This could be a moment we all look back on with greater shame or it could be a moment we recognize as a
shift in the campus climate. It could be a moment when the students finally feel seen by the administration. I
urge you to take this opportunity to be on the right side of history.
As for what happens to the statue itself, I don't think it's of much importance. If you decide to put it in a
museum, fine. If you decide to put it in storage, fine. What should be of greater concern to you is how you will
support students going forward. Will you leave them to heal alone? Or will you provide resources for students
to heal together as a campus community from the violent arrests that took place and from the constant physical
reminder of white supremacy that was on this campus for so long? Will you give them a platform to voice their
concerns in the future? Will you listen?
Support students, not a statue.
With urgency,
Lauren
Lauren Fine
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Message
From: Darwin Roseman
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:13:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam is a historical memorial and is protected by state law. This

accumulation of comments is a waste of time and a delaying action. The
LAW is the LAW. Silent Sam should be placed back at its original
position on UNC campus. I cannot believe that this university has no
longer become the people's university but a university of violent activists
and anarchists bent on breaking the LAW and getting away from it.
I sure hope cooler and more historical heads prevail over this matter. It is a
memorial to honor UNC students who fought for the Confederacy and it is
not a memorial to white supremacy. As a native North Carolinian, I am
proud of this memorial even though I am not a UNC graduate. It is history
and you cannot rewrite history to make a person feel better.
Please uphold the LAW. You have no other choice.
Thank you for your time.
Darwin Roseman
Holly Springs, NC
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From: Kannappan, Shei la [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=1A13 7649A37 A488E85CFBA0F206A6656-SH EILA KANN]
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:20:05 PM
Subject: rep lacement for Confederate monument
Building on the idea that the Confederate monument does not belong "at the front door of a safe, welcoming,
proudly public research university," I would like to suggest what should greet our visitors instead. I vote for a
statue of Dean Smith, a true hero who represents the best of what unites Carolina. For 36 years, Coach Smith
stood for academic as well as athletic excellence at UNC, and was an exemplar of ethical leadership in college
sports and the wider world. As an early leader in promoting equal opportunity for African Americans, he
perfectly represents the proud and welcoming values of our public university.
- Sheila Kannappan, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Message
From: Perry Childers
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:26:47 PM
The Boy Soldier/ Silent Sammy memorial should be placed back just as he was standing for nearly 100 years!
Thanks
Message
From: Kannappan, Shei la [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=1A13 7649A37 A488E85CFBA0F206A6656-SH EILA KANN]
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:26:56 PM
Subject: where to put the Confederate monument
It seems to me that the location that would strike the best compromise between allowing some people to
venerate and honor the Confederate dead while allowing others to place these soldiers and their outdated
values firmly behind us is a graveyard. I am not familiar with all the cemeteries on or off campus to be able to
recommend a specific one.
- Sheila Kannappan, Associate Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy

Message
From: Horace Ledford
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:36:59 PM
Subject: Sam
Follow the dictates of the N.C.law concerning monuments that celebrate those that went to defend N.C. against
an unlawful invader.

Message
From: Jeff Bowley
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:43:42 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Carolina:
Place Silent Sam in the Wilson Library (maybe in the Southern Historical Collection section). After all, a
library is a central repository for controversial ideas ..
Sincerely,
Jeff Bowley
Carolina '89
Message
From: Seymour Phillips
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:50:52 PM
Dear Counselor,
I hope Anarchy does not rule over the law and the majority of people of this great state of North Carolina. I
hope Slint Sam can be put back up where he belongs. And recognized for the time and era and the values for the
noble students that fault the aggression that was wrecking all inhabitants of the South.
Message
From: Bob Andrews
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:51:21 PM
Subject: Memorial "S ilent Sam"
We the people will not be satisfied until Sam is put back as he was. If this is not carried out In an already stated
reasonable time, we the people will be forced into taking legal action.
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From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:52:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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I am a parent of a current student. I loved the statue and thought it was representative of our nation's
history which as we all know is not perfect. I live in and recently saw a monument in the square
in Santa Fe built with a etched narrative to honor the men who fought as "rebels" and against the
"savage" Indians. Now we would all agree those characterizations and terms are not politically correct
for the times in which we live. But I thought the plaque below on the back of the monument did a good job
of putting the message and the monument in its proper historical perspective. Maybe something similar
could be placed on the silent Sam monument so that we can learn from rather than hide our history?
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From: Jeremiah Rosen
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:53:50 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor Falt and Board of Governors,
I am writing to implore you not to return Silent Sam to its original spot on campus. The public opinion about the
statue has been loud and decisive. For too long, the UNC administration has ignored students who articulated
how seeing that statue displayed so prominently on campus made them feel unwelcome at their own university.
Displaying a statue with such a damning history of despicable racism and violence sends the message to black
students that the university doesn't take them or their concerns seriously. Have you ever worried about the
damage you are causing by forcing students look into the face of that statue that embodies all the evils of white
supremacy on their own campus? Universities are supposed to be homes away from home for students and that's
impossible when the university prioritizes the wellbeing of a statue over its students. This is not a call to "forget
history" the way some have twisted this viewpoint. I think it's entirely necessary to remember and study our
history, but that doesn't mean it needs to be proudly displayed at the front of campus for all to see. There's a
difference between study and remembrance and glorification, which is what this stature is; a revision to history
that was erected during a period of civil change, well after the civil war, meant to intimidate black people from
exercising their rights. In case you have forgotten, this is a text from the dedication of Silent Sam;
"One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from
Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets
of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for
protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I
performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights
afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head."
This is what you are tacitly endorsing by keeping this statue up. I beg that you listen to your students and your
community and consider their thoughts and fears and choose not to put Silent Sam back up.
Thank you,
Jeremiah Rosen
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Put him back where he WAS and SHOULD be. Reid J. Rhodes Class of 76. Thanks for asking.
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From: Lew Brown
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:56:50 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Attachments: Silent Sam .docx
Please see attached.
Lew G. Brown
Silent Sam
Let me begin with a full disclosure: I am a white male southerner, born in Newport
News, who lived briefly with my family in Savannah, but really "grew up" in Charlotte. I
entered UNC in 1964 completing a degree in political science and then a master's in public
administration. I later returned to earn an MBA and a Ph.D. in Marketing. I have lived in
Chapel Hill since 1983.
My avocation is photography. I frequently go on campus to take photos. Early on a

January morning in 2013, I went to campus to take some photos after there had been a light
snow. The snow produced a low-lying fog on campus that added some drama, and I took the
photo above. I liked the photo and showed it to some friends who noted the growing controversy
over the statue and what some believed it stood for.
Despite having walked by Silent Sam probably thousands of time as a student and Chapel
Hill resident, I had never really thought about the different perceptions and feelings it motivated.
I knew its history, but it was just one of those things that has always been there. I had not been
aware of the controversy.
The ensuing discussions reminded me of the moment that I realized what racism is and
the moment I decided I would not be racist. I was riding in a car with several other members of
my high school track team as we returned from a meet. We were driving along Charlotte's
Wilkinson Boulevard when I saw an African American teenager just walking along the sidewalk.
I yelled the "N" word out the window as we passed by. Perhaps I was responding to the growing
controversy over desegregation, but I had no reason to yell that word. I sat back in my seat as if
someone had slapped me. It was my conscience asking me what in the world I had just done?
That young man had done nothing to me. What right did I have to yell such a thing? How
would I feel if the situation were reversed? I guess I was reminding myself of the Golden Rule.
I thought about this incident as I have considered the issue of Silent Sam's presence on
the UNC campus. The statue was dedicated in 1913, almost 50 years AFTER the war's
conclusion. Why would we erect a statue memorializing a war whose intent was to destroy our
union and our government and to ensure the continuation of slavery? Why would we celebrate a
war that resulted in about 620,000 deaths - almost half of the total number of soldiers' deaths in
All wars in U.S. hi story. Approximate 51,000 soldiers died in just three days at Gettysburg -
about the same number who died in the years' long Vietnam War. Apparently, many such
statues and memorials were erected in this time - a time when we were pursuing Jim Crow and
separate-but-equal approaches and denying the humanity and equality of many American
citizens. I am old enough to remember African Americans having to sit only in theaters'
balconies and to drink only from "colored" water fountains. Why would we be surprised that
African Americans and others would be bothered by such a statue?
This brings me back to the photograph. Silent Sam seems to be emerging from the fog.
The lights along the brick paths behind the statue are there to help pedestrians see their path in
the darkness and fog. Those who question this statue and others like it are encouraging us,
finally, to emerge from the fog of the Civil War. Perhaps they are illuminating our way forward
- forward to a "more perfect union" where all citizens are created and treated equally, "based on
the content of their character, not the color of their skin."
This statue does not belong anywhere on the UNC campus, especially at its front door.
There are plenty of books, movies, cemeteries, and museums to educate us about the Civil War.
We can learn from our past and move forward as Americans, together.
LewG. Brown
Message
From: Don Carson
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:59:04 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
It's a shame for administration to bow down to a few. Needs to be put back where it was. I'm a '71
graduate and long time Big Ram with seats in footba ll and basketball. If they move silent Sam and rename
buildings, I'm through.
Don Carson
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Message
From: Mary Stevens
Sent: 9/24/2018 2:59:42 PM
Subject: RETURN SILENT SAM
RETURN silent Sam to his original positionl. Place him on a taller pedestal to keep the Communists
away!!!
Thanks.
Mary Stevens
Message
From: sshehdan
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:01:28 PM
Subject: Please Move Silent Sam
Please move Silent Sam to a more appropriate place. If it is necessary to honor any war activity, erect a statue
honoring all people who died in ANY conflict, not just those who died fighting to preserve white privilege &
slavery.
Sharon Shehdan
Message
From: Joseph Levin-Manning
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:01:47 PM
Subject: Silent Sam needs to stay gone
I find it deplorable that the university administration left the statue of as long as it did, even after the governor
gave person to take it down. If it is replaced, I will never make a donation to Carolina again.
I was a student on campus when Eve Carson was Student Body President and this it is dishonest to talk about
the "Carolina Way" and try to have a discussion about how Silent Sam could even possibly be replaced.
As a gay, black, Jewish student, now alumnus, of Carolina, it was troubling to see Confederate statues and
buildings named after KKK members. Being on campus and seeing the names of people who want to kill me for
each identity that I possess caused a lot of distress throughout my studies and compounded the stress that I felt
at home already for being gay. If it had not been for the staff on campus who supported through those difficult
times, I'm not sure how I would have survived.
I urge and beg the administration to end this depravity and uphold the true spirit of Carolina.
Joseph Levin-Manning, '11

Former Speaker Student Congress
Message
From: D. Krotoszynski
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:07:48 PM
Subject: Relocation of Confederate Memorial (Silent Sam) on UNC Campus Grounds
To Whom it may concern,
While the University must recognize and acknowledge its history, the roles played by institution and
student body during the U.S. Civil War, the University should not attempt to forget, nor rewrite said
roles and with this in mind, I suggest the University of North Carolina Confederate Memorial, better
known as Silent Sam, be maintained and relocated to the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery on campus.
I am sure that as a premier institution of higher education, the University of North Carolina - Chapel
Hill, shall make this a learning moment - a teachable exercise.
David Krotoszynski
Class '94
Message
From: John Prince
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:08:45 PM
Subject: Proposal for Silent Sam statue resolution
I think that a long hallway/exhibit that contextualizes the whole UNC history of race relations from employing
slaves/excluding Black students, through the NC part in the Civil War, the Jim Crow era, Civil Rights
movement on campus and integration, to today with many races participating and the changing perception of
the Confederacy and the statue. I think the statue would be among the various exhibits but not central to the
experience. I would hope the focus would be on a progressive evolution in thinking about the subject and
treatment of people in a more humane and just way. Also, the scale of the exhibit should be large enough to tell
the story well but not so large that the potential for large scale demonstrations is reduced.
Thank you.
John Prince
Message
From: tom terriffic
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:09:53 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put him back where he has been standing for all these years. Lock all the vandals and rioters up and make the
charges stick. Or my taxpayer money should not go to fund UNC. You people are letting kids tell you what to
do, like the prisons are being run by the prisoner's. Need a change of leadership if you ask me.
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Subject: remove the statue to a museum
To me, the situation with Silent Sam placed on our campus seems analogous to having statues in Germany celebrating
the sacrifices of those who fought for the Nazi party during the war. Anyone who was a descendant of those soldiers
might feel that there sacrifices deserved recognition, despite the underlying cause for which they fought. But those
whose relatives were persecuted, tortured or killed would undoubtedly resent walking by such a monument every day. I
don't understand why people cannot see the similarity between those two situations: young men, often drafted but
sometimes volunteering to fight for their country, whose victims do not see their cause as noble in any way.
Yes, I see the beauty in the art itself, so I do not think it should be destroyed. But I think the monument should be put
into a museum with explanatory signage, in a place where those who want to see it may do so, but which does not
require the rest of us to have to look at it.
Message
From: Eric Dimarzio i
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:10:55 PM
Subject: Alumnus Regarding Si lent Sam
I am a proud member of the 2011 graduating class of UNC. I love our University and the values it represents.
That is why I believe Silent Sam does not belong on our campus. I have read the dedication speech, and its
intention is unmistakable. To honor those who fought to defend slavery and preserve the inferiority of non-
whites in the South. To honor this statue is to admit that these sentiments still exist in our culture and at our
school. We have a memorial and Memorial Hall itself to honor our fallen Tar Heels, and the tragic loss of
students during the Civil War should not be forgotten nor left unmourned. However, Silent Sam is and has
always been a symbol of racism and bigotry. Please, do what is right and never return the statue to our proud
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Message
From: William Richardson
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:12:52 PM
Subject: Silent Sam and the Law
The only course for the University of North Carolina to take is to abide by the law. This nation was
built on abiding by the laws, this nation is a nation of laws. Silent Sam is to be replaced on the
location that it stood on before ILLEGALLY being removed. If you and the University believe in, and
support mob rule, then you must understand and accept that mob rule runs both ways. take a
moment and allow that to sink in. Under the current law, you have no authority to relocate Silent Sam .
The only authority you have is to abide by the law.
The University belongs to ALL the people of North Carolina, not a small minority of unlawful
vigilantes, that you pander to. By not taking firm action, and abiding by the laws of North Carolina,
you and the University of North Carolina will only embolden criminal acts by criminals, and will also
yourself become viewed as a University that supports and breeds criminals and criminal activity. The
time is NOW that you and the University of North Carolina must step up and abide by the laws of
North Carolina, or forever be a part of the problem that plagues this nation.
William Richardson
Message
From: Kerry Traynum [kerry@alexanderricks.com]
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:21:09 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam
To Whom It May Concern:
I am a 2004 graduate of the UNC School of Law. Silent Sam should remain down and the pedestal should be
removed. The only mention of Silent Sam should be some sort of memorial put in its former place of honor that
commemorates its removal by peaceful protesters who had the moral courage to do what those in leadership positions
refused to do. Silent Sam commemorated soldiers who fought for a country that seceded from the USA in order to keep
black slaves in bondage. We are now over 150 years removed from that conflict. African Americans still suffer from the
effects of slavery even today, yet they are North Carolinians and valuable members of the community and the
university. To honor any soldiers that fought for a cause to keep them slaves, whether intentional or not, is a
disgrace. Enough deference has been given the Confederacy in the 150 years since it lost the Civil War. It is time to give
deference to the causes it fought against. There is no honor in Silent Sam. If people desire to honor soldiers in their
family, let them do it on their own time. I grew up in a small town in SC and there were many African Americans with
the same, uncommon, Scot-Irish name as me. I know what that means, and I cannot fathom ever wanting to honor that
ancestor no matter his intentions or well meaning. I will never give another dollar to or attend another event at UNC
until this issue is resolved
Regards,
Kerry Traynum
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Message
From: Kristopher Nordstrom
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:21:22 PM
Silent Sam is garbage. Please recycle or send to a landfill as appropriate.
Thanks,
Kristopher Nordstrom
Message
From: Chris Faulkenberry
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:27:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Since the statue has come down, it seems like a good time to call its era to a close. I would suggest moving it to
a museum or cemetery, as it is a memorial to the dead, and replacing it with something that better represents the
future of UNC. To return the statue to its place would be a slap in the face of students of color and others who
feel threatened by the white supremacy that drove the Confederacy and still smolders today.
Message
From: Robert Henry Ricks Camp 75
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:30:02 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Folt,
Regarding Silent Sam please keep in mind the University itself belongs to the people of North Carolina and not
a group that seems to extreme.
Many people hold dear that memorial.. .just think of all those young men who gave up their education to go fight
in a terrible war and never return. Some their families lived the rest of their lives not knowing what happened to
them, where they might be buried, etc. Can you imagine the heartbreak of a mother, a wife or a child?
Those like myself that admire such bravery and self sacrifice wish no harm on anyone who may think
contrary ... we simply want to be left alone.
This is history and nothing anyone can do will change that.
The only option under law is to restore the monument and protect it.
I thank you for reading my email and hope you have a wonderful day!
Craig Bone
Commander
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Robert Henry Ricks Camp 75
Rocky Mount NC
WITH FEW, WE ACCOMPLISH MUCH

Message
From: Missy Bizzaro
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:34:36 PM
Subject: monument
Display it in/ in front of your history department building with a plaque that explains the detailed history of the
piece including it current status and include another statue or piece of art next to it that exemplifies the modern
student or the minority student or minority leader of the college that deserves recognition. - Missy
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From: Davis, Howard Todd [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 3:35:52 PM
Subject: Sam
I think it should be placed inside Morehead planetarium , in the Rotunda

Message
From: Elizabeth Hays.
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:39:22 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear UNC Board of Trustees and Chancellor Folt,
It is true that we are living in difficult times in North Carolina and in our country. There is no doubt that our collective
history is painful. It is also true that we cannot go back and change the past. But we can make just and honorable
decisions about our future . Silent Sam and other Confederate monuments have no place in civil American society and
absolutely no place of celebratory honor in our public institutions of higher education . Please do not return Silent Sam to
the prominence on the UNC campus where it had been. To do so would be a symbolic endorsement to all that the statue
represents and would be toxic for UNC, Orange County, Chapel Hill, and to all of North Carolina . Please embrace a
healthy future and do NOT return Silent Sam!
Respectfully,
Elizabeth Hays
Hillsborough, NC
Message
From: R. N. Ferguson
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:44:15 PM
Subject: Keeping the memorial
Attachments: rnfergus.vcf
Just because some want to take the value of the Silent Sam statue as a direct insult does not mean these few
have the right to impose their views on the rest of us.
This statue memorializes those North Carolina boys who were inducted into a war between Lincoln and his own
people, a civil war about saving the Union, albeit in a very divisive way. The war was a bad idea and thousands
of North Carolinians were killed over this spat.
The War between the States was less about slavery than it was about control. In fact, New York City itself had
more slaves than any southern city except Charleston. So why the distinction? Why was it labeled a war to end
slavery? As Henry Ford said, "History by and large is BUNK."
These young men, killed in their prime, deserve to be remembered.
Silent Sam should remain on the UNC campus. Where? In its original place. The radicals who object should be
educated, something that has not been done adequately.
RN Ferguson, UNC 2005

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Message
From: Mark Sfeir
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:46:02 PM
Subject: Silent Sam and other confederate statues
I can't think of any place other than a Civil War museum where a confederate monument could be placed and
received as an object of purely historical interest rather than as a continuing monument to white supremacy and
the Confederacy. Even in our museums it is important to place Confederate monuments-with descriptive
annotations of their origins-in a narrative of the great moral failure of slavery rather than enshrine them with
placards of praise, as Silent Sam previously was on UNC's campus.
Furthermore, in view of Chancellor Folt and the Board of Governors' failure to right this historic wrong, even as
most all but Confederate sympathizers determined that the status quo could not rightly remain, and many of
your own students voiced their fears resulting from the statue's presence, Chancellor Folt should resign.
Writing as a concerned member of the public and frequent visitor of the UNC campus,
Mark Sfeir
Message
From: Julius Weiss
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:54:35 PM
Subject: Silent Sam to Museum
Hello,
I am a member of the Class of 1995, a son whose mom and grandmother were Daughters of the Confederacy
members, and a product of the NC public school system. My education was steeped in the Confederacy, all the
way through John Shelton Reed's courses. Silent Sam needs to stay off the campus for the sake of all the
students who find the celebration of the Lost Cause abhorrent. Move it to a museum in Raleigh or a section of
the campus museum that makes sense, but it is not art, it is a commemoration of insurrection. But you all know
this, unfortunately the rednecks are in charge so what the hell am I writing you for other than to scream into the
wind.
Best,
Julius Weiss
Class of 1995
Religious Studies
Message
From: Justin Trushell
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:54:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Donate Silent Sam to a museum.

Message
From: Glenn Hennessee
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:56:29 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I suggest that the statue of silent Sam be placed in the Alumni building since it was created to
acknowledge the sacrifice of the alumni.
Message
From: Frank Johnson
Sent: 9/24/2018 3:58:51 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put it back in its original location! ! !

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Message
From: Farsi de
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:00:11 PM
Subject: Statue
It is a shame to let a few "protesters" dictate how North Carolinians live. Some of the "protesters" are
NOT even students at our fine university. Some of the students protesting our heritage are not even
assigned to the school system .. . yet, they are the ones seemingly in charge of how we deal with a
North Carolina issue.
And, now we have faculty/staff slow-poking the remounting the "Silent Sam" statue to its original
pedestal. We were told, by law, the statue must be remounted within 90 days. But. .. the school
system is telling us a decision will be made within 90 days. The police were told to stand down and
while the students were busy destroying property belonging to the People of North Carolina and the
police should department and its leadership should be thoroughly investigated for allowing the
destruction of property belonging to the citizens of North Carolina.
So, what's next for the school? Buildings being renamed, statues torn down, rename anything that
could be associated with "slavery" in hopes of appeasing a few thin skinned "terroristic" protesters.
How long before the title "Tarheels" has to go??? History has taught us the moniker "Tarheel" came
from our Civil War past. The university newspaper proudly took the name, so does that go as well?
Do we let outsiders dictate our daily lives from now own?
Maybe, it is time for some of you to rub a little tar on your heels and stand up to those that want to
destroy and remake North Carolina. I for one say ... Put Sam back in his place of honor.
Message
From: Jonathan Holland
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:02:37 PM
Subject: monument
Dear Sirs
I do not believe it is appropriate to maintain a statue honoring an avowed white supremacist. Why not replace the
statue with someone who fought against slavery and/or for civil rights. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely Jonathan Holland

Message
From: David Abuin [dsabuin@ncsu .edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:07:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam idea
The Silent Sam statue should go to a museum or a Civil War battlefield.
Sincerely,
David Abuin
Message
From: Jan Marable
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:11:44 PM
Subject: Idea for Silent Sam issue
As an alumnus of UNC, I would like to see The silent Sam Statue replaced at its location on Franklin
Street, BUT TO THAT AREA, I would like to see additional monuments built to honor alumni who have helped
to achieve our university's progress in civil rights through the decades and centuries.
That way, we can still review history, reflect and learn from it, honor our high achievers past and
present, and set our sights on the future.
Jan Marable
UNC BSN 1987
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Message
From: Dustin Sloop
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:14:16 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Smelt the statue or use it as part of an artificial reef off the North Carolina coast
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I suggest you put silent sam back up and rededicate it to all soldiers who died in the civil war
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From: mitchel l hawks
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:17:40 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The best place to put it is right back where it was, with the guilty parties footing the bill, as a message
against lawlessness and destruction. Then, talk about relocating it, if that's the general consensus.

Message
From: L.F . Eason
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:22:57 PM
CC: jswaine@sitinmovement.org
Thank you for establishing this email address for suggestions. I was born in Chapel Hill and am a lifelong resident of
North Carolina. Returning to Chapel Hill in my teen years, I am a 1974 graduate of the University. My dad was a 1954
graduate. We both felt very protective of Silent Sam until we heard its shameful history. I actually found the copy of
Governor Kerr's notes from the day online in the Wilson Library. I do fault the University for not teaching students about
this horrific piece of the University's history, but of course, there are buildings carrying a similar guilty association in
th
their names across the UNC system campuses. My dad passed away June 5 of this year, but he and I had the
opportunity to discuss what we felt was appropriate for the Jim Crow era monuments, especially Silent Sam, on several
occasions before he passed. We were in agreement.
I feel the logical location for Silent Sam and other Jim Crow era Civil War statues would be the International Civil Rights
Center & Museum, 134 South Elm Street, Greensboro, NC 27401, (336) 274-9199.
I had the honor of sitting with Mr. John Swaine at an ACLU awards banquet a few years back. Since I am volunteering the
Civil Rights museum, I am also copying him on this email!
Regardless of their place in the attempts to impede the progress of the civil rights movement, obviously these statues
are large and a logistical problem. They could also pose a security issue. Mr. Swaine will know what the museum has the
capacity to display at the current time. Since the museum is an archival repository as well, it might be they could be put
monuments into storage until the NC General Assembly could fund an expansion (possibly a memorial garden to those
who lost in the civil rights movement and Jim Crow mentality).
Thank you again for the opportunity to comment. Mr. Swaine, I hope I have not volunteered the museum out of turn,
but I do really appreciate the history you are working to preserve. I do think these monuments to Jim Crow are an
important piece of that history that need to be known for the true role they played.
If
L.F. Eason
Message
From: Miranda Day
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:23:49 PM
Subject: Literal Statue Commemorating Slavery
I was recruited in high school to go to UNC Chapel Hill. I didn't go specifically because of things like this
statue.
- Miranda Day
Message
From: Jeremy Quattlebaum
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:26:56 PM
Subject: Melt it down
Melt the statue down and replace the statue with one dedicated to Civil Rights leaders from the UNC
community.
Message
From: Bob Lynch
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:31:43 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I have been a resident of Chapel Hill for 20 years. Please put Silent Sam back where he was standing- the exact same spot. I have
walked by the statue many times with my children when they were growing up. We discussed its history and the context of the War
Between The States, slavery, and many other issues around the statue. We cannot erase the past but we certainly can learn from it so
not to repeat it. Silent Sam belongs back where he was so we do NOT repeat our past.
Thank you,
Bob Lynch
Chapel Hill, NC
Message
From: Barbara Hatcher
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:37:50 PM
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Subject: Monument
The entire monument including the pedestal belongs in a military cemetery. That is where it should have
been pl aced years ago.
Thanks for the chance to give input.
Barbara Hatcher
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Message
From: tmay8920
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:43:27 PM
I think Silent Sam should be put back in its proper place. It's to honor the UNC family that went and fought in
the war. Moving it would only disgrace those UNC family members. Also putting it back myself and others that
might want to visit it can do so easier than if moved to a library or building on campus. I know we will not be
allowed to go to library and visit. Plus latest polls say majority wants monuments left alone. So please put Silent
Sam back up and honor the UNC family
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Message
From: Cheryl Ann Walkup
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:43:47 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The Silent Sam memorial should be reinstalled where he previously stood. He is a memorial to the brave sons
of UNC. You are destroying a part of UN C's history! A history that you may not agree with, but it is still
history!
Thank you,
Cheryl Ann Walkup
Message
From: beverlyflynn
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:43:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam, needs to be put back where he has stood all along!! It would Bea disgrace to silent sam and the solider that he
represents!!!
#LEA VE SILENTSAM WHERE HE HAS STOOD FOR MANY YEARS!!! !@@@@mmmm
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• Leave historical monument where it is but provide historical context for the monument with
other monuments and place an iron fence around all monuments. For instance, there are lots of
African -Americans who fought in the war that could be honored.
• North Carolina Museum of History- relocate and remove pedestal
• Ackland Museum- including contextual exhibit on the Civil War
• Archives in the Southern History Collection
• Wilson Library
• Morehead Planetarium
• Offsite State Museum
• Campus Museum or Library
• Stored in the basement of a museum, it should not be publicly displayed
• In a Museum
• Return statue to location for 6 months to obey the laws, then move to Wilson library
• Davis Library, Southern Historical Collection
Message
From: Leobino, David I _
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:51:09 PM
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Subject: The Case for Silent Sam
Chancellor Falt,
Good afternoon Ma'am. I felt moved to write to you this afternoon regarding a controversial matter that has
tugged at my heart lately. I have to admit that I was not aware of the article in the Daily Tar Heel asking for
our opinion regarding this matter.
One of the most important things we as a society should do is to remember. Silent Sam tries reminds us
to honor those who fought for the South; much like we do today for those during World War I & II, and other
recent wars. I can relate to that as a veteran with combat experience. The difference here is that he
resembles those who fought for what Confederate States stood for in those days. Yes, I agree that he may
represent a one-sided view of the whole story that may be offensive to some. But every story has differing
views deriving from differing perspectives that we can learn from.
But however offensive, we need to be able to not only see the whole story but also the parts of the
whole. When examined, the parts of the whole can help us to see the whole more carefully and thus can
enrich our learning experience. We need to see and experience what The Civil War and what our nation
looked like at that time, however horrid. That period was a milestone that contributed to our development as
a nation. For this reason, there is no institution other than The University of North Carolina that can tell that
story.
A story of how we have gradually grown and emerged as a nation to respect the rights of others and our racial
differences. He represents a watershed moment for the United States and we should honor that by loving one
another and treating each other with respect.
Silent Sam answers the question of how we got to this point in time to begin with. He is one of the
corner pieces of our American Puzzle. Without him, we risk forgetting to treat others without prejudice,
hate, racism, greed, and selfishness. Silent Sam should be re-installed on campus. And because he represents
a veteran of the South, he should be transferred to the ROTC Building where he can best tell the story of what
it was like to be a Soldier fighting for the cause of the South.
Sincerely Yours,
David Leobino
SFC, U.S. Army (RET)
UNC-CH Alumnus 04-09 (part-time student)
Message
From: Roger Williams
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:52:39 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The Silent Sam monument should be put back where it was unlawfully removed from. This statue like the
many others has hurt nobody and is a part of history. The University receives money from all the taxpayers of
North Carolina and a small group of people that do not think they have to obey laws removed it and it should be
put back where it was right away and the University should insist that the people responsible for tearing it down
are punished to the full extent of the law. As an educational facility, you should make an example of people
that do not follow the laws of our state and nation. Please begin to teach the true history of the Civil War as
well. That war was fought for states rights and not just over slavery. The Southern history is history, not
hate. Be a responsible example to the people of North Carolina and put Silent Sam back where he
belongs. Roger D. Williams Graham, NC
Message
From: Don
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:54:17 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam is a memorial to deceased UNC students and faculty that died in a war. It's essentially a
tombstone. Put him back where he was and stop having a knee jerk reaction to the politics of the day.
show some spine and stop letting bored 19 year olds dictate policy.
Message
From: Levon Martin
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:54:19 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The statue needs to be put back where it was. It has stood for over 100 years and should have been protected by the
University. It is an absolute disgrace that the University stood by and watch it being vandalized and then pulled down.
Any student, faculty or staff member who participated in or stood by and watched this disgraceful action should be
expelled or discharged and not permitted back on campus. If the law enforcement officers were told not to interfere
then the head of the respective police departments and their superiors up to and including the Chancellor and/or
Mayor/City manager. There is no place for this type of destruction of property in North Carolina.
Levon Martin
Message
From: Michael May
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:58:56 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please restore the stature exactly like it was. We cannot allow mob rule - we must protect and follow our laws.
Respectfully - Michael May
"Make a Commitment to Making a Difference"

Message
From: Kris Morley-Nikfar
Sent: 9/24/2018 4:59:57 PM
Subject: Suggested location for Silent Sam
Hi there,
I just read the article in the News and Observer about this opportunity to submit recommendations for a new
location for the Silent Sam Statue. As a significant part of North Carolina History, the Civil War, and the racism
that fueled its efforts shouldn't be forgotten. That being said, public statues should be dedicated to heros. And to
me, a hero isn't someone who fights to keep a group of people enslaved, for any reason at all. So I recommend
placing Silent Sam in the NC History Museum. They have an exhibit called "A call to arms" where it might fit.
But they really should have an exhibit on how racism played a part in the state's history and how the struggle for
equality for multiple groups of people continues. Just my two cents. Thank you for listening.
Kris
Message
From: Clay Johanson
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:01:15 PM
I can't speak for anyone else, but if you don't restore Silent Sam to the position he's occupied for his entire history, then
I for one will no longer support UNC-CH athletics in ANY way -- I am a lifelong Tar Heel fan, but I will cease and never pull
for Carolina ever again if Silent Sam isn't put back exactly where he was.
Sincerely,
Clay Johanson (Charlotte, NC)
Message
From: Lane Somers
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:02:48 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
There is no room for suggestions. He needs to be put back up where he previously stood. No question. If he is
moved to a "alternate location" he will be pushed into teaching a history that he does NOT represent. Silent Sam
is to remember the sons ofUNC that fought honorably. The lives lost and the sacrifices made. He is UNC
history, He is North Carolina history, He is Southern history, He is our history. Remember, to get respect, you
have to earn it. Understand moving Silent Sam is unlawful and does not represent the speech of one man , but
the lives of over 1000. Every poll ever done in our state has proven that 2/3 of the state does not approve of
removal of any monument. The socialist views in Chapel Hill do not reflect the views of our state as a whole.
Silent Sam is our monument and history.
Message
From: Alec Rebello
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:05:38 PM
Subject: Where to move Silent Sam
silent Sam shou l d be moved to the inside of a building away from the public.
Message
From: Debbie Carraway
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:07:26 PM
Subject: Contextualize Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor Holt:
Silent Sam is divisive and offensive largely because it is presented as a symbol worthy of honor while
representing a gruesome, violent and oppressive past whose effects persist today.
However, there are people for whom the statue represents something entirely different than its history. They
do not seem to understand or appreciate the historical facts or context of the Confederacy. For them, it
represents a link to family and a sense of pride in their identity and cultural experience, and it feels offensive
for them to be, in their view, erased.
As a public school student in North Carolina in the 1970s and 1980s, I was taught that slavery wasn't so bad:
slaves had food and shelter and work and were brought to the true religion, Christianity. I was brought up in a
culture where Confederate flags were seen as harmless symbols of our tribal identity as (white) Southerners.
The Confederate flag was an image infused with humor as it decorated the General Lee on one of my favorite
childhood shows, Dukes of Hazzard. I even referred to myself as "Deb the Reb" when I was a child, oblivious to
the suffering and brutality that the rebellion was determined to continue and the carelessness with which I
treated one of the most vicious institutions ever to plague this country. I knew vaguely about the Klan and
burning crosses, but did not have a visceral knowledge of what white supremacist terrorism is about or what
the lived experiences of its victims are. My understanding was merely abstract.
My peers told me that the Civil War was about "states rights" but never mentioned that the "rights" they
referred to were the "rights" to continue the institution of slavery. It is only in my adulthood that I have
learned about the realities of that era and the enduring repercussions of white supremacy that shape the lived
experiences of African Americans and other people of color in the present day.
I suggest that whatever the disposition of the statue, it would be a tragedy not to use it as an opportunity to
educate the people of North Carolina about the truths of slavery and the Civil War and the long-enduring
effects of white supremacy and associated terrorism that Silent Sam represents. As Americans, we hold
freedom to be a core value. We should face the facts about what freedom is and the depth of what was
denied enslaved people.
Silent Sam should be the focus of historical education about that essential American value, and the university
should invest substantially into this - make something engaging, interesting, and honest. Engage the
community of Black historians and other experts to design a historically accurate presentation of the statue.
Build it into your curriculum. Create resources for our public schools.
The university and the State of North Carolina have made substantial investments of time and resources to
protect this statue on the grounds that it is a part of our history. It is your obligation to get history right. We
should not honor the shameful, nor should we erase it: the history of Silent Sam is important, and should be
told.
Respectfu Ily,
Debbie Carraway
Message
From: Thomas Grizzle
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:11:10 PM
Subject: Where to re-locate Silent Sam
I was thinking he could either. ..
"Guard" the confederate graveyard already on campus
... or ...
Be placed into a museum somewhere.
Thomas B. Grizzle, Chapel Hill native (nee Memorial Hosp., 1958)

Message
From: Trey McDonald
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:13:07 PM
I just saw on the news where you are accepting feedback on the statue. Personally I don't agree with
getting rid of everything that offends because if we start with statues - where do we draw the line?
I saw l eave it there as history. If you have any questions on my feedback please let me know. Thx, Trey
Trey McDonald
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Message
From: jpflora
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:20:40 PM
Subject: University Must Obey the Law - Silent Sam
Regarding the unlawful destruction of the silent Sam Monument at u NC chapel Hill, I believe the only
course of action available to the University under the law is to restore and protect the memorial and the
good names of our ancestors. The University does not have the authority to move it in order to re-
contextualize or curate it with modern-day lies about white supremacy.
The University belongs to the people of North Carolina and NOT an extremist minority of paid activists.
Thank you.
Message
From: David Stinson
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:20:54 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I advocate moving Silent Sam to a nearby local civil war battlefield park. Thank you for asking.
David Stinson, Hillsborough
Message
From: Melissa Davis
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:21:16 PM
Subject: Fwd: Keep Silent Sam In place
Please consider keeping Silent Sam in its place. This uproar is nothing short of politics and simply cannot be
tolerated. History cannot be changed by toppling a statue. Add a plaque to provide some context, but to allow
the criminals that destroyed property in what equates to nothing more than a temper tantrum because they did
not get their way immediately will simply insure that this behavior continues.
Melissa
Message
From: John Fitzgerald
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:26:11 PM
It is a crying shame that people think that the destruction of historical monuments is a positive voice for some
twisted agenda that they think will change society. Breaking the law is never the correct answer to biases. This
statue is a historical monument that should be replaced and is a gauge of historical significance. If we continue
on this course we will stamp out our history and will have no direction for our future. Ask this question, what if
we tore down every historical monument of any significance from any period in time ? The future generations
will have no way of judging the mistakes of the past and certainly will repeat. In fact if you tore down statues
of any other race it would probably spark a horrific race war. A shame the ignorance of humanity is showing up
in an advanced and developed world. We're all just going backwards and don't even realize it. We all need
more than anything is to just show some love and stop destroying each other. Thanks Michael Fitzgerald
Message
From: Jere Lee Mcclendon
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:26:16 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Memorial
1) The only course of action available to the Un iversity under the law is to restore and protect the memorial.
2) The University has no authority to move it.
3) The University belongs to the people of North Carolina and NOT an extremist minority of paid activists.
4) Please let me know that you intend to follow the law and restore Silent Sam Memorial to its original place with the necessary repairs
to the damage done by the mob terrorist.
Jere Lee McClendon

Message
From: Todd Ferry
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:28:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The monument needs to stay put. I don't believe we should be BULLIED into moving this or ANY moment of
ANY kind. History, good or bad, needs to be viewed and remembered.
Message
From: John Mcduffie
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:29:10 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As a North Carolina native and a former contributor to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, my
opinion is that Silent Sam needs to be reinstalled back to the position it has occupied for over 100 years as a
memorial to UNC students who fought and died in the Civil War, regardless of who was right or wrong in the
reasons for the war. If the location of the statue is considered too much a "main" entrance to the University there
could be another entrance designed nearby that could be what most people would then consider as the main
walkway into the school. This new walkway could then be designed to plan for future educational and sports
star hero statues along that new route, starting with Dean Smith. A simple archway or gate could be the
beginning of the positive future and to reduce what some people think are negatives of exposure to Silent Sam.
Message
From: Cornick, Donna P [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 5:31:35 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam
See if Arlington National Cemetary could add to other Civil War monuments
Message
From: Rick Minton
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:32:46 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Place it back in it's original position at the expense of the ones who tore it down.
Message
From: Mike Harris
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:35:40 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Confederate Monument
The University belongs to the people of North Carolina and not

an extremist minority of paid activists. The only course of action
under the law is to restore and protect the memorial where it has
stood for over 100 years . The university does not have the
authority to move it, contextualize it or curate it with modern day
lies about slavery and white supremacy. Restore it to exactly as
it was and where it was before the university allowed a minority
opinion group of bolsheviks to destroy it and protect the State
of North Carolina history for the future.
Mike Harris
1971 Alumni
University of North Carolina System
Message
From: ca drane
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:38:36 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The purpose of this email is to advocate for the silent Sam Monument to remain where it is!
Please do not try to erase history. If one thinks by removing silent Sam, one can eradicate southern
history .... WRONG!!! southern History is America 's history!!
Do NOT move this monument to another location. Leave it where it is and teach the REAL history, as it
relates to southern history, because this IS America 's history.
Respectfully,
carol Ann Drane
Proud us Citizen
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Message
From: Jim E Gray [jegray@waketech.edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:38:48 PM
Subject: "Silent Sam" memorial
I am a graduate of UNC-CH (1965, 1967, 1970). Although my subject major was mathematics, I did once have
a "minor" teaching certificate in history and have been a member of both the "National Trust for Historic
Preservation" and "Preservation North Carolina"for over 40 years. Therefore, I believe in preservation of
historical monuments, memorials, and artifacts, unlike groups that are motivated by nihilistic destruction,
being inspired by organizations such as the "Taliban" (destruction of Buddhist monument in Afgahanistan,
etc.) and "ISIS" (destruction of pagan temple in Palmyra, Syria,etc.).
The memorial should be repaired, put back in place, and protected. I believe this is required by law, but also
that we should not reward those who defy the law. I believe everyone is entitled to their opinions and have a
right to peacefully protest, but we should never tolerate destruction of property by mobs; otherwise, we
become a society not of laws but of mob rule.
"Silent Sam" is a memorial to students who served the state of North Carolina during the war of 1861-
1865. Desecration of this monument is equivalent to the desecration of cemetery monuments, something I do
not believe we should tolerate.
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may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized state official (NCGS. ch. 132). Student educational records
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Message
From: james Taylor
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:45:45 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
There is no salutation because God forbid I misgender you, Owning to the absolute insanity coming out of the institutions that pass for
universities these days.
I was born in the west and raised in the the north. In the past twenty-six years I am proud to have become a stepson of the south. As a
combat veteran who served in the infantry the sacrifice made by all who served in one of the early conflicts that brought the beginning
of the end to slavery in the western world holds a special place in my heart.
Concerning the statue that vandals destroyed and desecrated some time back, by North Carolina law needs to be restored to it's
rightful place within ninety days of the aforementioned incident.
As citizens of a republic we must abide the rule of law irregardless of how we feel about it. If we feel something is not rig ht, organizing a
mob and committing acts of vandalism is not how redress is obtained. There are legal ways. Do they take time? Yes. Do they provide
us with instant gratification? Most certainly not.
We once had a president who scolded we the working class with, "elections have concequences". I will guarantee you that destruction
of the rule of law will carry dire concequences.
Silent Sam is to be returned to his previous state. If the people of North Carolina wish him removed it is their call not you rs.
God Speed
Mr. James H. Taylor

Message
From: Liz
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:49:41 PM
Subject: Relocation of Silent Sam
It is not erasing or altering history to move the silent Sam statue to another, more appropriate,
location. Inside, or on the grounds immediately surrounding, a history museum, would be an appropriate
spot for it and similar statues.
Elizabeth Kelly
UNC '84
Message
From: j
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:50:43 PM
Subject: George to Dr. Folt re Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
chancellor@unc.edu
Dear Chancellor Carol L. Falt Ph.D.
Long ago UNC removed the tablets in Memorial Hall with the names of UNC Confederate dead.
Six of those men were likely related to me through the Whitfield side of the family.
I have no idea where those tablets went.
I graduated from UNC in 1972 and realize that it is no longer a Southern school as in the past.
Here is my idea: There is a cemetery on UNC campus property and I suggest that UNC bury Silent
Sam in that cemetery with a simple stone on the grave.
I bet you could get a government stone for him to settle the issue.
I think "he" needs his rest.
This way he will still be on campus, but no longer visible. You won't need to pay to remount him
elsewhere.
Thanks, L. George Williams UNC Phar 1972.

Message
From: Robbie Watson
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:52:13 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Falt and Trustees,
As both a proud North Carolinian and a proud Tar Heel I feel it is my responsibility to make my feelings on the recent
removal of "Silent Sam" from the University of North Carolina campus. I do not believe the monument was erected
solely to honor the memory of Tar Heel alumni who died in the Civil War. Julian Carr's speech at the dedication in 1913
stating his belief that the Confederate Soldier was solely responsible for the preservation of the Anglo-Saxon population
of the South after the war and his anecdote about "horse-whipping a negro wench" should tell you all you need to know
about the true reason for its erection on that campus I am a believer that many southerners have sought to
"whitewash" the causes of the Civil War. It is true that slavery was only one of many reasons the 13 southern states
renounced their Union with the United States of America, but it was the only one of the reasons that involved the
ownership of a human being . . I am not a fan of destruction of history, even monuments on the wrong side of history
have their place. I believe that just because an object has a historical significance that does not insure its permanence.
believe the General Assembly was misguided when they passed legislation to take the decision to remove monuments
out of local hands. Seems strange to me that a body dominated by folks in favor of local authority should make such a
rule. It is my opinion that memorials to the traitors who renounced their citizenship, fought for the cause of slavery and
lost should be remanded to the appropriate locations or should be accompanied by memorials explaining the context of
their existence. To replace this memorial on UNC's Campus at this time is to invite more violence and more waste of
taxpayer's dollars to protect it. Let's move Silent Sam to Bentonville where he can be regarded in the proper context
and not as proof that no virgin has passed him on UNC's campus since 1913.
Thanks,
Robbie Watson
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From:
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Subject: Silent Sam
Ssilent Sam has done nothing to deserve the law breaking actions of those who rioted and tore him down. He needs to be placed back
in the same spot and history needs to have its lessons respected.
REDACTED. And a resident of Charlotte NC for 22 years Sentfrom my LG Phoenix 2, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
Message
From: Steve Stutts
Sent: 9/24/2018 5:59:16 PM
Subject: Silent Sam resting place
Without delving into rationale for relocating the monument, it would seem to be better suited at a
location that focuses on the civil war effort and not so much about the university. In that vein, perhaps
a state museum or better a battlefield that is already designated. A great example is how Gettysburg has
monuments located throughout their park .... perhaps Bentonvil l e's would suffice.
Steve Stutts
West Jefferson, NC
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Message
From: Donald Hennig
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:00:21 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please restore Silent Sam to his rightful spot and leave them there.
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:01:10 PM
Subject: Silent Sam and other memorials
RESTORE SILENT SAM TO ORIGINAL LOCATION
Under the law, the only course of action available to UNC is to restore Silent Sam to the original
location, and restore and protect the memorial.
A plaque can be installed nearby the memorial but you have no authority to move it in order to re-
contextualize or curate it with modern-day untn1ths about white supremacy. There is no such thing
as "white supremacy" or "black supremacy" and neither should be hinted at in any way if a plaque
is placed. The NC Sons of Confederate Veterans President or his delegated representative must
approve the plaque before installation.
The University belongs to the people of North Carolina and NOT an extremist minority of activists
or dissenters. Anyone can say "I am offended .... " and organize a "protest", the best thing those
people can do is silently bypass anything "offensive".
I also do not agree with any faculty or staff of any educational facility speaking for or against any
type of monument. Educate the students properly and fully so they can reach their own conclusion.
Your faculty members that participated, in or out of class, with the recent protests and violence
should be severely reprimanded and required to teach actual history rather than violence and
untruths about the War Between the States.
SLAVERY WAS NOT THE CAUSE rather a side issue of many. In August 1862 Lincoln brought
five black ministers to the White House and told them that slavery and the war had demonstrated
that it would be "better for us both, therefore, to be separated.". He wanted to send freed blacks to
Central America, even calling for a constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to pay for the
colonization.
Message
From: David Hodges [dehodges@alumni.unc.edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:04:07 PM
Subject: Advice re: what to do with Silent Sam
I understand that you are seeking feedback regarding the best location for Silent Sam, which was finally removed by a
group of patriots at UNC after being allowed to remain on prominent display on campus for 105 years too long. See UNC
wants your ideas on the best location for Silent Sam, The News & Observer (Sept. 24, 2018), available at
https://w'ww . newsobserver.corn/news/local/article2.1897..82.60.html
As an alumni of the University who loves UNC with his whole heart, here are a few ideas, off the top of my head, about
where to re-locate Silent Sam:
1) In a landfill.
2) At the bottom of the ocean.
3) At the bottom of a volcano.
4) Launched into space on one of Elon Musk's (or some other weirdo tech billionaire's) private space rockets.
5) Entombed in concrete and stored in the dark recesses of Wilson Library. Visits will be by appointment only.
6) Buried in an unmarked grave in Old Chapel Hill Cemetery (so that white supremacists won't dig it back up or
treat it as a place to make pilgrimages).
7) Melted down and re-forged into lamps spread around campus to make it more well lit and safer at night.
8) Melted down and re-forged into a statue honoring Union soldiers. You know, the side that didn't support
slavery or the social and legal subjugation of an entire race of Americans.
9) Melted down and re-forged into a statue honoring any of the many honorable historical figures associated
with the University, such as Dean Smith, Mia Hamm, Karen Shelton, Thomas Wolfe, Stuart Scott, or Bill Friday,
among others.
10) Melted down and re-forged into literally anything else other than a symbol of white supremacy.
In all seriousness, I don't care where you put the statue as long as it is anywhere in the world other than our campus.
could maybe understand (but not agree with) the logic behind deciding not to remove the statue while it still stood,
whether out of a naive understanding of "heritage" masquerading as history, or perhaps simple inertia. But now that
the statue has been removed in what can only be described as a courageous act of civil disobedience, that decision has
been made for you. The decision that's left is whether to re-erect it, which will require affirmative acts by you to put it
back in the place where it once stood. Those affirmative acts will express your approval - and by extension, the
University's approval - of the statue's history as an ugly symbol of white supremacy.
You may object to the idea that you are expressing approval, and you will hide behind some fig leaf that the re-erection
is because of property rights, or because of some other lame excuse offered up by North Carolina's unconstitutionally
racially gerrymandered government currently controlled by Republicans. However, the history of the statue as a public
symbol of white supremacy is an objective fact that is well-documented and not subject to reasonable debate. It was
not erected contemporaneously with the end of the Civil War to honor fallen confederate soldiers, but rather it was
erected nearly 50 years later during the height of the Jim Crow South. The speech made at Silent Sam's dedication
ceremony contains some of the ugliest, most racist words ever uttered publicly on our campus. See,~ 'Silent Sam': A
racist Jim Crow-era speech inspired UNC students to topple a Confederate monument on campus, The Washington Post
(Aug. 21, 2018), available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/21/silent-sam-a-racist-
jim-crow-era-speech-inspired-unc-students-to-topple-a-confederate-monument-on-campus/
By re-erecting Silent Sam, either in Mccorkle Place or anywhere else on campus, you will express your approval of its
white supremacist message; that approval will be conveyed whether you actually intend the message or not. Actions
have consequences and what we do matters, and you can't erase or undo the racist history of the statue. Your actions
on behalf of the University are an expression of its shared values, and if you put that fucking white supremacist statue
back up, your actions will demonstrate that the values of the University are in fact not shared by me and many of my
fellow alumni. Your actions will bring new shame in 2018 upon the University - a shame that was finally addressed
when the students took the action that so many of our political leaders were too afraid to take for so long.
As a native son of North Carolina, I have loved, and continue to love, the University with my whole heart. I am deeply
saddened that in 2018 we are even having a debate about whether we should publicly re-express our approval for a
racist symbol of white supremacy. I pray that you will have the courage of your convictions to do the right thing. That
statue has no place in a civilized society, let alone on our campus, as it does not reflect any of our shared values as
members of the University community.
Sincerely,
David Hodges
Class of 2008
David Hodges
NYU School of Law 2012
dehodges(al,al umni.unc.edu
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Message
From: Harrison Roberts
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:04:44 PM
Subject: Monument
Hi, I am writing in regards to what needs to be done with the Silent Sam monument. He needs to be put back up
where he previously stood. No question. If he is moved to a "alternate location" he will be pushed into teaching
a history that he does NOT represent. Silent Sam is to remember the sons of UNC that fought honorably. The
lives lost and the sacrifices made. He is UNC history, He is North Carolina history, He is Southern history, He
is our history. It is truly disgusting what happened rob Silent Sam and that can not stand. Thank you for your
time.
Harrison Roberts
Message
From: Steve Humphrey
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:12:33 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Mr. chancellor:
There is no room for "suggestions." He needs to be put back up where
he previously stood. No question.
If he is moved to an "alternate location" he will be pushed into
teaching a history that he does NOT represent.
silent Sam is to remember the sons of UNC that fought honorably.
Despite the motivations of the speaker who dedicated the statue, the
statue itself is not and never was - a monument to slavery, racism or
any other such foul practices. You know that as well as anyone, or
else you are undeserving of your current position. The lives lost and
the sacrifices made. He is UNC history. He is North Carolina history.
He is southern history. He is OUR history.
I am constantly angered and disgusted with "protesters" who have no
knowledge or understanding of the things that they choose to protest.
The alleged reasons for their protests and their wanton destruction of
public and/or State property usually make no sense whatsoever - and
nearly always serve no worthy purpose whatsoever.
If such lawless behavior is allowed to continue, where does it end?
Topple The Statue of Liberty? Destroy Mount Rushmore? Level and raze
the Smithsonian Institution? Abandon all respect for the Rule of Law
and descend into Anarchy?
Where is your common sense? Where is your respect for history? Where
is your dedication to higher learning? Are you so easily panicked and
bullied by a small group of hooligans? Are you not ashamed of your
cowardice?
WE ARE.
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I believe silent sam should be repaired and placed back where our ancestors placed it. It only represents our
veterans and not slavery. It is a part of our history and should be treated as such.
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From: Ed Bo ldin
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:13:32 PM
To: UNC Monument [/o=Exchangelabs/ ou=Exchange Adm inistrative Group
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Subject: Subject: UNC Boy Sold ier, AKA Silent Sam Memorial
Chancellor Folt:
I have read the 2015 law passed by the North Carolina Legislature and signed into law by then Governor
McCrory. You have but one course of action available legally. That course is to replace the
memorial/monument on the pedestal from which it was tom down within 90 days of its' vandalization.
Those persons in authority who watched this illegal action and did nothing to intervene are at least guilty of
dereliction of duty, if not a more serious offense.
Sincerely,
Ralph Edwin Boldin

Lenoir, Caldwell County, N.C.
Message
From: Peppermint Zealy
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:14:16 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Keep him!!!
Message
From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:14:59 PM
Subject: Next to a Huey P. Newton statue!
The statue should go next to a Huey P. Newton statue that's twice as tall!
Message
From: Bob Shepard
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:17:51 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please put the statue in the foyer of the admissions building

Message
From: Ra lph Moore
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:18:35 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put i t back where i t was and should be!
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Message
From: Dan Leeper
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:18:56 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think that the most appropriate thing to do with Silent Sam is to move
him to the old cemetery at South Road and Country Club. This will allow
Sam to continue to honor the Confederate dead as was his original purpose
but will remove him from official recognition by the University.
Daniel E. Leeper
UNC Class of 1970

Message
From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:19:24 PM
Subject: I remember when illegal=against the law
FOLLOW STATE LAW.
Wouldn't that be a pleasant surprise.
Sent.from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone

Message
From: Sarah Emrich
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:19:48 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think silent Sam should stay on UNC campus. This whole movement is ridiculous.
Sarah Emrich
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Message
From: Beth Gross
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:20:28 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am an alumna from the classes of 1971 (undergraduate) and 1973 (graduate).

Please return the statue silent Sam to its original place. It is disgusting that the faux political
correctness has caused this issue.
We need to honor our history.
Beth Gross (nee Tingley)
Message
From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:22:02 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put silent Sam back where he belongs.

Message
From: Josh Crutchfield
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:22:36 PM
Subject: Silent sam
Put silent Sam back where he belongs, where he has always been, mob mentality does not govern this state or
this country.
Message
From: Ron Green
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:26:31 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
One option per law.Restore the Monument as it was.UNC belongs to the people of North Carolina, not some
radical group wishing to expunge all Confederate Monuments ....
Ron Green

Message
From: Eddie Cox
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:28:33 PM
Subject: What I think.
Any action other than restoring the monument to its original design is not acceptable. What's worse is having to
waste taxpayer dollars to have to restore it in the first place. Stick to teaching history not ideology.
Eddie Cox
Message
From: Steven Triplett
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:32:50 PM
UNCEdu,
I am sending email to you that my suggestion is to telling you listen what about our Silent Sam was
hero,because their bullets and black powders were empty before face to Unions division in NC during civil war
of 1864 or 1865. He knew about over 1000 lives were cost in bloody war,but he had an good wisdom to decided
to be surrendered to Unions division to prevent his college away from any kind of damage or loot.
This Silent Sam Status belong to our North Carolina of Confederate where his status is belong to our God's
ground is holy where our 1,000 lives and Sam were burial since our ancestors were established in many years
ago that cannot remove or destroyed. Because their scarface gave to our Father that were their bravery.
Any student who come from northern states that he or she dislike our status,then he or she is not belong to
UNC. Please put back our status to our Mounment ofUNC by NC law already made an suggest order to you in
90 days of deadline.
May God Bless UNC and NC,
North Carolina Confederate of Heritage
2nd Lt.Steven Triplett
Message
From: Sarah Moore
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:37:44 PM
Subject: put it in storage or recycle it
The statue should be replaced with a statue that commemorates the lives and deaths of slaves or empowerment
of brown and black people, people in poverty, women or minority religions.
Sarah Moore, PhD, LPC-S

Message
From: Donald Mullis
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:39:15 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
PUT HIM BACK AND LEAVE HIM THERE!!!!!

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Message
From: Paul Spencer
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:51:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Good afternoon,
As a native North Carolinian with a Southern heritage that can be traced to before the Civil War -indeed, before
the American Revolution - I feel very strongly on the issue of Southern "pride" expressed exclusively through
artifacts of the Civil War. Regarding the issue of Silent Sam's future location, it is my opinion that the statue
belongs in a museum. The Civil War was a brutal and taxing era in American history, and the scars the conflict
left on our nation can be seen today. Not only does casual racism still exist in America, but institutionalized
racism across multiple governmental and societal systems. Though the Civil War was ignited by a number of
factors, let there be no mistake, one cause sits at the root of them all: slavery. Slavery, predicated on race, led to
a conflict which led more than half a million Americans to their deaths. Given this undeniable fact of history,
we should not be preserving monuments that were erected in public spaces to honor and glorify a failed nation-
state that committed treason against the United States. The Confederacy is long dead and does not deserve a
place of honor in the public sphere. The monuments built in honor of the Confederacy must be moved to
museums and other places of education, where they can teach current and future generations valuable lessons on
the dangers of prejudice and hatred. So long as traces of the Confederacy retain symbols of honor on public
land, so too will their core ideals of white supremacy be honored on that same land.
Respectfully,
Paul Spencer
Message
From: E-Scrap
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:52:59 PM
Subject: Silent Sam put him BACK!
I guess you did not learn much after Hurricane hit North Carolina,
went south tore up south Carolina then Went back North an did more
Damage in North al so! , seems the confederate dead sent the storm (or
you Pissed off the God's!), an Looks like more will later drown the
stare also !
so why not just put it BACK where it was an tell the Idiots an
snowflakes NO its now going any where an Allow officers to Lock up
Idiots who try to take it down! If they don't like it MOVE NORTH!
Message
From: The Ryan Maddox Show
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:54:54 PM
Subject: Put Silent Sam Back!
My name is Ryan. I'm 18 from Garner, NC. Silent Sam is a monument dedicating the unc students that left to
fight for their freedom from what they thought was oppression. That monument has stood proudly for over 100
years and most of the time there was no issue. No student today was a slave or a slave owner. We have the 13th,
14th, and 15th amendments that free everyone and everyone is equal. A piece of metal cannot "oppress" these
black students as some have said. It is important to preserve our history. The good and the bad. Moving or
removing Silent Sam is erasing history. As the saying goes, "Those who erase history are doomed to repeat it".
We need to recognize the heritage of the South, not any hate. The Union owned slaves and had passed the
Corwin Amendment. Less than 25% of the South owned slaves. Slavery was mentioned in only 4 of the state
secession Constitutions and not in the preamble or the national Constitution. These liberals scream Nazi and
racism whenever someone disagrees with them despite the issue. And Nazis were socialist, which the left is
going towards.
Silent Sam should be put back on his pedestal and remain where he has stood for over 100 years. Bolt him down
and make sure nobody can tear him down and destroy property again (they better go to prison for the crime).
And make sure police protect the monument from the ground to the tip of the bayonette. Silent Sam is our
history and we need to protect it. God bless the Confederacy.
Deo Vindice,
Ryan
Message
From: David Young
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:58:28 PM
Subject: boy soldier Sam
Sam represents UNC students at the time of conflict in our country who bravely stood for what they
believed in,PUT HIM BACK and charge all who vandalized STATE PROPERTY.The law cannot
be ignored and should not be.
Message
From: Charles Shieldslll
Sent: 9/24/2018 6:59:33 PM
Subject: silent sam
try following the law and you will be fine. reinstall the statue.
Charles Shields I I I
Message
From: Bill Marriott
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:00:55 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Idea

Thank you for the opportunity to submit ideas about what to do as the next step with respect to silent
Sam.
Although I don't wholeheartedly approve of the way the statue was removed, I think we need to embrace
this as an opportunity to create a new strategy for that space on the beloved UNC campus.
As a proud member of the UNC alumni, I think it wou l d be a fitting gesture to create a new monument to
honor our illustrious Nobel Prize winners to replace the silent Sam statue.
I think focusing attention on the members of the UNC-CH community who have won the award would be a more
appropriate way to welcome people to our beautiful campus.
The main focus of the University is and should continue to be to inspire young students to aspire to a
high level of academic pursuits. what more appropriate example could we present than those members of the
UNC-CH community who have earned a Nobel prize for their efforts.
Although we should honor our past as was exemplified by the silent Sam statue, this historical monument
does not point directly to the mission and goals of the University. It seems more appropriate that the
silent Sam statue find a permanent home in a museum or space dedicated to State history or civil War
history. We've all heard some excellent locations suggested in the past including historical settings
like the Bentonville Battle Grounds.
But, in my opinion, a new Monument firmly entrenched in inspiring academic achievement would be a more
appropriate and aspirational way to welcome people to campus at this prominent gateway location.
Thank you for the opportunity to part1c1pate in this information gathering exercise and I wish you much
success in finding an appropriate solution to this challenge.
Respectfully,
William J. Marriott
MEd 1976
Message
From: Thomas Ciszek
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:05:07 PM
Subject: #SilentSam - 250 East Franklin Street
Put him next to the James K. Polk statue in the West end of the Morehead Planetarium.
Tom Ciszek
Morehead-Cain Scholar '03
UNCSILS '05
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From: Richard Hudson [richard@bmirinc.com]
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:06:14 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam
My vote it to put silent Sam back right where he was. That statue is no more unwelcoming than any other
statue on campus. carol Folt should not play politics with our history. Did UNC students fight in the
civil War? Did many die in the civil War? can we not memorialize their deaths. Personally I could not
tell whether silent Sam was white or black, red or yellow. He's a generic replica of all soldiers who
fought and died for a cause. Times change, but history doesn't. This cow towing to the few that get their
feeling hurt needs to stop. The perpetrators of the tearing down should be kicked out of school, if any
were in fact students. Any faculty involved should be given their walking papers.
UNC BSBA ' '77
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Message
From: Joyce Newman
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:08:22 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Bentonville, NC was the site of the last major battle of the Civil War in NC. There is already a national historic
landmark there. Why not place the Daughters of the Confederacy's statue there?
Joyce Joines Newman, MA 1978

Message
From: Esther Mack
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:09:05 PM
Subject: sam should be destroyed
I think the best place for silent Sam is where he was at the end of the
night of August 20, 2018 - facedown in the dirt.
Failing that, I think Sam should be destroyed. There is no virtue in
commemorating a symbol of hate. Let photos be shown in textbooks - we
don't need the statue.
As a last resort, put Sam in a museum exhibit about the lasting icons of
the Confederacy and racism. In the same exhibit, feature abo li tionis t
and anti-racist activists whose efforts led to the dismantling of
slavery and fought against white supremacy throughout the centuries.
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From:
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Subject: Silent Sam
Put it in one of the overflowing hog manure lagoons.
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Message
From: Leslie Vanderkolk
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:34:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam suggestion
Flag: Follow up
Good evening,
My name is Leslie Vanderkolk, and I am a resident in Pittsboro, NC. I recently moved from Carrboro where I
grew to know and love the town of Chapel Hill, and I feel inclined to share my suggestion for the Silent Sam
statue.
Quickly following the incident, I shared the below thoughts with Governor Cooper via a submission on the
website, though I did not hear response. If you agree that contentious artifacts such as Silent Sam should be
located in places with historical context so that we do not hide from our past and we allow visitors viewing the
items to clearly understand why it is still in the public eye at all, then please feel free to pass on the below idea
in November.
"Message:
Hello,
I am writing in regards to the Confederate Monuments around the state of North Carolina. I am currently
overseas on a work assignment, but was just informed ~f the toppling of "Silent Sam" at UNC. I personally
agree that cm?federate monuments should not be displayed in public forums without the proper historical
context provided to them. I think ive need preserve this history so that 1-1/e can continue to learn from it, but we
need to do so in a way that does not even appear to praise or glorify the wrongdoings of the confederacy. In
spending this time in Europe, I have spent time in various cities and seen a number of memorial parks or
museums that I think we could use as inspiration. A/Jost recently I was in Prague where they have "Communist
Hill. " This park was a point.fbr relocation ~f almost all communist era monuments to create an outdoor
museum ~f sorts. Everyone can still go and see the monuments, but they are in a setting with context and/acts
to show iv hat communism did to the country and 11/hy these monuments are no longer in places ofprestige or
prominence. I ivould love to see a park in Raleigh dedicated to the confederacy in the same ivay. Let's treat the
history of the state with respect so that those who have family members who had fought in the confederacy and
still feel pride in that can go, remember, and cherish. And those who are morally opposed to the values of the
confederacy can either avoid it or can go with context and facts and know that the current social settings and
government do not necessarily support those ideals.
I hope you take this suggestion into consideration. I will be back in the USA in about 2 weeks and ivould be
happy to fitrther this idea in any way that a state citizen can participate.

Leslie Vanderkolk"
A concerned NC resident,
Leslie Vanderkolk
Message
From: Lew Borman
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:37:27 PM
Subject: Placement
How about overlooking the cemetery on campus.

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Message
From: Andy Edwards
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:46:13 PM
Subject: Permanent location for Silent Sam
Ya'll should put the statue as far up Phil Berger's ass as it can possibly go. Maybe break off a chunk and shove
that up Tim Moore's ass for good measure. Thanks, and have a blessed day.
Message
From: Moore, Erin [Erin.Moore@conehealth .com]
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:47:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
PUT THE STATUE BACK! Laws were broken taking him down and it disgraces the ancestors of those who
fought and died protecting others that the statue was torn down. Re educate those who are misinformed
about the reason it was put there.
Erin Moore, RN, BSN, CCRN

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Message
From: Thomas S Miller
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:48:44 PM
Replace silent Sam to his original place. He represents honorable history

Message
From: M Sweat
Sent: 9/24/2018 7:54:54 PM
Subject: The Placement of The Monument
I do not see how by giving into the demands of people who have demonstrated their willingness to engage in
criminal acts of vandalism, that you are doing the right thing in not replacing the statue in its original place. The
Confederate statue known as silent Sam represents a good number of students who followed their hearts in
making a difficult decision. Now, a group that knows little of history and respects none, is demanding that the
university commit an act of slander against people who cannot defend themselves nor answer any lies told about
them. They have shown the whole world on more than one occasion that they will stoop to any level and use
any level of criminal force to get what they want. They have proven that they do not have even an ounce of the
integrity that the students that monument was raised for possessed. The fact that their felonious behavior has
been approved of by various members of the faculty is certainly no reason to bend to their will. I sincerely hope
you will exhibit the kind of backbone that you should and place the statue in the original location.
Mark Sweat
Message
From: Gay, Bruce
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:13:11 PM
Subject: Silent Sam recommendation
Hi,
My recommendation on a permanent location for "Silent Sam" is to make it part of an exhibit in the North Carolina
Museum of History in Raleigh. While this is outside Chapel Hill, the monument and its fraught history will be seen by
more citizens of North Carolina if housed at the NCMoH.
Thanks,
Bruce Gay, PMP (BA, Class of 1992)

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Message
From: Dwayne Brooks
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:14:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
There is only one place for Silent Sam. Exactly where it was.
Message
From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:16:56 PM
Subject: Feedback on Silent Sam plans
Good Afternoon,
I am writing to share my thoughts on the Silent Sam statute next steps. (My thoughts about Silent Sam and it's
removal are posted below my signature line, if you wish to review my proposal in context). Frankly, I believe
that it should be moved and become THE center piece of a high profile proactive and ongoing educational
campaign. Lean into the challenge that it has presented our campus and state. Let the educators and the brilliant
students of one of the best Universities in the world, LEAD the way. As a campus we should move toward the
issue, not hide from it. Embrace EVERYTHING about the statue, owning the complexity and nuance of its
placement and removal, the harm it caused/s while prominently placed, and its educational potential for
building our multicultural tomorrow.
The campaign can and should:
- Create and distribute to every alumni, student, teacher, and legislator a video with no opinions, just the facts of
Sam's placement, the context of the moment, and its role in N.C.'s recasting of itself post-civil war. Include a
well-produced flyer highlighting the rationale for installation using primary sources - the text of its dedication
speeches, the fundraising letters, the approval for installation. Include the history of protest for its removal.
- Complete a survey of current students and alums to better understand the impact of Sam on their UNC
experience and their intercultural and ethical capacities today. Demonstrate to your alumni and students
(especially those who have been on the fringe of the university's priorities) that you mean it when you talk of an
inclusive campus and the Carolina way.
- Fund oral history projects to collect the voices ofUNC's past (those with love and affection for Sam and those
disenfranchised/negatively impacted persons talking about the statue). Be certain to ask them to reflect on both
THIER affective connection to Sam as a part ofUNC and then ask them to empathize with experience/emotions
of those who feel differently. Collect the stories of how it excluded others and snow ball fights at its base.
Collect the stories of past protestors and those who will admit to heckling or ignoring. Despite the current focus
on race, don't shy away from the sexist aspect of its nickname. And finally invest in using these resources to
inform the other resources proposed here.
- Create a significant high tech display, housed in the NC Collection with an online presence of educational
tool available for interactive lessons - history, Leadership, ethical decision-making, intercultural sensitivity,
and empathy.
- Do not repair the statue, intellectually examine and learn from the damage and how it happened. Document
the damage and process of revolt and include it in leadership courses and orientation dialogue.
If we include all perspectives, clearly represent all voices without judgement, the legislature won't have a leg to
stand on to challenge the university response and it will maximize the learning. That said we know THAT will
be the most difficult of challenges. Finding the bright minds to do the unbiased work of collecting, analyzing,
shaping, and disseminating the results of the above will make or break the success of what I propose. Society
and history will judge those voices and how we as a university community responded. Capturing what IS today
and sharing it, without varnish or embellishment will allow Silent Sam to educate us through today's and
tomorrow's racial and privilege-based challenges.
Thank you for creating a forum for me and others to express our ideas. I would be happy to participate in a
campaign to fund these initiatives (although as a educator and college administrator my financial resources are
sparse). I would be even happier if the alma mater I love could live up to its potential and rise above its most
recent embarrassments by its response to this moment in our history.
Karen D. Boyd
Class of 1983
My thoughts posted on Face book the night Sam came down

Silent Sam plays a huge role and fond place in many of my college memories. For those reasons I love that
damn statute and am sad to see the damage. That said, I did not know why it was erected and what it's dedicator
believed was its purpose. I should have known because protestors have been standing around that statute for
decades asking for it to come down. But even so, I had no idea that it was placed in the 1913 racist wave of
KKK strength commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil War. I did not know that at its dedication the
primary proponent of its installation (in his formal recorded remarks) boasted that he had whipped an##&* in
what would now be its shadow and Sam would stand as a monument to keep them in their place (my
paraphrasing, but the meaning is consistent with his words.) It was placed with an intentional message that I
was able to ignore, but was as effective as the speaker had hoped it would be in its message to black students-
-black students who only joined the campus 50 years after the statute was erected. Now 50 years later large
numbers of students wanted it removed. Those students did not want to honor the message of its dedicator and
wanted UNC to be better than a 1913 message of racial superiority and it's inhumane treatment of those not
white. It's history and the meaning of its presence was clear. But a law passed by the legislature prohibited the
campus from moving public statutes without the approval of the legislature, which they would not give. We've
spent a full year and $390,000 in taxpayer monies protecting it and now it sits damaged and removed in the only
way it was ever going to leave UNC's campus. So, yes, a 100 year old statute (that I loved and wish I didn't) is
laying on the ground. But tomorrow black students will feel a little more welcome on that campus. I wish they
had moved it, but can't be surprised that a decades long protest eventually ran out of patience ...... and dumped
the tea in the harbor.
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From: Graham, Sherry [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 8:23:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a retired member of the staff and have both an MBA '2002 and a BA '72 from the University. I worked
at UNC for over 30 years and have lived in chapel Hill since 1970. I, unlike others who do not live here,
have a vested interest in silent Sam moving out of town. I cannot understand why it has taken so long to
address the fact that a confederate monument has no place on the UNC campus. It is an insult to all who
have fought for civil rights and will continue to be a flashpoint if it remains anywhere on campus.
I think it belongs at a battlefield or other location that tells more about the historical context of the
civil War. surely some site such as Bennett Place near Durham or Fort Fisher would be more appropriate.
sherry Graham
Message
From: Eric Collins
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:31:13 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
It is my recommendation that this monument be returned to its original location. This statue represents all the
UNC students who fought and died for at the time believed in. As a school of higher education you would think
that people would respect for this historical monument. It is part of UNC history,as well as this states history.
Let us not look upon this as offensive, let it stand as a monument to those who fought for their beliefs,as well as
a reminder that hopefully we never go down the path of Civil War again. This is our history! It cannot be
changed, it cannot be erased.
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From: Stewart, Paul W. [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 8:43:42 PM
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CC: Stewart, Paul W. [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: confederate monuments: move them to historic confederate cemeteries (701 Oakwood Avenue, Raleigh)
confederate monuments
Move them to historic confederate cemeteries.

For example, soldiers' Cemetery at 701 oakwood Avenue, Raleigh, NC.
Paul w. Stewart, PhD

Professor of Research in Biostatistics
Biostatistics Department
UNC School of Public Health
chapel Hill, NC 27599-7420
Message
From: John Sul livan
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:44:23 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam shou l d be put back where he stood when he was e r ected. The problem we have t oday is t he fact
that true history is not being taught. The boys who went off to fight for there homeland from UNC should
be remembered and honored. Liberals and political correctness are destroying our country and if you can't
see that then you are part of the problem and not the solution. God Bless Dixie DEO VINDICE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
John sull ivan
Message
From: Eric Hill
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:45:29 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

I am a native North Carolinian and am very proud of the rich history of my state. I am writing this in support
of The Silent Sam Monument to be placed back on its base in McCorkle Place at the campus ofUNC-
Chapel Hill. I believe that all history should be preserved and tearing down monuments no matter what they
were erected for only leads to past mistakes being repeated. I also believe that the recent protests over
Confederate Monuments is because of them being misunderstood or just plain ignorance of history.
Ten years ago I had no interest in The War for Southern Independence. I just took what I was taught in grade
school as the gospel truth. I have always had an interest in history however, I focused more on the 2nd World
War. I began reading about The War for Southern Independence and haven't stopped since. I realized that the
whole story wasn't being taught but, what was being taught was to vilify the South completely for the cause of
the war. The entire country was involved in the Institution of Slavery long before the CSA was established as
well as up to the end of the War in 1865.
Silent Sam represents the students of UNC that got up and went to defend their homes and families from
invasion from a government that waged "Total War" on the Southern People. Total War means that not only
men who fight for the military are engaged but all non-fighting citizens as well. None of these students owned
slaves but sacrificed everything to defend the great state of North Carolina. Those very students came home
with the "Tarheel" name. It means that people from North Carolina do not back down from anything and are
forever honored by Silent Sam until it was unlawfully brought down.
Contrary to popular belief we do not live in a Democracy, we live in a Constitutional Republic, a nation of
laws. In the case of Silent Sam, "Mobocracy" brought down a monument that is protected by State Law. The
only option we have is to replace the Silent Sam statue in its original location and prosecute those responsible
for its removal to the fullest extent of the law. Without law we have Anarchy. If you allow this incident to go
without repercussions, then it will only open a door to future disorder. Today, Confederate
Monuments, tomorrow buildings or other landmarks could become targets of this radical ideology.
Sincerely,
Geoffrey Ambrose Hill
Message
From: Phillip Hall
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:47:25 PM
Subject: Keep the monument
A lot can be said about keeping the "silent Sam" monument where it stood. However in this format, I will
only state that the monument should be re-erected where it stood to continue to recognize the young men
who gave so much to their state and against Union invaders. It is not an object of racial superiority but
one of honoring their history of sacrifice to protecting their home state.
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Message
From: wkirtley
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:48:30 PM
Subject: Location For Silent Sam
With tongue in cheek I suggest you put Sam in the Rams Club endzone seat section at the football stadium
because a. there's plenty of space available and b. since the "fans" there are virtually silent he would fit right in!
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Message
From: Rachel Justice
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:48:51 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear UNC, I am the Old North State. My family has been here dating back to Jamestown. I am a daughter of a
Revolutionary War veteran who begat veterans that fought in the War of Northern Aggression who begat
veterans who fought in WWI, II and so on. I'm a Marine mom and we take our veterans to heart. Sam should be
put back up. This is stated in the law. Also, you are a state funded school which is funded by our tax dollars.
The will of the NC natives should be your first concern. It's a shame that you let history be RE interpreted by
activist and want to be known as a prominent university. You are mocking the families of these southern and
northern boys , yes teenage boys, who fought and died when their states called. You do not have the authority to
break the law or RE write history and give in to your antifa thug group ran by your professor Dwayne Dixon.
You are a disgrace to even try and associate yourself with the Old North State and a law school.
Message
From: Jason Lloyd
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:52:10 PM
Subject: SILENT SAM
As a Orange County resident I am ashamed ofUNC and the way you allowed Sam to be torn down by a bunch
of thugs.
Sam is a part ofUNC and NC's history. Sam honors the memory of fallen UNC soldiers.
You have let these hooligans (many of which aren't even residents here) use one man's speech as a reflection of
thousands of NC residents that did not and do not hold that view. That is shameful.
Put Sam right back where he was and erect a small barrier around him so that he can still be honored and
viewed by the proud citizens of Orange County and NC without being damaged and/or destroyed by domestic
terrorist's bent on causing division within our community.
Anything less and many people (myself included) will continue to boycott your school and sport teams. I refuse
to spend one cent in Chapel Hill until Sam is placed back at his rightful home.
Message
From: Eric Avery
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:55:01 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am for returning Silent Sam back in his original position. I view this as history. It part of our history.
Let people learn from this. Slavery is abominable. Hiding it may be worse. Look at Kavanaugh's
situation. Whether is it true or not ... should we hide from it and not address it?
Many noble men like Robert E.Lee fought for states rights. He wrestled with his decision. He had
been the superintendent of West Point. We are not talking about a radical here, but a fervent
American Soldier. He said 'as Virginia goes; I go'
Let us keep the discussion going if it needs to. Apparently, we are not, as a country, done with this
discussion. Let us not hide.
Thanks so much. Eric
Eric Avery, PhD

Message
From: Jonathan Varnell
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:56:54 PM
Subject: The future of Confederate monument Si lent Sam
Dear UNG-Chapel Hill,
We were highly disappointed with the leadership of the university in their handling of the mob that
descended upon the campus and tore down the memorial dedicated to the students of the school that
went off to war to fight for their state. It almost seemed that it was "allowed," to happen. While we
certainly hope that this is not the case we implore that the university;
1) Restore and protect the memorial as per NC state law
2) Understand that the university has no authority to move it so that it can be re-contextualized or
curated with modern-day lies about its supposed connection to white supremacy
3) Understand that the university belongs to the people of North Carolina and NOT an extremist
minority of paid activists
These are the points we want you to take into account as feedback from REAL North Carolinians who
pay the taxes that fund this university.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Varnell
Message
From: Caro lyn Green
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:56:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
What should you do with the monument?
The only course of action available to the University under the law is to restore and protect the monument.
Under said law no authority is given to remove a statute so as to re-sign textualist or curate it with lies told
about white supremacy.
Further, the University of North Carolina belongs to the people of North Carolina. NOT to an extremist
minority of paid activists.
Thanks for your regard in this matter.
Sincerely,
Carolyn R Green

Message
From: Graham Patterson
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:57:56 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

It is apparent from where you were born and where most of your academic
life was spent that you have no appreciation for the South or Southern
history. You were taught the liturgy of Lincoln as a demi-God and that
since the South had slaves we must have been at great fault in staring the
war. But everything that you assume is probably wrong.
Lincoln started the war and instigated the firing on Ft. Sumter when he
promised to withdraw US troops and in contradiction to that promise
reinforced the troops there. By legislation and agreement of 1794 the
states gave the US gov't permission to establish forts at certain harbors but
the states were in perpetuity to have ownership of the land at those
harbors. Lincoln started the war with out legislative action (required by
the US Constitution) and his primary goal was to protect the revenue that
the South was sure to now keep for itself that the onerous tariffs delivered
to the Northern states for "internal improvements".
Silent Sam represents the devotion and honor of the sons of UNC who
sacrificed their lives and limbs to their state and their new country. They
were defending their homes and property from invasion by a tyrant who in
his own country dissolved the US Constitution and denied its citizens the
following rights: right to free speech, right to assemble, and the right of a
fair trial, right to know any charges that were being lodged against oneself,
the right to know who his accusers were, etc. The right to a free press
were also eliminated in the US by Lincoln (he either closed down over one
hundred newspapers or had printing equipment destroyed. It was the new
nation of the Confederacy whose Constitution in fact protected all those
rights that now under the US Constitution were denied by Lincoln. The
boys and young men of UNC joined with their fellow North Carolinians to
fight a tyrant.
This monument by NC law should be replaced at its former site and
should hence be protected by those who had previously sworn to protect
it. We are a state governed by laws not men Ms. Folt. Apparently your
time in Ohio, California and New Hampshire did not teach you that
concept. I posit that you were instrumental in the breaking of the
Monument Law and other laws by allowing ANTIF A to destroy Silent
Sam. To not repair Silent Sam to its former position and failure to protect
this hallowed statue is a crime against history and the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Shame on you and all your Northern
demagogues.
Sincerely,
Graham B. Patterson
Message
From: Robert Daly
Sent: 9/24/2018 8:59:07 PM
Silent Sam should be put back in the same place as he's stood for all these years.
Anything else would be a capitulation, and an insult to our Southern Heritage.
Furthermore, if True History were taught in school, instead of the vile lies, and distorted views of Yankee
history. We ,most likely, wouldn't be having these radicals destroying public property.
Message
From: Kate
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:04:09 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I'm a 1974/1977 graduate. I think many people are upset with the dedication of the statue and all of the
negative symbolism around the dedication. History is history and we can't change it. I'm from the
Midwest and believe Confederate soldiers have a place in our history and should not be lost. I appreciate
the memorial to the African Americans on whose back the university was built. If silent Sam is moved, so
should that Memorial.
Kathryn Whittington Enchelmayer '74, '77
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Message
From: Christopher
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:07:30 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put the monument honoring veterans of both North Carolina and UNC back where it was. Do not allow
terrorists to rewrite history
Message
From: Heather Ahn-Redding
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:07:49 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As per your call for suggestions regarding the future of Silent Sam, I urge you to petition the NC Historical
Commission and request the statue's permanent removal from UNC grounds. As you know, its presence on
your campus is causing a disruption to the well-being and safety of your campus community. It is also a hate
symbol, which alone should suffice as reason for its permanent removal.
Alternatively, you could sell Silent Sam as government surplus. I'm sure a confederate heritage group would
love to take the monument off your hands.
Should you decide to relocate Silent Sam on UNC's campus, I fear the disruptions will only escalate and
continue until your university decides to stop paying homage to confederate symbols. Silent Sam and its
remaining pedestal are tributes to the NC United Daughters of the Confederacy, a group who perpetuate
historical inaccuracies, revisionist narratives, and white supremacist propaganda. The UDC endorsed the KKK
around the time Silent Sam was erected and has not changed since.
This 1914 publication by Laura Martin Rose venerates the KKK, and was endorsed by the UDC who wanted to
place it in schools and libraries throughout the country. This is the group whom you honor by keeping Silent
Sam and its pedestal on campus. This is the group whose interests you place above your own dedicated,
intelligent, and wonderfully diverse students.
https://books.google.com/books?id=l YivifAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Ku+Klux+Klan%3A+
or+Invisible+empire+Bv+Laura+Maiiin+Rose&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv5uml-
5nKAhUBGh4KHZprB0oQ6AEII-IDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
I call upon you to put your students of color, your faculty and staff of color, your campus community, and your
morals above the interests of donors and the NCGA. Do this for the sake of advancing racial equity; do it
because you care about the legacy of UNC and because Silent Sam is a stain on its reputation. Do it for your
graduates of color who would like to wave their diplomas with pride; do it to acknowledge the prevalence of
racism and white supremacy that exists in full force today. Do it to because it's your job and because your
community has asked you to repeatedly for decades.
If you cannot take the simple step to remove a symbol of white supremacy from your campus in the year 2018, I
urge you to resign your office, as you are unfit to lead the university.
Sincerely,
Dr. Heather Ahn-Redding

Orange County resident
Message
From: Gisele Crawford
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:10:50 PM
Subject: NC museum of history
I suggest Silent Sam be placed in an exhibit at the NC museum of history. The exhibit can include facts about
North Carolinians who fought for the Confederacy and the Union, and quotes from the speeches made at the
statue's dedication, including the infamous one about horsewhipping a woman, as well as information about the
current controversy.
Message
From: Donna
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:15:48 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam should and must be returned to his original pedestal. You cannot destroy history and he
was illegally removed from his historical placing. And the text exchange from Winston Crisp published
by the DTH pushed me over the edge on this issue.
Return him to his place.
Donna Winston Laney RN -BC, BSN

BSN 1980
Message
From: Jenn Brock
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:22:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thank you for allowing everyone a voice in this. I believe Silent Sam should remain on school
grounds, but expand his meaning to represent UNC students that answered the military call through
all battles since the college's conception. Make that clear on the plaque & in the rededication
ceremony. Have VFW & reenactors present & show solidarity among all the generations of military.
Not every battle or war is honored in its lifetime or after, but we honor all our military who fought to
protect their homes & the freedoms of their loved ones.
Sincere regards,
Jennifer Brock
Message
From: Kim Piracc i
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:27:46 PM
Subject: silent sam display
There is an excellent Ted talk by black artist Titus Kaphar. I highly recommend that you watch it before you
decide what to do with Silent Sam.
Based on that talk, this is an excellent opportunity to educate people on the contributions of African Americans
in Southern Culture. Even if you put SS back where he was, you could erect another stature nearby, perhaps
depicting a slave woman having her small child tom from her arms, with a detailed explanation of the types of
cruelty slaves were subjected to. Put to rest the notion of benevolent slave owners.
But I do like the idea of also highlighting the contributions of slaves, making the "Southern way of life" even a
possibility.
Kim Piracci
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Message
From: Jordan Hucks
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:29:25 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Good evening,
I am emailing you in regards to the silent Sam memorial. I believe it is our job to remember
history; not to try an decipher it. I am active duty Air Force and a North Carolina native. It breaks my
heart, to see the assaults on North Carolina history, by vigilantes. They must not win! Th is isn't about
trying to make people feel good. It's about remembering those brave students who answered the cal l to
battle. North Carolina and it's Governor demanded their service s in a time of need. Applying today's
logic and morals does not do them any justice. This memorial isn't just a reminder of the UNC students
who fought and lost their lives. It's a representation of all the North Carolina troops who served. I had
5 grand fathers serve in North Carolina and I'm proud of them. I served in Afghanistan myself. I know
about war and sacrifice. Their loyalty was tested and they passed the test. Now, it's our time to be
loyal to their memory and do what is right. silent Sam should be restored per state law and be forever
protected. I hope you sincerely t hink about your next steps. I love t he University of North Ca r olina in
chapel Hill. chancellor, I urge you to do what's right and restore the memorial.
God Bless!
Very respectfully,
ssgt Jordan Hucks
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From: Straughn, Kerry [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/24/2018 9:31:09 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think a good place for Silent Sam is in the NC Collection in Wilson Library
Kerry Straughn
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:33:05 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The students & people protesting the

Silent Sam statue are doing so, it seems,
merely for attention & publicity. A statue is NOT a public attack on any person. A Civil War statue has nothing
to do with racism or white supremacy. The Civil War is an important part of United States history. In fact, a
very significient part because it was the very root of the elimination of slavery & segregation.
No one can fault any generals, officers, enlisted soldiers, or anyone in the Lincoln administration, for the
bringing of blacks to America & enslaving them. It was what was happening in the world at the time. The states
went to war. People chose sides. Some military officers stood out as strong, competent leaders on both sides of
the war as did the determination of the soldiers in their cause. Any could have a statue, a commendation,
plaque, or other
award the same as one could today.
Everything is NOT about race. All races have equal rights these days. No one is trying to suppress blacks,
Latinos, Asians, anyone, hopefully, including white Civil War
heroes. Let the statue have its place in American History. Hopefully, the people will
want to learn the history of this country.
It should start in grade school, and should be reinterated through high school and college. We are a strong, free
country, the greatest on Earth. Let us be thankful and proud that we live in the US and can visit, enjoy, and learn
from all the heroes in our
past. Let the statue stand in a proud, special, conspicuous place on campus.
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From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:38:03 PM
Subject: Idea for relocation of Silent Sam
Message
From: Barry Clendenin
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:40:33 PM
Subject: A Recommendation
Thank you for the opportunity to offer a view on this issue:
In my graduate student days at UNC (1969; [US Army 1969-1972]; 1972-1975), I

occasionally walked past the Silent Sam statue, giving it some thought that it seemed
out of place given greater civil rights awareness arising from the 1960s. I did not
consider removing the statue but probably would not have objected. The timing of the
placement of many statues across court house lawns in the South puts them all at risk
it seems as one observes the rancor across our population on almost every public policy
issue. The timing issue recalls in 1ny mind that the statues were in many ways Jim Crow
endorsing statues supporting the policies of the Democratic Party in the South as
organized in the late 19th century through at least the mid-20th century.
Recommendation:
The University has a challenge in resolving how to deal with this particular statue. If
asked, I would recommend moving the statue to a museum in Raleigh. I would also
recommend that the university move quickly to resolve the location issue, recognizing
that there will be unhappy views whatever the decision.
Good luck
Barry Clendenin
UNC-CH, PhD [History, 1975]
Message
From: mary freeland
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:49:26 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I respectfully request that Silent Sam be put back where he belongs. I have lived here for 71 years and worked 28 years of them at
UNC-CH. I had never thought of this monument as a danger and looked upon it as history. So let him go back to his rightful spot on
this campus. The people against him half or more don't even live here to begin with. End of story. Mary Freeland
Message
From: Jessica Reinholz
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:49:41 PM
Subject: Silent Sam should stay down
Thank you for taking public comment on this important issue. As a unc alum, it has troubled me how the
administration has not listened to students, staff and faculty's calls for the removal of silent Sam. It is my hope
that the statue will stay permanently removed and something honoring the complex history unc has had with
race is added-honoring the diverse people who have contributed to its history instead of a symbol of hate and
white supremacy.
Thank you,
Jessica Reinholz
Jessica Reinholz, MSW

Message
From: Danny Rymer
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:53:04 PM
Subject: Confederate Statue
I would stand firm and hold your ground. Tell the aggressors to pack Sand as we the southern people are
tired of being run over by the lies they print in their books and teach lies about the south. Now if they
insist in removing the statue still. Tell them to remove the statue and destroy every statue of their
pride illegitimate born President Abraham Lincoln. Nancy Hanks his mother was an illegitimate born child
too.
If they don't then stand your ground.
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Message
From: Price, Wayne A [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=C5AC08A041C34533B27414264EB271BF-WAYNE A PRI]
Sent: 9/24/2018 9:59:46 PM
Subject: my thoughts
I feel very strongly that this monument does NOT belong on campus but in a museum with the whole story of the
monument presented.
Wayne Price
Message
From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:12:01 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam must be installed according to the statute: "if an object of remembrance is removed, it must
be relocated to a place of equal honor, accessibility, prominence, visibility and availability." The
individuals who make "Sam" out to be a monument to "white supremacy" have not st udied the civil War as
some of us have. Until you read the words written by the people of the time, you cannot make an honest
judgement. It's a monument to the fallen UNC students. Nothing more, nothing less.
I am a white sout her n man and don't apolog ize for it. I am the great-great-grandson of a Confederate
veteran and I don't apologize for that either.
Jeffrey M. Clayton, M.Ed.
UNC class of 1990
Native North Carolinian
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Message
From: Chris Goodson
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:25:02 PM
Subject: Let's move on
As a freshman in 1990, I walked by Silent Sam a lot on my way to Franklin Street. Growing up with good
parents, I already knew better than to romanticize the Confederacy, but the words on the side of the statue about
duty being a sublime word made me wonder. Maybe it was okay to honor the sacrifice of Confederate alumni.
It wasn't until a few years later after some exceedingly good history classes (thank you professor Leloudis) that
I realized that I had been hoodwinked. I learned about the resurgent white supremacy of the early 20th century
and how the lie of the Lost Cause was started in part to keep poor whites too busy hating poor blacks to notice
the rich man keeping everyone down.
Without context, without a grounding in the history of when it was erected, that statue is nothing but a lie. A lie
created to push the myth that the Confederacy was something more than a brutal, repressive horror show.
The UNC I attended didn't truck with lies. I learned to be honest at Carolina. Brutally honest if need be when it
came to the truth of things. Honest enough to even challenge my own preconceptions.
Leave it down. If there's space somewhere in a museum basement, fine. Put it there surrounded by excepts of
Julian Carr's reprehensible speech. Put of pictures of lynchings and descriptions of the racist politics of the
early 20th century in our state. Give it context so that students who see it aren't tricked by the lie.
But let's be clear. Don't put it back up. I don't want my university to be seen erecting a monument to the
Confederacy in 2018. Not only would it be an embarrassment, but it would be putting up a new lie. I won't
support a university that lies.
Leave it down.
Chris Goodson
Class of 1994
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Message
From: Tim Tyler
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:26:01 PM
Subject: Silent Sam ideas
Hello,
I am a resident of unincorporated Chatham County.,
I understand the feelings of people who support the Silent Sam memorial at its traditional location, and although
I think their sentiments are misguided I respect their sincerity and passion.
In my opinion, Silent Sam is, and has been for many years, a symbol of both division and racial inequality in
our community. This is remarkably punctuated by the recent protests that have not ended with the toppling of
the memorial. Silent Sam is perceived by many, rightly or wrongly, as a symbol of racial oppression and
political divide. The memorial is antiquated and does not reflect the diversity of our state, our community, or
the campus of UNC Chapel Hill.
I know many will suggest that we should melt Silent Sam down, or throw the statue in the ocean, or consign it
to a trash heap. I suggest that Silent Sam still has a place in our collective learning - we should not forget our
Civil War. It should be relocated to the Museum of History in Raleigh, where a proper and educational exhibit
can be created to describe it's history and significance - and it can be more conveniently observed by the total
population of the Triangle and more broadly the state, whether they come from Appalachia or the Outer Banks
or right here in the Piedmont.
At its previous location, on the pedestal that it previously stood, I propose we erect a new monument that
symbolizes the unity of our great nation and the amazing diversity of the citizens of North Carolina. This would
truly reflect the honor of our state, and the dignity of the UNC system of colleges, and the diversity and
academic greatness of our college that stands in Chapel Hill.
Regards,
Tim Tyler
Message
From: Lisa Gerardi
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:31:33 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please don't put that statue back up. I am an alumnus ofUNC-CH. I graduated in 2006. I thought it was
ridiculous that it was there in the first place and I'm even more offended that you would consider putting it back.
Put him in a museum if you want. But not on a campus where black and brown students who are pursuing their
higher education will have to see him and be reminded of a despicable past in which they would not be allowed
to receive an education and would not even be considered a full human with rights. White people need to be
reminded that this past was despicable then and should not be commemorated or remembered in any kind of
way that continues to inflict pain on another human. We need to honor that this stupid statue is a thing. A thing
that reminds human beings that they have been and to many extents still are viewed as less than white. It needs
to go. Lay Silent Sam to rest and take a stand for all students. Letting him go hurts no one. Keeping him does.
End white supremacy and join the right side of history.
Thank you,
Lisa Gerardi
Message
From: Jim Campbell
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:37:13 PM
Subject: Silent Sam ... ..
I support restoration of the statue and returning it to its place on Campus prior to its destruction.
Regards,
Jim
Message
From: Adam Bolch
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:38:25 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please do not reinstate this monument. There are many other better uses for the university's funds.
Message
From: Judith & Arthur Marks
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:39:00 PM
Subject: Disposal of Si lent Sam
Donate it to some Confederate war dead cemetery. Appropriately placed he can remain there in dignity and
probably increasingly forgotten.
Judith L. Marks/Arthur S. Marks

Message
From: Emily Moose
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:49:06 PM
Subject: The monument
Hello,
Thanks for receiving public input on this. As an NC native and descendant of at least one Confederate soldier
(and a number ofUNC alumni) I urge you to permanently remove this monument from our civic space. For
those who want to preserve it I suggest a museum or a cemetery where it can be appropriately contextualized,
and people can choose to visit or not. A monument to an assault on human rights at a state educational
institution is inconsistent with the values of a representative democracy.
Thank you,
Emily Moose
Message
From: Chris van Hasselt
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:51:06 PM
Subject: A better way to honor UNC service
First, I am frankly glad that someone finally pulled down Silent Sam. It had long ago lost any value as anything
but a flashpoint for protest.
UNC students and did serve on the Confederate side, as well as the Union side in the Civil War as I understand
it from reading. North Carolina as a whole mostly supported the Confederacy, but 8000 or so Tar Heels fought
for the North. ( http://www.ncgenweb.us/ncuv/forgotl.htm) There were four "Negro" regiments in support of
the Union as well.
So unlike the historical fiction Silent Sam portrays, there was a more complicated story to NC participation in
the Civil War. With the benefit of hindsight and historical knowledge - not supposition and fantasy - we should
present a truthful history. Both white and black North Carolinians fought for the North. Many fought for the
south. Yet all were intertwined by a common thread of being North Carolinians - some in bondage, to be sure -
who all spilled blood in the battle save the soul of our country. A proper memorial should confront the eternal
questions of why we go to war? Why can't we learn to live with respect for our neighbors in peace? Why do
we treat a people as inferior for the color of their skin, or the religion they choose?
I don't know how these ideas can be represented in stone or metal, I'll leave that to real artists. But lets not
return this work of historical fiction to a place of honor in the midst of the halls of learning and truth.
Sincerely,
Chris van Hasselt
Carrboro NC
P.S. I live in Carrboro, a town named for the racist Julian Carr, and every day I try to do something that makes
him roll in his grave!
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Message
From: caldwell linker
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:54:19 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
A confederate graveyard, or a battlefield that already has memorials or is preserved in some way. Maybe
even a museum.
Thank you for not putting it back up on campus though.
Another option, somewhere on duke campus since so many high profile racists seem connected to duke these
days (mostly kidding).
I am a UNC grad and so are my father and uncle. Born in chapel hill and took my literal first steps at
the student union. 7+ generations North Carolinian on my dads side, 7+ generation southerner on my moms
including some roots that trace back to NC. Defendant of confederate soldiers and revolutionary
soldiers.
Thanks for putting time and thought into this. Wish you'd just taken the damn thing down awhile ago
though
Emma caldwell Linker
class of 2000ish
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Message
From: Sherryl Kleinman
Sent: 9/24/2018 10:58:01 PM
Subject: Be on the right side of history
Everyone knows, at this point, that Silent Sam was put on campus at that particular time in order to
reinforce white supremacy and that the dedication speech was racist and violent. There is nothing to
be gained by keeping it. If anyone wants to tell the real story of Silent Sam there could be a
pennanent exhibit in Wilson Library, with photographs of the monument, text materials, and so on.
There is no need for the STATUE to be included. Also, UNC-Chapel Hill already has two
memorials to fonner students who died during wars, including Confederate soldiers:
1) "The Book of Names" (outside, between Memorial Hall and Phillips Hall), and 2) on the walls
(beside the stage) in Memorial Hall. There is no "need" for Silent Sam.
-Sherryl Kleinman, Professor Emerita of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Message
From: Tod Puckett
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:01:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam was a memorial to fallen Alumni Soldiers. A "racist" stigma has been placed on it, but it is an
inanimate piece of art and although art always illicits different feelings in everyone, the actual meaning can only
be explained by the artist or the person who commissioned the piece.
Silent Sam should be placed back on its pedestal and dedicated to the fallen Alumni from all wars, and to the
vigilant pursuit of lasting peace that every Soldier prays for.
Tod Puckett
Rougemont, Orange County
Message
From: Jane BI
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:13:08 PM
Subject: Confederate Monuments
Silent Sam needs to be repaied and returned to his original place. Period.
Message
From: Sharon House
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:17:46 PM
Subject: Please put at Wilson Library or some other place
Please put Silent Sam at Wilson Library or some other place, NOT back where it stood.
Thanks
Sharon House
Lifelong Orange Co resident, UNC Class of 2013, Long time UNC staff employee
Message
From: Leslie Kidder
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:19:38 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please place the silent Sam statue in its' original location.

Opposite or beside it let's erect another complimentary statue that demonstrates freedom from slavery of
all races /he r itage.
Thank you.
Leslie Kidder
Message
From: Abner Wright [abner@freemancommercial.com]
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:20:43 PM
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Subject: Sam
Put him back. Do not reward criminal actions of destruction of state property by relocating.
Sincerely,
Abner Wright
commercial Broker
Freeman commercial Real Estate
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Abner@Freemancommercial.com
Sent from my I-phone. Please excuse misspellings and incorrect wording

Message
From: Shannon Graesslin
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:23:21 PM
Subject: Silent Sam ...
How about putting it in a hall somewhere on campus still and maybe include more of it's history along
with the original plaque and a retelling of what was/is going on at this time, the time of it 1st topple,
to ultimate removal and replacement.
Maybe including other photos, statues in question or mementoes of this happening elsewhere may help shed
some light on the why of t his existence.
Give the area a name? call it, "The Sins of our Past" or
"Forward Towards an Better Future" or "Forward Towards Equal Union"? ...
my idea. • □
Good luck•
Shannon Graesslin
Message
From: Ernest Blevins [blevinsee@g.cofc.edu]
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:33:41 PM
Subject: Confederate Monuments and Community Memory
There are talks about how to address Confederate Monuments that entirely fail to understand the history and
context of the monuments when they were installed. I offer this piece which appeared about a year ago in the
Newnan Georgia paper as a guest column.
Confederate monuments are community memorials

By Ernest Everett Blevins, MF A Historic Preservation
• The Newnan Times-Herald

• Sep. 27, 2017 - 10:41 PM
In most cases, Confederate Monuments have existed over 100 years.
These were raised primarily in honor of the local veterans who never returned home, as most say "Confederate
Dead" on them. Many have funeral symbols incorporated into them such as the cut-off stump or log,
symbolizing a life cut short.e in the know the moment news happens
Clearly, these monuments are community memorials. Other communities have chosen to honor the politicians
and generals of the Confederacy during the post-war Monument Movement.
Before about 1877, many Confederate monuments were located in the cemeteries and post-1877 they began to
appear in public spaces. The Monument Movement was not a Southern movement. It was a national movement
as Northern states placed monuments to those who "Defended the Union" or "Preserved the Union" and their
generals. These occurred simultaneously to honor those that served. The Union monuments went up in public
spaces from the beginning.
The memorials served as a healing process of the nation. In both cases, ladies' associations, monument
associations, and veterans raised the funds for the monuments. Union veterans, organized as the Grand Army of
the Republic, were present and even spoke at many Confederate Monument dedications.
Monument inscriptions vary from Spartanburg, South Carolina's purpose to "teach our children's children to
the honor the memory and the heroic deeds in the Southern soldier who fought for his rights granted to him
under the Constitution" to Carroll County, Georgia's lines from "How Sleep the Brave" (1757) by William
Collins, an English poet.
Like Carroll County's, the Augusta monument takes an English poem. The entire poem is: "Thy Troy is fallen,
thy dear land Is marred beneath the spoiler's heel; I cannot trust my trembling hand To write the things I feel.
Ah, realm of tears! but let her bear This blazon to the end of time: No nation rose so white and fair, None fell so
pure of crime. The widow's moan, the orphan's wail, Come round thee; but in truth be strong! Eternal Right,
though all else fail, Can never be made wrong. An angel's heart, an angel's mouth, Not Homer's, could alone
for me Hymn well the great Confederate South - Virginia, first, and Lee."
The poem is by Philip Stanhope Worsley of Oxford, England who wrote it about General Lee. However, as
common in literature, context is important. The references to white and fair are better interpreted as pure and
fair - such as to the ideas of the Constitution.
The interpretation of the Constitution was one of the multiple causes of the war. In the 19th century, it was
undetermined whether a state that voluntarily joined a union could leave it. The Constitution did not address
this, and it took a war to answer the question.
As for traitors, the 19th-century citizens generally considered themselves first as a state citizen then as a
national citizen. Lee, who considered himself a Virginian, notably went with Virginia. Other officers in the U.S.
Army before the war left to join with their states. Even the immediate past U.S. Vice President Breckenridge
was a Confederate general.
In the end, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was held for treason, but never put on trial. The fear, even
from Supreme Court justices, was if such a charge made it to the court that secession could be declared
constitutional - thus overturning the result of the war.
Monuments to the Union side are just as valuable, and, when appropriate, might be in similar locales to
Confederate monuments. However, monuments should not have to have a counterpoint of view. The writer
suggests placing "Northern figures like Lincoln and heroes like Harriet Tubman" for a balance.
In proposing this, should monuments to Lincoln be countered with Confederate monuments? Should Lincoln's
1858 quote be placed for context to put him in context as the typical man of the 19th-century? Lincoln stated, "I
will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political
equality of the black and white races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of
negroes, nor of qualifying them hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to
this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the
two races living together on terms of social and political equality."
We as Americans should condemn white supremacy. However, since 2015, the racists are rising for a war just
as Dylann Roof hoped to provoke with his murders. Sadly, the liberals are fulfilling it by attacking American
cultural artifacts of remembrance, inaccurately putting presentism of meaning into historical resources.
As the monuments fall, the nation fractures. Instead of destroying monuments, it would be better to build
monuments and expand the story. That's what Charleston, South Carolina did. A monument was placed in a
park to the slave revolt leader Denmark Vesey. In 1822, he was a criminal and hanged. When installed before
Roof's shooting some thought him as a hero. No matter the view, he was an influence on history. His monument
attests to that.
The Union and Confederate veterans themselves did much better at unifying. As we continue down the
Monument Removal path, Dylann Roof wins and America loses.
****end article***
Ernest Everett Blevins, MF A

Message
From: Anna Watkins
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:44:15 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Melt him down, and have a new statue made to honor an African American woman since Silent Sam only
represented hate toward African Americans and disrespect toward women.
Take a picture for a museum, and get rid of him. He's taken up too much space for far too long.
Anna Watkins, MSW, LCSW

Class of 2004 and 2007
Message
From: Vernon & Susan Strickland
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:46:04 PM
Subject: Historic Monument
Restore the historic monument!

Message
From:
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:58:17 PM
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Subject: UNC monument disposition
Dear chancellor Folt and Trustees,

I'm writing to ask you to put the "silent Sam" monument in a basement archive somewhere, and to not
reinstate it in its former position on campus, or in any publicly visible position on campus. It is
hurtful and a shameful part of our North Carolina history.
Thank you,
RED ACTED UNC '91
Message
From: Anne McLaughlin
Sent: 9/24/2018 11:58:58 PM
Subject: Melt down the statue or put it in a confederate graveyard
Option 1: Melt down the statue

Option 2: Put it in a confederate graveyard with a plaque explaining why it is not a monument, just a
relic of a racist era
Message
From: Cayce E Dorrier [cdorrier@ucsd.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:05:00 AM
Subject: monument movement
As a former student I believe the monument can no longer remain in its previous location. Placing the monument in any
highly trafficked area of campus would be a sign that UNC is stuck in the past and not looking forward. I recommend that
the statue be moved to deep inside Battle Park. Preferably not along any trails, so it can technically be on campus while
not being easily viewed or accessible. In the place of the old statue erect one of Michael Jordan.
Good luck with this difficult decision .

Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:34:09 AM
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CC: Kirk Lyons
Subject: NCMRP NC SILENT SAM
Dear Ms Falt
uncmonument@unc.edu
1) The only course of action available to the University under the law is to restore and protect the Silent Sam memorial.
2) UNC has no authority to move it so that they can be re-contextualized or curated with modern-day political
correctness.
3) The University belongs to the people of North Carolina and NOT an extremist marxist minority of paid thug activists.
Sincerely,
REDACTED Black
Mountain
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:39:53 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam
While people want to do away with Silent Sam you have to remember that he represents the students from UNC
who went to war. Some of them did not return. Put silent Sam back upon his pedest al. Thank you, REDACTED
Fayetteville
Message
From: Alana Cagle
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:42:37 AM
Subject: Monument
Place the monument back where it belongs it is the law. Then build some type of protection around it.
We cannot allow people to destroy monuments based on feelings. This is like allowing a child who does
wrong to get by with it. They were allowed to destroy that monument which was the biggest mistake the
police department made.
Thanks,
Alana Cagle
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: angela cheek
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:56:30 AM
Subject: Memorial Statue
Dear chancellor Folt:

Thank you for the opportunity to let the community weigh in on the memorial statue for students who
served in the War Between the States. The only course of action from a legal and moral standpoint, is to
immediately restore the statue to its rightful place, and institute whatever measures are necessary to
guarantee the future security of the memorial . Moving it to another location in the name of "safety" or
"proper context" or "correcting the historical record" is not an option, period. This is the
University of North Carolina, established and funded by the people of North Carolina, who have repeatedly
expressed their support for Confederate memorials like this one. To let savage vandals determine the
University's policy is insanity.
Cordially.
Angela cheek
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:13:00 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam needs to be restored to his place at UNC. As the people of North Carolina' s university and
the nation' s first public university, you must hold and exemplify steadfast resilience and conviction.
We must not shrink to the ever changing whims of the hateful few. our history can not and will
not be destroyed and redefined by hoodlums and malcontents.
I' m certain my ancestors, who trained at UNC and practiced medicine in The Great North State, would want
our fine history preserved and protected. Relocation of the monument is not an option as it would isolate
and minimize the meaning of the Boy Soldier.
The only historical, ethical, patriotic and legal course of action available to the University is to
restore and protect the Silent Sam monument at its original and intended location, properly honoring
those North Carolinians who served and fought with conviction and honor in their time, in their place for
a cause they truly believed in. This is our history!
Sincerely,
REDACTED
High Point, NC
Message
From: et morgan
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:59:28 AM
Subject: New Location for Silent Sam ...
Ms. Folt is wrong to want to re-install it ANYwhere on campus.
Take it down to the North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center in Fayetteville.
Thanks ,
ET Morgan
Message
From: Cindy
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:01:34 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Since the monument will get no respect from your institution, faculty, or students, I would strongly suggest turning it over
to the local Sons of Confederate Veterans, or the United Daughters of the Confederacy, since they are the ones who paid
for it, out of love, honor, and respect for your patriotic military veterans.
Message
From: marty shamb ley
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:09:04 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
The memorial statue for the students ofUNC, who participated in the Civil War, should be returned to its
original location.
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:31:34 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam
My opinion about what should be done with all Confederate themed statues is that they should be placed in a
museum as an historical piece so those who wish to view them can do so and those ofus not wanting to see
them may avoid the negative representation.
Sincerely,
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Message
From: charles Moore
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:55:37 AM
Subject: Silent Sam monument
Hello, I would like to say that the Silent Sam monument was put up for the one's that went to UNC
and fought and died during the War between the states. I don't like to say the " Civil WAR " because
there was NOTHING civil about it ! Most of the one's that fought for the south had NO idea what they
were even fighting for . It was NOT about slavery , because Pres. Lincoln had slaves . The North
came down here and murdered, killed and even RAPED thousand's of men, women and children.
This monument belongs to the people of North Carolina . NOT theses PAID activist who destroy
ANYTHING if they can't get there way! They came to UNC and destroyed Silent Sam . The UNC
Police and Chapel Hill Police stood back while they put up the wood, ropes and tarps around him
and WATCHED the mod pull him down, and THEN went over and stood around Silent Sam when he
was on the ground. I know that because I WAS THERE ! I was one of many that stood in support of
him . People like me NEVER show hate or violence. WE believe in what is the TRUTH and NOT the
racist lies these people and the media want you and others to believe . This is monument is there at
UNC for a reason ! DON'T let these uneducated idiots get there way. The students at UNC didn't pull
him down, THEY the activist mob did.
Also it is the LAW that it must be put back up within 90 days. You know it and I know that . So I BEG
you to PLEASE put Silent Sam back where he belongs. He is a boy with a unloaded gun and NO
bullets , no words just Silent .The people of North Carolina's Boy !
PUT HIM BACK. The people want him where he was meant to be . At home at UNC. Thank you and
God bless.
Message
From: Lance Spivey
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:08:19 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Falt,
My name is Lance Spivey. I am writing this letter in support of placing the Silent Sam Monument back upon its
pedestal in Mccorkle Place on the campus of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
I am a twelfth generation North Carolinian and Adjutant of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Captain Winfield
Scott Lineberry Camp 92 in Asheboro, North Carolina. I am extremely proud to be a native of a state with such a history
as North Carolina has, and to have roots here that are over three hundred years deep. My ancestors served this nation
in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the War of Northern Aggression. Members of my family also served
this country in World Wars I and II, Korea, and Vietnam. Each and every one of them fought for the cause of freedom
and the destruction of monuments such as Silent Sam dishonor them all.
The destruction of these monuments is nothing more than an attempt to erase history, both by those who are
ignorant of the true facts of our nation's history and those that would destroy our way of life, and history forgotten is
history that shall be repeated. Our schools are, in great part, responsible for the ignorance of the greater majority of our
nation's citizens, because they conform to standards that not only hide the truth, but also pervert that truth to fit a
greater political agenda.
The truth is that the South did not secede from the Union in order to preserve the institution of slavery; slavery
was not even an issue in the War until Lincoln began to lose support for his unconstitutional invasion of the Confederate
States of America in 1862, at which point he decided to make it an issue with Proclamation 93, issued September 22,
1862. The Thirteenth Amendment was not even introduced to Congress until January 11, 1864, two years, eight
months, and twenty-nine days after the first shot of the War. In the Border States of Kentucky (recognized as a
member-state by both the Union and the Confederacy) and Delaware, there were approximately 40,000 slaves that
were not freed until the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on 6 December, 1865; there were slaves in Northern states
not only during the War, but for six months and four days after it ended; ten months and six days after Congress passed
the Thirteenth Amendment. On the other hand was the Corwin Amendment, the first proposed thirteenth amendment
to the Constitution of the United States, which would have made slavery a permanent institution in the slave-states and
territories.
The Corwin Amendment was passed by the United States Senate on March 2, 1861, and signed into law by
President James Buchanan that same day. In his first Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said of the Corwin
Amendment, "I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution [the Corwin Amendment] ... has passed
Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States,
including that of persons held to service ... I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable." The Corwin
Amendment was ratified by Maryland on January 10, 1862. The fifty counties in Northwestern Virginia which would
eventually become the Union state of West Virginia ratified the amendment on February 13, 1862, and Illinois ratified it
the next day. All three were Union states, yet they were willing to make slavery a permanent institution in this
country. As to the origin of the Corwin Amendment, my research shows that not only may Lincoln have had a hand in its
creation; he may have actually penned it himself. Either way, the fact remains that the "Great Emancipator" had no
problem with the institution of slavery being made permanent by Constitutional Law. In Paragraph 4 of that same
address, Lincoln said, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States
where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." In a letter to Horace
Greeley, founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, on August 22, 1862, Lincoln wrote, "If I could save the Union
without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by
freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." So, I ask you, how could slavery have been the cause of the
War when so many Northerners, including Federal government officials, were willing to make it permanently legal?
I would also make the point that only ten to fifteen percent of the men in the Confederate forces were
slaveholders. Is it in any way logical that over one million non-slaveholders would go to war, would literally walk into
the jaws of death, so that somebody else could keep his slaves? I think not. My great-great-great grandfather, Private
th
James Scott (1825-1926), whose family was part of the Underground Railroad, served in Company E (Turtle Paws), 44
North Carolina Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia. He saw action at Seven Pines, Tranter's Creek, Goldsboro Bridge,
Deep Gully, Bristoe Station, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Globe Tavern, Ream's Station,
Peebles' Farm, Burgess' Mill, and Five Forks, among others. He participated in the freeing of slaves, yet he wore the
Gray... Does that sound like a man fighting for the preservation of such an abhorrent institution as slavery?
The truth is that the War was about money. South Carolina seceded because of the inevitable passing of the
Morrill Tariff by the United States Congress. Virginia and the other Confederate states seceded because Lincoln
intended to make war upon South Carolina in order to collect taxes unfairly levied by the United States government, and
they felt this was a violation of states' rights and the Constitution. On September 27, 1860, Representative Thaddeus
Stevens of Pennsylvania, during a speech in New York City, said that of the two most important issues of the Presidential
campaign, preventing the expansion of slavery into new states and passing the Morrill Tariff, the new tariff was the most
important. He said that the tariff would bring great prosperity to the Northeast, and would impoverish the South, along
with the western states. It was, he told the crowd, essential to the advancement of national greatness and to bringing
prosperity to the industrial workers of the North. He also said that if Southern leaders objected to the tariff, that they
would be rounded up and hanged. In October of 1861, Karl Marx, who favored the North like most European socialists
of the time, said in an article published in England, that, "The war between the North and South is a tariff war. The war,
is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for
power." In December of that year, Charles Dickens, famous English author and a strong opponent of slavery, said about
the War of Northern Aggression: " ... the Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious humbug
disguised to conceal its desire for economic control of the United States ... Union means so many millions a year lost to
the South; secession means loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as many, many
other evils. The quarrel between the North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel." That, sir, is why the
Southern states seceded.
It seems to me that an educator, at least one with any decent code of ethics, would want to teach the truth, no
matter what that truth is, instead of contributing to the indoctrination and ignorance of their students. Teaching is a
most honorable profession when done with honor, but to propagate lies is in no way honorable; in point of fact it is
dishonorable, disgraceful, and disgusting.
As to the "removal" of Silent Sam, contrary to popular Leftist beliefs, America is not a Democracy, it is a
Constitutional Republic, a nation of laws, and North Carolina has a law protecting monuments such as Silent Sam. I refer
you to the Cultural History Artifact Management and Patriotism Act of 2015, General Assembly of North Carolina,
Session Law 2015-170, Article 1, Section 3, § 1002.1:
Protection of monuments, memorials, and works of art.

(a) Approval Required. - Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, a monument, memorial,
or work of art owned by the State may not be removed, relocated, or altered in any way without the approval of the
North Carolina Historical Commission.
(b) Limitations on Removal. - An object of remembrance located on public property may not be permanently
removed and may only be relocated, whether temporarily or permanently, under the circumstances listed in this
subsection and subject to the limitations in this subsection. An object of remembrance that is temporarily relocated
shall be returned to its original location within 90 days of completion of the project that required its temporary
removal. An object of remembrance that is permanently relocated shall be relocated to a site of similar prominence,
honor, visibility, availability, and access that are within the boundaries of the jurisdiction from which it was
relocated. An object of remembrance may not be relocated to a museum, cemetery, or mausoleum unless it was
originally placed at such a location. As used in this section, the term "object of remembrance" means a monument,
memorial, plaque, statue, marker, or display of a permanent character that commemorates an event, a person, or
military service that is part of North Carolina's history. The circumstances under which an object of remembrance may
be relocated are either of the following:
(1) When appropriate measures are required by the State or a political subdivision of the State to
preserve the object.
(2) When necessary for construction, renovation, or reconfiguration of buildings, open spaces, parking,
or transportation projects.
(c) Exceptions. - This section does not apply to the following:
(1) Highway markers set up by the Board of Transportation in cooperation with the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Cultural Resources as provided by
Chapter 197 of the Public Laws of 1935.
(2) An object of remembrance owned by a private party that is located on public property and that is the
subject of a legal agreement between the private party and the State or a political subdivision of the
State governing the removal or relocation of the object.
(3) An object of remembrance for which a building inspector or similar official has determined poses a
threat to public safety because of an unsafe or dangerous condition.
What this means, sir, is that your university and/or its administration are, by proxy, in violation of North Carolina
State Law, and as such, could, and, in my humble opinion, should, be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. According
to the law, as the circumstances of Silent Sam's "removal" do not fall under the guidelines of said law, the ninety day
limit on replacing the monument in its original location does not apply in this situation. Legally, it would be in the best
interest of your institution to re-erect Silent Sam immediately; the State Attorney General may decide to enforce the
Cultural History Artifact Management and Patriotism Act of 2015. Is that the kind of publicity UNC-CH wants or needs?
Leftists claim that monuments to Confederate soldiers are monuments to racism, slavery, and hate, yet they
deify Abraham Lincoln, the most famous racist this country, possibly the world, has ever known. They claim the same
thing about our flags, yet they hold in high esteem men who had no honor; men who waged Total War upon the South, war
against defenseless civilians, including women and children, black and white, freedmen and slave alike. They claim to be
about "love," but their actions prove otherwise, as I personally witnessed on your campus on Saturday, September 8, of
this year. What I witnessed that day was a pack of uneducated, ignorant, cowardly Neanderthals who not only are filled
with hate towards something they can't even begin to understand, but have to gather in packs in order to find the
courage to project that hate outward, and to whom honor is just a word in a dictionary. Honor, sir, is not merely a word
in a dictionary, nor is it something a man is born with. Honor is a gift, a gift which a man gives himself; a gift of courage and
fortitude, of humility and compassion. It is more sacred to a true Southerner than life itself.
The truth is that our flags (the Stars and Bars, the Unstained Banner, the Blood-stained Banner, the Southern
Cross [a.k.a. the Cross of Saint Andrew or the Battle Flag], and the Bonnie Blue), and monuments like Silent Sam are
there not as symbols of racism, slavery, or hate, but to remind those of us that carry Confederate DNA of the incredible
courage, fortitude, and astounding ferocity in battle of our ancestors who fought for the righteous Cause in the last
American war for freedom and independence; the men of the Armies of the Confederate States of America. They are
there to remind us that the ground we stand on is sacred ground, consecrated with the blood of men of all races, the
very men of whom I just spoke. They are also there to remind all Americans that a terrible tragedy happened here, a
thing that should never have happened, and wouldn't have, but for the greed of men of lesser moral convictions than
those whom they sought to subjugate. They are there, just as are the empty ovens and gas-chambers at Auschwitz, to
remind us to never let it happen again, because as I said before, history forgotten is history that shall be repeated.
I pray, sir, that God will bestow upon you the insight to understand the many things Silent Sam stands for other
than the remembrance of the many University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill students and alumni that left everything they
knew behind to fight for the Confederate States of America. I pray that He will see fit to impart you with the wisdom and the
courage to do the right thing concerning the restoration of Silent Sam to his rightful place; the pedestal upon which he has
quietly stood guard over the souls of the Confederate dead for one hundred and five years.
Sincerely, K. Lance Spivey

Adjutant, Sons of Confederate Veterans,
Captain Winfield Scott Lineberry Camp 92,
Asheboro, North Carolina
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From: O'Hara, James J [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=bf9af020cd5a44b3bf0bef8294203efb-James J OHa]
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Subject: the statue
Dear Chancellor Carol L. Folt and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees,
I have no good ideas about where to put this statue, except that it cannot go back where it was. There are many
factors to consider here, but one leaps out at me: with so many faculty and so many departments denouncing the
statue, to return it to its position of honor would be to repudiate the entire faculty. How can you recruit students,
raise money, get jobs for our students after graduation, etc., if the Chancellor, Board of Trustees, Board of
Governors, and President repudiate the faculty in this way?
Thank you,
Jim O'Hara
President, The Vergilian Society
George L. Paddison Professor of Latin, UNC-Chapel Hill
319 Murphey Hall
jimohara@unc.edu
jimohara.web.unc.edu
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surface mail:
James J. O'Hara
Department of Classics
CB# 3145, 212 Murphey Hall
The University of North Carolina
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Message
From: Jeff Greene
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:37:38 AM
Subject: Placement
In my role as a resident of NC, I request the monument NOT be returned to its former position but instead
moved to an indoor location with historical and educational materials created and displayed for it.
Jeff Greene
Carrboro, NC
Message
From: Rick Homan
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:39:45 AM
Subject: Silent Sam re-location
I) In on-campus cemetery with memorial plaque and explanation of statue history
2) In on-campus museum with plaque explaining statue history
3) In building where dept of history is located with plaque explaining statue history.
Message
From: randy
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:43:39 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put him back where he was!!!
Randy Adcox
Rocky Mount, NC
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Message
From: Stef Mendell
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:43:48 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I received my BS from UNC in 1972 and my MSLS in 1978.

I am a life member of both the UNC Alumni Association and the school of Information and Library Science
Alumni Association.
silent Sam does not belong in a prominent location on campus.
Regards,
Stef Mendell
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Message
From: Howard Snow Sr
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:45:39 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam should be put back up on his pedistal where he belongs and has been since 1913 before he was
pulled down by ignorant children that need to learn history. He was not put up for any other reason than to
honor the students and faculty ofUNC that layed down their books and took up arms to defend their homes and
family against the northern invasion. I love my state and my daughter is a graduate ofUNC. Please put Sam
back where he belongs and protect him. It is part of our heritage.
Howard E Snow Sr
Message
From: Cathy Dyer
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:54:20 AM
Subject: Put S Sam in a Confederate Cemetary
Put it with dead Confederate soldiers in a Confederate cemetary. Those who want to revere the Confederacy
would still be able to, the rest of us wouldn't be bothered by it.
This is what Mayor Dyer of Orlando, Fl did.
Cathy Dyer
Message
From: James Smithson
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:58:05 AM
Subject: Disposition of the Confederate Memorial to UNC Students
Under the law of North Carolina you have 90 days to return the memorial to its rightful place where it was
standing before it was illegally removed. The ones who removed it should be prosecuted in the most strenuous
manner so that this does not happen again. I feel that the influence of the ones who destroyed the memorial in
Durham poisoned these young people into thinking that it is ok to destroy public property and to take the law
into their own hands. I also feel the complacency of the law enforcement on the ground that night contributed
to this and their leadership should be held accountable for allowing a crime to be committed right before them
with no action. What will you do if another mob decides to destroy something at your school no matter their
political agenda? This has set a dangerous precedent for future incidents I am afraid. Lawlessness cannot be
tolerated as you well know this ANTIF A organization is very destructive and ought to be labeled as a Terrorist
organization if not already.
My recommendation is to put the memorial back, enforce the law and do your job.
Thank you
James Smithson
NC Resident and Taxpayer.
Message
From: Lance Spivey
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:59:46 AM
Subject: My mistake
Chancellor Falt,
I would like to apologize for referring to you as "sir" in my previous email; I made assumption, and that was
wrong of. Please accept my apologies.
K. Lance Spivey
Captain Winfield Scott Lineberry Camp 92,
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Message
From: Skip Wilson
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:08:51 AM
Subject: Put Silent Sam Back
Allowing outsiders to dictate the rewrite of North Carolina history is very disappointing to a proud UNC grad
(75). Put Silent Sam back where it belongs and defend our history.
This is not about racism, its about history and tradition.
Expel any student trying to damage it, or any school property. Prosecute outsiders who are responsible for the
entire fiasco.
Message
From: Claude Burgess -
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:11:19 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I would love to see silent Sam back. It is the history of North Carolina and a l l the southern States.
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From: Armstrong, Jeffrey A
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:19:41 AM
Subject: silent sam
It is part of NC history. There are confederate monuments all over the state. Not stating whether right or wrong, but
they do represent a state that fought for separation from the North. It should be placed in a museum or other setting
representing the Civil War.
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Message
From: John Fitzgerald [jfitzgerald@saundersyacht.com]
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:22:19 AM
Chancellor Holt,
I am a 1987 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am strongly opposed to the restoration of the
Silent Sam statue to the location at Mccorkle place. I am also deeply disappointed that the University officials were not
able to remove the statue ahead of the protestors. Removal of the statue for the right reasons would have been a strong
statement by the University that it did not stand for the racism that it was originally established to promote and defend.
I applaud the courage of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu who, when he removed the statue of Robert E. Lee from
that city, stated, "These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy. Ignoring the death, ignoring the
enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for." I am sorry that the University that I attended and continue to
admire did not take the same stand .
The protestors have created a new opportunity for the University that should not be lost. The Silent Sam statue can go
into a museum or some other historical display that explains the Cult of the Lost Cause. The cult had a goal to use
monuments like Silent Sam and the ones removed from New Orleans to celebrate the ideals of a defeated Confederacy.
As a student at the University, I had no idea of this history. As an adult graduate, I am appalled by it. There were many
good people who lost their lives in the Civil War. I am glad to honor their sacrifice in a solemn memorial at a graveyard
or a museum.
This morning, I read the University's mission statement. "With lux, libertas-light and liberty-as its founding principles,
the University has charted a bold course of leading change to improve society and to help solve the world's greatest
problems." Racism and discrimination would certainly to on the list of the world's greatest problems. Restoring Silent
Sam to Mccorkle Place would surely be a step backwards.
Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinion and best of luck to you with this challenge!
Best Regards,
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Message
From: Mil lie Rosen
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:25:46 AM
Subject: Do NOT put Silent Sam back up
Silent Sam is a reminder to every student on campus that this country is built on the backs of slaves. I can't
imagine what black students go through having to see a monument to the people who oppressed them for
hundreds of years treated like revered royalty on campus. It's also appalling to me, as someone who grew up in
Chapel Hill, that the university has been spending so much money to protect a metal statue when they could
have been spending it on setvices for students' mental health or on scholarships.
Put the statue in storage or in a museum. But don't put it back up where it will continue to cause more
controversy and more heartache for people of color on UNC's campus. Be on the right side of history. I know
that there are many donors to the university who want it to be restored to its pedestal, but please resist the urge
to cater to their money. Do the right thing and keep it down.
Yours,
Millie Rosen
Message
From: JP
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:26:49 AM
Subject: Silent SAM
Ms. Falt, In the matter of the Boy Soldier-

1) The only course of action available to the University under the law is to restore
and protect the memorial.
2) You have no authority to move it so that they can re-contextualize or curate it

with modern-day lies about white supremacy.
3) The University belongs to the people of North Carolina and NOT an extremist
minority of paid activists.
History and our monuments are not the rule of mobs or extremest regardless of
how society changes. Put the monument and Boy Soldier back in place and leave
it for generations to come.
John Pippin
President, Fremont Historical Society
Message
From: Taz Flyr
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:30:53 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
The Civil War was a disgraceful time in our country's history. We need to remember so that we do not continue to
perpetuate the mistakes that led to that war. However, the Silent Sam statue was erected as an honorable tribute when in
truth, there was no honor in that war. There is no honor in keeping people in physical or economic bondage. Period. The
statue definitely belongs in a museum but not in public view on the campus of an institution that wants to set itself up for
the future.
Thanks for your time.
Tracey Hines
Camp Lejeune, NC
"Be careful who you choose as an enemy, because that is who you become the most like." Nietzche
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:38:55 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a parent of a UNC student. I believe Silent Sam should be moved to a different location. This monument
creates a great deal of sadness for many students, faculty, etc. thus will further divide the UNC community. If
the monument is re-located to a less visible place (one where someone will have to make an effort to visit) then
it will hopefully satisfy those who want to preserve its history while not continuing to cause pain for minority
students, faculty and visitors.
Best,
Message
From: JUDY
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:42:02 AM
The statue should be reinstalled. It is part of history and has nothing to do with discrimination.
As far as I am concerned the students that protest should be told to pack up and go home. Get a job and contribute to
society instead of protesting about a symbol of our history. The people that destroy public property should be
prosecuted.

Message
From: James Perry
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:42:52 AM
Subject: UNC Monument
I am very disappointed in your public comments and actions. It is impossible for me to trust that you \vill make good policy
decisions when you broadcast your stance to the \vorld in advance of information gathering.
I have no particular interest in the Silent Sam statue, and I am not someone with a particular interest in civil war era history. I
am an average North Carolinian who believes too many work too hard to cater to extreme ends of the spectrum. Would you
next work to change the names of buildings and streets on campus? \\Those life was better the morning after vandals pulled the
statue dm:m? Did your grades improve on campus? Did your academic scandals disappear? If I were to travel to your campus
and spray paint one of the buildings, would I be charged, or celebrated? It seems the outcome would depend on whose view I
supported with my vandalism.
My suggestion is that you arrest vandals and punish bad behavior. I suggest you punish students who purposefully damage
University property. You can't condone breaking the law just because you agree with the lawbreakers thoughts. Those are
dangerous actions which encourage others to break the law .... and you may not agree with their thoughts.
Senate Bill 22 became Session Law 2015-170. You can make all the recommendations you wish. The Board of Governors can
make all the recommendations it wishes to make. The Town of Chapel Hill, and every instructor your campus can offer their
opinions .... but you must abide by the General Statutes of our Great State.
James Perry
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Message
From: Danan Smith [dnsmith2@ncsu.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:43:44 AM
Subject: Where to put it.
Howdy,
Put them on the NC/VA border, facing north.

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Message
From: Carlyle Woodard
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:45:09 AM
Subject: Silent Sam.
He should be replaced just where he stood forl05 years.Thugs should not be allowed to mock our laws and our
heroes. That would just be the start of their plan to destroy our society and replace it with failed socialism. These
students represented by Sam were our heroes defending their homes from a cruel invader.As an alumni this
travesty is a monumental insult to me.
Carly
Message
From: Kristen Eshleman
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:45:28 AM
Subject: UNC alum '92
Hello -
Thanks for seeking public input on ideas for Silent Sam. I am a '92 alumna and NC native. I would welcome
some establishment of a "University of the People" museum - one that includes a back comer 'Hall of Shame'
collection for this statue (with full historical context) and any other artifacts connected to principles of
oppression that stand in opposition to our charter. Drive home the point by juxtaposing the majority of the good
work of many alumni and friends of UNC over the years.
Good luck,
Kristen Eshleman
Davidson, NC
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From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:54:22 AM
Please see previous email.

Sorry I meant a tar heel remembrance garden, not target
Susan
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From:
Date: 09/25/2018 7:51 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: uncmonument@unc.edu
Subject: Silent Sam
Good morning, I would like to submit the idea that a Remembrance garden for all our target heels that have
been lost to war would be nice.
Susan Jastram
New Bern, NC
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Message
From: Will Eccleston
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:54:43 AM
Subject: Preservation without celebration
Chancellor, et al,
I appreciate that you would create this portal. I believe such engagement around an issue is vital but
rare. Anyone who has really paid attention to these issues and spent time pondering them should, in my
opinion, understand both sides. I believe that no part of history should be destroyed. But as society evolves, it
is wrong to continue to celebrate an historical effort to maintain a condition that would be abhorrent by today's
standards. Confederate statues belong in museums, with well-written interpretive copy that gives them proper
context and reflection.
Will Eccleston
Kinetiscape Media, Inc.
www.kinetiscapemedia.com
Message
From: Krystle Morales
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:59:09 AM
Subject: Do not support return of silent sam
I do not support the return of silent Sam to UNC' s campus.
Regards,
Krystle Morales
UNC 2011
Message
From: Josh Martin
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:00:05 AM
Subject: KEEP SILENT SAM
KEEP SILENT SAM
Josh Martin
Message
From: Audrey and Jimmy Schwan kl
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:02:11 AM
Subject: Instead of just meting it down
While it would not bother me at all if the statue were melted down or dropped into a lake or buried,
I'd like to suggest that the statue be auctioned off to the highest bidder with the proceeds going to further the
educational goals of the university.
That way, individuals who do care about the statue can have a say in its future placement and the university can
benefit from its removal.
Even better would be if the proceeds could somehow be used to right the wrongs of systemic racism that have
existed for hundreds of years.
Best regards,
Jimmy Schwankl
Message
From: Sally Osmer
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:08:22 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear UNC leaders,

I am a UNC graduate and chapel Hil l resident.
Please work with the legislators and state leaders to MOVE the statue to a museum or storage space until
a museum can be built.
This statue is not an appropriate welcoming symbol for UNC! Its historical value is best interpreted as
part of the south's history of slavery and the subsequent years of violence and slow inclusion of people
of color!
Thank you for leading N.C. through this.
Sarah T Osmer
BA 1972
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From: Rogers, Rusty [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/25/2018 8:09:33 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam
Put President James K. Polk's statue that is in the M orehead Rotunda where Silent Sam was and put Sam in the Rotunda.
If this is not acceptable to the M orehead Foundation then put Sam in the old cemetery on campus. Another option is to
put Sam in M emorial Hall with a plaque that tells his history from dedication to being moved to the new location. The
statue is part of history so let's tell the truth about that history and try to educate everyone without honoring what the
Confederacy was really fighting for which was the continuation of slavery. Thank you.
Karl R. Rogers, UNC '79
Rusty Rogers
Facilities and Administrative Mgr.
UNC Inst. for the Environment
100 Europa Dr. Suite 490 Rm. 4031
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"Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights"

Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley
Message
From: Raymond Karnes
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:16:50 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam should be melted down and miniature replicas made and sold in the gift shop so everyone who
want a copy cou l d have one.
Ray Karnes
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:20:03 AM
Subject: UNC Student Civil War Monument
Dear Dr. Falt:
I wish to encourage the UNC community to support the needed repairs to the UNC Student Civil War
Monument at UNC in its original location with a protective fence and security cameras. This monument is
dedicated to UNC students that served their country when attacked by the US in 1861. Many did not return
alive and many were injured for live, thus giving great personal sacrifice ofthemselves for others.
This monument was paid for by wide public support in the memory ofthe heroic UNC students of that long ago
day and the monument should return to its proper place.
Thank you,
REDACTED
Statesville, NC
graduate of three UNC system colleges
Message
From: Jaye Curtis
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:20:41 AM
Subject: Put the Monument BACK!
Si nee when is it OK to destroy a statue in the name of "Mob Rule!???
Put that monument right where it was, and arrest and prosecute the first person that dares to try and
harm it!
Jaye curti s
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:27:07 AM
Subject: History
Silent Sam is a historical symbol. It represents a tribute

to those who fought for that which they believed to be
right 150 years ago. Ifwe do not learn from history,
we are doomed to repeat our mistakes.
Return the statue to its original si te. Teach by remembering
the past, not by its destruction.
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Message
From: Deborah Pedersen
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:28:04 AM
As a retired faculty member and parent of a UNC graduate I urge you to move this statue to a location
that make it available for history and not continue to be divisive.
From a historical perspective, a statue memorializing the rebellion of the southern states and their
bloody attempt to secede from the United States of America seems to be strange to put at the front door
of of our nation's oldest public university.
UNC continues to struggle with racial issues and this statue does not encourage thoughtful discussion.
Please be thoughtful in your decision and help our campus to heal.
Deborah P. Pedersen
Message
From: Pam Currie
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:34:57 AM
Subject: Melt down Si lent Sam
Please do not put silent Sam back. Any flag, monument, or meme that's purpose is to suppress a group of
people should not be displayed. We have huge confederate flags along major highways. The same kind of
people with the mindset that raised money for these flags, erected this monument years after the war.
I'm 63 years old, and I say take it away and melt it down.
Pam Currie
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:36:54 AM
Subject: MEMORIAL TO CIVIL WAR FOOT SOLDIERS--SILENT SAM
The Correct Answer was to not allow MOB RULE!!!!

Which is exactly what authorities did by standing back, away from the statue, and allowing a mob
lead by off-campus agitators to destroy University property.
The second Answer is to finally get the truth out concerning the REAL CAUSE for the War
Between the States or the Civil War, The War Between North and South -- or whatever
anyone calls it. (Reality is, the victors WROTE U.S. history from 1860 through 1960, ignoring tariffs and declaring the
non-issue of slavery to be the only issue.)
From any perspective, the war started at the military installation supporting Northern Customs Agents
at Charleston Harbor.
The basic and only causative factor behind that early attack -- Oppressive import duties (tariffs)
imposed through the Missouri Compromise on all European manufactured and processed goods --
Skillets, Clothing irons, hammers, axeheads, anvils, wagon wheel parts, wagon "steel", rifle barrels,
fine furniture, medicines, fabrics, shoes, corsets, hats, boots, shoes, etc. -- in short the needs of every
day common-man living.
In reality, the majority of Southerners, in particular Confederate President and public abolitionist
Jefferson Davis, and at least 95% of common soldiers, were strongly opposed to slavery.
Davis and his fellow 2nd Lt. (Both recent West Point Graduates) Bobby Lee, joined the Western Army
headquarters at Baton Rouge.
There they engineered building projects and "taught school" for army recruits, civilian workers,
freedmen and reservation slaves.
Their commander and future father-in-law Zachary Taylor used his taxing powers to acquire "Slave
families" from large plantations.
He then educated the entire families, trained the men and young boys in trades and crafts, and after
moving Western Army headquarters to Fort Smith, Ark. and Ft. Gibson, Indian Terr., emancipated the
now educated slaves, helping them and freedmen in establishing black communities north of Ft.
Gibson. (This early 1830s program resulted in Oklahoma having more independent, self supporting black communities
than any other state.)
Lee took slave building craftsmen, and some families to San Francisco to build Fort Point.
These men, and some women, were paid according to inflated Gold Rush wages, gaining freedom in
the process.
Lee, by his actions, clearly favored freeing slaves, and from the Baton Rouge classrooms was aware
of their academic capabilities.
The Missouri Compromise in its several phases of political generation had already settled the issue of
slavery, which existed in virtually every state and territory, including 'apprenticed children of every
race" in most northern industries, indentured servants from throughout Europe contracted to ten,
twenty, even forty years indenture to pay shipping passages for entire families-- who also became
indentured servants for decades, often their productive life.
These unpaid slaves were present in the coastal, New England and Great Lakes regions through the
1930s.
Silent Sam represents the hundreds of thousands of Confederate Foot Soldiers who were fighting
only against the oppressive protectionist Import Tariffs imposed for the profits of the North's Wealthy
One Per Cent which owned the mills, smelters, factories and shipping.
Again, in reality, not even the Cavalier Plantation Owners were fighting for slavery. That issue had
been settled with the Compromise and the largely European large plantation slave owners (Most
major slave holders were English, Dutch, French, German and Scandinavian investors who had
acquired major land holdings, often buying slaves in the purchase.
In the 1860s, the One Per Centers controlled education, communication (And thereby Politics), banking,
access to the legal world, the mercantile world and direct access to smuggling schooners.
[This writer is a direct descendant of abolitionist eastern Kentucky Wagon Traders who operated throughout the South
with ten to twelve Conestoga freight wagons, acquiring smuggled goods around the Carolina Sounds, Georgia's Gullah
Islands, Mobile Bay, etc. and selling and trading for profit throughout the south.
Secretly, of course, they contacted slave families on the plantations, coached them in preparing, providing "scent
materials" to lay false trails to the north, with "drags" behind a horseback rider, then escape to the south with covered
trails, before climbing into empty barrels and crates on the trade wagons and rolling non-stop SOUTH for 48 to 72 hours
enroute to one of the smuggling ports where they escaped, usually north to Canada.]
They could not have operated their combined trading and escape program without the help of the
many abolitionist southerners.
Young local men who would ride north two and three days with scent drags covering escapes.
Others who would watch the trade wagons' back trails as they rushed south with the escapees.
Families who provided or at least maintained relief relay wagon teams, and provided hot food for the
team drivers and escapees.
The wagon trader escape program could not have operated except with widespread local and
regional help.
Message
From: Robert Stoothoff
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:37:55 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
offer silent Sam to any organization that wishes to place it on private property.
The history of the war between the states does not need a statue that was conceived and erected in the
crucible of anger and defiance that followed the end of that conflict, in order to teach and learn.
Contextualizing silent Sam would mean exposing the hate that created him a good deal later after this
bloody war. It is beyond me why anyone would want that story to be represented by a soldier doing his
job.
However, if a board of governors wants to err on the side of punishing those who see this statue for what
it was erected for and those who angrily tore it down, then they will return the statue to the pedestal.
I hope they don't.
Bob Stoothoff
chapel Hill, NC
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Message
From: Damon Webb
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:39:26 AM
Subject: Boy So ldier
As a taxpaying and law abiding c1t1zen of North Carolina I was sadden by

the lawless action of a few .Abetted by the actions of persons who are
suppose to enforce the law of this state. The only recourse is to
replace the statue at the same location and prosecute those responsible
for this disgrace.
Damon c Webb
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From: Knittel, Andrea [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Budapest monument park
In Budapest, outside the city, there is a park where they have collected all of the old soviet monuments that
represent a terribly repressive time for most people, and probably still hold some treasured memories for
others. There is a video that is viewable before you enter, with some contextualizing history, and then the
monuments are on display. This would be a great option for Silent Sam and any other confederate monuments
that remain.
http://www.mementopark.hu/
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Andrea K. Knittel, MD, PhD

Program Director for Incarcerated Women's Health
Assistant Professor, Division of General Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of ~forth Carolina, Chapel Hill
andrea_knittel@med.unc.edu
Message
From: THOMAS PAGE
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:40:57 AM
As a Vietnam Veteran, I was accused of many things by people when I returned, some of which were, "how
could you go there when you knew that war was wrong?". so I know how veterans can be treated if they
happen to fight in a war that is not popular.
The Confederate Veterans were treated exactly the same way as the Vietnam Veterans after their war! They
were told by their leaders that they were fighting for the protection of their homes, which they were as
the Union invaded the southern States! The silent Sams were fighting for their homeland, not necessarily
for slavery or oppression of the black man! In fact, the silent Sam statue showed a soldier that
probably did not even own a slave and may not even have owned his own land! Those men were the colonels
and Generals, not foot soldiers, so to argue that silent Sam represents the institution of slavery is
ludicrous, and you leaders of UNC should know better! silent Sam was a victim of slavery as much as the
slaves! He may not have worn chains, but he had to compete against the slaves in the economy! Why pay a
non-slave for a job you could have a slave do?
Finally, if you allow a mob to tear down these statues of the Confederacy, are you going to approve of a
mob taking sledge hammers to the Vietnam Memoria l on the Washington, DC Mal l , or wil l you approve a mob
taking sledge hammers to the Martin Luther King, Jr. monument on the DC Mall?
If you let a mob control what and who gets a monument or memorial without due process, will your
organization be the next entity to fall to a mob?
Sincerely,
A Vietnam Veteran from Louisburg, NC
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From: Thomas, Susan G [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/25/2018 8:41:43 AM
As a long-time staff member of this university my personal opinion is that the statue should be mounted back in its
original location. How can we let a group dictate to us what they want? Do we want to be known as a place where no
rules apply? It seems we are moving more towards that every day. Maybe we should just destroy every statue in this
country and erase all history since I am sure that each statue offends someone.
Message
From: D.P. Snyder
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:46:43 AM
Subject: Re: Silent Sam statue and pedestal
To Chancellor Carol Folt and the Board of Trustees:
There are times when those who lead our nations great universities have to lead with moral authority:
This is one of those times.
UNC is a public university and as such serves its students, its faculty, this community as well as the
greater population of the state of North Carolina. The students have spoken: We do not see students
in great numbers appearing to defend the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam. Indeed, we do not
see any North Carolinians in great numbers defending this relic of Jim Crow. We do see, however, the
Chapel Hill business community, citizens from surrounding communities, faculty, and local, national
and even international media calling for the removal of the statue. My own article at Public Seminar,
the online magazine of The New School in New York City, is here.
I was injured by Greensboro police while covering a student protest, so I have flesh in the game, as it
were. But more importantly you have flesh in the game, because in your refusals to contemplate the
history and present reality of racism at UNC with any degree of humility, you fail in your moral
leadership.
Monuments stand to glorify. There is no glory in this state's history of the defense of slavery, or of Jim
Crow. You are educational institution: Do not bow to the poorly-educated rabble who appear wrapped
in their battle flags in utter defiance of the principle of social equity and racial justice. Do not bow to
those among you who insist that the raggedy stars and bars is the true identity of UNC. UNC should
wish to stand for its better angels: The people it cures of cancer, the scholarships that allow working
class people to rise to become professional people, the important research it does. Do not allow UNC
to become an apologist for and panderer to ignorance and hatred.
Sincerely,
D.P. Snyder
@Dorothy Potter.corn
@Wordpress
@Editorial Freelancers Association
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Subject: U Texas and their monuments
Dear Colleagues,
I happened to be in Austin, Texas this past weekend for a meeting. I noticed 4 conspicuously empty granite
pedestals on their main quad, and was wondering if they had similar problems to ours. I looked into their
situation, and they made a thoughtful study of the problem in 2015 that we can learn from:
http://diversity.utexas.edu/statues/wp--content/uploads/2016/01/Task-·Force-·Report--F1NAL·08 09 15.pdf
Ultimately, after the Charlottesville tragedy, their president decided to move their statues to a museum:
https://president.utexas.edu/messages/confederate-statues-on-campus
I suspect that you might already be aware of this, but given the many parallels to our situation, as well as the
thoughtful way in which they addressed the problem, it seemed appropriate for us to consider this work. I
think a similar resolution here would both address the political sensitivities of our situation, as well as aligning
the campus with the university's values.
Thanks,
Nick Shaheen
Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH

Bozymski-Heizer Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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Message
From: John McKee
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:51:05 AM
I suggest moving the statue to Bennett Place in Durham. With a new base characterizing the involvement of
UNC student soldiers in the War. Bennett Place could use a few statues.
Thanks
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Subject: silent sam disposition
Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinion as a part of the UNC community regarding the disposition of the
"Silent Sam" monument. I would like to suggest that the monument be returned to the United Daughters of the
Confederacy with a thank you for their gift and an explanation that the statue does not reflect the current values of the
University on diversity and inclusiveness.
Andrea Eiring, MSM, CCRA, CPHRM

Message
From: jleppart
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:56:10 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
A great place for Silent Sam would be Bentonville, N.C.
Jerry Lepp art

Raleigh
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Message
From: The Masons
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:57:20 AM
Subject: Suggestion on Silent Sam
The University has a separate monument to all UNC students who died in all wars and lists them by
name. Silent Sam is, therefore, redundant.
However, if you decide to keep it or are forced to keep it, you should place it on a smaller base with an
inscription that does not glorify war but memorializes the tragic loss. Maybe something like "In memory of
UNC students whose precious lives were lost along with so many other soldiers and civilians in a civil war. We
pray that it never happens again." would be appropriate. I have no idea where you would place it although I
think a cemetery or battlefield would be more appropriate.
Mourn the loss. Don't glorify the war. It would be nice if it was endorsed by all the descendant groups on both
sides, Confederate and Union. That might help with the healing process.
My great grandfather and his wife each lost two brothers in the war on the Union side. There was nothing
heroic about it.
John Mason
Message
From: Jessica Edgar
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:58:38 AM
Subject: Please Place It in a Museum
Hello!
Thank you for creating this email account - as an alumna, I appreciate you taking into account everyone's
perspectives, not just donors and folks on a board.
I think Silent Sam belongs in a museum. I think the whole monument, statue and base, do not belong on
campus. The people who it commemorates were traitors to our nation, and they should not be memorialized out
in open air for all to see. In keeping with "not erasing history," we can easily place the statue in a museum
somewhere on campus, perhaps a totally new museum even, that illuminates the whole history of the university,
including both how it was built by slaves and how students who went there died fighting for the Confederacy.
Thank you for considering my perspective!
Best,
Jessica Edgar
Class of 2015
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:02:04 AM
Subject: Sam
Put him back , where he has stood for centuries.
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Message
From: Bill Starnes
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:03:31 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
We are a nation of laws. We have a law here in NC, properly passed by the NC General Assembly, to protect our
Historical Monuments. Therefore, as the Silent Sam Monument was illegally removed, by law it must be returned to its
original location within 90 days of the date of the illegal removal. As a law abiding NC taxpaying citizen, I can settle for
nothing less than our laws being properly enforced.
If we are to discuss the so called "Jim Crowe" laws of the South in the time period of the placement of the Silent Sam
Monument, in the interest od fairness, let us also discuss the Black Codes of the north . Whereas the Jim Crowe laws of
the South did in fact disenfranchise some Black voters, the very same laws also disenfranchised some White voters as
well. Just as some Blacks could not pass the literacy tests, nor pay the poll tax, the same held true for some White voters
as well. In comparison, the Black Codes of the north actually forbade Blacks and Mulattos from even coming into, or
residing in, some northern States . While I disagree with both the Jim Crowe laws and the Black Codes, at least the Jim
Crowe laws did not forbid Blacks from coming into and residing in Southern States.
Was there "white supremacy" in the South in those days of our National history? Yes, just as there was in the north in
those same days. Did some Southerners own slaves? Yes, just as some northerners owned slaves. In fact, to be
historically correct, it was the north than controlled nearly 100% of all the slave trade in this country. It was from the
northern seaports that the slave ships sailed, under first the British Flag, then the US Flag, to go to Africa, trade rum and
other goods to the Africans for their slaves, and then sailed all over the world, wherever there was a market for the slaves,
and sold them for the highest price they could get. That included ALL of North America, Central America and South
America. Slavery was NOT confined to only the Southern States in the US.
Was slavery wrong? Yes, absolutely. Were the Southern States fighting to protect the institution of slavery? Absolutely
not. Based on over 18 years of research, I find the numbers ranging from under 10% to about 15% of Southerners who
owned slaves. Most working class Southerners did not support slavery due to having to compete with the institution of
slavery for jobs.
Was the north waging war against the South to free the slaves? Absolutely not. Why would the slave traders of the north
wish to go to war to destroy their trade? And, we find that before, during and after the war of 1861-1865, that there were 3
slave States in the Union. Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. And later, the State of West Virginia.
Lincoln clearly stated in his first inaugural address that he had no intention of interfering with the institution of slavery in
the Sates where it then existed. He clearly stated he felt he had no lawful right to do so, and added he had no inclination
to do so. The War Aims Resolution, adopted by Congress in July 1861, clearly stated the war was to maintain the Union
and the slavery issue played no part in the decision to go to war.
Obey and respect our laws . Return Silent Sam to his original location as soon as can be done. Prosecute the law
breakers who illegally removed the Monument. To me, and many others, those Monuments are grave markers for the
many, many Southerners who lie in unmarked and unknown graves. Men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice for
their country. An illegal and unconstitutional war waged by Lincoln to collect a tariff.
Bill Starnes. Mount Holly, NC.
Message
From: Anondo Banerjee
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:03:39 AM
Subject: The fate of Silent Sam
If it's too much to ask for to melt it down, then place it back on the quad, but have it toppled from its pedestal as
it was when it was finally pulled down from its perch. As a proud Alabamian, let it fall just as The Lost Cause
of the Confederacy should fall.
Sincerely 2015 Alum,

Anondo Banerjee, MPH, CHES
Message
From: Joe Austin
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:04:32 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Here are the thoughts of one UNC alum (AB '73; JD '78), a lifelong citizen of North Carolina:
1. Retire Silent Sam along with all Confederate monuments to a Monument Avenue at the Bentonville
Battleground park. This could be a joint project ofUNC and the State of North Carolina. Information should
be made available to visitors about the original locus and provenance of each monument.
2. Create a course in the History Department or American Studies that studies the Agrarian Movement in the
post-Civil War South and sheds light on the full range of people's motives in the decades following the
war. How did the proliferation of Civil War monuments fit in? Yes, take a hard look at the Jim Crow racism,
but also develop the account of how people in the South took positive steps to recover from the devastation
caused by the war. Don't just vilify the Confederate veterans but demonstrate the positive contributions they
made to the recovery. After all, the South as part of the Sunbelt is in ascendency. How was the foundation for
the resurgence and renewal laid post-war and by whom? Also take a serious look at the modern progressive
leaders such as Luther Hodges, Terry Sanford, and Jim Hunt who were instrumental in the process of making
the turn in the economy from agriculture to modern commerce.
Thank you for asking.
William Joseph Austin, Jr.

Message
From: Peter Cashwell
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:10:25 AM
Dear Chancellor Folt, Trustees, and members of the Board of Governors,
My love ofUNC is lifelong. I grew up in Chapel Hill, where my father worked in the admissions office for a
quarter-century. I was always aware of the presence of Silent Sam near my dad's office, and when I entered
Carolina myself, I would often walk past the statue on my way from Old West to Franklin Street..
And then I started learning more about what that statue actually meant.
Part of education is the process of putting away old ideas when they are shown to conflict with the facts. This
sometimes painful wrestling with the truth can be seen in every classroom in Chapel Hill, and it gradually took
place in my own mind as I studied the history of our nation. By the time I earned my second degree at Carolina,
it had become clear that the statue I'd grown up with was actually celebrating something far older and more
insidious than I'd known.
We can, and should, mourn the UNC students who died during the Civil War, but it is unconscionable to
celebrate the Confederate cause: a system that violates the principles on which our nation and our university
were founded. A state dedicated to denying light and liberty to the people should not have a place of honor on
UNC's campus.
Silent Sam should not be returned to his pedestal. He or some other monument to the dead might be suitable in a
cemetery or museum, but the system of chattel slavery is not something UNC should endorse in word or
symbol. The University of the People must do better.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak on this issue.
Sincerely,
Peter Cashwell '85, '89

Message
From: Alexander Rike
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:12:06 AM
Subject: Entomb the monument at Mccorkle
Dear Directors:
I understand the pressures facing the University and the toll that this debate is having on our community. I
graduated from Clemson University, a Southern school that has faced the difficulty of contextualizing a
tormented past while upholding the modern values expected of a world-class institution. While there is no easy
fix to the protracted problem of racialization in America, I do not believe that the monument should remain in
the open at UNC.
I propose that the monument be entombed and encased in situ in McCorkle Place as a symbol of shifting
American values. I envision submissions from landscape architects to create a structure, a modern obelisk,
around Silent Sam. In this way, the monument to fallen dead is sufficiently preserved at its current site while
honoring current beliefs that its visibility is widely offensive.
Thank you,
Alex Rike
Alex Rike
Message
From: Scott Trent
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:12:26 AM
Subject: Where to put the monument
It is my understanding that this email address has been set up to

collect input on where to put the silent Sam monument. Here's my
input:
Send it to the scrap yard to be melted down. White supremacy has no

business on campus, or anywhere.
And drop the charges against the heroes who did what UNC
administrators should have done a long, long time ago.
Best,
Scott Trent
Message
From: Pat Delatte
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:16:13 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please return the monument to its original position. Failure to do so only rewards criminal behavior and
emboldens further acts of vandalism. It sends the message that the mob is a legitimate agent of social change.
Beyond that, Silent Sam represents brave young UNC students who went to war and endured extreme hardships
and privations to defend their homes. It's a shame that these men are being disrespected by today's student body
in the name of a political trend.
In addition to failing to uphold the memory of brave North Carolinians, we lose something by eschewing our
history, something that makes us distinct and not just an Ohio with a coastline. We are a Southern state and
should never shirk our past. I realize that there are many who feel that this past is hurtful and that our
Confederate veterans aren't worthy of veneration-as if the Union states were a beacon of racial egalitarianism
in the 1860s. History is nuanced and maybe it's time that it's taught as such and not as a black and white
morality play. If the student body isn't mature enough to handle that, there may be a need to re-evaluate the
admissions process.
When the Confederate monuments are gone the rest will go as well. Columbus committed genocide, American
Revolutionaries were slaveholders, Korean War vets were imperialists, Vietnam war vets were imperialist baby-
killers, etc.
I for one am tired of my people's history being used and manipulated for someone else's dialectical game.
I hope UNC does the right thing.
Sincerely,
- Patrick Delatte Jr.
P.S. If there is any demographic interest, I'm a millennial.

Message
From: Cathy and Mike Weaver
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:18:58 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
If Silent Sam must remain on campus, it must be in the most out of the way place possible, with educational displays
about the times in which it was originally erected. It is divisive and honors a time that should not be honored, instead
studied so it will not be repeated.
Cathy Weaver, BSBA 1983
Cathy and Mike Weaver

Holly Run Stables
Home for Retired Classroom Pets
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From: Zegre-Hemsey, Jessica [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/25/2018 9:19:42 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam - please do not return
Good morning,
As a faculty member and con11rn.mity rnernber, I strongly oppose the return of Silent Sarn to UNC Chapel Hill campus. It
represents a very dec isive and negative time in our history, one that we s h ould not aspire to resurrect. In the current
political climate, I am increasingly concerned for the safety of our campus community, as well as that of m y own children
who I am raising in this community. A s tatus like Silent Sam r aises the potential for more violence, and I vehemently
oppose the return of this statue.
Please respect what Chapel Hill leaders and many faculty/staff have asked for···· do not return Silent Sam to campus. It is
time to bury it and move on with 2018 and strive for an inc lusive future. There is no reason to be reminded of o ur ugly
and shameful past by such a status in the middle of our campus/town.
Th ank you for the opportunity to provide my thoughts,
Jessica Zegre-Hemsey, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dep artment of Emergency Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine
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To: Zegre-Hemsey, Jessica <jzhemsey@email.unc.edu>
Carolina.
Sincerely,

Message
From: Mitchell S. McLean
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:22:12 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Reader:
As a life-long resident and taxpayer in North Carolina, and as the proud parent (and tuition payer) of two
UNC graduates, I think I qualify as a member of the UNC community.
The Silent Sam monument should be restored to its original location. It should remain there, unless and until
a duly authorized body determines to relocate it. Otherwise would be to acquiesce to mob rule.
UNC-Chapel Hill is a world-class public research university. However, it is also a university with a history,
that should not be erased.
The Silent Sam monument is a memorial to students and alumni who literally gave their all for their home
state. The memory of their dedication and sacrifice is what Silent Sam represents, and should not be
desecrated.
Sincerely,
Mitchell S. McLean
Law Office of Mitchell S. McLean

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Message
From: Terry Crayton CPA
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:24:40 AM
Subject: Restore Silent Sam At Mccorkle Place and Fire Carol Folt
We want Silent Sam back in his

original place on his pedestal at
Mccorkle Place.
Since the left wing chancellor
Carol Folt is trying to evade and
defy state law, she should be fired
immediately. State law demands
Silent Sam be placed at his exact
former location. To do otherwise
will guarantee lawsuit after lawsuit
against the university.
This is North Carolina it is not
Berkley, California.
Criminals who resort to violence
and destruction of public property
should not be given their way.
Is mob rule now the law in Chapel
Hill?
Restore Silent Sam to McCorkle
Place and fire Carol Folt today!
Terry Crayton, CPA
Concord, NC
Message
From: Larry Cormier
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:25:31 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
My understanding is that you are looking for input on what to do with the "Silent Sam" statue.
My input would be to melt it down, and use that metal to make a statue to honor the slaves that built NC, and to
the oppressed People of Color that have been forced to live in the shadow of racial discrimination since the
Civil War.
I would also implore that you would advocate for the dropping of all charges to those protesters that did what
should have been done long ago by the administration of UNC.
Larry Cormier
Guilford Counly Caucus
Message
From: Janet Clarke
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:27:03 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Must Not Be Reinstalled
I do not want to see silent Sam replaced. I moved to from the midwest to North Carolina in 1984 when I
was in high school, and I have attended both UNC and NC State. I don't have the context of a southern
heritage, however, I believe it is time to acknowledge that confederate symbols are nothing but an
endorsement of white supremacy and oppression. The statue shows the worst of humanity, as evidenced by
Julian Carr's dedication speech when the statue was first installed. If you'd like to place the statue in
a museum, off campus, where it is displayed with contextual information, that is likely acceptable to
many people.
Message
From: Marvin Mccann
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:28:55 AM
Subject: Silent Sam

You came to our state of North Carolina to lead and manage the University of The People of North
Carolina. Now you are now asked t o do so. The choices you make will not please everyone. Perhaps the
criticism and anger that e nsues from any decision you make will be great and long lasting. It may cause
anger enough to pressure you to even leave your post for another where there are not such deep rooted
feelings in the history of a region. You accepted your assignment with a duty to represent all the
people, and not just a new come about generation that has only selected touch with all that went on
before them. These are my though t s on why the stature should be returned to i t 's place on the UNC campus.
! . The l ocation is not the front door of the University. There are many "front doors" to this university
that the citizens of North Carolina enter. Someone can find fa ult with any new location on campus to
further their agenda to completely erase the statue from our history. Is erasing history what your
storied History department on campus desires? I have always believed that when we are not confronted
with and aware of past history, we then have a greater tendency to remake and repeat that history. Leave
the stature in pl ace.
2. In it's plurality, the University belongs to all the people of North Carolina. Most people who want
the stature to stand in place wil l not shout, demonstrate, pour blood and paint on it, wrap the stature
in a shro ud , and while the police stand down and let anarchy rule the campus you are charged to protect,
pull it down with a rope, rather than with the vote of all the people of North Carolina. If you don't
feel the pulse of the majority of the citizens of North Carolina who want the stature in place, then I
suggest it be put to a vote in a state wide election. The result will leave the stature in place.
3. The people who erected the stature felt the feelings of their time, not our time. We have no right to
reinterpret the i r feelings and attitudes in our generation. Leave the statue in place.
4. A properly worded explanation should be added to the stature that highlights the statu re as a memorial
to the young students who left to fight in what they believed to be a j ust cause in their time. The text
could include the unrest and controversy that exists today. The protesters do not realize they are the
ones who are still fighting the war that should have ended al most 154 years ago. The rest of us have
moved on without the fight. ( Yes, I do have ancestors who fought and died during the conflict). Leave
the statue in place.
S. Your decision to leave t he stature in place will not be pop ular with most of t he academic community in
chapel Hill. Most of your faculty have been transported in from somewhere else. I can understand their
inability to know the deep feelings of North Carolinians about their past and how it is remembered. We do
not teach our American history with passion and patriotism to our students today. unfortunately, symbols
and monuments do remind t hem to at least look at what went on before th em. Leave the stat ue in place and
don't relegate it somewhere like the back yard of the campus motor pool.
Marvin Mccann
Apex, North Carolina
NCSU 1972
Father of 2 daughters who graduated form the University of North Carolina
Message
From: Mary Williams
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:31:24 AM
Ms. Fol t,
I believe silent Sam needs to return to his original place where he was toppled illegally by a mob. To
do otherwise is to reinforce mob behavior and to condone destruction of public property.
I suggest, however, that UNC erect a monument that commemorates the integration of the UNC student body,
including when UNC began admitting women and racial minorities. Erect it somewhere on Mccorkle Place.
This would preserve history by allowing silent Sam to remain and would commemorate when UNC changed over
time.
Respectull y,
Mary Williams
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Message
From: Daniel V., Jr Townsend
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:35:44 AM
Subject: I support all Monuments, My great grandfather was a marksman in the Civil War from E. N.C.
Attachments: June 20 2018 picture in the shade.jpg
Memorial Statues are priceless. I have erected Civil War Memorial Crosses on my great grandfathers grave in
St Paul's NC many times, at my expense and some trouble. Men as far away as Latta, SC have built them, cut
them from steel, painted them and helped secure them in cement; however, still idiots have tom them from his
grave. No longer does any exist...tom from the ground .. .in St Pauls?
Wow, some protesters just see the world from their eyes not from "history's" perspective ... they may have never
really known about NC History, they may be from Conn. or Md. or someplace outside of NC ...I don't know but
they show no tolerance. I wonder if they would feel the same I've I'd wreck their hometown area?? Leave
the Memorials, please
Daniel V. Townsend
Message
From: emily keel
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:39:09 AM
Subject: Sam
I am an alum 1972, old white woman. I have been embarrassed by the statue for years and hate its
representation. Please have it totally removed from campus. It belongs in a museum where a full explanation
of the facts surrounding the war can be related and not in any campus building where continual struggle will
disrupt everyone.
Message
From: Elizabeth Wood
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:39:46 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put him back where he belongs, and arrest the individuals. what they did was so wrong, no matter what
statute was the subject!
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Message
From: Smitty
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:42:15 AM
Subject: silent sam
Put it back where it belongs .. lllegal NOT to put it back in SAME position ..
Smitty........~11
Message
From: Ben Alschuler
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:42:56 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Relocation Proposal
Hi there,
I believe that the ideal new location for Silent Sam should be exactly where it always was, except buried
underground in a trench with a clear glass cover accessible to all.
It should be a deep trench. The same massive, stone pedestal should be at the bottom of the trench. People
should be able to walk directly above Silent Sam's hat and musket and look down on the statue just beneath
their feet. There could be some subtle lighting inside the trench.
There should be a plaque embedded at ground level that provides the date that the statue was erected and by
whom, a visual representation of what the whole statue looks like (because you can't see the whole thing
underground), and the date that it was moved underground.
This would be powerful and meaningful. Leaving the statue in the same location "preserves history" by showing
exactly where the statue was placed, when it was put there, and who it was meant to communicate to. Placing it
underground leaves no moral ambiguity about what it once represented, and what has changed since then.
Doing so also removes the possibility of the statue becoming a pilgrimage site for hate groups. There is no
further need for a complicated explanation plaque that will inevitably please no one. Show them, don't tell them.
If the University was so inclined, it could erect some sort of small, restrained gazebo or pergola above this
memorial area, but it would have to be done at a near-identical scale to the original statue. This is not the place
to create something ostentatious.
Thanks for your consideration.
-Ben Alschuler
Message
From: Greg Fitts
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:45:33 AM
Subject: Silent Sam To Bennett Place or Bentonvi lle
Thank you for making this address available to the community.
I believe the only logical place for Silent Sam to be relocated to would either be Bennett Place in Durham or on the
Civil War battlfield at Bentonville. The scene would be appropriate and with a good descriptive marker, would be a
great way to inform how the war was intrepreted 50 and 150 years later.
Anyplace on campus would keep Sam in the crosshairs and there would always be a movement to pull him down
again, causing fears of riot and damage to any building he would end up in. There are enough groups on campus
intent on eliminating him, somebody would do it, probably using more extreme methods next time.
Best,
Greg
Greg Fitts
Chapel Hill, NC
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Subject: future of Silent Sam
If silent Sam must be retained for future display, it seems like a good place for it would be the old
chapel Hill Cemetery, if space is available.
Most of the burials in the cemetery date back to the 1 9th century, so it would fit in from an historical
perspective. since the proponents of keeping silent Sam on display seem to be concerned about heritage
and commemoration of deceased participants in the Civil war, placement of the monument there would seem
to fit, thematically -- at least from one perspective.
Silent Sam should definitely be removed from its original location. Leaving it at the "front door" of the
University can be seen as implying that the University advocates long-outdated attitudes. Since the
cemetery constitutes a resting place for individuals from the past, including, I would imagine, some
confederate soldiers, the monument would seem to be better fitted to such a location.
Richard
Richard Mccolman, Fulldome Theater Manager

Morehead Planetarium & Science Center
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Message
From: kynita stringer-stanback
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:47:31 AM
Subject: Facing our history
Good morning,
Right now, in this moment, UNC has a unique opportunity to face our history. Will the leaders have the
moral fortitude to dig down and talk about the indigenous nations that lived in chapel Hill first and who
were forcibly removed? Will we talk about the way NCU was built & the suffering that was caused for it to
come into existence?
I am a two time alumnus of UNC-Chapel Hill. My ancestors were enslaved by Joseph Caldwell & the swains. I
am a direct descendant of November Caldwell & Wilson swain Caldwell. Why is this important?
It's important because it was Wilson swain who was able to negotiate wit h the union soldiers on order to
keep them from burning NCU to the ground!
And yet, there is nothing on campus (outside of the obelisk that marks his grave) to honor him. Instead,
a confederate soldier statute was put up as a reminder to Black people in chapel Hill that we would never
obtain full citizenship. That the state sanctioned violence would never change and that people like us
did not matter-- - further inscribing & ossifying institutional racism.
My ancestors Rosa Burgess, Susan Kirby & Emma Kelly lived their lives during a time when their bodies
were not their own, right there, in orange county. They lived under the constant threat of violation---
and it was lega l for them to be treated that way.
silent Sam does not need to be replaced. silent Sam does not need a prominent spot on campus! what about
a monument to the indigenous people who were there first? what about a monument that honors those who
defended & preserved UNC?
The civil War was about slavery plain and simple. Any monument that honors confederate soldiers is
basically a monument that supports the enslavement of my people and the legal rape of my ancestral
grandmothers.
The people have spoken through their actions. Madam chancellor, tear that statute down!
Thank you,
kynita stringer-stanback
'98 & '09
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:49:51 AM
Subject: We Support Sam
Mrs. Falt,
I started this e-mail out with all of my historical facts, analogy's and political references in support of our
Confederate monuments. It wasn't long before I had written a book. Realizing that you probably aren't going to take the
time to read a book, I decided to delete it all and start over with this short summary of not only my thoughts, but most
of those within my community of North Eastern NC.
• It is currently the state law to restore & protect war memorials. IF, a violent mob had vandalized any other part
of the campus, repairs would have already been underway. If funds to make the repairs were not covered by an
insurance policy there would certainly be state funds or even private donations. If the campus needs money to
restore Silent Sam, our citizens will gladly send in the funds. It is my recommendation that Silent Sam be
restored & then protected by a decorative wrought iron fence as a protective barrier from other vandals.
• The monument known as Silent Sam as well as the University belongs to the citizens of NC and is not privately
owned. No one person, group or organization has the legal authority to hinder the restoration and preservation
of Silent Sam.
• If our country is a nation based on laws, then it is the responsibility of our elected officials to set an example and
uphold these laws. As of now, the laws in place protect monuments, like Silent Sam.
• Restore & Preserve Silent Sam.
Best Regards,
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Camden County NC
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From: Shomaker, Carolyn [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Silent Sam
I have worked for UNC for 15 years and used to be proud to say I was part of the University. That is no longer
true. Chapel Hill has become a hotbed of political activity that caters to a specific mindset and leaves others out, in spite
of the rhetoric claiming "diversity and inclusion". As a conservative and a Southerner, I have not felt safe or included
since the town of Chapel Hill, UNC, and Orange County decided that anything that doesn't go along with their way of
thinking must be removed. When they say that Silent Sam is an offense to the entire Chapel Hill community, including
university employees, they are wrong. They do not speak for me, and I know there are others who feel the same as I
do. Just because they declare a statue to be racist doesn't make it so, any more than declaring that Chapel Hill is a place
of inclusion makes it true. They only include those who agree with them, and those who disagree must be shouted
down and removed; there is an inability to agree to disagree. Silent Sam has stood for many, many years, and to let a
group of outsiders come onto campus and desecrate a memorial to those who gave their lives is a disgrace. Yes, Julian
Carr said some awful things, but removing Silent Sam won't change that. The memorial to the soldiers is separate from
the ideology that calls everything pro-slavery and pro-segregation, but it is all lumped together. I guarantee you that
until recently, hundreds of people walked by Sam every day and never even noticed him.
The danger that they claim is posed by Silent Sam's location is caused by the anarchists who refuse to honor the right of
an opposing group to show their support. If the anti-Sam liberals (including UNC professors, sadly) would stop trying to
prevent anyone from speaking out, both sides could demonstrate peacefully. Outsiders come here and stir things up,
and the result is chaos. The present mindset is that if you don't like something, you yell and scream until you get your
way, and that's the behavior that is encouraged because no one will stand up to this silliness and put a stop to it.
Sam needs to be returned to his rightful place and those who don't like it need to grow up and get over it. The current
crop of students who are against it will be gone from UNC in a few years and they'll never look back, as much as they
would like you to think their lives are irreparably damaged by Sam's presence on campus.
There are many, many more people who support Silent Sam than you are aware of, because they don't tend to make a
big scene - but never mistake their silence for weakness. They are proud, and they are strong. They are NOT white
supremacists or fascists - they are people proud of their heritage and they're willing to take a stand for it.
Carolyn Shomaker
Carolyn Shomaker
Federal Documents Coordinator/Microforms Supervisor
UNC-Chapel Hill
CB# 3912
Chapel Hill NC 27514
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Message
From: Larry Bone
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:55:00 AM
Subject: monument
Please replace the monument of these brave soldiers from UNC.

Message
From: Bill G. Page
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:58:28 AM
CC: Bill G. Page
Subject: Suggestions for the relocation of "Silent Sam"
In regards to ideas on where to put Silent Sam, the statue could be donated to Bennett Place or Bentonville
Battleground. As a person that studies civil war history and visits historical sites, I feel "Silent Sam" would be more
"revered" in these two places by visitors versus "reviled" by many on the campus of a public university.
If state law will not allow the statue to be relocated/donated to an appropriate historical site and must remain on the
UNC campus, perhaps the Old Cemetery would be a more suitable option. A possible location might be in-between the
old slave burial side and the newer graves to symbolize the linear progression/growth of the campus physically,
intellectually, and spiritually.
e.g.
African American side Silent Sam Newer Graves
Segregation Silent Sam/Civil War Integration
Slavery Fight to maintain segregation/slavery Freedom for all people
I personally would be opposed to putting Silent Sam back on its old pedestal. One of the purposes of studying history is
to learn from our mistakes so that we do not repeat the same hardships.
Sincerely,
Bill Page
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Message
From: damian hriciga
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:07:36 AM
Subject: Let Sam Final ly Tell the Truth
The endurance of Silent Sam on the University campus is cause for shame. That UNC forced the people of
Chapel Hill to perform the inevitable removal of the symbol of racism and indifference to human life is also
scandalous.
There is no valid way to honor a statue of a Nazi soldier. Likewise, there is no valid way to honor a statue of a
treasonous secessionist fighting to preserve the institution of human slavery. Whatever dark comer the statue
eventually resides in, the signage should first and foremost explain the purpose the statue, which was to revise
history and advance the historical lie that is the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. Let Sam finally tell the truth.
The Civil War was fought so that white people could own black people.
Damian Hriciga
Chapel Hill
Message
From: Christine Abernathy
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:10:38 AM
Subject: Keep Pedestal Empty
Hello-
I am an alumnus ofUNC class of 2012. While on campus, I worked with groups on campus to petition the
administration to put a plaque on silent sam to provide the racist context of the monument. I stand with the
students who took action when the administration was petitioned and invited to many times and yet continually
took none. Please leave Silent Sam in the era he was erected.
If you were to re-instate Silent Sam anywhere outside of a museum, you would be a public higher education that
erected a symbol of violence towards black and brown people in the year 2018. As an alum, I implore you not
to do so. UNC faculty, staff, and students deserve better than that.
Thank you-
Christine
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From: Strain, Angela [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/25/2018 10:11:03 AM
Subject: suggestion
Melt the statue down and use the metal to make plaques honoring populations that have historically been oppressed in
NC - African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, women, and LGBTQ citizens.
Angela Strain, M.D.

Chief, Division of Emergency Psychiatry
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry
Message
From: Hannah Haymore
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:15:23 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
I would like to voice my opinion that Silent Sam should not be reinstalled. History is important, but building a
monument to racism is not the way to ensure we remember our history. I think it would be a mistake to put
Silent Sam back on a pedestal. You are sending a message that racism is more important than the safety and
comfort of your students. It is truly appalling to see how ready people are to defend confederate monuments. If
the people who say remembering history is important, then why not build a monument to someone who helped
slaves during the war? Or maybe even a memorial to the slaves that lost their lives, freedom, and family at the
hands of confederates?
Regardless of the point of telling our history, it is impossible to ignore the fact that symbols of the confederacy
are used by racist people and organizations in an effort to spread fear, hate, and white supremacy.
Thank you for reading,
Hannah Haymore
Message
From: Tony Gordon
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:19:24 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Ms. Falt ..... I would suggest Silent Same should be used as a teaching legacy as the Jewish world has protected the
concentration camps so the world would "never forget". Giving in to a minority of ignorance to remove a statue
supports re-writing history and actually counter-productive to what those that find fault with the statue. At the very
least, "appeasement" has never been a productive course of action by any leadership. It is a failed path that again,
history teaches.
On the more superficial side. If it is decided to move or remove the statue, that action would leave no defensible
position to retain the "Tarheel" logo. At that point, [any] name or symbol associated with the Confederacy should be
eliminated on the UNC campus. It would be the height of hypocrisy to be selectively politically correct.
Tony Gordon
Message
From: Jay Bradley
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:21:43 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
As the father of two daughters who graduated from UNC and as an active UNC supporter, I wish to have Silent
Sam returned to the place on the UNC campus where he stood for decades. Silent Sam represents the young
men who lost their lives in a war that most fought not because they or their families owned slaves, but to defend
North Carolina. Must all history be rewritten to satisfy those who have no respect for the past?
Julius R. Bradley
Moncure, NC
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From: Xiong, Yue [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: One idea
How about putting Michael Jordon's statue to where the Silent Sam was?
Yue Xiong, Ph.D.

Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
22-012 Lineberger Building, CB# 7295
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:27:57 AM
Subject: As a parent ...
I have been concerned three times this fall as news of demonstrations filtered out - when the statue came down and
then in subsequent weeks, that the possibility of demonstrations surrounding where the statue had been - all
demonstrations from people who are not part of the university community trying to identify a place to demonstrate. As
a graduate of the University of Virginia, I know the impact of such gatherings and I have felt fear for and
other students at UNC. Respectfully, I suggest that the monument be placed in a Confederate museum with other
artifacts from the Civil War. Hopefully, it will no longer serve as a gathering space for people not associated with the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Message
From: Christopher Deschene
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:31:09 AM
Subject: James Cates and the monument
No matter what spin you put on a confederate statue, it brings nothing but shame and continues the cycles
of racism in an otherwise superior university. My 3 children have all attended UNC and I will always be
grateful for their experience. One of my children is a person of color and I currently fear for her
safety at times, in the university and in this country.
But the kind of murder that happened to James Cates and the fact that the murderers were acquitted, is
unconscionable and is just a source of shame.
Just like Robert E Lee, who kept the war going and was on the side of enslaving human beings to other
human beings because they had more melatonin in their skin, is abhorrent.
If only to be a beacon of hope in this otherwise shameful, racist period in America, UNC should lead,
like it has always done, for equality, and justice, rather than making politics and money the only thing
that matters to anyone now.
Someone must speak for those that have been murdered and are currently being abused in this country, let
it be UNC!
Chris Deschene
Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:35:58 AM
Subject: Confederate Monumment
Simply but long lasting quote:

"Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it." Not sure who said it but it's the same as
destroyin g Christian churches in muslim countries. We have a right to preserve our heritage and it's a
blow to freedom to try an d destroy it.
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UNC Dad
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Message
From: Willliam D. Renton
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:36:05 AM
Subject: Ideas about the future of Silent Sam and all other monuments/memorials
We can't selectively erase the parts of our history that we don't like. Certainly, there are people out there trying to do
just that. I think Sam goes back up on the pedestal, or conversely, all memorials, monuments, statuary and artwork
around the campus be removed. I'm fine with either. The fact that the university can't afford a phantom security force
to "guard" Silent Sam means that the only solution is to put together a plan to methodically remove all figurative
representations from campus over the next 5-10 years.
On a related note - those responsible should not only be prosecuted but civil action should be taken against them as
well to fully reimburse the university for the costs related to the security and destruction of the monument.
William Renton
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Message
From: Walter Harris
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:36:46 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Disposition
Return it to its prior-to-being-toppled location. Fence it off and put up educational signs that explain its history
and why it is seen by some as controversial. Do not fall prey to the radical's tactics -- you are being
manipulated.
Rules for Radicals (by Saul D. Alinsky "Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals - 1971
book)
• "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
• "Never go outside the expertise of your people."
• "Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy."
• "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
• "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon."
• "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
• "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag."
• "Keep the pressure on."
• "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
• "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant
pressure upon the opposition."
• "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside"
• "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
• "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."
Message
From: Christine Harradine
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:37:17 AM
Subject: Idea for relocation of Silent Sam
I appreciate the opportunity to share ideas on the relocation of the statue . Silent Sam should be placed in the cemetery
near the Paul Green Theater. This would be an appropriate location for several reasons:
1. It is not the at front door of the flagship university of our state, where it provides a divisive and painful reminder of
hatred and lack of inclusivity. The statue cannot be allowed to remain in such a prominent place.
2. Placing it in the cemetery yields it accessible to all who wish to visit it, as it is a public, outdoor space .
3. The statue was originally installed as an honor to the fallen young men who were called to war. A cemetery is just
such a location. An additional monument representing the honor of the enslaved must be placed with Silent Sam. Plenty
of context in permanent sign age must surround both statues .
4. Placing Silent Sam in the cemetery adds an additional symbolic message that the hatred many people feel the statue
represents is being buried now.
Thank you for considering.

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From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:37:26 AM
To: UNC M onument [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: Silent Sam - please consider this.
Honestly, I have really tried to see both sides of this story.
On one side we have brave young students (some of whom paid the ultimate
price) gave up their schooling to go fight for what they thought was a
noble cause.
On the other side, that dedication in 1913 was horrendous and certainly
not welcoming of our African American brothers and sisters who should feel
VERY welcomed at this public university.
I am married to an alumnus of UNC-CH, and I co-own a business she

founded. I have one son who graduated from UN C-CH in 2015 and a REDACTED
who plans to graduate in 2021. I am grateful to what the university has
done for our family but also how they represent the state and the people
of this state. It would be tragic in my mind to put Silent Sam back on a
pedestal where he would continue to intimidate certain people and make
them feel unwelcome.
My suggestion would be to place the statue in a museum with the full

context of
- the representation of the students who went off to fight in the Civil
war placing schooling on hold (and halting it for those who never
returned)
- the very racist dedication (the speech should be included in the
display)
- the removal of the statue by protestors (pictures and video coverage of
this could be part of the display as well)
- the history (never to be forgotten) of these viewpoints preserved (in
the museum) for folks to read about 100 years from now.
Thanks for taking input on this. I hope that a civil discourse will
follow and that the best solution representing all sides is decided upon.
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Message
From: Dennis Fink
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:38:09 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Staute
Following is my suggestion with what to do with the Silent Sam statue. First of all I believe that the entire
situation could have been prevented had it been handled in a more responsible manner by the authorities.
Second, I resent using the Charlottesville incident in Virginia as a reason for why it happened at Chapel Hill.
That's pretty petty and lame in my opinion. Let the dead rest in peace.
My suggestion on how to handle Silent Sam:
1. The staute should be returned to it's original resting place in Chapel Hill.
2. A 12 foot electrically wired fence should be erected around the statue with warning signs that it is electrified
and you could be electrocuted.
3. If necessary place a smaller fence ahead of the electrical fence with warning signs on it as well.
4. Place survalence camera's on the statue to be monitored by campus security to catch any perpetrators.
Thank you for your time in this matter.
Sincerely,
Dennis Fink
Message
From: Matthew Arnold
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:40:19 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
As an employee ofUNC, I would prefer not to be represented by confederate monuments on campus. I am a

Southerner; my ancestors fought for the confederacy. That being said, I despise what the old South stood for. It
is completely disrespectful to our African-American students and colleagues to lionize anyone who fought for
slavery.
While I understand the safety concerns regarding the toppling of the monument, civil disobedience has played
an important role in our country's progression. The topplers did something important; I feel they should not be
charged. If anything, we should take pride that residents of the Triangle are taking these actions against a
mindset that, unfortunately, still exists today. I'll take right-minded vandals over neo-confederates any day.
Thank you for soliciting my opinion.
Matthew Arnold
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Subject: Silent Sam
I think the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh is the best pace for "Silent
Sam." They can put it in context without the extremism from either camp and
hopefully represent those of us who are somewhere in the middle.
Elena Elms
Chapel Hill NC
Message
From: Dixie Trading Co.
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:42:59 AM
Subject: Restore Silent Sam
Mrs. Folt,
It wasn't too long ago, that Americans had a clear understanding of what the Civil War was about.
Confederate memorials, names and symbols were all just a part of Southern Culture. This was humorously
displayed by the media in TV shows like the Dukes of Hazzard. Back then there was nothing offensive nor
controversial about it, but over the past 30 years or so, we've had extremist groups from both the left and the
right that have skewed public opinion of these symbols, monuments & names that were put into place to honor
these early Americans.
Hate groups like the Neo-Nazis, the KKK and sick individuals like Dylann Roof have re-imagined what the
Confederacy was all about. Other groups on the left, such as the NACCP and ANTIF A have supported them in
their historical revisionism of the Confederacy. Both groups and all of the little fractions of like minded parties
have created a new historical narrative that the Confederate States of America was a white supremacist
government hell bent on keeping the negro in slavery and would fight to the death to preserve their way of life.
While there is some truth to that narrative, it's not the whole story of economics and politics that lead up to the
Civil War. It does not mention that slavery & white supremacy was not exclusive to the southern states. Those
people that want to destroy all things related to the Confederacy do so only out of ignorance. If they choose to
destroy them because they think they represent a government of white supremacy, then don't stop with all things
Confederate, lets destroy everything American connected with white supremacy, starting with George
Washington on up to LBJ.
Some people would say that Confederate symbols and monuments are flash points that ignite unrest. I would
say it is not the Confederate images but the lack of understanding, the lack of education, the unwillingness to
learn and understand true historical facts that causes people, like the mob that destroyed Silent Sam, to act the
way that they do. These people have not taken the time to learn our American history and to judge those before
us within the context of their time in history and the culture in which they lived. Instead, they judge them by
todays standards or they gather what they think they know from groups like the Neo-Nazis or ANTIF A, who
have one sided, skewed historical narratives that spark the violence. It is truly not the monument that sparks the
violence but it is the ignorance that sparks the violence. This is where educational facilities across the country
should facilitate the whole story of our nations history and explain facts like, white supremacy and slavery was
not excusive to the south and did not start in 1861. They should teach our history based on a point of view from
both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. If these violent protesters really understood our American history in its full
context, they would see things from a different point of view. They would also understand that a war memorial
or monument does not honor the cause of the war, nor the politics that motivated it, but simply the lives that
were sacrificed within the conflict. I do not support our involvement in Vietnam. I do not support the selfish
politicians that prolonged and escalated the needless blood shed of 58,200 Americans, but I am not going off to
desecrate a Vietnam monument which honors those that died in that conflict.
Here's my thoughts summarized ...
• Restore & preserve Silent Sam for future generations.

• Allow Confederate names, symbols & monuments to be a flash point to ignite education not violence.
Message
From: tonydubois
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:43:05 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Move it to Raleigh
Museum of history would be a good idea because it is a part of history.
Tony
Message
From: Linda Butler
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:43:40 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
as a member of the UNC Friends of the Library Board, I am in agreement with not placing silent Sam at
Wilson Library-the library is not a museum and is not the mission of the library, plus it seems like huge
liability issues. Placing silent Sam in a Carolina Museum, in a building such as old Playmakers or a
floor that is not getting much use, would be a more appropriate and inclusive space for our Sam. I do
hope it stays on campus and so much wish it had not come down like it did.
Message
From: Greg Mondin I
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:46:26 AM
I believe the statue of Silent Sam should be left in place, and protected.
I see it as a part of UNC's Campus and have fond memories of my step-daughters attendance there where it is one of
many historic fixtures.
The very bullying of others that our Country fought so hard and long to rectify is now being sanctioned with these kinds
of illegal and violent behaviors.
Protest is patriotic, mob-rule is not. When I was in school this behavior was called vandalism.
I believe the statue can teach far more about our past and how far our country has come by remaining in place, perhaps
with additional context to remind people about this very progress ...
Thank you for allowing me to present my perspective.

Sincerely,
Greg J. Mondin
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To Whom it May Concern,
The confederate statue known as Silent Sam is not just a statue, it is a reminder of racism, violence, and
degradation inflicted upon people of color for hundreds of years (hard to deny that given the statue's dedication
speech). The Silent Sam statue should be destroyed or warehoused in perpetuity.
I advocate the destruction of Silent Sam; melt it down and make a statue that honors something or someone
positive in the African American community -- try to heal their wounds.
But I understand there are those who would have it back in it's original place, so, as a compromise, house it in a
museum if you must -- teach future generations how Silent Sam is a monument to racism, hate, and prejudice.
Just don't forget a plaque quoting the hate-filled speech that accompanied it's dedication.
Regards,
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UNC parent
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:49:06 AM
Subject: Find a museum for Si lent Sam
As a parent of a student at UNC and a Chapel Hill resident, Silent Sam belongs in a history museum and not at a public
university open space.
Thanks,
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From: Ross, Marnie Elizabeth [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/25/2018 10:49:29 AM
Subject: the Confederate Monument's "disposition and preservation"
Good morning,
I personally would not care if this monument was melted down and made into something useful.
It is a symbol of a traitorous war to keep slavery legal, and should be an afront to anyone who believes that all humans
are equal, and that enslaving living beings is morally repugnant.
However, If you must preserve this for historical purposes, than donate it to a museum that has pieces of other Civil War
era artifacts, and put it in context.
It should not be in public space.
Sincerely,
Marnie Ross
Message
From: Steven Rogelberg [sgrogelb@uncc.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:49:54 AM
Subject: Fwd: ANNOUNCEMENT from UNC: Message from the Chancellor - September 24, 2018
The monument is an important part ofUNC history. Consider putting it (or a representation of it) in a building
and put an exhibit around it. In other words, treat it as an artifact of a past time. Talk about it. Learn about it.
Learn from it. Have students visit it, etc. But, it should never be put back. If you put it back, that is an explicit
sign that UNC is a racist institution.

From: UNC Family Experience <families@,unc.edu>
Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:45 AfvI
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT from UNC: Message from the Chancellor - September 24, 2018
To: steven rogelberg <sgrogelb@uncc.edu>
= As you likely are aware, recently the UNC System

Board of Governors gave the UNC-Chape! Hill Board
of Trustees and me a clear path to develop a for
the Confederate Monument's "disposition and
preservation." We have been asked to present our
plan to UNC System President Margaret Spellings and
the Board of Governors by November 15, 2018.
! know that many in our community and beyond fee!

passionately about the monument As a next step, we
have created a dedicated email address,
about the statue's future. While we will not be able to
provide individual responses, we will carefully review
and consider al! ideas as we prepare a plan to present
to the Board of Governors in November. Please note
that ail email submissions will be subject to disclosure
under North Carolina's public records law.
Thank you in advance for your input on this important

topic that will help shape the future of Carolina.
Sincerely,
Chancellor Carol L Folt and the UNC-Chape! Hill

Board of Trustees
This message is sponsored by: Office of the

Chancellor
Steven G. Rogelberg, PhD

Chancellor's Professor
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Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:49:56 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear all,
As a faculty member in the UNC system, a naturalized US citizen, a person born in Germany and keenly aware of the Nazi
past of my birth country, and the mother of a freshman enrolled at UNC-Chapel Hill, I suggest:
At the place of Silent Sam's monument, place an open structure that invites contemplation of the contemporary wounds
caused by the legacy of the Civil War. Not a monument to war, not a reminder for peace, but an invitation to stay open
to dialogue with those deemed as Others, to engage in actions that deconstruct the racial and ethnic barriers erected by
unfinished history, and to contradict those who wish us apart.
A starting point may be the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin: although it is much bigger than the
space available to you, its design invites a variety of interpretations that allow the visitors to respond individually to the
site, whether they be opponents or proponents of the meanings embodied by Silent Sam.
Sincerely,
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Message
From: Stephanie McGarrah
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:50:29 AM
Subject: Suggestion for Silent Sam
As an alumna and former lecturer at UNC-CH, I have watched and participated in the Silent Sam debate on
campus over several decades from different perspectives. While I agree that Silent Sam has some historical
value to the University, it also understandably offends many people because it glorifies slavery and
racism. Although it's not discussed as often, I think the more commonly understood meaning of the statue's
nickname among students - that no virgin female has ever walked by Sam on campus - also creates some
uncomfortable implications that women in Chapel Hill are and should be sexually promiscuous. I think UNC-
CH should consider the kind of messages the statue and its nickname send to students, faculty, staff, alumni and
visitors.
I think that the University should move the pedestal to the university cemetery to commemorate the students
who fought and died in the Civil War and the statue to a glass case in the North Carolina Collection in Wilson
Library with the appropriate documentation about the statue and its past. Then, the University should invest in
a new monument or work of art to grace McCorkle Place that recognizes the best of what our University has
been and can be.
Respectful 1y,
Stephanie McGarrah
Class of 1996
Lecturer in Public Policy, 2013-14
Message
From: Crotts
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:50:31 AM
Subject: get rid of the statue already
It's not that big a deal. Just get rid of it. It's a thing some racist people had made so they could remind future
generations how important it is to be racist. Silent Sam is a reminder of a terrible time in our history, a time
when we fought a war to preserve our right to torture, rape, and murder our fellow human beings. Slavery
and the Civil War shaped the racial politics of our state so profoundly that we may never escape their shadow.
Taking down public art that glorifies our disgraceful past is the literal least we can do.
In conclusion, throw the statue in a dumpster.
Thank you,
Sarah Crotts
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From: Jones, Keil Dash [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Stop spending university and public money preserving this racist object. I am both an alumni and a current
employee, and it is shameful how the university has failed to act, other than preserving the status quo of
prominently displaying a symbol of white supremacy. And now you're going to spend more time, resources,
and money on this bygone and insulting statue? Are there any leaders at all at this university with backbone
enough to act on the side of victims of white supremacy instead of cowing to some mythologized and
whitewashed history
Keil Jones, Applications Specialist Programmer

FPG Child Development Institute - UNC-Chapel Hill
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Message
From: Bruce Santhuff I
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:51:19 AM
Subject: monumental ideas
Please melt it down and build a statue dedicated to the victims of American slavery.
Thank you,
Bruce
Bruce Santhuff
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:51:58 AM
Subject: Monument Opionion
History should never be forgotten. That being said certain history should not be celebrated. Based on the story
of how and why Silent Sam came to be at UNC, I believe the statue and the story should be placed in a position
of less prominence in or around campus. Let visitors to UN C's historic campus read about why the statue was
created, who placed it in its original spot and what the connotations of that day and time truly meant to the
people of North Carolina. But then also let them read about this time, in 2018, when the students and people of
N.C. and UNC decided that now was the time to stop celebrating the past that divided us and move Silent Sam
to a place where he is not forgotten but is recognized for what he was meant to be. Destroying him isn't the
answer because we can't erase what happened then or the decades of time since, but we can tell the truth about
that time and recognize the hatred that went in to his creation. History is meant to teach us how to be better
today. Let Silent Sam do his part in that lesson.
Sincerely,
Proud Parent of a member of the Class of 2019

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From: Goldstein, Bob [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/25/2018 10:52:13 AM
Subject: relocating the Confederate Monument to a museum
To Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees,
I urge you to present in November the strongest possible case for relocating the Confederate Monument to a museum . I
have taught at the university for 19 years, and I have a deep love for the state of North Carolina and for this university. It
has long pained me to think of students of diverse backgrounds having to pass by the monument while walking to classes .
And that pain has only intensified as confederate statues have become rallying points for white supremacists.
As is now well known to many, at the 1913 unveiling of the Confederate Monument, Julian Carr announced that near the
site of the monument, "I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this
quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady .... "
Monuments glorify selected aspects of our shared history. And in the view of many reasonable people, monuments to the
Confederacy belong in museums, where their complex history can be appreciated in the rich context that they require.
Sincerely yours,
Bob Goldstein
James L. Peacock Ill Distinguished Professor
Message
From: Thomas Hassell
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:52:28 AM
Subject: Remove the monument
Please use this moment to remove the statue. I don't care how the apologists spin it; it's not about heritage,
states rights or any of the other excuses they have concocted. It's a monument to one man's desire to
own another man.
It was wrong then and it's wrong now. Do the right thing and remove the statue!
Thomas S. Hassell
Class of '67
Message
From: K. B. Ross
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:57:31 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I have struggled over the removal of Confederate statues.
At first, I thought they should be removed.

But then I remembered how ancient Egyptians removed evidence of past rulers.
Also, in the present-day Middle East, evidence of some cultures is being erased.
I suspect there are other examples, as well.
If/when Confederate statues are moved/re-erected, I feel they should have a plaque added that states the
facts about them.
Facts and only facts.
Not judgements.
Let people make those for themselves.
Let's not erase history.

Let's put a light on it.
K. Ross
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:59:15 AM
I was born in NC, live in Greensboro and love being a southerner!! My is currently enrolled at UNC
and our whole family couldn't be prouder of both him and the school.
There is only one thing to do with the statue, turn it into gravel or scrap metal or whatever. There is
no place on campus or in MY State where a statue that represents hate, bigotry, small minded, scared
thinking, oppression and cruelty should reside. It needs to be destroyed. We need to remember our hateful
past, learn from it so we may never repeat it, but we most definitely do not need to honor it.
Message
From: dan
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:00:31 AM
Subject: Sam
Put it back where it was located and arrest the people next time. The police should have never stood by
and and allowed the vandalism to happen. A lot of us wonder who instructed them to stand down. Political
correctness is tearing this country apart. Ideology seems to have replaced many people's intelligence
and common sense. Dan Batten '64
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From: John Davidson [jcdavidson@parmco.com]
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:02:17 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam
I commend you for setting up this website. While I am not in favor of the Silent Sam statue, I am more opposed
to "mob rule". I don't like that lawlessness is being rewarded with the removal of the statue.
My preference would be to return the statue to someplace on campus and have it sit upon a base which is a
monument to free speech. The base could make a statement that while not all may agree upon what the statue
above represents, it is our history, and will remain in this place until such time as it is lawfully removed or
relocated.
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Message
From: johane hirschfield
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:04:05 AM
Subject: Monument in Museum
I suggest we put Silent Sam in a museum.
Johane Hirschfield
Message
From: danaakerr
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:05:08 AM
Subject: Ideas
Dear chancellor Folt and UNC Board of Trustees,

Taking this opportunity to combine historical remembrances-although, some controversial- and future
understanding is often a way of healing.
This is the time to combine all of the controversial statues ( Stalin, silent Sam, etc.) in t o a
reflection garden of sorts. History can not be changed and causes hurt, nor should we act as thoug h it
never happened. The best lessons use history as a stepping stone for growth and learning from mistakes.
By having multiple statues in one area, a garden, we could see just how far we've come and how much
further we have to go. Additionally, having all of these works of art corralled would also provide ease
on security. The art wou l d be pr otected. The window of lea r ning could be opened.
Maybe there could even be other additions to the garden like a piece representing hope and peace. Study
areas for professors and students to have necessary dialogues. Plaques asking the why & how to grow
questions with brief descriptions of the past. The additions would be endless.
There is a solution to this issue.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Dana Kerr
Sent from my iPhone
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From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:05:48 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
All three of our kids are Tarheels, two still there. sil ent Sam bel ongs to history- an ugl y part- he
belongs in a museum. what does it say to the African American students who attend the school- especially
with the recent events and perhaps new knowledge that it really was erected to poke a nasty finger in
their eyes. The story of the dedication is now everywhere- the man bragging about beating an emancipated
woman- because he coul d. It is SHAMEFUL. Put it to rest.
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From: Stuart Krantz
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:06:49 AM
In order to recognize the pain that the reasons behind the Confederacy caused to many people's of our country,
put the monument in a Confederate History Museum.
Let's just all try to get along.
For the good of our country.
Stuart Krantz
Message
From: dianne miller
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:08:43 AM
Subject: Silent Sam needs to be placed back where he was rip down from . There no other options . This resplendent the
young men who went to UNC during this era and fought in this war.
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Message
From: karen bessey
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:08:51 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think the statue should reside in the NC Museum of History in Raleigh, perhaps in the section called Meet the Statues . It
should be displayed in a setting where its historical context can be explained. It no longer needs to be a free-standing
statue on the grounds of the UNC campus because it does not symbolize the welcoming environment UNC promotes .
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Karen Bessey
Message
From: Spoma Jovanovic
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:13:19 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thank yo for sol i citing input on where Silent Sam should be relocated .... off the campus is my vote, in some
historical museum maybe, but I'm not sure it's even deceiving of that considering its history, based on
propaganda and manipulation of our elected leaders.
Spoma Jovanovic
Greensboro, NC
Message
From: Gene Womble
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:13:40 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I would like to see lJNC's Confederate Monument, Silent Sam, reinstalled

in its former location abiding by the 2015 state law preventing altering or
moving historic monun1ents. Is it not possible to enclosed it in a clear
product that \vould be tamper proof and ,vith a camera? Any one that
chose to demolish it would be arrested and subjected to the fullest extent
of the law, otherwise the vandals are being revvarded for their criminal
behavior!
Sincerely,
Gene Womble
Message
From: BRIANN PARSON-BARNES
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:14:24 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thank you so much for asking for input.

Anytime something causes such discord and pain for others, maybe it should be placed in a museum or a less
prominent area. You can put a plaque up that says "THIS PLACE REPRESENTS THE FACT THAT
EVERYONE IS IMPORTANT AND EVERY VOICE IS HEARD". That doesn't mean that we agree or
disagree, only that we hear.
We teach our children to be kind to others and try not to be offensive. Ifwe offend intentionally or
unintentionally, we have to be cognizant of others feelings. Though some people like that statue because of its
historical relevance, it is highly offensive to those who struggle daily with overt and covert racism. We can
never understand another's struggle until we walk in their shoes, but when they tell us that it hurts, we have an
obligation to stop hurting!!!
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From: Starmer, Josh [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Sent: 9/25/2018 11:14:58 AM
Subject: silent sam
Dear carol Folt et al.

Please put silent Sam in a museum where it can be considered a relic - perhaps as part of the Carolina
Hall Exhibit or something along those lines.
Josh Starmer
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:16:07 AM
Subject: Idea
Sorry for the short email. Going straight to the point: the one thing you must NOT do is keep a confederate monument
on campus. No dangerous protests, unwanted attention, cleaning cost or policing cost, are worth it. The only place that
can display it without evoking emotions and attracting the wrong crowds is a museum. It can go there along with all its
history, good and bad.
Donate it!
UNC Parent
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From: Katie Matthews
Sent: 9/25/2018 11: 17:40 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Civil Wa r Monument idea
What about the Raleigh Durham Airport?
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From: Sara Dyson
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:17:51 AM
Please keep Silent Sam on campus as we should stop trying to change history. The Germans are not proud of Hitler but
he is not a solidary symbol of the history of Deutsch land. Just as a monument doesn't tell the complete story of the
many persons who willingly fought in this war or others.
Sara Dyson
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From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:18:30 AM
To Whom it May Concern,
I would like to share my opinion as to the future of Silent Sam. I would like to suggest moving Silent Sam into
an appropriate building and encase him in a display case or put the statue behind glass. As a parent of students
who attend UNC-CH, I have general knowledge as to the layout of the campus so I cannot really suggest which
building since I am not familiar with all of them.
Also, please make a new plaque and rededicate the statue to symbolize all students who live or have lived in
North Carolina especially those who attended UNC-CH who had enlisted and fought for our country in all wars.
We are grateful for their service and for their love of our country. Because of their unselfish sacrifice,
generations are able to pursue an education.
Thank you for considering my opinion.
Sincerely,
Message
From: Rick Statile
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:19:24 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Placement Ideas
Chancellor Falt and Board of Trustees,
I'd suggest donating the statue to the Orange County Historical Museum
https://orangenchistory.org
Or place it at Bennett State Historical Site

https://www.battlefields.org/visiUheritage-sites/bennett-place-state-h istoric-site
Best of luck on this difficult subject.
Rick Statile
UNC Undergrad - 1994
UNC JD -1997
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:23:10 AM
Subject: Monument suggestion from UNC parent
To committee members:
As a parent of 2 UNC students, I would like the statue to remain removed from campus, where it served as a
negative reminder of some or our state (and nations) divisive history.
However, Silent Sam is a valid part of both the State of NC and UNC heritage. He should be placed in a
museum for viewing within the proper context. Perhaps donated to the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh or placed
in the Ackland Art Museum on campus.
Respectfully Submitted,
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:24:27 AM
Subject: Silent Sam idea
My understanding of the statue was to remember the students that left school to fight in a war. I
suggest creating more statues in a line starting with the silent Sam then WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and
what ever we want to call the current issues in the middle east that has been happening since 9/11
We need to remember that our kids are leaving school to fight for our country. This will never end
My son put off college to serve. He gets out in March, some don't make it out
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PS Leave room for future statues, hell to make a point, build more bases and leave them empty
Message
From: Dennis Draper
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:28:57 AM
Subject: UNC Monument Placement
I vote to have the monument taken off site. Where ever it might be displayed it should be noted it was donated
by a white supremacists group and the racist connotations.
We do not want UNC labeled by the rest of the country as a racist southern university. We'll lose some of our
best applicants if the university insists the monument be put back.
Message
From: Mary Basnight
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:29:24 AM
Thanks for the opportunity to have input.

Would it be possible to have the monument returned to the Carboro man's family who was so instrumental in it's
construction and choice of locations? It could be placed on their private property and managed there.
Thanks
Mac
Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:29:25 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thank you for asking for input on this topic. As an alum ('84) and the father of a current student, I feel strongly that the
monument should not be put back at its former location. It is symbol that carries racial overtones, going back to its
dedication. Having it on display in a museum-type setting would be an acceptable option if done so in a context that
highlights lingering racial prejudice in the years following the Civil War, but not in a public display that would imply that
UNC endorses its message.
There's the opportunity to replace the statue with a new monument, and it would be appropriate to commemorate
someone who is embraced by the university community and made strides towards racial progress. Perhaps a statue of
Dean Smith and Charlie Scott would be that.
We have grown as a university and now need to look to a positive, inclusive future. Publicly displaying Silent Sam should
not be part of that future.
Sincerely,
REDACTED
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:30:45 AM
Subject: please put in a museum
Please put Confederate monuments in a museum with a plaque that can fully provide the historical context that led to
the creation of the monuments in the first place.
Message
From: Mary Klaff
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:31:02 AM
Subject: Idea for Confederate Statue
Greetings-
Let's put silent Sam to valuable educational use. I believe the statue should return to Mccorkle Place
along with permanent plaques and inscriptions placed alongside that describe the issues we face today
regarding confederate representations in public and why the monument has become so controversial.
showing all sides of the issue will make the monument relevant and available for people to learn and
understand the difficult history.
Mary Hooper Klaff
UNC class of 1987
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From: Ward, Joseph T (Joey)
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:31:28 AM
CC: El la Gil li am [ellagil liam@gmail.com]
Subject: Melt Si lent Sam and use the Bronze for a statue of Julius Chambers. Fitting and appropriate!
Julius Chambers 1959-1962
Lawyer and lifetime civil rights advocate Julius L. Chambers graduated from UNC School of Law in i 962. During his
time at UNC, he was selected as the first African-American editor-in-chief of The North Carolina Law Review and
graduated first in his class. During his long career as a civil rights attorney, he won many landmark cases including
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, which instituted a system to bus-in students of color from
distant neighborhoods to integrate Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. Chambers later succeeded Thurgood Marshall
as president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Despite falling victim to
bombings and incredible racial opposition, Chambers did not stop fighting for civil rights until his death in 2013.
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Message
From: Lori Fussa
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:33:34 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I'm not sure where silent Sam should go, since monuments that have to do with racism have no place in our
society. However, I do think that you need to address the issue of "what should replace Silent Sam?"
Many people thought of silent Sam as representing racism, but many saw it as a symbol of our history,
representing UNC students who went off and fought in the civil war. Why not make a monument that
represents all the students from the past and present who have fought in any war? Wars from the past all
the way to the present time. A nice water feature like a pond with a fountain in that courtyard would be
a pretty memorial. Nothing representing the Confederacy, just the United States as a whole, including
every war that has been fought which honors the UNC students who have played a role in those various
wars. A placard near the water feature would explain its significance while it also would serve as an
attractive focal point in the courtyard in the front of the school.
Thanks for opening up the discussion and listening to our opinions. -Lori Fussa
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From: O'Kane, Sam
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:34:10 AM
Subject: Move it to the Arboretum, thank you <end>
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From: MariaElena ruefle
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:35:16 AM
Subject: Monument
I think the monument should be preserved. I will not get into details, but I do believe that preservation is vital to
history and your institution.
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From: Haber, Noah [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =0b5e6ead72c7 45 7599309dcca07163fc-N oa h Haber]
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:36:57 AM
Subject: Disappointed at your response
I would like to express my disappointment and lack of faith in your office's abilities to make respectable
decisions in this regard. It took until protesters forcibly removed the statue for you to even acknowledge that the
origins of the statue were in 1913, 48 years after the civil war had ended, and that its very foundation was built
upon flagrant racism. As a university office, your primary task is the pursuit of truth and knowledge, and you
completely failed to do so. The "controversy" escalated predictably, and could have been resolved relatively
quietly had you and your office taken a knowledge-based approach to this issue.
Similarly, a knowledge-based approach to the placement of this statue is appropriate. Placing on display in a
museum, preferably face down, alongside an accurate historical description of the circumstances in which it was
built and then later pulled down, is perhaps the best response. Unfortunately, as expressed above, I am
somewhat doubtful of your office's abilities to make a respectable decision in this regard, though I would be
happy to be surprised. As such, a secondary option would involve donating the statue to a civil rights museum
for them to deal with appropriately.
I hope that your office takes its role as educators seriously this time around.
Best,
Noah Haber
Message
From: jack.redhead
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:37:02 AM
Subject: Silent Sam placement
I recommend silent Sam be placed in chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery on south Rd.
John ("Jack") Redhead
UNC 1990
Message
From: El lison, Marcia [mellison@liberty.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:37:34 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
First of all, thank you for giving people of Chapel Hill to speak up because not everyone is on the same side of protesters or a
racist.
I prefer the statue goes back where it belongs because no one has a right to tear down the statue. It is unnecessary to pay a large
amount of salary to protect the statue; therefore, there should be a large tall iron gate (some type of fencing) surrounding it.
No one has a right to damage the property, and I believe in punishment according to the law. There will be a building, a street,
or town that they want to change next. Where \vill it end?
Sincerely,
Marcia Ellison
Message
From: Kevin Schultz [kevinls@us.ibm.com]
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:38:13 AM
Subject: Confederate Monument's "d isposition and preservation."
Thank you for taking this on, the faster the better. I believe the monument should be removed from campus
immediately, as it really is a reminder of a racist past. That said, it is a part of history and can only be learned from if
it is in a place that facilitates learning the whole of the story. I think it should be moved to NC Museum of History
and become part of "The Story of North Carolina", the good and the bad - where context for it can be explained with
all transparency and reasons for it not being appropriate as a centerpiece of a modern university can be thoroughly
explained as well.
Sooner or later it will be damaged or worse, will insite an event where harm will come to someone and that cannot
be, especially with the school knowing this already and sending out warnings that violence is likely - that is not
sustainable nor wise nor acceptable of a system that values the future, safety and welfare of NC and the world.
Thank you,
kevin
Monument's "disposition and preservation." We have been asked to present our plan to
UNC System President Margaret Spellings and the Board of Governors by November 15,
2018.
Carolina.
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Message
From: Prinny Anderson
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:40:40 AM
Subject: What to do with Silent Sam
Thank you for soliciting public input on what to do with the statue known as Silent Sam.
However, it is my understanding that UNC and other NC government entities have been receiving commentary and
recommendations for many years. It appears that the problem isn't *what* to do, it's to have the will and the courage
and the political power to actually *do* something.
That said, my first comment is that the university needs to have a public forum with the other entities in state
government who make the decision on this matter, to discuss what those entities are actually willing to consider. Let's
be politically honest (an oxymoron perhaps?) and realistic - don't get your constituents' hopes up that UNC will do
something if it can't and will be obstructed from other directions. But remind the politicians and bureaucrats that
there's an election going on this year and there will be more elections soon.
Second, assuming that UNC actually can take action, my recommendation is that the statue be placed elsewhere on
campus, as part of an installation that tells the story of the university and its connections to slavery and slave ownership.
Let the statue be part of telling the truth about NC, Chapel Hill, and the university. Let the statue be part of expressing
the changing views of slavery, the Civil War, and civil rights among the powers that be and in the surrounding
communities. Let the statue be a place where those who have been oppressed and harmed by what it stands for and the
people who erected and supported it can speak out about the oppression and the harm.
Thank you,
Virginia Anderson
Message
From: Giana
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:42:34 AM
Subject: Location Options
Places that honor students who have passed:

UNC Memorial Grove
Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
Places that honor past students that could provide greater historical context:
UNC Visitor's Center
UNC Alumni Assoc
Ackland Art Museum
Places that honor current, future, and past service members with UNC connection:
UNC ROTC units
I'm disappointed that you couldn't come up with a list on your own. I'm disappointed that you wouldn't
consider any of these locations to be of equal or greater places of prominence - it speaks more to your
interpretation of who is important in and around your campus than anything else.
Message
From: midjohnston@northstatesales.com [midjohnston@northstatesales.com]
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:43:17 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam
The Silent Sam Confederate Monument should be replaced where it has stood since 1913. The UNC Board of
Governors can not reinforce the destructive and illegal actions of a few individuals by not doing so.
I recognize the fact that it is controversial and offensive to some. If at some point the UNC Board of Governors
vote to remove the confederate monument, that is understandable. However, you can not allow "mob rules"
mentality to exist on campus.
Mid Johnston
North State Sales Co.
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Greensboro, NC 27429
"The Tractor Weight People"

Message
From: Gene Costa
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:43:46 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor Carol L Folt and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees:
During the past three years my wife and I have visited the site of Silent Sam after learning that it is a
monument to honor those UNC students who fought in the Civil War. We have been at the site when
there were protestors and again during Thanksgiving break when the protestors were gone. We find it
unfortunate that the words of Mr. Carr used at the dedication of the statue obfuscate the original
purpose of Silent Sam.
Around our great nation there are many statues and memorials to those men and women who have
fought in wars. Most of those statues are national, state, county, or town memorials. What makes
Silent Sam unique is that it represents students who left their studies to become soldiers, some,
never to return to UNC.
We do agree with the protestors that the words of Mr. Carr spoken publicly at the dedication
ceremony were despicable. Notably, we have not heard their cries and protests to change the name
of Carrboro. Therefore, if Silent Sam is not to stand where he has for over a hundred years, perhaps
he should stand guard at the entrance to the history department with a plaque to honor all UNC
students who have died fighting the wars of our country to date.
Gene and Jane Costa
Califon, New Jersey

Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:45:02 AM
Subject: What to do with Silent Sam?
Dear Chancellor Falt and the UNC Board of Trustees:
I appreciate the opportunity to comment and contribute regarding the future of Silent Sam.
I believe strongly that there's no place for the public display of the statue on the campus ofUNC, Chapel Hill,
or any other university campus for that matter, especially considering its clearly racist and divisive intentions
when it was originally erected.
Perhaps there's a museum it could be kept in as a piece of United States history where it might be appropriately
contextualized and described. I understand the arguments of history and heritage that some folks are using to try
to keep the statue where it is, but in this case they simply don't hold water. The statue is no longer an
appropriate representation of the values of the University or its community (I'm pretty sure it never was). It's no
longer an appropriate representation of the values of any right minded US citizen, southern or otherwise (I'm
pretty sure it never was).
I appreciate UNC immensely. As a career educator and the father of a current senior, I'm thankful for the
thoughtful process you've undertaken. I'm thankful for the work the university does with its students every day.
To that end, and in the name of what's fundamentally right, the statue needs to be removed.
Sincerely,
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:46:05 AM
Subject: statue
I am deeply saddened that the few violent protesters take precedence over the many historians and
general public who have enjoyed and understand this statues presence at UNC for many
years. Have we become a nation that surcombs to violent offenders? Is there no one who stands up
for the rites of the people? Would you move your campus because someone was offended by your
presence? Is this what you are teaching the young adults that attend the college you represent, that
to cower and give in to people who violently break the law is acceptable, in stead of obeying the
law? For a college of Law you certainly, shamefully, disrespect the laws of our country. While my
child attends UNC, we find ourselves constantly having to discuss the irradicle acceptance by UNC
vs. other colleges who do not allow such abhorent behavior. It is obvious the peoples voice does not
matter in the placement of the statue, because you are taking the opinion of radicals over the law.
The statue needs to be put back where it has been for years and the offenders need to be
prosecuted . You will do as you wish to support the illegal behavior of violence so I will say seek those
violent offenders for support and donations.
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:46:24 AM
Subject: Suggestion for Silent Sam Statue
I am a Durham resident and my is a sophomore at UNC Chapel Hill. While I agree with the
statement that the statue represents an important part of North Carolina history and shouldn't be forgotten, public statues
are generally monuments to pay tribute & give honor to a person or a belief.. I think a more appropriate place would be in
a museum where the context and history can be explained and understood as a part of the evolution of race relations in
North Carolina instead of as a stand alone tribute to a racist ideology from the past.
Message
From: Scott, John [john.scott@gilbarco.com]
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:46:36 AM
This is North Carolina history.

Keep the monument in its original location .
John Scott
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From: Frances Furr I
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:48:42 AM
Subject: The monument
Hello,
I hope that it will be accessible if you wish to see the statue but no longer have to see in such a prominent
spot. It should be a choice to see. Move the statue and put a plaque explaining the context to why it was moved
to the new location to create that conversation. I don't believe that history can or should be wiped away. But as
often as we can revisit and reflect and create consecutive dialogue from the we learn. For those wishing to
engage in the past and learn from history it should be there. The University should stand for learning.
Frances Robicsek Furr '90 Art history

Message
From: tony burleson
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:50:09 AM
Please, put Sam back up and leave him alone. He was there before you and he neebs to stay. Put feance around
him so the haters can't take him down again. This statue is about our history, only commies tear down statues of
a country.
Message
From: Wendy Waugh
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:50:38 AM
Subject: silent sam
The Confederacy was the definition of anti-America. Monuments to the Confederacy are anti-American and
unpatriotic. Confederate monuments may remain in public places if the anti-American and unpatriotic meaning of them
is made very clear. No tax money should be used to place, replace, or maintain them. Silent Sam may remain on the
UNC campus in a less prominent place if it is clearly shown to be a monument to anti-American history.
The Reverend Wendy R. Waugh

Hillsborough, NC
Message
From: Jay Strong
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:50:57 AM
Subject: Response
Statue to Alumni who died in the Civil War fighting for the Confederacy.
Put the statue back where it was. Put up a tablet explaining the context and difficult choices young Carolina
students made before, during and after the war. Put up other statues nearby to other students who fought in
1812, 1918, 1944, 1952, 1968, 1991, and 2005 for Lux Libertas.
Teach. Don't preach, reach, or bleach. The faculty or administration are not the "state." We are. Accept our
history, our frailty, and our weaknesses, however tainted and misdirected they were at times. What we are
today, this dialogue, is a product of that history.
This is not a proud chapter for many. It is a tragic tale of servitude, misdirected ideals of freedom (states'
rights), and the evolution of the United States. We are a great, incomplete experiment begun with a
commitment to protect individual freedom. The choices people made in 1861 are part of that experiment,
however tragic they might have been.
Finally, never yield to the mob. The mob scorns freedom. That is why they are a mob. Authoritarian states
always arise from such cleansing of history, institutions, and mores. First they topple the statues, eventually
they come for you.
Carol Folt, stand up, listen and show strength. "We the people" are not we the few who prefer chaos to get
what they want. If you yield, you lose what is good about UNC and the important lessons of the past mistakes
and choices made.
Lux libertas,
Jay N. Strong
UNC AB 1972
UNC MBA/JD 1976
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Message
From: Craig
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:53:57 AM
Subject: Silent Sam thoughts
Chancellor Folt,
Per your request of receiving feedback on Silent Sam, I felt compelled as a North Carolina citizen to provide my
honest feedback. I think the actions exhibited by the protestors was terrible and is not the way to go about
change. This State and the systems related to our state run under the laws of this state. At no time should that be
forgotten regardless of political belief or affiliation. As such, my thought are as follows.
I) The only course of action available to the University under the law of our State is to restore and protect the
memorial.
2) There is no authority at the University allowed to move it so that it can be re-contextualize or curate it with
modem-day lies about white supremacy. The law is plain oncthis. The decision lies with the Hisotrical
Commission NOT the UNC Chancellor or Board.
3) The University belongs to the people of North Carolina and NOT an extremist minority of paid activists. We
will not let them take over our state university system. Please end this madness and get back to the mission of
educating students.
Please follow the rule of law and do what is the correct and legal thing to do, put Sam back up where he is
supposed to be.
Thank you
Craig Pippen
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Message
From: Richard Cobb
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:54:53 AM
Subject: Silent Sam

I am a white male, age 76, a native North Carolinian and proud graduate of The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. I am not, and have never been a racist nor an extremist of any kind. I am a
conservative person who fully supports the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law.
Based upon my extensive study of the history of our country, I believe the principal basis of the war
between the states was economics and that the issue of slavery was secondary. I hasten to add that
all of my ancestors were from North Carolina and southern Virginia and none of them either owned
slaves or condoned the practice. Many of my ancestors did fight in the war between the states,
however, written family history documents the fact that they did not do so to defend the practice of
slavery.
Having said all of the above, I am writing you to support the restoration and conservation of the statue
we know as Silent Sam . That statue is not, in my opinion, in any way a symbol of racism or white
supremacy. It is purely a memorial to the brave men who voluntarily fought to defend their families,
their homes and their sovereign freedoms during a truly horrible period in the history of our country. I
urge you, your administration and the Board of Governors to restore the memorial at its historical
location and to protect it from any further illegal and unethical acts of vandalism .
Most respectfully yours,
Richard H. Cobb, BS, Class of 1965
Message
From: Michael Dallmeyer
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:56:11 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Sir o r Madame,
I urge you to not be swayed by the history deniers and race baiters to remove the memorial to the
Confederate soldiers located on the UNC campus. This activist movement seeks only to foment more divisive
race relations for their own benefit and to further their purpose of dividing the co untry. Many confederate
memorials in Missouri are under attack as well, and even Confederate soldier cemeteries are prohibited from
displaying the Confederate flag except on Memorial Day and Confederate Memorial Day when small flags are
allowed on graves. The fact that there were slave holders in the US cannot be denied and is part of our history,
which cannot and should not be rewritten.
Michael A. Dallmeyer
Carver & Michael, LLC
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Message
From: Jay Hayes
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:58:31 AM
Subject: Disposition of Si lent Sam
While I against moving the statue at all, I feel that the tide of change will not allow for the status quo to be
maintained. As the statue and base are a monument to students that have fallen in battle defending their beliefs
and country, I believe that the best location for the statue is in the University Cemetery. It should be
rededicated to all students lost in battle and not only confederates. A new dedication will erase the stain of the
original dedication.
Sincerely,
Jay Hayes '93

Message
From: Scott Sanner
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:58:59 AM
Hi.
Thank you for being open to thoughts and feedback on the monument.
My first recommendation would be disposal in an appropriate landfill or recycling of the materials if possible.
If disposal is not an option, then I would suggest the thing be placed at one of the state's battlefield
sites. Battlefield sites are useful for education and any monuments that recognize fighting seem best placed in
that sort of venue.
Thank you,
Scott G. Sanner
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From: Sweeney, John Matthew [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn= 79827e5a7394494d9c990ae3b842edc7-John M Swee]
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:59:23 AM
Subject: comm ission idea
In the place of Silent Sam on campus, commission a sculpture that captures the tension between present day beliefs
and the ones that dominated in the past. The sculpture doesn't resolve the tension but captures it in an artistic way.
Silent Sam is accepted respectfully by a museum.
--John Sweeney, faculty member

Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:00:30 PM
Subject: Silent Sam proposal
I proposed that the UNC Board of Trustees work with the Governor's office and establish a process by
which the statue can be given to another state park, specifically, one of the state's civil war
battlefields.
A short story - several years ago while working with Gov. Evan Bayh I got involved in a request to move a
congressman's papers that had been deposited to the Indiana State Library, who had poor archival
services, to the Ind. Historical Society, a private organization that had excellent archival services.
The Library balked at turning over any part of their collection, especially to a "rival: organization,
and claimed there was no statutory authority to do so.
However, we found that the State Library could turn over their property to the Ind. Dept. of Natural
Resources, who in turn had authority to turn it over to the Historical Society. so we created a paper
trail and the collection was moved. And I might add, archived and indexed.
Disclosure - the congressman was my grandfather, and I was the one who initiated the request. I worked
for Gov. Bayh at the time and had help navigating this with the governor's counsel.
so, while there might be statutory language preserving the stat ue , I suspect UNC has the ability to
convey property to the Dept. of Natural Resources, or whatever it is in NC, especially if it's done to
preserve and protect it. Ironical l y, I'm trying to preserve the statue I guess.
I hope this helps,
Message
From: Steve Trammell
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:01:19 PM
I urge you to return the statue honoring former UNC students who did their duty as they saw it to it's former and proper
location.
Although not a UNC graduate, I am a North Carolina citizen and on several levels a taxpayer. I graduated from East
Mecklenburg High School, have three children who graduated from South Mecklenburg High School. I have nieces,
nephews, daughters -in-law, friends, and co-workers who graduated from North Carolina high schools and UNC-Chapel
Hill. None of us either deny or are ashamed of our history. We certainly are not ashamed of either our ancestor's
struggles or their accomplishments. May the citizens of North Carolina continue to learn and build on our citizens
accomplishments and failures.
Sincerely,
H. S. Trammell
President
Livingstone Coating Corporation
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Mt. Holly, NC 28120
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Message
From: Jil I
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:02:06 PM
Subject: Where to place Silent Sam!
The original intent of the confederate statue, Silent Sam was designed and dedicated to honor the memory of all the
UNC Alums and Students who fought and gave their lives to the cause of the Civil War. The dedication speech of Julian
Carr at the Dedication of Silent Sam was tragic.
As with any war though, there are a multitude of motivations for those that fight: cause, defense of home, peer
pressure, family ties, economics, compulsion, etc. As Pulitzer Prize winning Princeton historian wrote" The Civil War
started because of uncompromising differences between free and slave states over the power of the national
government to prohibit slavery".
However it is simplistic and na"ive to view either the two million Union soldiers or the one million Confederate solders as
a hive mind. The average confederate solider was not risking his life to keep slaves in chain. There were men who
enlisted to defend their family livelihood but that was not a majority. Most studies state that less than one third of white
southern families owned one or more slaves. Most of the confederate soldiers came from the poorest families. Were
some of the confederate solders racist? Most likely. Some also may have had a conviction that owning people was
wrong, even though they may not have supported racial equality. It was truly a sad time in the history of our country.
Please consider finding a plot in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, a cemetery founded by the University, for Silent Sam. This
is where a memorial for those Tar Heels who died should be. A statue in memory of those students and alumni who
died during the Civil War, for whatever reason they had at that time period. A plaque should be added reading
something like the following:
"Silent Sam, a memorial to those UNC students and alumni who died during the Civil War, a time of great division in our
country which has lead us to this day to continue to work for justice and equality for all".
Jill Ridky-Blackburn, M.Ed, Ph.D

UNCAlum '85

Message
From: Roscoe Reeve
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:02:10 PM
Subject: Relocating Silent Sam
We agree that Silent Sam cannot be returned to his pedestal on the main entrance to campus. We believe he
should not be placed anywhere on campus, and his pedestal destroyed.
We believe the most relevant and respectful place for Sam would be at Bennett Place State Historic Park in
Durham where he can be placed in context to his meaning and to the place where a important historical event
occurred, the surrender of the last significant army of the Confederacy.
[ Perhaps if Sam is placed there the State would be willing to receive a statue of a Union soldier so that both can
reflect the service of ordinary men who served in the war, from farms and universities.]
Our alumni and our citizens, young and old, should experience these symbols, statues and monuments, as to
their full historical meanings in a place where history of that period occurred.
Respectfully yours, and thanks for asking for our input,
Mary Stuart Reeve, class of 61 Roscoe Reeve, Graduate work, School of Education and Sociology.
Chapel Hill residents since 58/65
Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:02:12 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I just read a story about Dr. Nora Dennis, an African-American alum of 2001. She wrote a letter demanding the
statue be taken down because "truth matters and facts still exist". That's interesting, because I would use the
same argument to demand restoration of the statue now. The truth is that the state of North Carolina seceded
from the Union. It was the last state to do so, and did so largely to avoid having to fight the southern states
that surrounded it. There was no great outcry to defend slavery, and the presence of the statue is not a
statement in support of slavery. It is a memorial to the 321 young men, also UNC alums, who fought and died
for their state. It is also a fact that 90% of Confederate soldiers did not come from slave-owning families. It is
impossible to know the mindset of men who lived in a different time, over 150 years ago. But it is doubtful
that the majority of these young men were fighting for slavery. Here are some more "facts that still exist". In
April of 1861, long after Lincoln took office and states had begun to secede, UNC had the second highest
enrollment among southern schools, with 465 students. But by the fall semester, when Lincoln had called for
the enlistment of 100,000 troops to invade the south, only 91 students enrolled. The rest enlisted to defend
their state. It is easy now to look back and say their cause was wrong. We can also look back 50 years and
question the morality of the Vietnam War. But is that justification for tearing down the memorial in
Washington that remembers the 58,000 souls lost in that war? Like Dr. Dennis, I am a UNC alum, but third
generation, and all three of my REDACTED are alums or currently enrolled. In my time at UNC, I went to hear
many speakers, some that I agreed with, others that I did not agree with. These included G. Gordon Liddy and
Madeline Murray O'Haire. I learned from all of them, and I did not try to squelch anyone's right to express
their opinion. The university encouraged diversity of opinion, and students were better for it. There were no
attempts to intimidate or chase off speakers, as I witnessed on campus a few years ago. And I learned from Dr.
James Leutze's class on military history about the incredible bravery and sacrifice of the Civil War soldiers on
both sides. I would suggest some of these mindless, ignorant anarchists who tore down the monument might
want to educate themselves similarly. I am disgusted by their actions, and by the inaction of the police and the
school administrators. Stalin tore down monuments and tried to rewrite history. So did Mao. So did the
Taliban. And now we see the same thing on our campus. The causes are different, but the hatred, ignorance
and denial of history are the same. And here's one more "fact that still exists". While 90% of Confederate
soldiers did not own slaves, George Washington did. So did Thomas Jefferson. So where does this stop? Are
we going to allow mobs to burn down Mt. Vernon and Monticello, or attack the memorials in D.C.? You
encourage just that if you let these people get away with the vandalism here. Nothing good ever comes from
allowing mob rule. And as I understand it, most of the perpetrators in the destruction of the monument were
not students. They were outside agitators, some of them possibly professional anarchists. Whole generations
passed though Mccorkle Place without feeling "threatened" or "unwelcome" around Sam (see the media
guide picture of Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins smiling at the base of the statue). It is only the current crazy
political "resistance" climate that bred this artificial rage that resulted in this situation. Put Sam back where he
belongs, educate people about what he actually represents, since education is the job of the school, and
punish those who do not respect the rule of law. Respectfully, redacted (Class of 1982)
Message
From: Wesley Harris
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:03:00 PM
Subject: Statue
I am against removing Sam. He has been a part of the UNC campus for such a long time. I really don't know anyone who
looks at these historical monuments are associates them with prejudice or hate. Most of us only know the story of silent
Sam, who fires his gun when ever a virgin walks by. We are raising an entire generation of offended youth . And in my
opinion, our universities are a big part of this. NO to removing Sam .
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:03:17 PM
Subject: Thank you for giving us a place to express our ideas
Chancellor Folt and the Board of 'Trustees,
First, and absolutely foremost, thank you for creating a way for voices to be
heard calmly and rationally. We will better formulate our opinions and
thoughts if we know they will be heard. We will also have increased trust in
the process. I<udos.
My dream of dreams would be that the people who feel strongly about the
monument could engage in a process that would allow them to agree on
signage that could accompany the statue at a site on campus away from its
former location. I would see it in the vein of restorative justice and the
ability for those involved to be and feel heard by each other and move
beyond demonstrations, ang11 rhetoric and violence. Pipe dream, clearly, but
I'll put it out there.
As a second best, I have wondered if there could possibly be a display of the

monument - again at a site dedicated for this purpose on campus, but not
where it has been located - a museum type display, with a range of
interpretive signage that seeks to educate, put the statue in context and allow
varied voices to be heard.
Including:
1. 1\ relatively neutral (good luck!) historical record (timeline) of events
surrounding the monument's history. Creation, installation, quotes from
what was said at the dedication (incendiary and otherwise), demonstrations
against it, responses to those, its removal, this very process we're in right
now, etc. Hard to please everyone, but staying towards factual for this
part. _i\ review (or even direct involvement) during the creation of this
document/ display by representatives of calm voices on either side of the
debate would be helpful, perhaps essential, to boil it down to the factual.
2. 1\ group of historians create a record to give perspective and background
on the context of the events listed above. Hard to not tilt towards some
level of bias or opinion here for sure. Perhaps this needs to be divided or
have multiple versions/perspectives to reflect varied viewpoints.
3. Curated statements of straight up opinion (with any factual inaccuracies

vetted) along a spectrum of viewpoints - with some ground rules around civil
discourse, lack of profanity and violent intent and more that I would have to
think about. Find voices along this spectrum to create words of explanation
that reflect their perspective and put all of them up around the statue to be
respectfully read and absorbed. Not going to please or satisfy everyone, but
maybe many people could feel like their current perspective was mirrored in
someone's words. And with that groundwork laid, perhaps an increased
willingness to read and absorb what others have said.
I'm remembering the book and documentary about the "unlikely friendship"
between a black woman and a I<]an member in Durham. Could we listen to
each other, find our voices and speak and use this opportunity to move
forward the entire conversation about race, history, slavery, discrimination,
Southernism and whatever else this statue and its unique history symbolize
for so many?
Returning it to where it has been with no explanation would miss this

opportunity and enrage those with legitimate complaints. Removing it and
melting it down or relegating it to some warehouse would satisfy some, but
enrage others, and also would miss out on an opportunity for current and
future deeper understanding. Could a carefully crafted process become an
opportunity to engage and allow for continued engagement with a piece of
our history?
1'v1aybe this is all pipe dream, too, but it is my vision and wish.
I hope for your clarity and wisdom in this important endeavor and
opportunity. At this moment, attention to the process itself is of critical
importance, perhaps as much as the concrete outcome. I sense from your
communications that those guiding this process recognize this fact, which
will serve us all.
Respectfully, and with no jealousy for the difficult position you find
yourselves in to help us heal and move forward,
()range County, NC
(daughter of an alumna, parent of an alumna and a current UNC student)
Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:03:50 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
To the UNC Board of Governors,
As an alumnus of UNC and now a parent of a UNC student, I write to express my strong opinion on the fate of
Silent Sam. Please use this moment in the statue's history and refrain from placing it back to its incendiary
loca tion. It was placed in its original setting as a very deliberate racially ideological act. Let us not be complicit
in validating an unarguably racist project. Instead, let us take this opportunity to preserve its history by moving
it to an educational setting (perhaps the UNC museum) and NOT returning it to its place of pride on McCorkle
Pla ce. In making these decisions, you will put a new imprint of racial inclusivity on the history of the campus,
state, and nation.
We are all watching.
REDACTED
Message
From: Andrew Weniger
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:06:05 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
1) melt down and make commemorative coins for students currently enrolled
2) display in prone position in one of the museums on campus with description of its history
Andrew
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:07:07 PM
CC:
Subject: A Monument to Education
Hi there,
I'm a seasoned marketing professional from San Francisco, now living in Mooresville, NC. My is a UNC
freshman. He loves it.
I've been following Silent Sam's fate and am grateful to share thoughts on a solution that would make most
reasonable adults satisfied.
In my family's travels we've visited former communist countries that were rife with reminders of their former
oppressive regimes. Some are still standing where they have always been. Some have corralled the statues that
weren't toppled in revolutions and isolated them in a special building or garden where they can be displayed as
educational relics of harder, more brutal, difficult times. The Museum of Communism in Prague, the Museum
of Terror in Budapest (I know, extreme name, but it's an incredibly serious and moving museum) ... there are so
many good examples of how to deal with difficult subjects.
My input - Place Silent Sam in a quiet, contemplative setting with adequate signage telling his small story in
context with the bigger picture of why he's there in the first place, and you give him a useful future while doing
what you do best - educate.
I'd be happy to discuss this idea further. Least I can do. My really does love it there and we're very grateful.
:-)
Good luck,
Message
From: Katherine Baldwin
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:07:32 PM
Subject: Confederate statue disposal
I am a long-time chapel Hill resident and not affiliated with the University. I can also count numerous
ancestors who fought and died for the Confederacy, including my great-grandfather, who was buried in
Columbus, Ohio after dying of pneumonia in a Union prison camp. Any statue that elevates the owners of
slaves and their treasonous war has no place on the campus of a public university. UNC should welcome all
and such a statue only puts a backward-thinking face on those who run the university. My son is
and if a school put up a statue "honoring" the soldiers who did their duty to incarcerate Asians in camps
in World War II, would I tell him it was just "history"? I like to shop in downtown chapel Hill but the
thought of leaving part of the statue for hate groups to congregate around and worship and possibly harm
my friends makes me avoid the downtown area completely. It is clear and clearly embarrassing that your
emails have shown that you would rather please big donors than listen to your own students. Your actions,
and yours alone, are tarnishing the reputation that chapel Hill has as a diverse and tolerant town.
Please remove the rest of the statue, and then remove yourself from any position in the UNC system.
Sincerely, Katherine Baldwin.
Message
From: Richard B. Weinberg [weinberg@wakehealth.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:09:25 PM
Subject: The Future
Dear Chancellor Folt;
I propose that the "Silent Sam" monument be rededicated to its ostensible noble purpose: remembering the sacrifice of
Tar Heels who gave their lives in military service during the Civil War. History tells us that not all of them served in the
Confederacy; some served in the Union; most likely, both enslaved and freed African Americans from Chapel Hill did as
well.
What they all shared, as the bas relief on the pedestal idealizes, was that they answered a call to duty and service, as
they understood it at that moment in history. We can and should continue to examine the legacy of that cause in our
time, but does not their personal sacrifice lie at the core of the Tar Heel credo? Recall the origin of our name: a North
Carolina regiment that stuck fast to its position, when all others had fled.
I propose that the names of ALL these dead be etched into black marble plaques affixed to the pedestal base, in the
order that they died (such as can be ascertained), without any other notation, in a manner akin to the Vietnam War
Memorial. As our University historians and archivists (and students!) research and discover additional names, they could
be added. In this way the monument would become a living thing.
NC 100-2.l(b) states that a statue that is" ... temporarily relocated shall be returned to its original location within 90 days
of completion of the project that required its temporary removal." I submit that that "project" - a full reckoning and
reconciliation of the history and societal forces that created "Silent Sam" - is very far from complete.
Thus, I propose that a new casting be commissioned: two tattered, wounded soldiers at war's end - one Confederate,
one Union - brothers in arms - supporting each other as they find their way back home to North Carolina.
Finally, I propose that a Commission composed of faculty, students, and alumni be appointed and charged with the
oversight of the design, installation, and re-dedication of such a future monument.
Let a transformed and rededicated monument proclaim what is best about us.
Richard B. Weinberg
Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:09:54 PM
Subject: Teachable moment
I am not a fan of confederate monuments or anything else but I do feel strongly that silent Sam should be put
back in place while the process is going forward. For no other reason than people should not be rewarded for
vandalism. There are laws and procedures that should be observed. This needs to be made clear to everyone.
Thank you
REDACTED
Proud UNC Parent
Message
From: Nancy Bucknall [n_buckna@uncg.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:12:10 PM
Subject: Do not return the monument to the quad
I respectfully ask that the monument not be returned to its original location. I propose placing it in the Old
Chapel Hill Cemetery.
Nancy Gray Bucknall, Director

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Message
From: Jeff Morgan
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:14:12 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
people are for something and half the people are against. Unfortunately, we are living in divided country at this
time. Hopefully, this will change in the near future.
architect and went to Syracuse University. We moved to Charlotte in 1999. We have two sons who are recent
graduates of UNC Chapel Hill.
UNC campus is the ideal location for Silent Sam to be relocated to. A small pavilion should be created with brick
Thank You.
Jeff Morgan
Message
From: Katherine Dreyer
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:17:04 PM
Subject: Monument NEEDS to go
Yes, a conferderate museum is a good idea, but this should NEVER have been left up so long on the UNC
campus. It is an insult and assault to anyone of African descent and the horrors they endeared (and frankly
continue to endure because of reminders like this).
Cannot wait til this has been cared for in a positive way.
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:17:07 PM
Subject: Statue
chancellor Holt,
First, thank you for your service to the school and the students. I currently have two children enrolled
and believe that you always put them first. As an alumni, I have complete trust that you will forge a
path forward that will represent the future of UNC to the town, state and nation.
My suggestion is to place the statue in the cemetery by Playmakers Theatre. The statue was always
designed to honor UNC students who died in the civil War. Essentially, the statue is a grave stone for
their lives. so place it with other gravestones on campus. Those who want to remember these soldiers will
visit a cemetery just as we visit Arlington to visit other fallen soldiers.
With deepest gratitude,
Message
From: Cameron Prevatte I
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:21:34 PM
Subject: Silent sam
I think the best place for silent sam is to be melted down and used as raw metal.
-Cameron Prevatte
Message
From: Southern Pride
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:22:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
My name is Cooper. I'm originally from Kentucky but have been living in Minnesota for the past five-ish years
now.I found on his on Facebook and i just wanted to give my most honest opinion.
Here's what I found ---
Chancellor Falt at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has opened a public forum email
(uncmonument@unc.edu) asking for suggestions on what to do with Silent Sam. There is no room for suggestions
here, there is only the fact that Silent Sam should be put back where he belongs.
The history of this monument was to remind the students, visitors and people of the "heroic" deed these young men
did for their newly founded country. 100+ students left campus to defend what they believed was right. Many never
came home.
The soul purpose of a monument is to spark reminder of what had happened. In this instance, young men, boys,
volunteered their lives. No reply is needed of course but imagine getting word that your son has just left college to
defend his home, state & country but to never return .. What would you do? In this case, a monument was erected
for these young men.
In the end, let it stand.

Message
From: Wanda Durham
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:23:23 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thank you for this opportunity to share our opinions. I feel since silent Sam has stirred up divisive
feelings that are causing such a ruckus on campus that silent Sam would be better off in a museum of
American History.
Those who oppose silent Sam see it as a symbol of oppression & slavery that would make every person of
color who comes on UNC's campus feel unwelcome. Those who support the statue see it as a symbol of the
Confederate past which will be preserved in a museum. Thank you!
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Carter Gaj
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:27:47 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As an alumnus of the university, I see absolutely no compelling reason for the statue to
remain on campus at all. It is an unfortunate remnant of a lingering ideology of white
supremacy, an ideology that empathetic, educated people should wholly reject.
Best,
Carter Gaj
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From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:30:46 PM
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Dear Carol Felt:

As the head of UNCCH you have a job, that job is to have your staff teach all subjects
truthfully. You failed in truth with all the students and the alumni on the day you invited the
"mob" to destroy the Memorial (Silent Sam) erected to the dead Confederate Soldiers that
attended UNCCH from 1860 to 1865. Not only did you, as a state employee fail to protect
State property, you violated the N. C. State law with your actions, or lack of any action.
You of all people should know that the Negro Race (slaves) was not the reason the
UNCCH Students took up arms against the North, they responded to the invasion of the
South. You should have known the true history that the UNCCH students that fought for
the South, did not own any Negro (slaves), nor fought to keep them as slaves, they
protected the Southern homeland.
The lack of your action in replacing the Memorial, and violating the N.C. State Law is
enough to have you replaced as Chancellor, and released of any state position.
Furthermore, your actions should be investigated by the SBI for violation of N.C. State
Law.
In closing, what if "your mob" pulled down statues of Michael King, aka "Martin Luther
King" throughout the South, that would cause riots resulting in malicious damage in every
Southern City. Unlike the quality and class of the people that resist your actions in a civil
non violent manner, without taking to the streets like "your mob" did.
As you should know, you can not erase history, nor can you change it, you can only
preserve it by teaching the true history.
Good luck in your next endeavor, away from N.C. State employment.
Thank you.
C. M. Mangum
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Sent: 9/25/2018 12:31:27 PM
Subject: Save Silent Sam
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From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:32:34 PM
Subject: My thoughts
As the parent of a freshman UNC student, I would like to see this monument removed from campus. I am
willing to take the high ground and go with the assumption that the placing of this monument was 100%
based on a desire to honor the UNC students who lost their lives fighting in the Civil War. If that is the case,
then I also believe it is only fair to recognize ALL UNC students who have given the ultimate sacrifice to our
country, and I believe you have already met that honor with the installment next to Memorial Hall. With that
being done, I think it is time for "Silent Sam" to be moved to a location that has the sole purpose of
recognizing the sacrifice of any soldier fighting in the Civil War, and the UNC campus is NOT that place. I agree
with others who have commented that this statue deserves to be placed in a location such as one of our NC
Civil War battle site memorials.
Thank you for your careful consideration into this matter,

Message
From: David Sides
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:33:03 PM
Subject: Monument
The monument should be treated with respect regardless of how one feels. This monument has little to do
with people outside the State of NC and everything to do with the history of our state. People choosing
to come here should accept that or find somewhere that suites them better.
That monument represents a point in time that we all should be reminded of, reflect on and thank God for
the progress of everyone.
what changes next? If silent Sam is offensive just wait until those few offended discover who the first
Tar Heels were. You'll be chanting Go Rams before you know it.
UNC, silent Sam and all the good and bad belongs to the true Tar Heels and anyone else who chooses to
enjoy.
Sent from my iPhone

Message
From: Benninger, Kristen Ann [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =af6d8d24c830428d8ef5 lcc04452c43b-Kristen Ann]
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:33:30 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor and Board of Trustees:
First, thank you for the call for submissions in regards to opinions on the Confederate Monument's disposition.
I will attempt to make my piece brief and relevant.
I believe it is our absolute responsibility as a free-thinking university to provide inclusive policy that represents
and reflects the current values of all of our students and employees. We must understand and accept that at
times, individuals' ancestral and personal histories and the meaning behind historic symbols will vary and the
feelings that individuals carry regarding Silent Sam, the Civil War, and the Confederacy and its reliance on
slavery will vary as well. I do, however, believe that we can and should find a way to honor the goals of
multicultural inclusivity and freedom that America is built on and ever striving towards.
I believe the Monument should not be displayed as celebratory or exemplary piece in a public outdoor forum,
but instead displayed as a historical piece in a venue which works to respectfully balance viewpoints. It should
be in a place where it can be contemplated with perspective, such as in one of the many NC history or military
museums. Or perhaps, as its toppling is part of its history, it could become a display in the UNC Ackland Art
Museum, and UNC art students from all walks of life could unite to create a design that centers around the
statue and incorporates the opinions, feelings, and stories of North Carolinians that reflect its varied meaning
to them. In this way, all viewpoints can be considered and contemplated, and the university can continue to
stimulate educated and meaningful conversation.
With much respect and the best of luck in creating an inclusive plan.
Best,
Kristen A. Benninger, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine,
University of North Carolina Hospitals
Physician I Central Prison Healthcare Complex
1 300 Western Blvd., Raleigh, NC 27699
Phone: (REDACTED I Pager: REDACTED
Email: kristen_benninger@med.unc.edu
Message
From: Kathryn M
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:35:31 PM
Subject: Idea
I'd like to see the statue moved to a museum. That way, it can be viewed by choice and with historical context.
Message
From: Buddy Miller
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:36:37 PM
Subject: Monument/ Let's Destroy History?
I am totally against denial of the worth of those soldiers that fought and sacrificed with their lives for their
STATES, not for slavery. That any academic or citizen would condone such violence against truth is abhorrent
to me. What's next...TOMBSTONES? Protect, honor and promote understanding of these monuments to
AMERICAN veterans.
Buddy Miller
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:37:15 PM
Subject: Take care of them
PLEASE DONT LET MOVE AND DESTROY ALL OUR HERITAGE
Sent.from my LG A1obile
Message
From: Matthew McMichaels
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:38:23 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Relocation Proposal
I propose moving Silent Sam to the flagship Orange County Waste and Recycling Center located on Eubanks Road. They
accept Scrap Metal and Large Appliances (limit 2 per day), and are open every day from 7am-6pm (Sunday hours are
lpm-lpm). They are closed on Wednesdays. I have a truck and would be glad to provide transportation for your bulky
item.
Thanks!
Matt
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:39:18 PM
Subject: location & dedication
As a Carolina parent - I think the Silent Sam monument should be relocated to Memorial Grove on the corner of
Country Club and South. It should be rededicated to clarify that it is to honor Carolina students who
died. There should be a plaque that makes it clear that it is the individuals who are being remembered, and not
their belief systems that are being honored. Maybe some information like: NC was the last state to join the
Confederacy; NC had the least number of slave holders by population; "Fighting age" men of NC were
required to join the military; NC had the most soldiers die of any state in the Confederacy.
Just my two cents.

Message
From: Laura Jerden
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:39:50 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
I think the monument should be preserved and interpreted on the campus somewhere. Perhaps it should be
removed from its current location. It does specifically honor fallen UNC students rather than the
Confederacy as a whole. It should also be explained why some people find it offensive.
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Kohn, Harold L [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=d04dadllfc7e4bcc897be7610f424319-Harold L Ko]
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:43:36 PM
CC: Kohn, Harold L [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=d04dadllfc7e4bcc897be7610f424319-Harold L Ko]
Subject: Monuments
September 25, 2018
Thank you and the committee for opening the process for soliciting suggestions on where to place and display
Silent Sam.
Here is a rough idea. I suspect that I do not fully understand the complexity of the situation and the
sensitivities that this issue has engendered. Thus, this is only suggestion, a springboard for more substantive
proposals.
I suggest that The University secures a plot either adjacent or on the on the grounds of the cemetery on
campus. I suggest that this plot be dedicated to those UNC students, staff and faculty who have given their
lives and their freedom in service for this country. This should include those who died in war (e.g., soldiers,
first responders, clergy, health care practitioners) or were enslaved. It is anticipated that this plot would need
to accommodate memorials for future events.
I suggest this be a self-contained plot with surrounding walls (glass?) allowing this place to become a quiet
sanctuary as well as to provide protection. It can be open-aired but it may need to be monitored by cameras
and closed in the evening. I would think it would be good to have separate memorials for all the major
conflicts that occurred during UNC's history with names listed for those who lost their lives, or the names
readily accessed by digital means. There should be a monument for African Americans who were enslaved in
service to the University and if their names are known these names should be recorded. I don't think any
monument should be on pedestal or dominate any other.
Finally, the University might consider reserving an adjacent plot to honor UNC students, staff and faculty who
lost their lives due to unnatural causes while in service or attendance at UNC.
Kind regards,
Hal Kohn
Message
From: Nannette Goodwin
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:44:42 PM
Subject: My opinion
Please do not allow activist thugs to remove the statue from its rightful place on campus where it has always
been located. Their anarchist, misinformed and misguided attacks on Silent Sam are causing the community to
bow to wrongful pressure to move the statue. Stand strong and put Silent Sam back. Your UNC community has
always been inclusive but has a history of allowing the squeaky wheels to get whatever they want even to the
detriment of the university and its overall student population. The minority is not always right! Stand up and put
Silent Sam back.
Educate those that do not understand the symbolism and historical perspective of Silent Sam. Don't just cowtow
to a vocal and destructive minority!
Sent from my iPhone

Regards,
Nannette Goodwin, D VM
r,
Message
From: Susan King [skking3@ncsu .edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:44:55 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hi,
I will begin by saying I am proud to be a Yankee, misplaced to the south, when I enrolled in UNC in 1990. I
have lived in or around Chapel Hill for all but 4 years since.
In my opinion, memorials to the Civil War or those who fought in it do not tell the entire story, and unless these
monuments show all sides in equal light, they are not functioning as a reminder of our history at all. Regardless
of where the monument is placed, it should be accompanied by and incorporated into a narrative that explains
the horrors of slavery, and the values that we, as humans and Americans should hold dear: that ALL are created
EQUAL. There is absolutely no room for slavery in a society that holds these truths to be self-evident. The
monument to soldiers who fought to preserve slavery might attempt to explain why they thought their cause was
right (something I have yet to understand), but more importantly, it needs to show how society now understands
and has learned from these wrongs (yes, I hope we can all say now that slavery is wrong!). Ifwe can not show
that we learned from our past mistakes (yes, I believe taking up arms to preserve slavery is wrong), and have
moved forward in order to create a more perfect union, then we are doomed to repeat our shameful past. Civil
war monuments should show that we have moved away from slavery, bigotry, prejudices and now embrace the
vision that we are all worthy of respect and should be treated as equals.
Sue King
skking3@ncsu.edu
Message
From: Danny Dreyer
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:44:58 PM
Subject: The Confederate Statue at UNC
I suggest placing all Confederate monuments, historical images and documents into a "Museum of the
Confederacy" where people who are interested can go to find out about the history of the South's participation,
mentality and ideals that created the Civil War. This would be more informative, and not to glorify the driving
philosophy behind the Confederacy. It could also go into how the Civil War mentality is still alive in our
present day culture and politics.
This approach would not disparage anyone with Confederate ancestors, and would be an optional way for others
to learn the South's side of the history and mentality behind the Civil War. I would emphasize OPTIONAL
because many of the ideals that formed the Confederacy are not promoted in our constitution and should only be
viewed as a part of our past, and NOT how we as a nation intend to move forward progressively and humanely
into the future. Statues to the Confederacy, and any other publicly displayed items of the like should NOT be
publicly displayed.
I doubt if there are any statues of Hitler, Himmler or Eichmann displayed in public places in Germany.
Danny Dreyer
Parent of a UNCA student
Message
From: Alanna Davis
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:46:03 PM
Subject: My suggestion
Chancellor Folt and UNC BOT,
Bottom line: other than the dumpster, the only place that makes sense for this monument honoring our history
of hate is at the Museum of the Civil War in VA with its vast collection of Confederate memorabilia. An exhibit
can translate and contextualize the events that led up and followed the erection of this statue. Those that want to
see it can and those that are reminded of the hate that it represents are no longer forced to see it.
Your inaction is appalling. Carol, I wrote you a L TE in the DTH a few weeks before you joined our campus in
which I applauded your direct action and engagement with the student body at your previous institution of
employment. I am forced to eat my words now.
This statue has no place on our campus anymore. I am happy to discuss altenatives to this space once a
statement has been made regarding the movement of the pedestal and monument to VA
Best,
Alanna Davis
Chapel Hill resident
UNC '13 BA Global Studies
Carvana Expansion Advocate
Message
From: Desirae Thompson
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:46:05 PM
Good Afternoon,
I am writing to you today to express my concern about the Silent Sam Statue at UNC. Please, take into
consideration that this is a part of our history. Not everyone views the statue as being racist, demeaning or a part
of white supremacy. As for myself, I view this statue as a past history that does not need to be a forgotten, but
rather restored. To me this statue is a remembrance for all the fallen soldiers during the war. Our past history
should not be wiped out, but rather build and grow from it. We as a country should grow from it, rather than
destroy, call names and cause a division amongst individuals.
The students that come to UNC and then start to complain that the statue is causing heartache or racism to them,
did they not notice the statue when they came and toured the campus before deciding to attend this college? It's
a shame the statue did not bother them then, but it does now. Individuals need to quit jumping onto bandwagons
and truly think about their actions before destroying others history that they were never even a part of
Desirae Shelley
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:46:23 PM
Subject: No place
Please do not put this statue back up anywhere.

Thank you.
REDACTED
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:47:48 PM
As a parent and an educator, I believe that the Confederate Statue belongs in a museum, not on the
campus on UNC as it will continue to be the source of hatred and bigotry. We do not want our to
have to worry about his safety. is there to further education and should not have to worry
about such discord!
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:48:00 PM
Subject: FW: ANNOUNCEMENT from UNC: Message from the Chancellor - August 21, 2018
Please see my email below from earlier. I still feel the same way about the monument being put back in place in order
to show that the University and the State will not be intimidated by criminals/vigilantes. Once the monument is back up
and being protected, a legal process/plan can take place to determine the future of the monument. Whether the
monument stays in place, is moved to another location or put in a storage building, the people responsible for the
vandalism need to learn to respect for law and order. Thank you for providing this opportunity to share opinions.
From:
To: 'UNC Family Experience' <families@unc.edu>
Cc: 'Mccleery, Meghan L' <mmccleery@unc.edu>; 'winston.crisp@unc.edu' <winston .crisp@unc.edu>
Subject: RE: ANNOUNCEMENT from UNC: Message from the Chancellor - August 21, 2018
It is important that the perpetrators are prosecuted to the full extent of the law and the monument go right back up so
that the protestors and community see that the University will not be intimidated and will be continue to be governed
by the laws of the State of North Carolina and the United States of America. We should not be ruled by
criminals/vigilantes that take the law into their own hands. There is a legal process for determining the future of these
historical monuments and those that oppose them should follow due process to achieve their goals.
Respectfully,
Concerned Parent and Supporter of UNC
PS: I hope you both are doing well. The experience at UNC has been wonderful for our and we are thrilled
chose to attend U NC.
As you are probably aware, a group from among an

estimated crowd of 250 protesters brought down the
Confederate Monument on our campus last night
The monument has been divisive for years, and its

presence has been a source of frustration for many
people not only on our campus but throughout the
community.
However, last night's actions were unlawful and

injured. The police are investigating the vandalism and
assessing the full extent of the damage.
! appreciate the actions taken by the police to ensure

the community's safety and will keep you informed as
additional information is available.
Sincerely,
Carol L Folt

Chancellor
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Message
From: Chad Adams
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:48:24 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I suggest to put it right back where it was. Which is the same place Michael Jordan and James Worthy stood
beside it with smiles, some 30 years ago. Where it has stood for over 100 years. More North Carolinians'
ancestors died fighting for the confederacy than those who's ancestors did not. It is agaisnt the law to remove a
monument. To capitulate to angry mobs, who know nothing of real world experience or ideas would be
cowardly and shameful. My family would love to continue our support of our beloved public university
through involvement and monetary donations. Please don't give us any reasons not to.
Thank you,
Concerned Tar Heel

Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:52:02 PM
Subject: USam
Hello All,
As an alum and two time parent of Carolina, the issue of silent Sam has been weighing heavy on my heart.
When I was a student, I walked by the statue, almost daily, with a smile thinking of the joke about him
not firing his gun. Now, after reading the history behind the statues in the "silent series" and other
confederate statues, I am sick about my ignorance back then. I was recently in CH for parents weekend
and feel that history is history and the statue should be preserved, but not as a prominent figure on
campus, merely as a museum piece. I like the idea of putting him in a place where people can visit and
read about the true history behind the statue(s). In silent Sam's absence, there should be a statue that
honors all soldiers who fought for our country and represents unity among all people. I could go on, but
feel this gets the point across. Please stand for unity and equality.
Thank you,
Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:55:31 PM
Subject: Keep it away from campus entry
As an alum, and current parent, please do not place the statue back at its old location -- at a prominent entrance
to the campus.
With appreciation,
REDACTED
Durham, NC
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 12:56:54 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I have mixed feelings about Silent Sam. As the descendant of several Civil War soldiers, I feel it is unfair to
impose the values that I hold dear onto my forefathers. I hate slavery. I detest racism but I don't know the
reasons my ancestors fought for the Civil War. None of them were slave holders. Their access to information
was zero. Did they go to protect their land? Did they agree with slavery?
But, after reading the dedication speech, I don't think it has a place on our campus. The face of our campus is
radically different from when that statue went up. This is a good thing. Perhaps you should have a statue design
contest for UNC students/alums that shows the complexities of the Civil War. The many sides would need to
be represented.
Silent Sam should also be used as a teaching moment. I think our students should be educated on how to look at
complex issues like this and think critically, without getting personal and without rioting. Good, old-fashioned
debate. They need to see all sides of an issue and be made aware of ways to remember and learn from the past
while still being able to celebrate our diverse nation. I don't think critical thinking skills are being taught in most
of the high schools.
Message
From: Pedro Perez
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:00:27 PM
Dear Dr.Carol Folt, UNC Chancellor,

I am writing to you regarding my thoughts on the future on the confederate monument that was taken down by
protesters on your campus last month.
As the son of immigrants to this country and a first generation American I know first hand the value of hard
work and living the American dream of equal opportunity and justice for all, I applaud those who tore that
statue down.
That monument represents an unfortunate time of hate and division in this country.
Monuments are meant not only to memorialize but to pay respect and revere what they represent.
Yes, it is part of American history and as such belongs in history books and museums, but NOT on a public
university campus in today's modern world.
Nazi Germany was a terrible divisive era in world history but there are no monuments on any university campus
paying tribute to that so how is this confederate monument any different?
I trust that you will make an educated and non-political decision about placing that monument in its correct
place .. .in the history books and off your beautiful campus.
Sincerely,
Pedro Perez, M.D., M.S.
Fellow American Academy of Emergency Medicine
Message
From: Kincer, Laura Pesci [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =21 ld 16edd27144468e 18f504661084ed-La u ra Pesci]
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:01:20 PM
Subject: Remove Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor Falt and UNC Board of Trustees,
My name is Laura Kincer. I am a UNC College of Arts and Sciences graduate class of 2008, BS Biology with a Chemisty
minor. I also currently work in a research lab for UNC School of Medicine and am pursuing a master's degree in
Microbiology and Immunology. I'm writing to express my extreme disappointment that the Board of Trustees is even
considering reinstating Silent Sam back in Mccorkle place. The lack of action in the past is embarrassing for the
"University of the People" and you now have the opportunity to do something meaningful and just in pursuit of Lux et
Libertas. Remove him from campus completely or put Silent Sam inside a library or building surrounded by other pieces
of University history and next to detailed information and when he was installed, why he was installed, and a copy of the
dedication address. Let's remember and bring to life the true history of Silent Sam rather than the romanticized
southern pride patriotism some people color him with today.
And if taking steps to ensure all members of our university community feel values and supported is not reason enough,
please also consider safety. The protests and demonstrations will undoubtedly continue.
Sincerely,
Laura Kincer
Message
From: Renee Owen
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:03:17 PM
Subject: the monument
Thank you for providing this email address for our thoughts.
First, PLEASE do not replace the monument or put it up in another place of "honor." I understand such
monuments are historical, but it is such a relief to be no longer honoring violent, white men who were enslaving
others and fighting against our union. I think its terrible to ask black people to walk past such a travesty every
day. Knowing racist and violent history is one thing, but honoring it with a bronze statue prominently placed is
another.
I would like to see someone open a large museum for confederate statues, where they call all be placed. It
would be a very interesting and informative museum that would give the statues a place to go and provide the
history.
Thank you,
Renee Owen
Message
From: Lee Collier
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:03:22 PM
Hello,
Thank you for the opportunity to voice my opinion and provide input.
I understand the passion around this subject. I believe that this statue, belongs in a museum with other
historical relics of our past. Not displayed on campus as a reminder of a very painful time in our country's
history. Statues and other symbols such as Silent Sam, can give credence and power to ideals that are no
longer held by most Americans, and should be retired to a place where they can be visited by choice, and not
happenstance.
Thank you,
Lee Collier
Message
From: Neil Perry
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:05:46 PM
Subject: Return Silent Sam to it's original location
Return Silent Sam to it's original location but raise it higher so it's not as accessible from the
ground. Making it both more difficult to see and/or damage.
Message
From: MaryElla Fitz
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:06:26 PM
Subject: Silent Sam - Return to his place immediately! Thank you!
My Dear Madam chancellor,

I reiterate the words of Mr Lance Spivey on behalf of my dear gg-Gpas JAMES THOMAS HENRY, 1st NC cavalry,
Macon co, Nantahala Rangers/Stuart's Tarheels & MOSES LOFTIN SHERRILL, Thomas' Legion of Cherokee
Indians/Highlanders, Jackson/Macon/Cherokee Cos.
Sincerely,
MaryElla Henry-Fitzsimmons
Franklin, NC
chancellor Folt,
My name is Lance Spivey. I am writing this letter in support of placing the silent Sam Monument back
upon its pedestal in Mccorkle Place on the campus of the University of North Carolina-chapel Hill.
I am a twelfth generation North Carolinian and Adjutant of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Captain
Winfield Scott Lineberry camp 92 in Asheboro, North Carolina. I am extremely proud to be a native of a
state with such a history as North Carolina has, and to have roots here that are over three hundred years
deep. My ancestors served this nation in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the War of
Northern Aggression. Members of my family also served this country in World Wars I and II, Korea, and
Vietnam. Each and every one of them fought for the cause of freedom and the destruction of monuments
such as silent Sam dishonor them all.
The destruction of these monuments is nothing more than an attempt to erase history, both by those who
are ignorant of the true facts of our nation's history and those that would destroy our way of life, and
history forgotten is history that shall be repeated. our schools are, in great part, responsible for the
ignorance of the greater majority of our nation's citizens, because they conform to standards that not
only hide the truth, but also pervert that truth to fit a greater political agenda.
The truth is that the south did not secede from the Union in order to preserve the institution of
slavery; slavery was not even an issue in the War until Lincoln began to lose support for his
unconstitutional invasion of the Confederate States of America in 1862, at which point he decided to make
it an issue with Proclamation 93, issued September 22, 1862. The Thirteenth Amendment was not even
introduced to Congress until January 11, 1864, two years, eight months, and twenty-nine days after the
first shot of the War. In the Border States of Kentucky (recognized as a member-state by both the Union
and the Confederacy) and Delaware, there were approximately 40,000 slaves that were not freed until the
Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on 6 December, 1865; there were slaves in Northern states not only
during the War, but for six months and four days after it ended; ten months and six days after Congress
passed the Thirteenth Amendment. on the other hand was the Corwin Amendment, the first proposed
thirteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which would have made slavery a permanent
institution in the slave-states and territories.
The Corwin Amendment was passed by the United States Senate on March 2, 1861, and signed into law by
President James Buchanan that same day. In his first Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said of the
Corwin Amendment, ''I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution [the Corwin Amendment] ... has
passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic
institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service ... I have no objection to its being
made express and irrevocable." The Corwin Amendment was ratified by Maryland on January 10, 1862. The
fifty counties in Northwestern Virginia which would eventually become the Union state of West Virginia
ratified the amendment on February 13, 1862, and Illinois ratified it the next day. All three were Union
states, yet they were willing to make slavery a permanent institution in this country. As to the origin
of the Corwin Amendment, my research shows that not only may Lincoln have had a hand in its creation; he
may have actually penned it himself. Either way, the fact remains that the "Great Emancipator" had no
problem with the institution of slavery being made permanent by Constitutional Law. In Paragraph 4 of
that same address, Lincoln said, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the
institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I
have no inclination to do so." In a letter to Horace Greeley, founder and editor of the New-York
Tribune, on August 22, 1862, Lincoln wrote, "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would
do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing
some and leaving others alone I would also do that." so, I ask you, how could slavery have been the
cause of the War when so many Northerners, including Federal government officials, were willing to make
it permanently legal?
I would also make the point that only ten to fifteen percent of the men in the Confederate forces were
slaveholders. Is it in any way logical that over one million non-slaveholders would go to war, would
literally walk into the jaws of death, so that somebody else could keep his slaves? I think not. My
great-great-great grandfather, Private James Scott (1825-1926), whose family was part of the underground
Railroad, served in Company E (Turtle Paws), 44th North Carolina Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia. He
saw action at seven Pines, Tranter's Creek, Goldsboro Bridge, Deep Gully, Bristoe Station, the
Wilderness, Spotsylvania court House, cold Harbor, Globe Tavern, Ream's Station, Peebles' Farm, Burgess'
Mill, and Five Forks, among others. He participated in the freeing of slaves, yet he wore the Gray...
Does that sound like a man fighting for the preservation of such an abhorrent institution as slavery?
The truth is that the War was about money. south Carolina seceded because of the inevitable passing of
the Morrill Tariff by the United States Congress. Virginia and the other Confederate states seceded
because Lincoln intended to make war upon south Carolina in order to collect taxes unfairly levied by the
United States government, and they felt this was a violation of states' rights and the Constitution. on
September 27, 1860, Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, during a speech in New York City,
said that of the two most important issues of the Presidential campaign, preventing the expansion of
slavery into new states and passing the Morrill Tariff, the new tariff was the most important. He said
that the tariff would bring great prosperity to the Northeast, and would impoverish the south, along with
the western states. It was, he told the crowd, essential to the advancement of national greatness and to
bringing prosperity to the industrial workers of the North. He also said that if southern leaders
objected to the tariff, that they would be rounded up and hanged. In October of 1861, Karl Marx, who
favored the North like most European socialists of the time, said in an article published in England,
that, "The war between the North and south is a tariff war. The war, is further, not for any principle,
does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for power." In December
of that year, Charles Dickens, famous English author and a strong opponent of slavery, said about the War
of Northern Aggression: " the Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious
humbug disguised to conceal its desire for economic control of the United States ... Union means so many
millions a year lost to the south; secession means loss of the same millions to the North. The love of
money is the root of this as many, many other evils. The quarrel between the North and south is, as it
stands, solely a fiscal quarrel." That, ma'am, is why the southern states seceded.
It seems to me that an educator, at least one with any decent code of ethics, would want to teach the
truth, no matter what that truth is, instead of contributing to the indoctrination and ignorance of their
students. Teaching is a most honorable profession when done with honor, but to propagate lies is in no
way honorable; in point of fact it is dishonorable, disgraceful, and disgusting.
As to the "removal" of silent Sam, contrary to popu l ar Leftist beliefs, America is not a Democracy, it is
a Constitutional Republic, a nation of laws, and North Carolina has a law protecting monuments such as
silent Sam. I refer you to the cultural History Artifact Management and Patriotism Act of 2015, General
Assembly of North Carolina, Session Law 2015-170, Article 1, Section 3, § 1002.1:
(a) Approval Required. - Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, a
monument, memorial, or work of art owned by the State may not be removed, relocated, or altered in any
way without the approval of the North Carolina Historical Commission.
(b) Limitations on Removal. - An object of remembrance located on public property may not be
permanently removed and may only be relocated, whether temporarily or permanently, under the
circumstances listed in this subsection and subject to the limitations in this subsection. An object of
remembrance that is temporarily relocated shall be returned to its original location within 90 days of
completion of the project that required its temporary removal. An object of remembrance that is
permanently relocated shall be relocated to a site of similar prominence, honor, visibility,
availability, and access that are within the boundaries of the jurisdiction from which it was relocated.
An object of remembrance may not be relocated to a museum, cemetery, or mausoleum unless it was
originally placed at such a location. As used in this section, the term "object of remembrance" means a
monument, memorial, plaque, statue, marker, or display of a permanent character that commemorates an
event, a person, or military service that is part of North Carolina's history. The circumstances under
which an object of remembrance may be relocated are either of the following:
(2) When necessary for construction, renovation, or reconfiguration of buildings, open spaces,
parking, or transportation projects.
Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of cultural Resources as provided by chapter 197 of
the Public Laws of 1935.
(2) An object of remembrance owned by a private party that is located on public property and that
is the subject of a legal agreement between the private party and the State or a political subdivision of
the State governing the removal or relocation of the object.
(3) An object of remembrance for which a building inspector or similar official has determined
poses a threat to public safety because of an unsafe or dangerous condition.
what this means, ma'am, is that your university and/or its administration are, by proxy, in violation of
North Carolina State Law, and as such, could, and, in my humble opinion, should, be prosecuted to the
full extent of the law. According to the law, as the circumstances of silent Sam's "removal" do not fall
under the guide li nes of said law, the ninety day limit on replacing the monument in its original location
does not apply in this situation. Legally, it would be in the best interest of your institution to re-
erect silent Sam immediately; the State Attorney General may decide to enforce the cultural History
Artifact Management and Patriotism Act of 2015. Is that the kind of publicity UNC-CH wants or needs?
Leftists claim that monuments to Confederate soldiers are monuments to racism, slavery, and hate, yet
they deify Abraham Lincoln, the most famous racist this country, possibly the world, has ever known.
They claim the same thing about our flags, yet they hold in high esteem men who had no honor; men who
waged Total War upon the south, war against defenseless civilians, including women and children, black
and white, freedmen and slave alike. They claim to be about "love," but their actions prove otherwise,
as I personally witnessed on your campus on Saturday, September 8, of this year. what I witnessed that
day was a pack of uneducated, ignorant, cowardly Neanderthals who not only are filled with hate towards
something they can't even begin to understand, but have to gather in packs in order to find the courage
to project that hate outward, and to whom honor is just a word in a dictionary. Honor, ma'am, is not
merely a word in a dictionary, nor is it something a man is born with. Honor is a gift, a gift which a
man gives himself; a gift of courage and fortitude, of humility and compassion. It is more sacred to a
true southerner than life itself.
The truth is that our flags (the Stars and Bars, the Unstained Banner, the Blood-stained Banner, the
southern Cross [a.k.a. the Cross of Saint Andrew or the Battle Flag], and the Bonnie Blue), and monuments
like silent Sam are there not as symbols of racism, slavery, or hate, but to remind those of us that
carry Confederate DNA of the incredible courage, fortitude, and astounding ferocity in battle of our
ancestors who fought for the righteous cause in the last American war for freedom and independence; the
men of the Armies of the Confederate States of America. They are there to remind us that the ground we
stand on is sacred ground, consecrated with the blood of men of all races, the very men of whom I just
spoke. They are also there to remind all Americans that a terrible tragedy happened here, a thing that
should never have happened, and wouldn't have, but for the greed of men of lesser moral convictions than
those whom they sought to subjugate. They are there, just as are the empty ovens and gas-chambers at
Auschwitz, to remind us to never let it happen again, because as I said before, history forgotten is
history that shall be repeated.
I pray, ma'am, that God will bestow upon you the insight to understand the many things silent Sam stands
for other than the remembrance of the many University of North Carolina-chapel Hill students and alumni
that left everything they knew behind to fight for the Confederate States of America. I pray that He
will see fit to impart you with the wisdom and the courage to do the right thing concerning the
restoration of silent Sam to his rightful place; the pedestal upon which he has quietly stood guard over
the souls of the Confederate dead for one hundred and five years.
Sincerely, K. Lance Spivey
Captain Winfield Scott Lineberry camp 92,
Deo Vindici ... [><]
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Message
From: Leo Jassy I
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:06:38 PM
Subject: Monument
I believe that Bennett Place would be a noble site for "silent Sam". Already a historic sight where
visitors can see artifacts and learn about the civi l War, Bennett Place would give the statue the dignity
that many deem important.At the same time, those choosing to visit can the see the statue in its proper
historical context.
Sincerely
Leo Jassy
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Message
From: Anastasia Maddox I
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:07:18 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear UNC,
Please leave the pedestal where Silent Sam stood empty. A placard should state that the statue
removed because it does not represent or uphold UNC's current core values. The statue itself should
be put in a museum where the same message is stated. https://www.unc.edu/about/mission/
Best regards,
Anastasia Maddox
Message
From: Sherri Burch
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:08:10 PM
Subject: Keep Silent Ssm
Keep Silent Sam, preferably where he has been. We can not allow people to be destructive to get their way.
(Re)moving Silent Sam will send a message to others, they can break the law, be destructive, and disrespectful
AND be rewarded their desires. This would be encouraging wrong behavior.
Thx.
Sherri Burch
Class of 1993
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:09:51 PM
Subject: Remove Silent Sam from the front door of UNC-CH
UNC system Board of Governors, President Margaret Spellings, UNC-Chapel

Hill Board of Trustees, and chancellor Folt,
I would like to encourage the UNC Board of Trustees and chancellor Folt
to remove the entire monument, not just the statue of silent Sam, from
the 'front door' of the University of North Carolina chapel Hill. I
remember when my first child and I toured UNC-CH as a prospective
student, and being quite surprised to see such a statue, dedicated at
the height of the Jim Crow south, in one of the most prominent locations
on campus, real l y the very entrance to the University. Both of my
one a graduate and one currently enrolled, are sad to have to explain to
friends and family, why such a statue, with all of its racist past, was
allowed to remain on our beautifu l campus for so long. While I do not
know what setting would be appropriate, I do believe that it should be
relocated to a place that requires the viewer to intentionally seek it
out. Relocating it to a place where one could just 'happen upon it'
would not be acceptable. our premier, 21st century University should
not be defined by a 19th century soldier.
Thank you for considering my opinion,
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Message
From: Carter Gunn
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:12:27 PM
Subject: Monument Thoughts
Hello,
Thank you for setting up this email address for public input. And a special thanks to whoever has the job of
reading through all of these comments, thank you for your hard work.
UNC must immediately remove the base of the Silent Sam monument. It is clear that this remaining part of the
statue is a significant flash point on campus and is causing escalating disruptions on a weekly basis. I am
incredibly disappointed that UNC did not remove the monument altogether before the statue was torn down.
Instead, the board of directors chose to leave the monument up until it created a protest which was incredibly
dangerous and could have resulted in the loss of life. Allowing students and counter protesters to rally around
the monument is fine but it was an incredible failure both by the UNC Board of Directors and the Chapel Hill
police department to allow that situation to become so dangerous. In the weeks since the statue was torn down
the police departments have done a better job but mostly through an incredible armed police presence at all
demonstrations. This is exceedingly expensive and would be unnecessary if UNC would just remove all signs of
the monument.
This is a summary of my thoughts regarding the safety concerns created by leaving any part of the monument
standing. More importantly, this monument is a racist symbol of Jim Crow and segregation which was funded
and placed in a nationwide effort to install symbols of the Confederacy in as many public places as possible. As
you well know the speech that was given when the monument was first revealed was incredibly racist and
derogatory, making the intentions of the monument clear and obvious. To this day the monument creates a
hostile learning environment for the students at UNC. It also represents support for the Civil War which was
waged by the Confederate states to protect and spread the inhumane practice of human ownership.
It is imperative that the base of the monument is removed immediately. Letting this problem linger shows
incredibly poor judgement and weak leadership and will continue to create dangerous situations on campus. I
would propose that the UNC Board of Directors along with faculty, students, and the larger community come to
an agreement on a replacement statue or monument, one that respects every UNC student and faculty member
and that glorifies a better period of our shared history.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read my thoughts,
Carter Gunn
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From: REDACTED [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Location
That Monument and any Statue that is over a hundred years old is a part of history. Whether we like it or not the past is
the past, and lets not go back there. People today are putting more effort in the past instead of the future. The ones that
protest it being on campus, are the one's that showed criminal acts toward state and public property. I thought we were
more civilized now than 150 years ago. Lets have a Monument of the past, present and future that we all can be proud
of. Let's make intelligent decisions and not react on hatred. I suggest that Silent Sam should remain on campus, but
moved to the campus cemetery to honor the dead. We can't change the past, but we can make the future better.
Thanks,
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:13:54 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I appreciate your reaching out to families regarding the historical statue that was so unlawfully ripped
down. Our family believes VERY strongly that the Silent Sam statue should be replaced where it was, if not,
the ridiculous varmints that tore it down win. The fact that the university allowed this to happen to begin with
is completely irresponsible, and it makes me question my and if she can continue to attend
this school.. The South has a history, albeit, not without controversy, however we learn from
history. Therefore, we would like to see it restored at the original location.
Thank you
Message
From: Herbert Sauls
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:18:36 PM
I 100% think it should be put back where it was. Why are UNC and law enforcement so afraid of a group of
protesters. When you are without a backbone and give in to protesters, you only open yourself up to more. Any
and all involved with the destruction should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. What would happen
to me as an individual ifl had done such an act? Uphold the laws or remove yourself from the position you
hold.

Message
From: Jamye Gaster
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:24:35 PM
Subject: Statue
The statue should return to its original location. Regardless of how sens1t1ve the subject is, you
cannot take matters in your hands without consequences. If the statue is moved from the "front door" of
the university, I'd say those who acted illegally succeeded. That behavior cannot be condoned.
Jamye Gaster
UNC 94-98
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:27:00 PM
As both a parent and an alum, I am deeply concerned about the ongoing presence of this statue. Wherever this
statue resides, which I would suggest be in a museum rather than an open public space, I would ask that a
plaque of some sort which accurately records Julian Carr's speech at the dedication of this statue be added. The
racist context in which in was dedicated (which is important, regardless of how it is now interpreted) must be
noted. Furthermore, a larger statue dedicated to the memory of "negro wench" he horsewhipped should be
dedicated at whatever event marks bringing this statue back to the public.
Sincerely,
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From: West, Colin Thor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Silent Sam
Please do not re-install silent Sam on campus. The statue should be

placed indoors within a museum. Placing it back at Mccorkle Place means
it will continue to be the first and most prominent feature campus
visitors will see as they enter from Franklin Street. This will be a
black mark on the UNC community and deeply divide us. There will likely
be more violence and it will escalate. Students will also probably leave
UNC-CH to attend other universities, recruitment will suffer, and our
institution will be looked down on by the public. Numerous faculty and
staff have privately stated they will leave UNC-CH and we will have a
hard time replacing them because of our tarnished image and reputation.
silent Sam belongs in a museum, not on campus.
Colin Thor West
Colin Thor West

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
curriculum for the Environment and Ecology
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
ctw@email.unc.edu
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Message
From: Scott Propst
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:31:39 PM
The statue should not be outside in a public space. The monument/statue pedestal should be taken down. The
statue should be inside a museum with a complete history of its impact on UNC Chapel Hill.
Sincerely,
Scott Propst
Hickory, NC 28601
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:37:32 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Must Go
Thank you for this opportunity to give our opinion on this divisive issue, as an alumni, a parent of a current stud ent, and
a resident of Chapel Hill, I believe that the statue needs to be removed from Mccorkle Place off of Franklin Street. I
believe that placing it a less central location with a plaque denoting its historical context may be best if not removing
from campus all together.
I also think that a university that has difficulty recruiting top African-American stud ents, should be mindful that such a
symbol of oppression and hate could be a deterrent to potential stud ents. I think the town Chapel Hill should be a
symbol of the New South and no longer hold onto divisive, old symbols. I support the local businesses statement for it to
be removed.
I also worry as a parent that this type of ongoing public debate is a significant public safety risk and could attract
individuals who were attracted to Charlottesville to our campus. I think that the opinion of the student body and
current faculty should be weighted more than people from all over the state who have no link to the university other
than the taxes they pay. It is their community of learning that should be a safe inclusive space. Thank you for listening to
my concerns and opinions.
Sincerely,
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Message
From: John Flora
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:38:27 PM
Subject: monument
Carol Folt,
The law says that that monument is to be repaired and protected.
I am absolutely disgusted that you and the Chapel Hill police department allowed the destruction of the
monument by an unruly mob of paid hooligans.
You have only yourself to blame for all the conflict you have created.
You have no authority to spread lies about white supremacy, and what that statue represents.
I hope to see in the future that you have been removed from your position there.
John Flora
Message
From: Jodi Gorman
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:42:44 PM
CC:
Why not place the monument in a civil war museum so that those who want to learn more about the
confederacy can do so at a museum like the civil war museum in Fort Fisher NC outside of Wilmington. Instead
of a confederate soldier statue on campus at UNC why not offer a statue of an honorable alum? Like Michael
Jordan or Andy Griffith or one of the many other notable alumni? That's our two cents!
In a world where you can be anything, be yourself. Etta Turner
Jodi Gorman
Message
From: Gwen Barnes
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:42:46 PM
Subject: monument
UNC,
please move Silent Sam somewhere besides the UNC campus. Put the statue somewhere that people who want
to see civil war statues can visit and view safely. This statue puts all students on campus at risk and has cost the
university a great deal in security. It represents the attempt of people who believe in white supremacy trying to
ram racism down the throats of all blacks and individuals with more enlightened beliefs. Look at the speech
delivered at the unveiling and dedication of Silent Sam and tell me this belongs on campus. I am appalled that a
University that claims inclusion of all races can't make an intelligent decision regarding removal of this
statue. I would like to see UNC portrayed in the national news for something positive instead of violations for
sports and for refusing to remove statue that is a painful reminder of racism. Do the right thing.
Gwen Barnes
Gwen Barnes
Message
From: John Kenny
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:43:40 PM
Subject: Monument
I think we should have the statue returned to the original post to where it stood for decades! If a few
people who are offend that is their right, history needs to be told for future generations! Thank You
John Kenny
Message
From: Alison Warmkessel
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:46:47 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Short answer in case no one reads my entire email considering the volume that you may receive:
UNC alumni, Chapel Hill homeowner
Suggestions:
WHEREVER YOU PUT IT: Provide historical context!!!!!!! Personally, I am glad that it was removed, but
strategically I will say the protests would have had much less support if it had just been supplemented with
contextual plaques around it about how it is problematic. I know that I and many others who have protested this
statue will continue protest or call attention to it if it is in a public space unless a great deal of context is added.
This means as the VERY least, PROVIDE: the dedication speech available to read while viewing the statue
(plaque not pamphlet), information about the Daughters of the Confederacy and their ties to the KKK, and a
timeline of the University's addressing of inequality (founding, civil war, segregation, integration of black
people, AND integration of women, and prominent civil rights clashes). If you provide detailed context to the
statue you can provide a CLEAR message that the university does not support white supremacy or complacency
in the face of racial injustice, but that the university strives to address and learn from the past (not forget it as
some would say the removal was, though I would argue that keeping it as is was an erasure of history) and that
we as Tar Heels strive to continue to ensure that our peers are treated equally and respectfully so that they can
reach their full and deserved potential as students here.
Location suggestions:
Cemetery by Playmakers- quiet space to reflect on the foundation and people who shaped our university and
the problematic views that were held and how we can move forward without forgetting injustice and prejudices
of the past.
Somewhere in Wilson Library- also a quiet reflective space, there are historic art pieces throughout the building.
It could be present without being in common spaces that students must walk by or use for recreation or
studying. Also could work if this "law" gets in the way of putting it in a "museum, mausoleum, or cemetery"
which as it stands as a part of this law confirms that those who created this law didn't want to use them to
"reflect and learn from the past" but to celebrate the confederacy.
Long version:
Hi there my name is Alison Warmkessel and I am a proud Tar Heel alumni class of 2015 and Chapel Hill
homeowner as of this year, and I plan to be here and actively apart of this community and ensuring that it is fair
and inclusive for as long as I am a resident, which will likely be for most of my life. I am so thrilled to hear that
administrators, as well as Chancellor Falt agree that the statue does not belong back on it's pedestal. It is
unfortunate that there is a "law" that states that it cannot be moved to a cemetery? The fact that it apparently
cannot be moved to place where it can be viewed with historical context without proudly putting it on a
celebratory pedestal is pretty demonstrative of the values of those who created these mandates. That statues
devoted to celebrating the confederacy's values cannot be brought out of their celebratory context and into a
reflective context confirms that those people do not want to reflect and learn from history but rather embolden
the values of white domination over people of color. The fact that those who put together this "law" thought to
include that they cannot be relocated into a "museum, cemetery, or mausoleum" further demonstrates this.
I think the cemetery up on South St across from the outdoor fields would be a great place, it is beautiful and full
of historical markers of people of prominence in relation to the university. You can walk around and quietly
reflect on the past and foundation of our university. You can chose to walk in and view these things but they are
set apart and thus are not in your face as you are going about your life as a student on the campus. However, I
think there are other strategic places that it could be placed that are not common spaces where students must
walk by or where they are enjoying the campus or studying. Perhaps somewhere in Wilson Library away from
reading/studying areas. There are already historical markers and it is still a university building and not a
museum etc. It is also a quiet and reflective space which better matches the tone of the statue.
Regardless of where it replaced, as I'm sure it will be placed SOMEWHERE, it would be worthwhile to make
context available with the statue (respectfully, as it should have already, which would have cut the legs off some
of the protesting had it been done before it escalated to this point.) This means providing the dedication speech
in plain view of the statue on a permanent plaque, information about the history of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, info about students that were involved in the civil war, and a timeline and information about the
history of addressing injustice at the university (founding, slave labor, civil war, integration of black people and
women, activists, and clashes over injustices) and then you can follow up with a new dedication that as Tar
Heels we strive to continue to ensure that our peers are treated equally and respectfully so that they can reach
their full and deserved potential as UNC students. Honestly if you provide all of this context you could probably
put it at any number of locations on campus because the lack of context is the most infuriating aspect of the
monument. Strategically if you place it somewhere will all of that information it would be very hard for anyone
to argue with it. On the "keep it" side there are either ACTBAC self-identifying white supremacists which are a
small group but the larger group says that we need to learn from it okay so lets ACTUALLY learn about and
from it-they won't be able to argue if it has the added context.
Regards,
Alison W arrnkessel
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:57:44 PM
Subject: plan for the monument
Good afternoon,
My concerns are as a parent of a first year student. I wanted a video of an older male that appeared to be in his
late 40' or 50's punch a younger male that looked as if he could have been a student. That was completely
unacceptable. My concern is as a parent and for the students' safety. Do matter what the person's views are, it
is unacceptable for students to be attacked on campus but people that are protesting.
I think the status should be moved to another location that is off campus. It could possibly be moved to a
museum, maybe to one of the town's administrative buildings, or possibly a park or garden. I know everyone is
entitled to their opinion and whatever decision is made, everyone will not be satisfied with the
decision. However, as a parent of a UNC student, I feel their safety is what's most important. Hopefully, if the
monument is moved, people that are not students or staff will eventually lessen their protests and presence on
campus.
Thanks for trying to resolve the situation.

Message
From: Nathaniel Royer [nsroyer@ncsu.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 1:59:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
I appreciate your receiving input on the issue of the future location of Silent Sam.
It would be a terrible disgrace for a University that is an extension of the State of North Carolina to display
anywhere on its grounds a statue that memorializes the darkest moments in our history. For the State of North
Carolina to display a statue that glorifies terror, hate and violence towards human beings based on the pigment
in their skin is nothing short of evil, no different than Germany maintaining statues of Hitler.
Dr. Folt, please, for the sake of multi-racial my family, that includes African Americans, be a hero. Please stand
up in the face of the evil that sits on the UNC-BOG and in our Legislature, even at your own risk of termination,
prison, or death threats. There is a long legacy of many other who have done the same. Let your name be
mentioned near MLK not the KKK.
Thank you,
Nathaniel Steven Royer

Durham, NC
Message
From: Mitchell, Charles E [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=BBD1E8A5A484442C84027BD8EFDC68A6-CHARLES EM]
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:05:38 PM
Subject: the statue known as Silent Sam
Dear members of the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Falt,
Please do not return the statue known as Silent Sam to its former location. To do so would be an affront to the
university's values. The statue's purpose, as described by Julian Carr at its unveiling, was to intimidate people of color,
and it was allowed to achieve that purpose for far too long. It should be placed inside, in a museum, where its history
(including its ongoing value to some citizens of our state) can be properly contextualized. Contextualization in its
previous setting would not be adequate because that prominent outdoor location, in combination with the size of the
statue, would visually overshadow the contextualization, rendering it largely ineffective, and allowing the statue to
continue to intimidate.
Thank you for your work on this issue, and more generally to making our campus a better place.
Sincerely,
Charles Mitchell
Professor of Biology
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:05:46 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Deep listening simply means listening with compassion. Even if the other person is full of wrong perceptions,
discrimination, blaming, judging, and criticizing, you are still capable of sitting quietly and listening, without
interrupting, without reacting. Because you know that if you can listen like that, the other person will feel enormous
relief. You remember that you are listening with only one purpose in mind: to give the other person a chance to
express themselves, because up until now no one has taken the time to listen.
I think UNC can be THE THOUGHT LEADER in our country! There is no more civil discourse. As taught me,
we disagree on a topic and the it's gloves off with
"Ad Hominem" attacks on the other person.
I would 100% move that statue to a museum as I agree it should NOT be the greeter for such a fine place as UNC. However,
similar to Maurizio Catalan's sculpture "Him"--the conversation should NEVER be forgotten.
1 would have a day of DEEP Listening at UNC on Silent Sam's site.
lTNC can rea11y be a leader in thoughtful discourse. University through liberal arts education should change the world !
Best
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:07:38 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear chancellor,
Please do not replace s i lent Sam on the UNC campus. Replaci ng silen t Sam wou l d send the message to
students and families of color that they are not respected or welcome a nd overshadow your stated goal of
valuing inclus i ve ness and dive r sity on camp us. A far better place for silent Sam is a civil War
Battlefield with history a nd context provided.
Sincerely,
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:11:39 PM
Subject: future of Silent Sam
To Whom It My Concern,
Thank you for allowing families to have a voice about the fate of the Confederate statue.
A statue is not just about remembering history. Remembering and learning from history can be done from
books, pictures, films, and many other ways. We learn about Stalin, Hitler, and others who helped fight to
institutionalize human rights violations, but we do not erect statues of them. This is because a statue is for
honoring someone. It is put up to show the public what the society values. Does our society value fighting for
keeping slavery? This is the question that must be answered before erecting it again.
If the answer is no (which I hope it is), then this statue should not be preserved. While I do not condone the
illegal taking down of property, I know that legal means were sought for many years and I am glad that my son
no longer attends a place of learning that honors such an abhorrent thing. Personally, I do not think this statue
needs to continue to exist. But, if there needs to be a place for this statue, then let it be in a museum which
educates people on our changing values. It can be a part of an exhibit, not just on the civil war, but on the time
in history when this statue was erected and what that meant for values of the society at that time and the many
years following that "Silent Sam" spoke volumes. But, my first choice would be to destroy this statue, as I
abhor that it honors those who fought for the continuation of institutionalized slavery.
Again, I appreciate the chance to have a voice.
Sincerely,
Message
From: Kathy A
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:14:18 PM
CC:
Subject: A new home for Si lent Sam
As you deliberate over the fate of Silent Sam's statue, we feel there are important lessons to be learned from
recent activities at the Site. We can gain insights from a historical point of view which, then, can help everyone
think about current and political issues. Please consider our following suggestion for a safe, appropriate, non-
confrontational home.
We must remember the motives that gave us Sam: tragic loss of UNC lives. We also must acknowledge the
healing progress made since Sam was erected 105 years ago. The prejudices of One are not reflective of the
memoriam to those students. Let's take an academic approach that will teach our history by emphasizing the
civility we want to embrace.
Relocating Silent Sam to an appropriate historical setting, such as the North Carolina Room of Wilson Library,
would protect him from vandalism without costing thousands of tax dollars. He would join the SOK objects of
NC history and culture, fitting in with furniture dating from the late 18th and 19th centuries. An additional
plaque telling Sam's complete story could help observers understand his position in our history.
One of the most important Missions of UNC is preparing students to be the next generation of leaders and to
be successful in the world at large. We feel this can be better attained by recruiting conservative top tier faculty
and encouraging political discourse that represents disparate points of view similar to what is happening at
dinner tables all across America today. Furthermore, we believe that by exposing students to differing points of
view in a non-threatening environment, relations will improve between you, the administration, faculty, and,
most importantly, our National treasure: the Students.
Herein lies an opportunity for UNC to preserve both its integrity and its history. Our best hope for engaging in
civil discourse is to teach students how to approach controversial subjects academically. We all have battles to
fight. Silent Sam can teach us whether those battles are worth our life.
We must not let militant radicals define who we are.
With hopes for our Alma Mater,
Kathy Arab, class of 1981

Waddy Davis, Colonel,(r) USA, Special Forces, class of 1974
Message
From: Russell Scott Day
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:14:53 PM
Subject: UnderGlass/RSD
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor ofUNC-CH, Carol Folt,

Burying Silent Sam next to the other sculpture about the struggle of slave labor, and the labor system of the
Confederate States of America is a way to obey the State Law.
Imagine Silent Sam in a grave vault covered in glass. There it is, you can see it.
To put Silent Sam in a grave under glass next to Unsung Heroes elevates the work creating a context that in
tension makes one work of art.
It is possible for me to go on and point at the value of a NC System Diploma out in the larger world and what
North Carolina has come to represent because ofHB819, HB2, along with judgements by scholars of
governance.
The rest of the country doesn't think much good about the State of North Carolina when it comes to the North
Carolinians so convinced there is something wonderful about these monuments that make heroic figures of true
traitors to Union ideals of freedom.
I can attest to the discount of my own being in competitions for work and status in the workplace resulting from
where I came from. That I came from North Carolina put me further behind than those from the North or West
professionally. My career played out primarily in New York City and North Carolina. If that monument goes
back up I am sure that the immediate and long term effect will be that a diploma from UNC-CH will be worth at
least 10 percent less than any other diploma from a State University above the Mason Dixon or from competing
institutions of the West.
My suggestion for what to do with Silent Sam represents a compromise, for many want it to be completely
removed from any position of honor on the University campus. However I can promise you that if my
suggestion is adopted and Silent Sam be put in a grave on the campus the reputation of the University will be
advanced, whereas if it is re-erected it will be diminished.
Thanks, Russell
P.S. Please call me to discuss this suggestion. Further I am willing to meet in person and speak with you and the
Board in favor of it. I have already written Mr. Goolsby.
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:16:23 PM
As a parent of on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill, it troubles me that the campus
needs such an ugly reminder of the violent and ugly truth of our past to prominently be displayed for all to
see. I, not only, worry about my own but all of the African American students who must be subjected
to the psychological warfare that must be going on in their heads as they see and hear people who support this
ideology and having this constant reminder proudly displayed on campus.
In my opinion, if there are no statues that represent all of History and embrace the true meaning of inclusivity,
the University should put the statue in a museum where those who choose to see it can and those who do not
care to see it do not have to be subjected to visual reminder of that painful period in American
History. Otherwise, I would hope to see a Statue of Marcus Garvey or Nat Turner and also statues of American
Indian Leaders, Hispanic/Latino leaders, Asian American leaders and every other group of humans represented
on campus. This would be best option for a college that is as diverse as Chapel Hill.
Thank you for taking time to read this message.

Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:24:08 PM
Subject: Monument's well-being is to move to a Raleigh history museum
President Spellings and the Board of Governors,

As a parent of a UNC freshman and as a life-long resident of North Carolina, I want to voice my
opinion of the Confederate Monument's future "disposition and preservation" before the November
i 5, 2018 deadline for the university to deliver its plan. A confederate monument should have never
been allowed to be raised on any public university campus following the Civil War. Its very
installation should have been unlawful as resistance to the Union of which North Carolina was now a
part of, following the defeat of the Confederacy. Confederate monuments face north as if to stand
and march in a war already over. It is one thing to honor the 500 dead students that fought but it
also was erected to honor the survivors and the preservation of the "southern race." The monument
was given by The Daughters of the Confederacy, white women says, Julian Carr during his speech at
the monument's unveiling who have "made of the sturdy manhood of the South the highest product
which a Christian race has yet attained." He goes on to say that these valiant men who attended
UNG were exceptional fighters for this cause. In fact that they were so zealous in the cause that ''if
every State of the South had done what North Carolina did without a murmer [sic], always faithful to
its duty whatever the groans of the victims, there never would have been an Appomatox[sic]; Grant
would have followed Meade and Pope; Burnside, Hooker, McDowell and McClellan, and the political
geography of America would have been re-written." Isn't this saying that he still wishes the
Confederacy should have won? It is evident to me that this statue stands for the wrong side of history!
In fact, it still stands against the equality a country of which UNG is a proud part of educating and
leading. Before the first woman graduated (class of i 898) or first person of color (1951) was
admitted, this statue should have been removed. For before that time, UNC only served white men,
men who left this "grand old University to battle for our Southern rights and Southern liberties,'' Carr
reminds us. Once the university renounced that view of what North Carolina stood for, the state's
General Assembly should have acted on its behalf to remove such a reminder of pain and suffering to
its members. There are no Southern rights or Southern liberties to uphold; there is only an American
civil liberty and union to uphold. Confederate statues belong in a museum in the state's capital to
remember a part of our history long dead so that it doesn't rise again like ashes in a fire not fully
extinquished. And please, include the words given by Julian Carr, especially reminding its viewers
that "One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from
Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets
of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for
protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I
performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights
afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head." Please honor North Carolina by
relocating this monument to a solemn place to contemplate our complex history in a more fitting
environment. The university buildings should be a place of protection for all of its citizens.
Very Truly Yours,

Message
From: Rich Ruhmann
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:40:27 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
First and foremost, this is not about the statue. It is not even about slavery. There is no one alive today who fought in
the civil war. This is about disruption and control. This is straight out of the playbook of Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals.
I just came back from a trip to Europe. Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. They seem to be able to celebrate
and recognize their historical roots. Bad things, very bad things have occurred from Dachau, to the Roman Empire. Are
we willing to rewrite the history books, to change the course curriculum; I think not. Transparency of our strengths and
shortcomings allow us to learn. I could go on with more examples but this is about what to do here at UNC.
The statue should be restored to a place of prominence. A place where we honor the sacrifice of the UNC Students in
their role in building a great nation. Please do not hide this in some warehouse. Please do not give in to the
demonstrators, many of whom were not of the college or campus but bused in to disrupt and tear down our heritage.
Rich Ruhmann
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:40:41 PM
Although I have moved away from chapel Hill to Wilmington I retain strong feelings about silent Sam. At
the age of 80 I relate my feelings for this monument to first hand accounts from friends and family about
why silent Sam is on the University of North Carolina campus. I understand it is there to honor the
students that left the University of North Carolina in the midst of their studies to fight for a cause in
which they believed and paid the ultimate price for their beliefs--their precious lives. The fact that
Julian Carr gave a fiery speech during the dedication of this monument was tragic and unforgivable. He
was shunned by many at the University for making the speech. My first hand stories about silent Sam came
from discussions by Dean William deBerniere MacNider, and his wife sally Foard Mallett MacNider, Patrick
MacNider as well as Frank Graham's family and others with knowledge of why the wives, mothers, sisters,
sweethearts and friends raised money to commission silent Sam.
The views and beliefs of Julian Carr were not shared by the majority according to those relating the
history of this monument who were alive during this time. Many thought Julian Carr made up the story
about whipping the young woman in the street and sleeping with a shotgun under his pillow. others
thought if he slept with a shotgun under his pillow it was to protect himself from the white community of
the University and the townspeople that thought his remarks repugnant and were repulsed by his comments.
Make no mistake, Julian Carr was an industrialist and philanthropic leader in North Carolina. He was not
the moral compass of the University, the town, or the student body.
I am troubled by the atmosphere being fostered at the University these days. I have a grandson currently
attending. I want the voices of every student to be heard and I want the students to feel that they are
free to speak out regardless of the viewpoints expressed by the faculty. The atmosphere fostered at the
University should encourage thoughtful discourse by the students without fear of reprisal or restraint by
the faculty. It is becoming clear that the University faculty is biased against all things I hold dear.
Life, liberty, and justice for all--not life, liberty, and justice dictated by a few members of the
faculty--especially those arrested for assault at the silent Sam monument. I am extremely troubled by
what happened when silent Sam was toppled. It appears to me that the University powers and the chapel
Hill police were complicit in standing back or down and allowing paid agitators wearing masks and/or
hoods to topple Sam. what a shame. "what is it that binds us to this pl ace as to no other? It is not
the well or the bell or the stone walls . . . " - Charles Kuralt Definitely not what is going on at our
dear campus now.
While those ra1s1ng money for the silent Sam monument at the time acknowledged that many students also
left to fight for the North during this civil War and should also be remembered, they were not
acknowledged except for the empty cartridge box on the monument. I wish it honored the several hundred
students who fought for both sides.
silent Sam is one of the monuments designated by the Historic Preservation Society as significant in our
history. I encourage you to find a place on campus to continue honoring our University students. I
understand this is not an easy task you have undertaken. I hope the final determination by you will keep
us loyal to this place we call chapel Hill.
Message
From: Hap Roberts [hap@statewidetitle.com]
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:43:50 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please restore and protect this Memorial.

Respectfully,
Hap Roberts
President
Statewide Title, Inc
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:44:11 PM
CC:
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
I am the mother of a Sophomore at UNC Chapel Hill. I have a strong opinion about
Silent Sam - any statue that draws the negative attention, protesting and danger that
this one has does not belong on a college campus. My child is in danger with that
statue anywhere near her and if you replace it on campus property you will be taking
responsibility for the student injuries which will surely follow. The statue cannot be
returned to the campus. Period.
Now, having said that, I have strong opinions on the statue being placed anywhere at
all and would truly like to see it melted down and used for something else entirely. I
realize that doesn't solve the problem, though, and that there are just a many people
who feel as strongly as I do on the opposite side. Instead, I offer a solution that
should work for everyone.
Erect the statue elsewhere in the community - off campus - at a public park, library,
etc. But erect a second statue next to it - one of a Union soldier of about the same
age. Add a plaque explaining the history of the civil war and how many boys under 21
are estimated to have fought and died on both sides. This would truly honor their
memory while deflating the anger on both sides of this issue.
Should you elect to follow my suggestion or any other reasonable solution that gets
Silent Sam off campus property, I would be happy to participate in fund-raising,
community outreach, or other volunteer efforts to assist. Thank you for opening this
email to all so that we can find the best possible solution together.
Sincerely,
Message
From: Mark Murphy
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:45:11 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Suggestion
Create new meaningful art that places Silent Sam in the appropriate place of U.S. history. Several options of this theme
are valid.
1. The new artwork should be of Gordon a.k.a "Whipped Peter" standing over Silent Sam while holding an
American flag.
Gordon a.k.a "Whipped Peter"
2. Have a figure representing wealthy plantation owners acting as a marionette controlling Silent Sam "puppet
style." Silent Sam the barely literate puppet with dismembered limbs dangling by the wires can also add an
audible element by making gonging sounds as breezes move the limbs.
3. Have representatives of the diverse ethnicities in the U.S. today standing over Silent Sam's dead body holding a
flag or planting it into him "lwo Jima" style. The victorious peoples should represent all ethnicities from all
continents and major religions who have come to America showing it takes all of us to stand together to protect
those without rights.
Mark Murphy
Message
From: Kari
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:48:10 PM
Subject: Please REMOVE Silent Sam. Donate to a NC History Museum
chancellor Folt and the UNC -chapel Hill Board of Trustees,

I was born and raised in eastern North Carolina. My parents, my brothers, my aunts and uncles have all
been born and raised in North Carolina. Alt hough I personal l y did not attend UNC chapel Hill, my
brothers did. I attended sporting events, celebrated their accomplishme nts, and attended many
graduations. slowly, I too ventured westward over the years and now find myself working as a nurse at UNC
Memorial Hospital.
Being raised in the south, I understand the difficult predicament silent Sam is causing. However, I
believe there is only one correct thing to do. He must be removed from the campus lawn. Yes, we all must
acknowledge our past and our country's history, but we do not need to honor aspects of it by forcing our
future generations to walk past a constant reminder of and oppression that we still tolerate and allow.
silent Sam is a reminder of the people who wanted to oppress and dominate another race. Th is statue is no
better than a Confederate Flag hanging on a poll, it just happens to be disguised in metal.
silent Sam is a part of our history so consider putting him in a museum. The North Carolina Museum of
History would make a fine home for him.
I hope we find ourselves on the morally correct side of history and pl ace silent Sam in a museum; where
he can be seen and history remembered but not revered.
Sincerely,
Kari Bal fanz
Message
From: Daniel Haigney
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:48:17 PM
The statue should be put back up in its original place. Stop this nonsense of letting these insane crying
libe ra l s trying to change history.
Dan Haiqney
Message
From: Segars, Al [AI_Segars@kenan-flagler.unc.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:49:56 PM
Subject: An idea ...
Thanks for soliciting ideas. The University might consider purchasing land at an appropriate place
(Bentonville, oak wood cemetery in Raleigh, Gettysburg)and locating the monument at that place. Sam would
be located on UNC property but at a place that provides an appropriate context. A new dedication ceremony
might be appropriate to wipe away the awful first dedication. Just an idea.
Best ,
-Al Segars
Sent on the Run --\\\---------->

Message
From: Xander M
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:52:12 PM
Subject: The monument must be destroyed
Why align your university with the wrong side of history? How is this even a debate? Put that thing in the trash
where it belongs.
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:56:35 PM
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/cn=Recip ients/en =34ade93d61564ff19c6bf3 749272a 75b-South _ com on]
Subject: Monument at UNC
hi my attends UNC and I recommend donating the monument and give it to a museum/college where people
can appreciate history and understand what it took to make this county what is it today. We actually
miss seeing the monument, I hope whatever is replaced will be unbiased polically and represents freedom.
thank you.
Regards,
Message
From: Pierson, Stephanie [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF 23SPDL T)/CN=RECl Pl ENTS/CN=B89E4C393C6A4 7DA94B760905B13932D-STEPHANIE P]
Sent: 9/25/2018 2:58:54 PM
(FYDIBOHF 23SPDL T)/cn=Recipients/en=34ade93d61564ff19c6bf3 7492 72a 75b-South_comon]
Subject: suggestion for Silent Sam
I think that the Old Chapel Hill cemetery, which is on the UNC campus and maintained by the University,
would be an appropriate new home for Silent Sam. Silent Sam was originally created and dedicated to honor
the memory of UNC students who fought on both sides of the Civil War - not just the Confederate side. This
point has not been stressed and I think that much of the public is unaware of this fact. Given this, the Old
Cemetery seems to be a fitting new home, and hopefully will not raise many objections.
Stephanie Pierson, MSHI

Applications Specialist/Data Analyst
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Servi ces Research
UNC Chapel Hill
office: REDACTED
Message
From: Mary
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:00:24 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The statue should be in a museum. As a parent of a current student, I am concerned that a blatant symbol
of racism is on campus and students should not have to be subjected to view it on a daily basis. It is a
vile part of our history but it is history and therefore should be in a museum .
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Chris McKinnon
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:02:38 PM
Ladies & Gentleman,

Put silent Sam Back where it was located on the UNC campus!
I was born in Pinehurst, NC and grew up in the city of Asheboro. Went to college in our great state and
presently reside in the capital city of Raleigh. I've been proud to call myself a Tar Heel Born and Bred.
Been a member of the Educational Foundation since 1979 and have given numerous amounts of money to my
favorite institution at UNC along with yearly tax dollars. Many of my family members have also gone to
school in chapel Hill and received degrees.
I've also had relatives that fought in the civil War for the south. Two twin brothers that were 25 and in
the prime of their lives with a family of two parents and 10 other siblings. One twin was killed in the
battle of Gettysburg while the other was injured at Gettysburg and taken to Point Lookout, MD. Where he
died of dysentery as a prisoner of war in the Northern Prison camp a few years later.
My family didn't own any slaves and they weren't fighting for the south for that reason. It started
because of Tariffs. Namely the tariff of 1828 called the tariff of abomination. The Merrill Tariff of
1861 was the straw that broke the camels back. I encourage that all UNC history professors be forced to
read up on this Law and truly understand why the civil War started.
When I heard silent Sam had been pulled down recently by protesters my anger level was unmatched along
with sadness for whom this monument was erected years ago.
I understand the history of the civil War and know that this great country doesn't need to repeat it. If
you read true history you will in fact know that many went to war from the south and had children fight
to save their property, land and valuables from high taxes administered on them by President Lincoln, who
to this day is one of my favorite Presidents .. Today's youth are taught that the civil War was all about
slavery. It was not. However, there is no doubt in my mind that even in our great UNC institution it's
modern day Liberal professors have sadly been presented that way.
I'm pleading with you to put silent Sam Statue right back where he was located and protect it in the
future. If a choice is made to do anything other than this, my love for UNC will diminish along with any
money I would send to the school.
Thank you for allowing me to voice my opinion on this matter. Again, please remember what a Memorial is!
It's virtually like a grave sight. It's honoring those from UNC who served in a civil War whether the
cause was considered right or wrong. It happened!
Sincerely,
Chris McKinnon
Sent from my iPad
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:10:03 PM
Subject: Monument
Dear Carol Folt,

Thank you so much for handling this situation so well. I wanted you to know that
discussions have happened within our own family so I will jot down a few things here.
I am glad that it happened this way. I don't think you would have the same opportunity
otherwise. My father wants to call out the National Guard and make them put the statue
back. I feel that would be a mistake and this is what I told him.
The last time the National Gu rad was called about student uprising it was at Kent State
about the Vietnam war. Those students had no statue to tear down and I am glad that
after the statue came down it provided an end to the students gathering. I do feel if the
National Guard got involved that a student would get hurt. The mood of the students is
not going away. I feel this generation is in the midst of defining their world and their
reality. It does not matter if others feel "this generation doesn't understand". I feel this
generation has really got it together and their wishes should be respected. Somehow
this situation is also about whose University is this? I think the students are doing what
they should be doing which is shaping who they are and the world around them.
That said, I also want to share wto experiences.

I went to the museum at Yorktown.
https: //www. h isto ryisfu n. o rg/
It is amazing what they have done and the money they have spent on the place. What I
really did not like was the glorification of war and the fairytale quality of the story they
presented. You should go and try not to do that sort of muesum story telling. I actally
got up and left very soon after the movie started as I couldn't take it.
We went as a family up to Harvard and I saw their beutiful wooden cathedral that is
their monument to their fallen Union soilders. One part of it is held so highly that only
the freshman can eat there and no one else EVER can go in. The stained glass is
beautiful. I was sickened at the thought of what so many lost here and that all we had
was a little bronze statue.
I think the story deserves so much more. I do think that there should be a place to keep
the statue under lock and key but also show more of the stories (that I am sure you are
getting) about what went on during that time. After seeing museums such as the very
last rooms of check-point-charlie museum in Germany that deal with more current
issues that are on the same theme of human rights, etc. I think there should be a place
to reflect. I have likened the view of the south to the view of East Germans after the
wall came down and it is a viewpoint I think you can only be sensitive to if you grew up
in the south.
The story you want to tell is that war is awful. Men and boys were carted off in wagons
with bars like animals off to a war they did not want to have a part in. I think you could
also bring in other wars and talk about how that piece of our shared American history is
not pretty, but we have come a long way, and SHOW that in some way. I think it is
worth spending a bit of money on and putting in a place that is along the old part of
campus and use it as a place to visit while people are here. And make it pretty. Do go up
to Harvard and look at all the money used to make that church when none of it at all
went to feeding the people down here. Please use this opportunity to teach and restore
and as a way to try to understand another time.
Thank you for holding strong. I think you have done very well. I think the young people
need a place to hear the voices of the past and also look at the furture and be able to
form opinions about it.
Good luck.
Message
From: Alex Jackson
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:12:45 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

I am a NC resident and proud UNC alum. Silent Sam and any other monuments to the confederacy have no
place on UNC campus grounds. Members of the confederacy should be remembered as slave holders and are a
shameful part of the history of this country. It is my opinion, and the only morally acceptable one, that Silent
Sam and other monuments that portray those who fought to enslave an entire race of people as heroic belong in
one place: the garbage dump.
Thank You,
Alexander Lee Jackson
Message
From: Tony Hanson
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:14:32 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Idea
Silent Sam is a statue, so quit thinking of it as "a statement" and think of it as ... ART! Put it in the art museum.
Ifwe destroyed all the art that illustrated past slave owners ... oh my!
Thanks,
Tony Hanson
Virus-free. www.avast.com
Message
From: Chadwick Rogers
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:14:57 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Stop breaking state law put Silent Sam back now. Thank you.
Chadwick J. Rogers
Lt. Commander Major Charles Q. Petty Camp 872
Twitter Aide-Da-Camp N.C. Division SCV
Message
From: KEVIN LOCKWOOD I
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:21:04 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please,
Use your position to do the right thing. Replace the monument immediately. Thugs and law-breakers must be
shown, that as Americans, we will not tolerate Bullies and masked thugs!
Kevin Lockwood
Message
From: Andrews, William L. [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=3466fbd525 lc4329bb2a 1303b5577528-Will iam L A]
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:24:14 PM
Subject: What to do with the Confederate monument
Since the BOG values the Confederate monument so highly, despite the evidence that the UNC faculty,
students, major town clergy, and the local Chamber of Commerce do not want it on campus, and since
the Town of Chapel Hill doesn't want it on its property, I suggest three alternative sites for it (the statue
and the pedestal).
1. A state park devoted to commemoration of a Civil War battlefield, as Governor Cooper recommended
some time ago; or
2. The grounds where the UNC General Administration offices are located, so the BOG may demonstrate
concretely their veneration of the Confederate monument by installing it on their property; or
3. A private museum where the statue and pedestal can be maintained, perhaps with other Civil War
memorabilia.
The site on NlcCorkle Place should feature a flat marble slab, similar to a grave marker, on which an
image of the Confederate monument is preserved, with suitable commentary on its origin and removal to
one of the sites mentioned above. The slab should also inform readers that the names of UN C's
Confederate dead are memorialized in Memorial Hall for anyone to visit.
What the state of NC as well as the BOG need to hear is that the disposition of the statue and its pedestal
affects the entire community, not just the faculty, staff, administrators, and students on campus. The
community of Chapel Hill-Carrboro should not be forced to maintain and dignify this monument when it
contradicts the values of our community and when it has become a flash point for civil disorder and
violence.
William L. Andrews
E. Maynard Adams Professor of English
UNC-Chapel Hill
Message
From: Edward Mccutcheon jr
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:26:21 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
If Carolina insists on keeping silent Sam, for whatever reason, I would prefer you House it indoors in
one of your buildings - Library, Admin offices, etc. - and nowhere outdoors.
Those who 'chose' to see it have access with intent vs being forced to confront the statue outdoors
Thanks for asking
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:27:16 PM
To: uncmonument@unc.edu.
Subject: silent sam
Dear Chancellor,
As a parent of an al um, I write to you requesting that you find a way to prevent the statue from returning to its former
pl ace. It is a symbol which offends a majority of the students, staff and faculty at UNC, notwithstanding your claim that
70% of other residents support its return. I would request that you have the courage to oppose discrimination and hatred
and stand up to do the right thing.
REDACTED
Stamford CT
Message
From: Cate Barnett Alexander
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:28:00 PM
It has been said many times that Sam was never silent; his mere existence spoke volumes. Not did he engender
silence, being perhaps the most discussed structure on the UNC campus, a sore spot, no matter which "side" you
were on. So controversial was it that no thoughtful campus could be proud of the antagonisms it provoked.
The structure was erected to remind all of the lingering allegiance to the southern cause during the Civil War--
the enslavement of people (several times the population of the white people living in the South) and the desire
to continue the separation of the races. Arguments today that claim was meant only to show respect for the
soldiers who died fighting for the Confederacy are disingenuous and revisionist. The spirit with which it was
placed on the campus is repugnant, and all should know it.
Whatever group is in power is responsible for the symbols in public places, for deciding what will be held up
for reverence. Current leaders now have their opportunity. Removing Silent Sam and placing him in a local
history museum is the only honorable answer. This action would seek not to forget but to remember and never
forget what went before; it also puts an end to the long-term denial that Sam was ever anything but a symbol of
racism.
More challenging to the UNC leadership will be deciding what to put in its place. What should be a symbol of
what UNC holds high, most dear? Will it be a united people, will it portray gratitude for those who did the hard
work of building the university, will it be those who uphold the ideal that all Americans are created equal? Let's
hope it is a symbol of peace and not division.
It will be a tough decision and, perhaps best left for some years, while this dust settles and new, generous ideas
emerge. The most visible symbols of a campus, town or country reveal what that campus or jurisdiction
values. This is worthy of a lot of thought, while Sam is worthy of retirement to a collection of symbols of
bygone eras that no longer represent who we are, who we hope to be, and what we believe collectively is
important in this university town.
Sincerely,
Catherine Alexander
Message
From: c smith-brown
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:30:05 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Munument
DONATE IT TO THE NMAAHC:
To be placed n a prominent place in the National Museum of African American History & Culture, with a
narrative that tells the story of its relevance in Black culture and our journey in this land.
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From: Levin, Lisa [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: location for Silent Sam
Thank you for providing this forum for ideas about the disposition of the statue in the center of
1nuch controversy.
A colleague, Christine Harradine, just told me her idea of placing Silent Sam in the graveyard on
Raleigh Road, along with an explanatory plaque. I think this is a fabulous idea, would make
=most= people happy, and would preserve history without placing it in the forefront.
As an addendum to her idea, I think it might be nice to have a second memorial installed next
to or in the proximity of Sam, honoring those who lost their lives fighting for freedom or due to
enslavement. This monument could be created by an existing or graduated UNC Art student. It
would provide balance, and show the university's compassion and move towards modernity.
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Message
From: Larry Collins I
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:37:36 PM
Subject: SILENT SAM
As a Citizen of The United States of America and a North Carolina registered Voter and father of a former UNC
student I would like the university to RETURN SILENT SAM back to the location he stood for so many years.
He Stood in Honor ofUNC students that fought and died defending what they believed in. I would strongly
suggest that all necessary steps to be taken to ensure that he is not damaged by any and all persons
demonstrating against the Statue. HE STOOD FOR FREEDOM and HE SHOULD CONTINUE TO STAND
and SHOULD REPRESENT OUR HISTORY. I firmly believe HISTORY of our state and nation should be
taught in our state at ALL OUT STATE SUPPORTED UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I feel we
are severely lacking in that endevor. THANK YOU LARRY COLLINS.
Message
From: ANN MCLAMB
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:42:01 PM
Subject: Feedback on Silent Sam (and other monuments)
Thank you for asking my opinion. I propose the United Daughters of the Confederacy (DUC) take back their
statues, a retrieval to a "graveyard" of sorts in a willing location. Perhaps a "Stonehenge" arrangement in a park on
acreage in the South? Confederate monuments and memorials exist due DUC's fund-raising tied to individual
women's heredity. Give Confederate statues back to their rightful owner.
Very sincerely,
Ann M. McLamb
Chapel Hill, NC
Message
From: Sansing, Robin [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=9b5fdba273444a08806fa8b8917e 7fc2-Robin L. Sa]
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:42:04 PM
Subject: Moving Si lent Sam
Thank you for the opportunity to provide input on this matter.

I would strongly suggest the statue be moved to a civil war museum as is appropriate for this type of statue.
If it must be kept on campus, I support the initiative to move the statue to the Chancellor's house. It would keep it
connected with the university where it would be most appreciated.
Good luck!
Robin
Message
From: Blakeney, Liz [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =9d3 lba9110ae43ee8338a4b608e8df87 -EI iza beth S]
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:48:18 PM
Subject: Not part of the 70% .. ..
Chancellor Falt and Members of the UNC Board,
I have been an NC resident my whole life. Before living in Chapel Hill, I didn't know much about the statue, nor did I care.
But since moving here 3 years ago, hearing the history behind it, I think it should have come down a long time ago. You
had a chance to respectively take it down and move it to more appropriate location for historical context, however you
did not. Now it's been torn down.
No I don't agree with how it was taken down, but now that it is, it needs to stay down. It is dividing the campus and
state, and is very controversial. It is bringing unwanted people to the town and campus with harmful intents. It is
jeopardizing the safety of myself, students on campus, staff, and the community, which included my children. I fear
every time a demonstration is announced that Chapel Hill will be the next Charlottesville.
As an alternative, I believe a statue that honors all UNC students/alum that have served, are serving, are veterans, and
have lost their life in a war is more appropriate. This obviously would include Civil War participants.
Liz Blakeney
Message
From: Skip Carney [skip@carneyco.com]
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:49:12 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please don't allow the mob mentality, the outside antagonists, the media or the Governor to force you into a
decision that is anything but returning Sam's statue back to where it has always been. If you allow these people
to "win" you will encourage more of the same from other groups. Now is the time to take a stand.
Skip Carney
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Class of '75
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Message
From: Susan Hartley
Sent: 9/25/2018 3:57:43 PM
Subject: Silent sam
The time has come to move this symbol of racism away from the main campus. I propose placing it in the
cemetery.
Susan Caldwell Hartley, 76, 80

Message
From: Emory Ball
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:08:23 PM
Subject: Concerning "silent sam"
Melt it down and move on from its racist legacy.
Emory Ball
Message
From: Cynthia Sturton [csturton@cs.unc.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:10:09 PM
Dear Chancellor Falt and UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees,
I am writing to add my voice to those urging you to keep the confederate monument off the pedestal and out of
a place of honor. Neither the fight to preserve slavery, nor the brutal, institutionalized racism of the Jim Crow
era should be celebrated. An inclusive campus does not pay homage to hate.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Sturton
Cynthia Sturton, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Peter Thacher Grauer Fellow
Computer Science I UNC Chapel Hill
354 Brooks Building
https://cs. unc.edu/c--csturton/
Message
From: Elizabeth Leland
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:14:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam and Our Support (or lack thereof) for UNC
If Silent Sam is put back up on the UNC campus, my husband and I will discontinue our annual donation to
UNC. Silent Sam was erected 50 years after the Civil War because of racial hatred and has no place on the
campus.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Leland
B.A. Journalism, 1976
Message
From: Ron Teague
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:18:23 PM
There is no discussion necessary. The statue was pulled down illegally and the law plainly states that it must be
replaced where it was ...
ANY other action does NOT adhere to the law, and to not replace it back where it was makes every one of the
decision-makers just as guilty as the ones who committed the crime to begin with!
Message
From: Virginia B. Karb
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:20:31 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a PhD graduate of the school of Education at chapel Hill. I believe "silent Sam" should not be
returned to the general campus at chapel Hill. If there is a museum or other location where an
explanation can be posted then I would be OK with that. My preference would be to destroy the statue but
that will not be acceptable to the legislature.
I'm sure your decision is a hard one.
Sincerely,
Virqinia Burke Karb, PhD, RN

Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:21:05 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
My family has been involved with the University of North Carolina since its founding. Perhaps if you've read of
the history of the university the names Morehead, Lindsay and Hogg will ring bells. Indeed, my cousins the
Moreheads have contributed a great deal to the university through the generations. My mother attended graduate
school there in the 1950s, and a large number of our family and friends are alumni.
I find it extremely disturbing not only that the Confederate memorial statue known as "Silent Sam" was
vandalized and damaged, but that the public voices of many of the faculty and student body of the university
seem to be so ignorant of the history of that statue and the men it represents. No less than fourteen of my
cousins were students or alumni of UNC and went on to serve in the Confederate Army. While I did not attend
UNC, I was graduated with a BA Degree in History from Washington & Lee University in Virginia, Class of
1987, and I find this modern revisionist version of history not only disturbing and hateful, but flat out wrong.
It is possible, if you don't know anything about what had been going on over the past 30 years (like the fact that
the country had almost gone to war in 1828-32 over the "Tariff of Abominations") to debate why the first seven
Southern States seceded in the three months after the election of Abraham Lincoln. It is not possible, however,
to honestly debate why North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas and Tennessee seceded. In fact, North Carolina
voted by a large margin against even holding a secession convention in February, 1861. They sent former NC
Governor John Motley Morehead, a kinsman of mine and an 1815 graduate of UNC, to be part of a peace
commission which included former US President John Tyler of Virginia and other elder statesmen, to go up to
Washington to attempt to work out a compromise to avoid War. Mr. Lincoln kept them waiting around up there
for weeks and finally refused to meet with them. Mr. Lincoln had been outfitting a fleet in NYC to sail to
reinforce Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, knowing that this would provoke the firing on the fort. When this
had the desired effect, Lincoln called out 75,000 troops to "put down the rebellion," which the people of North
Carolina and Virginia and the other Southern States rightly regarded as a violation of every principle upon
which the country had been founded.
Governor John Ellis (UNC Class of 1841) replied to Lincoln's call for troops as follows:
"Your dispatch is received; and, if genuine, which its extraordinary character leads me to doubt, I have to say in
reply, that I regard the levy of troops made by the administration for the purpose of subjugating the states of the
South as in violation of the Constitution, and a usurpation of power. I can be no party to this wicked violation of
the laws of the country, and to this war upon the liberties of a free people. You can get no troops from North
Carolina"
Zebulon Vance (UNC Class of 1851 ), a young Congressman from Buncombe County, NC, who had been
adamantly against secession had this to say:
"For myself, I will say that I was canvassing for the Union with all my strength; I was addressing a large and
excited crowd, large numbers of whom were armed, and literally had my arms extended upward in pleading for
peace and the Union of our Fathers, when the telegraphic news was announced of the firing on Sumter and [the]
President's call for seventy-five thousand volunteers. When my hand came down from that impassioned
gesticulation, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist."
Zeb Vance subsequently raised a company, enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as Colonel of the 26th
NC Regiment, until he was elected governor, from the battlefield in 1862. He served out the rest of the war as
Governor of North Carolina.
These men were not fighting to preserve slavery, or to oppress black people. They were fighting to keep from
being enslaved, politically and economically, by the North. (In 1860, the South had 9 million people, the North
had 22 million, yet the South was paying over 3/4 of the revenues of the Federal Government, and almost all
this money was being spent in the North. The Morrill Tariff, which was a central plank on the platform on
which Lincoln had run, would increase the tariff to 4 7%, FAR worse than the "Tariff of Abomniations" which
had almost brought the country to war in 1828-32 ... with a slave owner in the White House at the time.) They
believed they were doing exactly what their fathers and grandfathers had done in 1776. And North Carolina
took steps to send that very message to the world and to future generations. Mecklenburg County, NC had
declared her independence from Great Britain on May 20, 1775, more than a year before the other, more
famous, Declaration oflndependence. North Carolina chose to hold the vote on secession on May 20, 1861, and
placed those two dates on the NC State flag to show exactly what they were doing.
I urge you to follow the laws mandated by the Legislature in 2015 and return and restore the "Silent Sam" statue
to the place where it has stood for over a century. Instead of destroying the symbols of history, it would be
much better for you to educate your faculty and students as to what those symbols really mean.
Sincerely,
John Field Pankow

Asheville, NC
Message
From: Steve Price
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:27:20 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put back up and leave as is. This is History and should be honored.
Steve Price
Message
From: Al Riggs
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:30:46 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Placement
Melt the bastard down and use it to make a bench so I can stop by and fart on it every time I'm in town.
-al
Message
From: Cathy Co le
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:35:05 PM
Subject: Appropriate place for confederate monument
As a native Carolinian and descendant of confederate soldiers, I hope you will replace the monument at a burial
site or battle site. This site need not be on campus.
Placed on the main campus, facing the Courthouse, the monument was not a tribute to confederate dead but a
threat to non-whites and whites who dared not to support the Jim Crow culture of white supremacy.
As a descendant of both soldiers and their families who endured the horrors of, first, the war and then the first
Radical Reconstruction, I resent the appropriation of these symbols in ways that dishonor our heritage.
Thank you for this opportunity to express my feelings on this matter.

Cathy S. Cole
MA Comparative Literature '83
Message
From: Travis Jester
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:38:53 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
It shouldn't even be in question as to whether or not a memorial to the brave students ofUNC who fought for
their country should be restored. The students should be proud to have such an honor in the courtyard for all to
observe. They should be educated about what this memorial is and what it stands for.
Travis Jester
Message
From: Virginia Sloop
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:40:37 PM
Subject: Vote to move
I am writing to voice my op1n1on that silent Sam has no place on the campus of our university. I attended
Carolina and live in Carrboro. The monument is a Jim Crow era affront to civil rights. It should be in a
museum or battlefield or maybe a cemetery (not the one on campus).
Best regards,
Virginia sloop
Carrboro
Message
From: Daniel New
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:40:59 PM
Subject: Confederate monument(s) UNC campus
Dear Chancellor Carl L. Falt and UNC System Board of Governors,
Ref: www.unc.edu/ posts/ 2018/09/24 / message-from-chancellor-folt-and-the-board-of-

trustees-on-the-confederate-monumen t /
Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the removal of confederate monuments from
the UNC Campus.
It is with a profound sense of sadness that I watch our university educational system
subside into the abyss of Cultural Marxism, erasing all memories of history that are not
politically correct. I am reminded of the Jacobins.
It would be a waste of my time and yours for me to plead with you to not touch, much less
remove, Confederate monuments from the campus of UNC. I'm sure your minds are made
up. You will bow to Political Correctness.
Rather than consign these monuments to "the dust bin of history," I ask you to consider
both the heritage and the "passionate feelings" about our ancestors, and their failed
attempt at self-determination - what we firmly believe to have been the Second American
Revolution. Those men (and women) fought, bled and died - not merely to maintain the evil
system of slavery - but for their right "to alter or abolish" a form of government which they
found to be abusive of their rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. (I'm sure
you're familiar with the quotation from General Ulysses S. Grant, who said, "This war is not
about slavery. If I thought for one minute that it is, I would resign my commission and
offer my sword to the other side.")
I urge you to donate all Confederate monuments to an organization that will, indeed,
preserve them and our heritage for future generations. If you want to reduce your costs
(and liabilities) in this transfer, consider auctioning the statues and monuments to the
highest bidder. Let them raise the funds to pick them up and transfer them to their
museums or to private property.
(Had it occurred to you that this could be turned into a fund-raising opportunity? That
ought to excite some you on the Board of Governors.)
Sincerely,
Daniel D. New
I'm sure a search committee can find an organization that happily receive this and all
monuments, but if not, I'll give you some suggestions:
Sons of the Confederacy (Tennessee)

http:/ /www.scv.org/new /
United Daughters of the Confederacy (Virginia)

https: / /www.hqudc.org/ contact/
http:/ /ncudc.org/blog/about/ chapters/ (NC Chapters)
Order of Confederate Rose

http:/ /www.confederateroses.org
League of the Sou th (Alabama)

https: / / leagueofthesouth.com
The Southern Museum (Georgia)

https: / /www.southernmuseum.org
The Museum of Southern History (Florida)

https: / /www.museumsouthernhistory.com
Obey God;
Serve Mankind;
Oppose Tyranny!
Message
From: Candace Midgett
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:43:01 PM
Subject: 'Silent Sam' statue shou ld be removed from UNC
There is no moral choice for UNC to make other than to remove entirely from UNC both the statue tagged
'Silent Sam' and erected at McCorkle Place in 1913, and the labeled plinth on which it stood.
No argument for the preservation of history can outweigh the harm caused to
people of color forced to walk by this racist structure, intended to intimidate them and suppress their rights, for
the past 105 years.
UNC cannot erase its century of complicity in this innate racism, or the stain to the university's reputation it has
caused. However, these actions
can perhaps begin the process of reconciliation with the community it has harmed:
1. a swift and definitive action to remove all traces of this statue from UNC;
2. the withdrawal of all charges against protestors arrested at McCorkle Place; 3. revocation of bans against
protesting students' presence there.
3. refusal to engage the services of law enforcement officers who have acted aggressively and used excessive
force against those protestors.
Please take this opportunity to redress the historical wrongs you have committed against people of color, and
move toward the right side of history. Bring the University of Chapel Hill into the 21st century, acknowledge
and remove the stain of racism this statue represents, and live up to your mission statement to chart a 'bold
course of leading change to improve society and to help solve the world's greatest problems'.
Respectfully,
Candace Midgett, MA
Candace Midgett
Message
From: S.Reagan
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:45:21 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam should be placed in an area ofreflection. He is an important part of UN C's past, but he shouldn't be
part of the future.
Stokes Reagan
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Message
From: H. Bacon
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:47:37 PM
Dear Madam or Sir,

It is my opinion that the monument should be put back where it was illegally removed in the first place.
The fact that anyone at UNC that works in the administration let it be torn down so easily with out any
police resistance was unfortunate. I am sorry that some people may feel "threatened"or believe it is
racist but that does not give anyone the right to illegally tear down the statue. I do not feel or
believe that many things are right in every day life but as long as they do not physically threaten me or
hold me down in any way I do not go around tearing that something down illegally, in fact even if it were
the case I wouldn't go about it this way. This sends a message to the young students at UNC that this is
some how okay. Well if you want to change something you can't just rush in and do what you want. It is a
process that must take place first, otherwise chaos will happen. Encourage open forums or petitions to
the legislature body to make a change. But honestly our history as a country is complicated as you are
all well aware of. If this statue is allowed to be torn down and done away with how will history both
good and bad, be remembered? what's next? Do we allow the younger generation to storm Washington D.C. and
remove all the monuments and statues there? After all, many of our presidents owned slaves and did some
really awful things. I am not in anyway condoning any of this but I'm pointing to the fact one cannot
erase history even if one doesn't agree with what happened. on the contrary, some atrocious events that
happened should always be remembered so that they are never ever repeated. The civil War harbors strong
feelings on both sides because it divided us as a nation. The soldiers on the Confederate side believed
they were fighting for their country as I'm sure did the soldiers that fought for the North. of course so
much more was involved but tearing down silent Sam isn't going to erase any of this or some how make
what's wrong right. If only life was that easy. so, unless the ones who unlawfully want to go through the
proper channels and have it removed for good, silent Sam needs to be returned or at least moved to a safe
and secure location where this is never allowed to happen again!
Respectfully,
Hollie Bacon
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Message
From: tinamangieri
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:48:00 PM
Subject: right side of history
I am a UNC alumna (PhD, Geography, 2007). Carol Folt, the UNC Trustees, and the complicit state legislators
who have pandered to the racist elements in North Carolina have irrevocably tarnished the great institution that
UNC once was. My previous pride in my alma mater is gone. It is time to do the right thing. There can be no
return to campus of this vile statue and what it represents. The world is watching.
Tina Mangieri, PhD
Stockholm, Sweden
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Message
From: Christopher McKinney
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:48:49 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am appalled that vandals were allowed to tear down the monument, with no intervention from police who just stood
by and watched. I think those responsible should be prosecuted fully. I understand the controversy regarding the
symbolism of the monument and I have read all about the history and the words spoken at the time the statue was
erected. Nonetheless, the statue and the history of our University is undeniable and cannot be rewritten nor should it
be covered up. Most people including myself, never considered the statue to be offensive and considered it to be a
monument to honor the students from UNC who died defending what they believed was their way of life. As more
information was provided publicly on the history of the statue, it was clear that the statue was offensive to many people
and we should all acknowledge this and deal with it. I believe an appropriate, thoughtful, honest educational plaque,
explaining the history of the statue should accompany the statue wherever it is relocated to, and I believe that should be
a designated place on campus where there is an adequate barrier to prevent future vandalism, and not as the
centerpiece of Mccorkle place, which is the entry point for many people to the University from Franklin street. Perhaps
a location near the history department could be designated as a historical learning site with a timeline to document the
evolution and history of the University in the correct and appropriate context, as viewed with current knowledge and
understanding of the racism that was widely accepted in previous generations but is no longer accepted today.
Christopher D. McKinney, M.D. '83'89
Message
From: Cathy Co le
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:49:21 PM
Subject: Remove the Silent Sam Monument
The letter from the Town of Chapel Hill expresses my sentiments quite well. It is time for the University to
take a strong stand and remove this distraction so the greater mission of the University can go on without the
undue time spent on protests. Certainly the statue should NOT go in any building on campus.
Thank you for taking my comments into account.
Cathy
Cathy Cole
Message
From: Andy & Boyd Blackburn
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:50:29 PM
Subject: time for Si lent Sam to be retired
It is time for Silent Sam to be retired. He is a relic and symbol of an era of human history in which it was
considered reasonable for one human to own another human. We want to move past that toward a healthier and
brighter future.
- Dr. Boyd Blackburn
Andy and Boyd Blackburn

Message
From: Becky Walker
Sent: 9/25/2018 4:50:34 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam is not part of any government.90% of southern white men did not own slaves. Both Confederacy
and Union had military drafts.Most men had no choice but to join and fight. A New York newspaper printed
lies about Robert E.Lee's owning slaves and mistreating them.Lee wrote papers to free all his father-in-
law's slaves during the war, before the Emancipation Act. silent Sam and Lee should stay where they were
put with respect.If you can not enforce the laws, put Confederates in museums with respect.
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Angela Schellpfeffer
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:00:40 PM
Subject: Monument
I propose we put the monument exactly in that same place it was in. This monument is over 100 years old
and represents a period in our history and the plight of many individuals during that period. If we start
caving to the anti fa crowd, they will simply double down and become more and more violent and radical. We
need to put an iron fence around the monument and the next time anyone touches even the fence during a
protest, arrest and prosecute them immediately!
Angela schellpfeffer
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Message
From: Daniel, Renie [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=4868c71761ab4d7191e303e0d6149800-Renie Danie]
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:03:56 PM
Regardless of the original intention, any monument that is divisive should not be displayed. If there is a subset
of individuals who declare, time and time again, "This is offensive because it is a reminder of a racist America"
the University has an obligation to listen to this message. If the University wishes to commemorate fallen
soldiers perhaps a plaque would be a better option. The University should put the monument in a museum
and be mindful of how symbols can be painful.
Also, please revisit the speech given AT THE UNVEILING of the statue by UNC trsutee Julian Carr "The present
generation, I am persuaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the welfare of the
Anglo-Saxon race ... " Is THIS what the University feels should be commemorated? I hope the University can
understand why individuals see this statue as a racist relic; it is because of what it stood for when it was
"gifted" to the University.
If the University decides to keep this statue on campus, you might as well erect one of Hitler and Stalin and
"commemorate those who lost their lives" in the World Wars because that is how offensive this statue is to
some.
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From: Oberschall, Anthony R [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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To: UNC Monument [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exc hange Adm inistrative Group
Subject: Fwd: where to place Si lent Sam
Sent from my iPad
Begin forwarded message:
I suggest the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery (next to Playmakers)
Cemeteries are for dead persons; Silent Sam commemorates Confederate war dead; a
cemetery is an appropriate place for all dead, including war dead
The old cemetery already has some confederate soldier graves; it also has some African -
American graves
It is accessible by foot from the central campus, a good location
If the cemetery is full, an additional small plot could be added for Silent Sam
A. Oberschall, emeritus professor of sociology

Message
From: Stacie hurdle I
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:29:30 PM

Subject: Silent Sam
The SHent Sam statue is a memory of our history which should not be done away with, We may not
be proud of what took piace, but it was a part of our history in which many of our kind foik
participated and shoutd be honored,
SHent Sam has been there for years and should stay right there,
Sincereiy,
T, H, Brandon
Message
From: Teresa Hammersley
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:30:39 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I believe the statue should not be put back nor relocated anywhere on campus. It belongs in a history
museum with information about its context (i.e., that it was created many years after the civil War). At
the time it was erected, it probably represented the pride and history many White North Carolinians felt
about those who served the confederacy. But today, the statue reminds those whose ancestors suffered
through years of slavery and subsequent discrimination (that continues today!) that the civil War was
fought to try to preserve that way of life. Where are the statues honoring Martin Luther King or
prominent female heroes of our time? When a symbol becomes a touchstone for white supremacists, it must
go. If the University wants to adorn the campus with statues, let them be ones that inspire all people.
Thanks, Terry Hammersley
Message
From: James Reed
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:34:46 PM
Subject: Silent Sam statue relocation
I recommend that the statue be placed in the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh.
Jim Reed
Message
From: kim di llon
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:34:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think it needs to go back where it was. This is our history and we cannot change that. It's not racism it's
HISTORY. If he is moved I think all Martin Luther King Jr monuments and street names need to be changed
and send his statues to a museum. As well as all statues of everything. Should we tear down the Statue of
Liberty because she was from France and is green? Or maybe paint the White House cause White is
racist? Keep our history where it is. I am not a white supremacy supporter or a nazi. Just a southern lady
wanting to preserve our history.
Message
From: Hagood, James Small [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: monument suggestion
Obviously no monument that supports or appears to support slavery or any type of discrimination or racially
motivated violence is to be tolerated on UNC's campus. It is also not right to try to erase history which is
uncomfortable or which reflects errors, even grievous ones, the University has made in the past.
As I understand it the monument was intended to honor Carolina students who made sacrifices to defend
what they thought was right. This was a terrible chapter in our national history, but not the only terrible one.
The forcible expulsion and abuse of the original inhabitants of our land started everything off on an awful
foundation, and we seem to be in dark times at the moment. North Carolinians (black, white and Native
American) fought on both sides of the Civil War (Milton Ready, The Tar Heel State. University of South Carolina
Press. 2005}, and it is likely that UNC students fought on both sides.
Why not "repurpose" Sam, not as a Confederate soldier but as a defender of anyone who suffers injustice?
Just as a statue of a little girl gave a new perspective to a monument on Wall Street, perhaps a well-rendered
depiction of what we hope our best intentions are (defending the disadvantaged from greed, bigotry and small
mindedness) could recast Sam in a narrative we could all support. This could be displayed in a context of
mistakes we have made in the past and efforts at reform and reparation.
Let's own up to our failings and create a bold vision for what we hope we are as a scholarly and artistic
community
James Hagood
Nominated Professor
Pediatrics
Message
From: Matt Morgan
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:35:20 PM
Subject: Statue location
If the statue must be displayed somewhere, it should be placed in a history museum where it can be
accompanied with the proper historical context. It should not under any circumstances be placed back in its
previous location or any other place students are forced to walk by on their way to class.
Matt Morgan
Class of 2005
Message
From: Susan McIntyre
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:36:17 PM
Subject: Fwd: Move Silent Sam!
First time I tried to send this I had an errant "s" in the email address.
From: Susan McIntyre

Subject: Move Silent Sam!
Date: September 25, 2018 at 9:45: 13 AM EDT
To: uncmonuments@unc.edu
As a two-time UNC graduate (MSW, 1976; MPH, 1980), I accept that times and perceptions change. And the
reality is that Silent Sam has now become, more than anything, a symbol of a racist, slavery-associated past.
Not all perceive it that way but enough do that it no longer should remain in a place of prominence on our
public university campus.
Personally, I donate to the university with the expectation that those funds with in some way support academics
and students ... not protecting a statute or those who could be hurt if the stature continues to be a flashpoint of
protest.
So .. .I racked my brain to consider an alternative location on campus where the statue would not incur additional
expense in its on-going protection, nor continue to generate the strong feelings of those who think it a symbol of
oppression ... and I came up blank. I feel sure the History Dept would refuse the "gift", as would the Ackland
Museum. More generic options return it to a public place where all the current objections would continue to
fester. Any place where it stands in the open on campus is out of the question as protests will merely follow it.
I would urge the university and its Board to first consider if there is any easily locked location where Silent Sam
could appropriately remain- with plaques explaining its history. Failing that, I would urge Chancellor Falt and
the Board to do what is right for education and vote for the removal of what has become a costly distraction. If
the state government then refuses that option it reflects negatively on our legislators, not the university.
Susan McIntyre
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Subject: Fw: Silent Sam
Thank you very much for the opportunity to offer input to your Silent Sam deliberations.
I wrote the following article published in the Burlington ( N. C. ) Times News on July 20,
2015. While it does not address or mention Silent Sam directly---the central subject of
the article---the Confederate Statue at court square, Graham, N. C. is the very same--
the principles, context, points, issues and concerns are the same and apply consistently
to Silent Sam...if one might REALLY LISTEN he or she just may hear Silent Sam telling
his story and the similar story of his fellow soldiers through some of the salient points of
this article. I am a UNC-G graduate, my wife, son and daughter-in-law graduated from
UNC-CH. My granddaughter will graduate there also very soon and probably grandson
class of 2025. While I do not purport to represent their views I do doubt they would vary
significantly. Thank you for your time and consideration. REDACTED
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From: Matt Joyner [mjoyner@bdjalaw.com]
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:41:13 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam -- Just Obey the Law
Why not surprise everyone and simply obey the law with regard to Silent Sam?
NCGS Section 100-2.l(b) is very clear regarding the permanent relocation of an object of remembrance such as Silent
Sam:
"An object of remembrance that is permanently relocated shall be relocated to a site of similar prominence, honor,
visibility, availability, and access that are within the boundaries of the jurisdiction from which it was relocated. An
object of remembrance may not be relocated to a museum, cemetery, or mausoleum unless it was originally placed in
such a location."
Thus despite Chancellor Folt's public announcement that Silent Sam was at the University's "front door" and should not
be returned there, that is exactly what THE LAW requires in this instance since there simply is no alternative "site of
similar prominence, honor, visibility, availability and access" on the UNC campus.
Obey the law and return Silent Sam to where he has stood for 105 years.
Simple.
Best regards,
Matt
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Attorney at Law
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Message
From: byron hall
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:49:12 PM
Subject: silent sam
hi the monument needs to go back whear it was it is to honor young men who truly gave all and it needs to be protected
you can not let a mob do what thay want because thay dont like it
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From: May, Steve [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Feedback on Plan for Silent Sam
Attachments: Feedback on Plan for Silent Sam .docx
Please see, attached, my feedback regarding the plan for Silent Sam.
Steve May
Associate Professor, Department of Communication
The Silent Sam monument was dedicated in the spirit of white supremacy and represents the
Confederacy's violent efforts to maintain control of other human beings--to buy them, sell them, whip
them, rape them, and kill them, as needed. It is an abomination to have such a statue on the grounds of
one of the great public universities of our country, dedicated to light and liberty. It neither aligns with
our past nor our future and can never be returned to our campus--in any way and in any form. The base
should be dismantled and taken off our campus, as well.
I strongly disagree with the university's efforts to "historicize" the monument and "put it into context"
as "an educational opportunity." From the moment I walked on campus as a new faculty member nearly
25 years ago and passed Silent Sam, I knew immediately the history and the context of the monument. It
is self-evident. Campus tours and university lore (often under the guise of additional harm via sexist
jokes about when he shoots his gun) sought to ameliorate its dark history. But, those narratives do not
change, in any manner or form, the violence--physical, emotional, and spiritual--done to take away the
light and liberty of other human beings. The attempt to provide a historical context to Silent Sam, in my
view, lacks integrity and ethical courage.
The dark cloud of Silent Sam should never reside on our campus again. If there are others, such as the
Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy, who find it to be a source of honor and history, let them display
it in their front yards. If our legislators view it as such a source of pride, encourage them to place it at
the front steps of the legislative building so that all the world may see their values on display, publicly
and transparently. But, it should never be on the front yard of a great public university committed to
serving the public good.
If Silent Sam is returned anywhere on campus, I will be among the many faculty, students, and staff who
will move forward with a "no confidence" vote in our administration and seek their removal in an
expedited manner to bring integrity back to our institution.
Furthermore, I do not accept the assumed premise that the rightful place for Silent Sam is back on our
campus. The university's plan presumes, unethically, that the statue should be returned to campus
where we can educate others about it. At a time when our political leaders do not accept responsibility
for misconduct and our university did not acknowledge wrongdoing of our own unethical behavior for
years, it is all the more important to have the ethical courage to rise up and say, "We made a mistake.
This monument, which was erected to produce fear in others we once owned for self-profit, should
never have been on this campus. We will now correct that wrong, so long overdue, and never return it."
Are we President Trump? The Catholic Church? Do we lack such integrity that we cannot stand up and
state, to our fellow citizens of North Carolina and beyond, that the best way to lead and to teach is to
acknowledge a wrong that has been done? We were wrong to allow it to be erected on our campus. We
were wrong to allow it to remain standing. Anyone who believes it should return is also wrong. The
effort to re-erect Silent Sam on our campus is unethical, at its core, and our administrators should have
the ethical courage to name those efforts as such.
The chancellor and other administrators have undoubtedly received many negative comments about
the "mob" (notice the language used to describe those seeking civil rights) that brought the statue
down. There are surely some people on campus who believe Silent Sam represents an important
legacy/heritage for members of their families. But, in that regard, we have a clear ethical choice. We can
either follow the lead of other totalitarian governments and retain monuments for the sake of "legacy"
and "history," offering narratives to contextualize brutalizing other human beings. Or, we can follow the
lead of Germany, South Africa, and other countries who have outlawed the symbols of fear and hatred
and who have brought the perpetrators forward to seek mercy from their victims. If you must leave
Silent Sam on campus, then have an ongoing, public reconciliation in which the families of slave owners
will apologize to, and compensate, the descendants that were owned by their families.
If our university leaders had shown ethical courage in the early stages of white supremacists' efforts to
intimidate us, surveys and email responses would not be necessary. They would have done the right
thing long ago and moved Silent Sam off our campus. I fully understand the predicament of negotiating
among a wide range of groups who have diverse views related to Silent Sam, most notably a legislature
that wants to micro-manage campuses by forcing their own conservative, religious values onto others.
Ideally, they prefer that we do their bidding for them by creating a "solution" to the problem they
exacerbated with their laws. In addition, the have shown their willingness to punish both individuals and
our institution when we speak out against them. But, our task as a public university is to protect
minority groups from the tyranny of the powerful. The authority of power today seeks that we remedy
the damage they inflict on us. It is absolutely essential that we resist their efforts to make us the
"problem."
What is to be gained by returning Silent Sam to our campus? Creating more protests from white
supremacists who make our campus unsafe? Satisfying the descendants of slave-owners? Making bigots
feel a bit more empowered to marginalize others?
Silent Sam does tremendous, ongoing, daily harm to the many people who study and work here,
sometimes for decades. Can you imagine Navy personnel at Pearl Harbor walking past a heroic depiction
of the Kamikaze pilots who killed their brethren, day in and day out for 30+ years? Or, closer to home, a
Baptist pastor walking past a monument to the devil, placed prominently in front of his place of worship
for a decade--while others protest to maintain its presence and legislators mandate that it must remain?
Or a monument to bin Laden at the base of the Twin Towers?
Is there a place to return Silent Sam on campus? Every viable unit that has been considered to date has
publicly stated that they don't want it. Shall we put it, front and center, at the entrance to South
Building? Perhaps in the Pit where it can educate more people? Maybe at Kenan-Flagler, since slavery
was, in part, a business endeavor? At the entrance to the Smith Center so that more visitors from
abroad can see it displayed proudly and prominently? It would look great in the Arboretum, where
students can relax, look up at it, and ponder slavery amid the natural beauty. Or, should we place it in
front of the hospital where those who are ill and seek our care can be reminded of our shameful legacy?
All are absurd. The prospect of Silent Sam on our campus strains credulity.
There never was, and never will be, a respectable, honorable location to place a monument to hatred,
torture, fear ... and death.
Message
From: Margie Destefano
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:54:23 PM
Subject: Sam statue
I personally think it was criminal that the students were allowed to destroy both statues. The girl
that brought down the first statue made a remark the statue being brought down was about the men in blue.
I can't believe nobody picked up on that. If these students get away with trying to erase history which
most of them probably don't know what even happened what are they going to destroy next. We are the
adults do they know that General Lee's property is Arlington cemetery whe re all of our brave soldiers are
laid to rest are they going to destroy that next. We learn from history we don't destroy it. I hope you
realize that most of the protesters don't even belong here.Put Sam back in his spot and protect him.
Message
From: John Murphy
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:54:32 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Monument Disposition

I suggest the monument be placed right back where it has been for over 100 years with no problems until
recently. It honors the Confederate soldiers(many of whom lost their lives in the war) which incl ud ed
many former UNC students who were drafted into the Confederate Army. It clearly has historical
significance. I suggest an electrified fence protect silent Sam with a prominently displayed warning
sign erected for liability protection. We need to stand up against these rogues in hopes of discouraging
continued illegal actions of this kind. Thank you for considering my suggestion.
Sincerely,
John J. Murphy, Jr.
class of 1957
Message
From: joseph williams
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:55:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
There is only one place the monument should be, back on the pedestal it was illegally removed from.
Take care Joe

Message
From: Nicole Bennett
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:00:35 PM
Subject: Please Don't Return Silent Sam to Mccorkle Place
Chancellor F olt:
The attached picture was taken several years ago when I had fall pictures made \vith my children on my beloved UNC's
campus. This one is especially poignant because I'm explaining to my son the significance of Silent Sam. I explained to
him the purported meaning and then I told him what the monument meant to students of color, like myself. I told him how
students had been asking the administration to remove the statue for decades, including during my tenure at Carolina in
the late 80s and early 90s.
Flash forward to August 20, 2018. Words cannot express the emotion I felt when I heard that that monument to hatred that
had stood for so long had been toppled. I grabbed my now 12-year-old son who was watching the news \vith me and cried.
I couldn't even explain my tears to him. He just hugged me and said, "Mom, I get it."
Chancellor Holt, I love Chapel Hill and the UNC campus. Some of my happiest memories were made there. But I always
got a bad feeling when I walked past Silent Sam or when l told family and friends who were visiting what it stood for. It
made me feel unwelcome on the campus I loved. In today's highly charged climate, where it's necessary for black people
to remind our fellow Americans that black lives do indeed matter, it is especially heartbreaking that my beloved alma
mater, the nation's oldest public university and the state's flagship school; a school known for its progressive stance on
social issues; a leader in global education and technology - would need to be among those we have to remind. UN C's
campus should be where students from small towns like mine learn about diversity and inclusiveness and where they feel
like they belong. It troubles me that we should even have to explain that a monument dedicated by a racist supporter of the
KKK, \vho espoused the virtues of the Anglo-Saxon race and patted himself on the back for horse whipping a "negro
wench", would cause feelings of sadness, disenfranchisement and anger.
Returning the statue to such a prominent public space as McCorkle Place would send a clear signal to black UNC students
and alumni that our university is okay with white supremacy. I don't want to believe that for one moment, Chancellor
Folt. Not my alma mater. I am a proud Tar Heel and I'm looking to you and the Board of Governors to finally do the right
thing with this statue. Please tell the nearly 3,000 black students currently enrolled at Carolina and the thousands of black
alumni across the globe that our lives do matter, that our ancestors who built the university matter, that the "negro wench"
who was so enthusiastically whipped just feet away from where Silent Sam once stood mattered. Please don't return the
statue to McCorkle Place. Put it in a museum. The eyes of the world are on Carolina. Let's make a bold statement that we
will not be intimidated by hateful, racist, divisive rhetoric and tactics. We are THE University of North Carolina where
everyone is welcome, everyone matters and anything suggesting otherwise will not be tolerated.
I thank you for your attention, and I anxiously await this extremely important decision.
Regards,
Nicole Heckstall Bennett

BA, Economics '92
MRP '95
Message
From: Tom Gawronski
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:04:25 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam - What to Do
Stick it deep in the stacks of Wilson Library, and come into the 21st Century.
Thanks,
Tom Gawronski
'80
Consistent alumni contributor who also has UNC in my estate plan.
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Message
From: frank hobart
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:04:59 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put him in the cemetery on campus near the athletic fields and ?Woolen Gym
Frank Hobart
Message
From: Karl Burkhalter
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:05:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam.
One million Freedmen died from tender mercies ofReconstuction while Robber Barons funded
Transcontinental Railroad Transatlantic Cable and purchase of Alaska. By not teaching results of North's "Holy
Crusade" to "free the slaves" students lose sight of subjugation of Labor and Corporate exploitation of Federal
revenue, in various scandals like credit mobilier. North wanted to be free of Blacks, not free for Blacks. Richest
Slave owners in Louisiana were Black and richest Blacks in America. Union General Nathanial Banks
contraband policy became the Jim Crow laws that mirrored Illinois antebellum Black Codes. Vilifying South
obscures duplicity oflnvasion. Union genocide policy at Canyon de Chelly, Bear River, Sand Creek,
Whitestone Mt and Mankato served as model for Hitler, who spoke glowingly of Lincoln, not Davis. Put statue
back and teach the truth. Respectfully, Karl Burkhalter

Message
From: John Findlay
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:06:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam location
It seems that a good solution would be to move the statue to the government area offices in Raleigh. Raleigh is
the state capital and the statue would be preserved, but not on the campus of any university or college.
Message
From: Susan Hinckle
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:09:38 PM
Subject: PUT SAM BACK
I feel strongly that Silent Sam should return to the campus - the location on campus is not so important, but he should
be returned! If he is not returned, it would suggest that violence is an acceptable option if you have a different
opinion. What kind of society would we have if everyone chose to act violently whenever they disagree with others?
While there are many different opinions and views, a violent response is absolutely not acceptable. Students, faculty
and staff MUST act civilized. My goodness, where has the art of a good debate gone. State your opinion, but be able to
shake the hand of your opponent and walk away without a violent response! I challenge UNC to initiate such a
change. Do not allow faculty to tell students how to think - teach them how to make a compelling argument, everyone
has to accept there are many opinions and views and you are not wrong to have a differing opinion!! This must start at
the top, I encourage the faculty and staff to encourage fair and open debates of all views, this is the role of a university
to teach these students critical thinking and acceptance of different opinions. Perhaps if this mindset was practiced on
campus, Silent Sam would not be an issue.
Message
From: Pamela McKee
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:13:33 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam is part of our history in North Carolina.

As a UNC graduate, 1988, I am strongly in support of preserving the monument and re-erecting it just as
it was bit with some security. We cannot a ll ow peop l e to mess with the history of our State, our country
and our campus.
Pamela Murphy McKee
Sent fr om my iPhone
Message
From: Steve Voss
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:16:10 PM
Subject: Monument
It should have never been removed in any way,shape or form. People do not realize that you can't erase history.
That goes for any monument for that matter.
Message
From: Dean Loven
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:17:34 PM
Subject: suggestion for the confederate monument
Remove it entirely from campus. Put it at Bentonsville or some actual battlefield or cemetery with a plaque showing its
entire sordid history, including the speech given at its dedication.
Dean Loven
Message
From: Shawn Billings
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:17:47 PM
Subject: Statue
I still think that since this is part of our history, it should be displayed not tore down. Instead of tearing
it down by I'm sorry but disrespectful youth, why not display it along with other well known figures of
how far we have come. Racism will never stop so long as people want to make a ant hill out of a
mountain. Say maybe have Sam, Martin Luthur King, Rosie Parks, etc. etc. Part of history, all of
them. Its what has made our country great
Shawn
Message
From: Wayne Herndon
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:18:46 PM
Subject: Confederate Memorial
Very simple. Put it back where it belongs, as required by law. Any faculty, staff, or students who are distressed by it can
find somewhere else to be.
Respectfully,
Douglas W Herndon '71

Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:21:25 PM
Subject: Donate Statue to National Museum of African American History & Culture in DC
Chancellor Falt,
Thank you for opening yet another communication channel to the UNC community and encouraging continued dialogue
on this topic. I'm sure you have been hearing from a lot of UNC stakeholders, parents, students, and others in the
broader Carolina community who are very passionate. Please know that we are very appreciative of all that you and the
UNC administration have done these past few weeks to communicate with us and keep our kids safe as you navigate this
broader national debate with great diplomacy and purpose.
Since you are asking for ideas, I'd like to suggest that UNC 'donate' the Silent Sam statue along w/some historical photos
as well as current photos of the protests to the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington
DC. If you've never been to tour the museum ... go, and you will understand why this would be a fitting place to 'tell the
story' of Silent Sam. This amazing museum documents the history and the story of all Americans through the lens of Civil
Rights and the African American community, beginning from the slave trades among nations up through current events
and the Obama administration. It documents pivotal moments in our history in a very balanced, informative, and
poignant way. It shows our progress - and lack thereof - in ensuring equal rights and social justice for all Americans. It
challenges us to further advance 'progress' in an environment that is becoming less civil both in discourse and in action.
Silent Sam should be offered as the next Chapter in this story. In this proposal, UNC should also encourage other
academic, corporate, and community institutions to join in donating 'symbols' of the current and ongoing dialogue
(Charlottesville/UVA, the Confederate flag that was removed from the SC capitol, the new NI KE Kaepernack ad and
relevant news clippings etc). The Museum would then have the opportunity and expertise to update their collection
.... tell the story .... In a powerful way that continues to raise awareness, education, and progress.
So a BIG idea, but one that would be more meaningful, more impactful than reinstalling the statue on campus or on
community grounds where it will continue to stir up controversy and create distraction from UNC's academic mission. It
is a proposal for the greater good in bringing communities and people together in understanding instead of further
dividing them. (Added bonus, it would also be good PR for UNC. ... from a marketing communications professional
standpoint)
Thanks for asking.

Regards,
Message
From: Bill Sutton
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:23:10 PM
Subject: Silent sam
Keep it and put it in cemetary located on campus near the intramural fields, school of govt
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:29:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please do not put Silent Sam back ANYWHERE on campus. How could you do that to African
American students? I thought UNC held progressive and inclusive ideals. How can you have a
monument to racism on campus? Please put it on a battlefield site. We are white North Carolinians
and my daughter goes to UNC-CH. This statue has always offended ME, I can't even imagine what
the African American students would feel if you resurrected this thing8'
Message
From: John Tharin
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:29:52 PM
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Subject: 55 Placement
silent Sam should be placed back where it was illegally removed. That will send a message to vandals that
their illegal actions won't be tolerated and will deter simi l ar action in the future.
John Tharin
Message
From: Richard Foy
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:31:15 PM
Subject: Test
Test delivery
Message
From: Cindy Johnson
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:36:52 PM
Subject: Remove Silent Sam
Due to the racist history of the silent Sam statue and the possibility of continued controversy and
safety issues, I believe that it should be permanently moved. The actual location of removal is not
clear as it could continue to pose a hazard to public safety at any outdoor location and is not
appropriate to be housed in any University of NC building. Perhaps, if the state of North Carolina would
make a plan to move other Confederate statues, there could be one location for all of them, a memorial
garden might be appropriate. There would need to be signage and information to put the statues into
historical and valid context.
Thank you,
Cindy Johnson
class of 1991
UNC school of Medicine
Department of clinical Rehabilitation
and Mental Health counseling
Message
From: Chris Wenze l
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:39:02 PM
Subject: monument idea
Our country is so full of radical ideas from both sides we forget we can meet halfway. My idea would be to
restore the statue to its position and either erect a statue next to it or revise the plaque to allow the other side to
express their views, whether it be a tribute to remember the victims of the civil war or something to help us
remember what our country learned from it. There must be a way to appease both sides. In other countries
such as Germany, they have found a way at monuments/museums like Auschwitz to remember evils of the war
in a way that we can learn from it and remember never to relive those evils.
Chris Wenzel
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Message
From: norbert turek
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:46:18 PM
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=34ade93d61564ff19c6bf3749272a75b-South_comon]; Sage N Turek
Subject: Re: Melt Sam and recast him ...
Common men and women ....
Norbert
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 6:45 PM norbert turek wrote:

As a monument to the common meet and women who have made North Carolina a
wonderful place.
"And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat
their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."-Isaiah 2:'t:.-.-:.4
Norbert Turek
'81
Message
From: Peter Grant
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:46:42 PM
Subject: DESTROY IT! !!!!
There will NEVER be PEACE or SAFETY for your students and employees until it's GONE
FOREVER!!!!! It's 2018 and black kids still must tolerate this level of insensitivity?!?!? YOU'RE
DESPICABLE!!!!!
Message
From: John Ribo [jribo@fsu.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 6:46:48 PM
Subject: No Public Space on Campus for Confederate Monument
I am an alumnus of UNC. I received my MA and PhD from Carolina. I love the university, cherish the years I
lived in Chapel Hill, and miss it all dearly. But I was never a fan of the confederate monument that marred the
most scenic pedestrian entrance to our beautiful campus. I wrote the last chapter of my dissertation on the
history and symbolism of the statue called Silent Sam and my research supports the complaints of student
protesters who have pointed out repeatedly over many years that the erection of the statue contributed to a
regime of racial terror designed to disempower and disenfranchise black people across the US South.
I write to express my support for leaving the Confederate Monument down and not returning it to its former
location. I think the pedestal on which it stood should be removed as well. I am not opposed to preserving the
monument elsewhere in a well secured space for academic study. To be clear, if it is preserved, its location
should not be a prominent public place but rather a private space reserved for students and researchers with
proper credentials. The special collections library at UNC preserves many unique artifacts from North
Carolina's history. Let the monument join that collection.
Access to the monument should be restricted for two reasons: first, to avoid future violent conflicts between
protesters, students, and police; and second, to decrease the sense of hostility that such a statue creates for
people of color on campus. Just as we would not expect Jewish students to attend university in the midst of
monuments to the Third Reich, we should not expect our African American colleagues to go to class in the
shadow of such a statue. I support free speech, but the university has no obligation to maintain an unwanted
public monument that functions as a rallying point for white supremacist organizations, creates violent conflict
and emotional strife, and distracts from the mission of the university.
John Rib6
Pronouns: He/His
Assistant Professor of English
Florida State University
http://eng lish.fsu.edu/
Message
From: Red Stines
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:04:39 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Sent from my iPhonePut him BACK UP where HE BELONGS.

Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:06:18 PM
Subject: 'LOUD Sam' known as Silent Sam
To the Committee for the Confederate Monument, known as silent Sam:

I am the parent of a UNC student! I ask about the environment on the campus. says that for the
majority of the time there is little conversation about the statue. Everyone tries to be silent on the
subject. believes that minority students are put in a intense environment.
I asked about what feels is an appropriate resolution... stated that the history of the dedication
tells what the resolution should be. I asked to explain: said the dedication of statue displayed
so much hate with the speaker reminiscing of assaulting a black woman on the steps of a campus building.
Thus, the essence of why it was erected was clear at that time. It was a symbol used to intimidate
blacks, making it LOUD and clear that blacks were not welcome. Today, it continues to represent that hate
for African Americans at a public funded institution.
believes that it hard enough to be in a place where the majority(students and staff) treat minor1t1es
as nonexistent, and it's even harder when the protester are on campus because many of those who think
their skin color makes them superior act hostile to those who are not of their race.
so with that said, as a parent I believe that the statue symbolizes hate! I don't comprehend a symbol or
celebration for a lost war. We don't teach our children to celebrate lost when it come to any other
matter in life. Therefore, why are people proud of the history of a lost war? silent Sam is as Loud as it
gets as to the representation of exclusion at UNC. For those who are passionate about this hateful symbol
it should be MOVED to a private place for their enjoyment and idolization. For it to remain on a public
campus demonstrates the lack of compassionate for those who are the descendants of a violent and
torturous history.
under the recent law, the statue should be moved to 'preserve' it. The irony, of this law ... protecting
symbols of hate for those to rival in a history of violence under pretext of pride for ancestral
heritage.
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:13:53 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thank you for seeking input on the statue of Silent Sam . I think it should rest alongside displays of the horrors of slavery,
but preferably not on campus . Plus, I have never liked the joke about virgins, thinking about victims of sexual assault
having to walk by that statue. I would be very happy if Silent Sam could be removed from campus.
Stella Parker Stroud

Class of '79
Message
From: Pat Holscher
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:15:07 PM
CC: Dibbert, Douglas Steven [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =365d96a2f3d94d5eb948d4c lc9d7668f-Douglas Ste]
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Dr. Folt,

At 70 years of age, we've got to ask if you really believe that removing silent Sam is an "opportunity"
to "resolve those conflicts of race, inclusion, history, and honor" which are issues that have existed
for generations around
the world? All individuals have at some point in their lives witnessed or experienced people or objects
which they found repugnant, fearful, or intimidating. The response to such things is what illustrates
maturity, emotional
growth, and the resolve to succeed in life. As alumni who attended graduate and undergraduate school at
UNC, we marched down Franklin Street to demonstrate our objection to the Vietnam War. We did not
desecrate
any statues, damage any store fronts, taunt police or anyone opposed to our opinions. We were peaceful
marchers who did not make "demands" of those who had opposing views. what we did made no difference to
anyone but ourselves as we felt satisfaction in at least expressing our oppos1t1on. In relation to the
entire student population of UNC, the number involved in the "silent Sam debacle" was extremely small,
and of the 17 agitators
arrested, 16 were outsiders who came to get attention and incite trouble. obviously, the majority of
students chose not to become involved, and are being held hostage by a small minority.
In a Democracy everyone has a right to their op1n1ons and to express those op1n1ons without the use of
force or violence. We are tired of the minority making demands and stating their opinions as "rights".
Doesn't the majority
rule in a Democracy, affording minor1t1es the opportunity to pursue their interests without threats or
intimidation? We resent your reference to "people who want a restoration of white rule." Are you
insinuating that that is why
we might want to keep silent Sam? We never once contemplated silent Sam while students there and
imagine that all this attention to the statue has been encouraged by radicals who thrive on "causes". To
remove it now just
honors those who have to have their way by what ever means they deem necessary. This emphasis on "peace
and healing" needs to be taught to those who are unable to learn and move on from history, and apply its
lessons
to their future opportun1t1es. We are appalled that you consider UNC "a place of conflict and
disharmony". We contend that you are out of touch with the majority of the students who are there for an
education and have no
interest or strong opinions about a bronze statute which has been passed by forever on the way to
classes or school events.
Since this is supposed to be an institution for education, what are we teaching these young people
through this experience? They need to know that bad, irresponsible, criminal actions have long lasting
consequences. We also
feel that those, be they faculty or outside agitators, who accept, justify, or encourage these violent
actions should be held accountable for their responsibility in the reprehensible behavior of those
involved. As a suggestion to
this dilemma about silent Sam, and since the University feels so strongly about inclusion, why not leave
silent Sam in his original spot and commission a statue of a black soldier to stand with him? We
understand there were
black soldiers who also fought in the southern army. But before any action, we would also advise a
commissioned poll from those alumni who have donated so much money over the years to ensure the
perpetuation of this
University.
Appreciating your efforts on our behalf,

Pat Holscher
undergraduate class of 1970
Graduate class of 1975
Fred Holscher
undergraduate class of 1969
Law class of 1973
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:17:06 PM
When someone is cremated often family or significant people in that person's life obtain a small urn to keep for a
remembrance of their loved one which they can honor and memorialize in any way they like , privately and solemnly.
Would something similar be provided to silent sam's supporters who say his presence on campus , or anywhere , was a
memorial to their ancestors and a way to remember the legacy and sacrifice of those of them who served in the civil war.
could the statue be melted down and pendants or something similar be made to give to those who lay claim to him - to
provide to those who want to memorialize him to keep in their homes to allow them to honor him /his legacy- rather than a
public display of supremacy and discrimination.
Message
From: Mohrfeld, Lynne Anne [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=5BCD61047F3F4AAD8398733E177DF3F9-MS LYNNE AN]
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:19:22 PM
Subject: statue
In Russia, there is a park.with statues of Lenin and Stalin. This doesn't seem to offend anybody. Analogously,
we could do the same here with Confederate monuments. It would preserve the history without being
inflammatory like an on-campus location. Finally, I think it should be kept out of doors.
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:20:57 PM
Subject: Suggestion
My suggestion is the Silent Sam get moved into Ackland Art Gallery as a display of a work of art. If cost
allowed, there should be a mechanism to change the display on a regular frequency (monthly, quarterly) to
alternate between it being on display in it standing position and being on display in its fallen position, recreating
exactly what it looked like (dirt and all) when it fell.
I think this would honor all sides of the argument and not disgrace anyone or anything.
Thank you for the thoughtful efforts on this.

Message
From: DOUG WILKERSON
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:21:43 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put the statue back where it was. Allow Dr. Livingston to lecture at your school so these twit students
can be exposed to the southern view of the War. or, Dr. Clyde Wilson of University of south Carolina. or,
get Gene Kizer,Jr. author of slavery was not the cause of the War Between the States- the irrefutable
argument.
DW
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Message
From: Jesse Bikman
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:24:32 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Placement
Throw it in the river!

Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: RALPH FERRELL
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:27:29 PM
To whomever it may concern;
In violation ofN.C. State Law #33 passed by the N.C. State Legislature and signed into LAW on June 25, 2015
by Governor Pat McCrorey you have allowed a lawless group of mostly paid thugs destroy not only a part of
campus history but of State history. Based on this law which makes it a felony to vandalize, remove, or destroy
any existing monument in the State ofN.C.which all involved persons should and must be charged and
penalized under State law and per the letter of this law SHALL replace in full said statue of "Silent Sam" at His
original site.
Failure to do so shall invoke further disdain on your university and future monetary losses to the alumni
association from all former graduates. You are sickening people, so ignorant of actual history of what has been
propagandized by northern lairs who profited the most during America's slave years (early l 700's to 1865)
when the 13th amendment was passed. What other country had a war presumed over slavery where 1,500,000
men and civilians were killed or murdered by Yankee invaders lead by a power hungry tyrant ; Abraham
Lincoln. I would be glad to give you all a true history lesson, but you are all to full of kool aid or something else
to believe anything other than what you have been brainwashed by.
Replace "Silent Sam" or go to jail.
Respectfully,
Ralph A Ferrell, Jr., CPD

10th generation North Carolinian.
Message
From: Joyce Webb
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:29:26 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
He must go back to his original pedestal.

Message
From: Tom Carpenter
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:33:34 PM
CC: uncmonuments@unc.edu
Subject: Silent Sam
Up until this e-mail, I was one of the vast majority of North Carolina "silent majority" citizens but after siting by and watching the
mob rule regarding the unlawful actions by a few thugs and vandals and the miscarriage of justice when the Durham County Court
released them without good cause, I have to speak up. It is an embarrassment to see the local law officials and media meek down to
the point of not enforcing the laws of this state. I see the statue as a symbol in the memory of those citizens that gave their lives in the
service of their state. I do not see the statue as a symbol of pro-slavery or segregation as harped about by those in the mob and to a
great extent, the local media.
I hope UNC can muster up the courage to do the right thing and allow Silent Sam to be re-erected as a memory of those North
Carolina citizens that laid their lives down in defending this state at the time. In no way do I support slavery in any manner be in
America or any and many previous examples of slavery through out the history of mankind. My ancestry consists of both Union and
Confederate service and I honor their memory for their service to their countries.
Three was a time in the 1930's when a group of thugs burn books and destroyed items of history which they disagreed with and it took
the rest of the world to cleanse Germany of that cancer. I encourage UNC to stand up for the majority of North Carolina citizens and
place Silent Sam back into an area where he can seen and remember as a symbol of the dead who defended North Carolina at that
time.
Respectfully submitted by a Durham County and North Carolina citizen.
Message
From: Joe Inge
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:34:24 PM
CC:

The silent Sam monument should be restored and those responsible should be prosecuted.
A small minority of thugs should not be allowed to succeed with their illegal actions against the
majority of honest citizens. Not to restore the monument would embolden future illegal actions.
Thank you
Donald Inge
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Message
From: Anthony Price
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:39:59 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
You need to take the entire statue and mount down. It will always remind people of a bad time in history
and stir up hatred on campus. I don't want my children or any student hurt or killed over something that
could be avoided! ( Put it in a museum)
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Message
From: Michael Blackman
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:52:34 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The statue should be proudly returned to its original location.

Message
From: Mark Green
Sent: 9/25/2018 7:53:12 PM
I feel strongly the monument should be restored to it's original location. We can't let small radical
groups control the university. ISIS destroyed statues and historical artifacts when they took over an
area in the Middle East. This is not a third world county and we are not subject to ISIS or controlled by
similar groups.
Thank you
Mark Green
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:01:42 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put the damn statue back, fire whoever was responsib l e for letting it be torn down, and kick out any
studen t s or facu lty that were invo l ved in t he dest r uct ion of i t. Any questions?
Message
From: jonathansimpson926
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:01:55 PM
Subject: Monument
The monument was illegally taken down. We are a nation of laws. Put the monument back up. If it is
taken down, it must be done legally. That is the only way we retain the rule of law
Scn1 via the Samsung Galaxy an AT&T 4G LTE smmiphone

Message
From: Kathy Drake I
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:04:22 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The Silent Sam monument should be placed back on the original pedestal as it is a war memorial. A mob
damaged the monument and they should be monetarily responsible for fixing it.
Kathy Drake
Message
From: Jeanne Griggs
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:06:17 PM
Subject: please display Silent Sam somewhere off campus
Chancellor Folt and the UNC board:

Please find a place off campus if anyone feels it is still necessary to display Silent Sam at all. The statue should
not be displayed anywhere on the UNC campus.
Jeanne Hensley Griggs
Walker Percy fan and UNC visitor
Message
From: William Stokely
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:10:31 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please return silent Sam to the location it occupied previously.

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Message
From: Robert Austin
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:12:26 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put it back where it was , you can not re-write history to the protesters own liking . If you remove
silent Sam you should also remove any monuments or streets with name changes to MLK , etc. It's the same
thing .
There is a quote, I do not know the original author:
"Those who want to forget the past , are doomed to repeat it.
The monuments should serve as a reminder what NOT to allow to happen again , removing them will not erase
that history
Persona 77 y I do not be 7i eve the war ca 17 "The Ci vi 7 War" was about s 7ave ry , it should have been ca 77 ed ,
"The War of Northern Aggressions", because it was about money, pacifically, Northern States wanting
a tariff on raw materials coming from southern States to their factories, so the southern States raised
the price of raw material to cover the "tariffs"
Just as any entrepreneur would do to sustain the profit margins.
It's always about the money !
Sent from my iPhone , Robert
Message
From: Scott Bumgarner -
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:12:42 PM
Subject: ideas for silent sam
The monument seems best placed at a North Carolina civil War battlefield. unfortunately any public
location may bring unwanted publicity. Best of luck on your difficult decision.
Regards,
Scott
Message
From: Miranda Wester
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:13:51 PM
Subject: Statue
Create a "museum" off campus. Let those who want to go see it.. .. go.
Miranda J. Wester
Message
From: Dominic Corwin
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:14:10 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
We want Silent Sam right back up on his pedestal on the quad, where he's stood proudly on the campus for over
100 years.
Do it, or you will not be pleased with the consequences.
~Dominic
Message
From: Ann Silverman
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:15:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Move him to a sculpture space at Ackerman. Accompany him with a plaque educating people about his
history and his removal.
Message
From: Bob Newsome
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:18:26 PM
Subject: SILENT SAM
Sam has not hurt anyone that I know of since I finished UNC in 1965. As far as I know, he has been silent all
those years. Are we going to tear down the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial because their
honorees owned slaves? The statue was nor erected to honor slavery or slave holders but it was to honor
those men who gave their lives for what they thought was right. I SAY PUT THE STATUTE BACK WHERE IT
WAS!!!!!
Message
From: John M. Daniels
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:19:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please put silent Sam back where it belongs & give these lawless liberals a history lesson & please tell
them to get over themselves for something that happened OVER 150 YEARS AGO! Much thx. John Daniels
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Message
From: Deirdre Curran I
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:20:25 PM
Subject: Keep Silent Sam Down
Good evening,
I am writing as a lifelong Chapel Hill resident and UNC alumna who loves our town and university with a fierce
passion. Since the 18th century, UNC Chapel Hill has served as the city on a hill, the beacon of possibility,
progress, and opportunity for our state. I have seen that hope and possibility in the story of my own family, as
all of the women on my mother's side of the family graduated from UNC and went on to lead successful lives,
giving back to the people of North Carolina.
The UNC community has long struggled with the history of slavery and racism that is entwined with our
university. Slaves built the buildings that I sat in as a student, and for decades, women and people of color were
denied access to educational opportunities at the 'people's university'. That history should not be repeated or
glorified.
Some of my brave fellow alumni and community members finally did the right thing in removing the Silent
Sam statue. It is now the University's tum to take her stand, on behalf of her alumni and state, and leave the
history of slavery and racism to the past.
Keep the statue down.
GDTBATH,
Deirdre Curran
Message
From: Nancy Johnson
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:20:27 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Op inion
Dear Chancellor Falt and UNC Board of Trustee Members,
Thank you for providing an email for the UNC/Chapel Hill "community" to give an opinion about the
future of Silent Sam. I am a UNC graduate, class of 1978, with a B.A. in History. I also moved back to
Chapel Hill in 2013.
I admit my feelings about SS have evolved in the past few years. I had initially wanted it to stay put,
reasoning that it was a monument to all students that fought in the CW - including those who fought
for the Union and that it was part of history. But if I'm honest, I think my opinion was tied more to
my sentimental memories of the campus during my days as an undergrad and not wanting it to
change. I also think that sentimentality is the motivation behind many alumni that support putting it
back and keeping it where it has always been.
But following the terrible events in Charlottesville, VA last year, I had to stop being sentimental, "take
the blinders off" and consider what SS represents to African American students, faculty, staff,
townspeople and visitors. And I also took the time to study the history of the monument, which
included reading a copy of the vile speech that was read on the day that SS was unveiled - it says a lot
about the intent of those who had it erected. If it stays it will continue to be a source of pain to the
African Americans on campus and in our community. It should NOT be returned to its former spot
on campus. I think it belongs in a museum, or perhaps a CW battle site - but not on campus.
Another reason to move the monument to a more appropriate place is that it will be a constant
headache to the university and the town - a burden financially to protect it from future attempts to
deface or destroy it. If it returns to campus it also opens up the very real possibility of violence, injury
or worse.
Thank you.
Nancy Snell Johnson 78'
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:28:41 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Folt,
I am emailing you about the Silent Sam statue that was unlawfully torn down on the campus of UNC. I am asking you to
put it back on the original sight that it was first erected on. He was put there to honor the UNC students that went and
fought for what they and the state off NC believed to be the right thing. They defended their state as well as their school.
Please keep honoring them by putting the statue back where it bel ongs. Please don't let others who are not from NC to
decide what and who NC can honor. History, good or bad, should always be a teaching tool , because once it's gone the
lessons are gone with it. You can not change history by taking down the monuments, nor will you fully erase it. Under US
law those soldiers who Silent Sam represents are US veterens and should be treated as such. Please do not dishonor
them. Please keep NC history safe as well as Southern history.
Thank you,
REDACTED
Message
From: Brent Wilson
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:29:49 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinion on the Confederate Monument on the UNC campus.
My family has been in North Carolina for 250 years, I am the descendant of several confederate soldiers, and I
am a proud alumnus of the university.
I would love to have Silent Sam removed entirely from the campus. It glorifies a moment in our history when
we committed treason for the preservation of slavery. It is a shameful thing, and I am embarrassed that there
was a time when I was proud of it.
While I understand that state law means it must be preserved, I ask that you exile it into a far corner of the
campus.
Brent Wilson
Class of 2002
Message
From: Jim Gleason
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:30:50 PM
Subject: statue
Hello - I am a native of Virginia and now live in NY State. I have travelled the world and this country extensively and
enjoyed viewing the monuments in so many places, including communist countries. Understanding and respecting them
have educated me in ways I cannot fully explain or understand. Moreover, those monuments have caused me to think
and evolve as a human being and citizen of the United States. Some monuments have moved me to tears and "spoken"
to me; others have troubled me and confirmed my opposite views. To me, it is crucial and imperative to keep ALL our
historical monuments and add to them with those which are relative to current times and beliefs.
"Silent Sam" should be placed back where it was and when doing so, the UNC leadership should be decisive and
supportive of that action! In doing so, they would be supporting history, showing inclusion and promoting our great
country ... and - most importantly- following and upholding the LAW!
James Gleason
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From:
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Dear All,
As a UNC alum who honors and respects our school's history, Silent Sam needs to be restored back to his
original home! The statue needs to go back on his mount on campus and NOT in a closed-away museum.
His restoration needs to be paid for by those violent students and community members who tore down state-
owned property! The statue is there to honor the student body during the Civil War who died fighting. The
statue is not there to be "divisive" and it certainly is not there to represent "slavery."
The students and alumni should rightfully vote on this decision, not the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Falt.
I do hope that my opinion (that is shared by the majority of the student body and alumni) will be one of those
"ideas" that are shared to the Board of Governors in November.
Sincerely,
MC
Message
From: Smoak Ackerman
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:36:22 PM
CC: Lee Gordon terrijoyner Joshua Stalls
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam needs to be restored to his rightful place. As a two degree alumnus (BA '82, DDS '86), my
fellow alumni deserve to be honored for their sacrifice for their beloved state of North Carolina. And I
as descendant of sons of North Carolina who were veterans of such battles as Gaines Mill, Sharpsburg
(Antietam), Gettysburg, cedar Creek, and Fort Fisher, I demand he be replaced as required by law!
I am a Living Historian, participating in reenactments and Living History events both as a
Confederate and Union soldier. I attempt to educate the public to the life and sacrifices of the common
citizen/soldier. And I have done extensive research on that, war, it's multiple causes and repercussions.
"Those who forget about history are doomed to repeat it". There is never a time or reason to
whitewash, change or erase history, no matter how pretty or ugly it may seem. I am and have always been
respectful of everyone's views and I expect the same for my views. However, I have found that we sons of
North Carolina are not afforded that respect.
My family have been established here since before the colonies became the United States. I am proud
to say my family has participated in our rich history, including the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, War
between the States, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. They ALL deserve our respect and
honor, forever.
so in closing, as a son of North Carolina, and a UNC alumnus, I demand that the honor and respect my
fellow alumni earned over 150 years ago by sacrificing for the old North State be renewed!
SILENT SAM MUST BE RESTORED!
Respectfully,
Emmett Smoak Ackerman,Jr
BA'82, DDS'86
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Message
From: Peggy Leggett
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:39:22 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I vote to place silent Sam back in his rightful original spot. This is a historical monument to honour
young men defending their homeland. Has nothing to do with race or hate, just to remember those who
served!
Thanks,
Peggy Leggett
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Message
From: Donnie Parker
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:41:15 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I like to put my two cents worth silent Sam is a memorial for the UNC soldiers that died fighting for our great state therefore it needs to
go back where it was you cannot change history what the hell is wrong with y'all folks up there in Chapel Hill. I wish Jesse Helms was
still around maybe he would tell y'all some sense.
Thank you
Donnie W Parker
Message
From: Mary Louise Cohen
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:48:15 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam does not belong on the grounds of a public university.

It should be placed on private property or in a museum as an historical relic.
Mary Louise Snell Cohen
class of 1974
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Message
From: joan cope
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:50:17 PM
Subject: placement of confederate monument
I think it would be best if it was placed in a museum on campus with the historical information beside it to
educate others as to it's place in history.
thank you,
Joan Hillsman Cope

Class of 1988 Masters of Public Health
Message
From: Ed Julian
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:50:34 PM
Subject: The Boy Soldier
chancellor Folt,
As a two time alumnus of The University of North Carolina ( BFA 1972, MFA 1976), a veteran of the us
Army, and one who has always believed in diversity and the validity of all people; I am truly
disappointed and sad that my alma mater has chosen to dishonor the memory of her sons. Every time I
paused beneath the monument, I marveled at the resolve they must have had to pause their studies to
defend their state, school, and homes. I can no more accept the disrespect of that sacrifice than I can
disrespect my own ancestor's resolve to defend home and family from an unjust invasion.
While, judging for the resent lack of action by the University, I have little expectation that the right
and proper actions will be taken. Please try to obey the letter of the law and replace The Boy soldier
to the place of honor that is deserved.
I lived in chapel Hill many years, spent countless hours in the heart of the campus, and am filled with
sorrow that a pl ace I loved has left me with a bitter taste for lack of a righteous and honorable
response to the violation of our campus by anarchists and criminals. Replace and protect the memorial
to your sons.
Thank you,
Edwi n N. Jul i an
cl ass of 1972
class of 1976
Message
From: Preston Marlowe
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:50:53 PM
Subject: Monument
Put it back up! Why are we allowing the youth who have paid zero taxes, who are borrowing tax dollars for
school (which they might default on), who have no clue about the importance of our history to destruct public
property with no repercussions? Answer me that. Absolutely ridiculous what is going on in this country!!
Thank you,
A Concerned College Graduate

Message
From: dadguy
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:55:06 PM
Subject: Statue - just put it back ... unguarded
There are many Confederate sites that should stay in place -- e.g., statues erected in griefshortly after the war to
remember fallen loved ones or the young men of a town. Maybe statues erected to remember heroic individuals
are okay.
This statue is in a different category. It was erected relatively long after the war by people who were overtly
anti-Black.
Julian Carr's dedication speech is as bad as they get.
Suggestions:
1. Statue should just go to the dump (but that is not politically feasible).
2. Just put the statue back (and bolt it to the base better), but don't use my tax dollars or tuition to protect
it. Then let it be painted, covered with graffiti messages, hammered or vandalized until both sides want to take
it down.
Message
From: Philip W. Terrell
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:57:26 PM
CC: GRAY 1 STEPHANIE NC
Subject: unc monuments
Lots of options. The best i believe is to place the UNC Confederate Monuments at any of the many
Confederate Cemeteries. It is only fitting that the OOO's of brave Confederate soldiers be buried within
sight of their great leaders. I would make the same suggestion of the monuments of the Union Generals,
too. That they be placed in Union Cemeteries.
Good luck
PW TERRELL
Message
From: Wendy Michener
Sent: 9/25/2018 8:58:56 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
First the leadership of UNC has to become people with backbone. Without that basic leadership, nothing else that UNC
might do will count.
So far, the only "action" the leadership has taken was to get out of the way so that the students could do the actual take
down, followed by removing the object and arresting the students and charging them. Which is not leadership. It involves
too much lying, double talk and simular behavior. Every time a person does this, they give up their power, their self
respect. When the leadership is willing to lose their jobs to keep their honor, then they have a chance of doing the right
thing.
The trouble with any concrete suggestions is that ANY of them can go wrong if the leadership is two-faced, hypocritical,
lies, or uses double-speak. And ALL of them lose their power when leadership has these behaviors.
So the first thing is for the UNC leadership to take back their own power. If there is anyone that UNC cannot stand up to
(collectively), then UNC leadership is a puppet. Figure heads. Yes people. UNC can collectively do a lot of damage, but
very little good when it makes decisions rooted in a fear of powerful bullies.
There are other Universities who have begun to face up to their roots in racism, the legacy they have from
slavery. Brown, George Washington are two. Perhaps their stories will help UNC to choose a path.
Take the REI (Racial Equity Institute) program. That will signal to the students that something real is
up. https:llwww.racialequitvinstitute.com/ is the website . With this series of workshops UNC leadership will have a
chance of understanding why some people are so adamant about removing the statue.
Also contact Terna at temajonokun@gmail.com (or someone like her) and ask her to help. She has been doing anti-
racism work forever, is white and southern, she is local and has strong ties to people of color in leadership. You need
people like her to help you interpret what you are hearing and to tell you how those other people (white and of color) are
hearing UNC (which is likely the exact opposite of what UNC intends). It will take years before UNC will get it right without
help.
Please do not think that UNC can do this on your own. Some things require allies and dealing with the legacy of racism is
one of them. It is a legacy we all share, UNC is not alone in this .
Wendy Michener
Message
From: Dan Spell
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:02:08 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put Sam back when he belongs!
Dan "Butch" Spell
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an
unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd
by the clean end." Author unknown
"Deo Vindice"
Message
From: Scott Rhodes
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:08:21 PM
Subject: Museum to be studied
Great teaching opportunity for University to broaden discussion to create greater awareness about the
state and university's role in war, number of UNC students who fought and died, context for statute,
speech by Julian Carr, events of the day when dedicated, civil rights movement, demonstrations over time,
Charlottesville etc. museum to be studied not entrance to campus.
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Message
From: Mark Holley
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:09:13 PM
Subject: Please listen about si lent sam
The very first thing everyone should say is to put it back where it was ....
It is a monument to UNC student who fought for their homes.
If you do not put it back it sends the wrong message to students and activist.
Please put it back and weather the storm for those buried and gone. They are not hurting anyone.
sincerely,
Mark Holley
Message
From: Joe O'Sullivan
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:18:47 PM
Subject: Silent Sam and other statues
To prevent unrest and discourse - I think the best plan would be to take them all down from their
individual public places and amass them in one civil War museum . You could locate it in a "rebel
friendly" location in each state. I know when I drive from Charlotte to Myrtle Beach there is a town
called McBee(or the next town over) that fli es a confederate flag which would cover most of UNC football
field.
That way those who want to v1s1t the monuments can still embrace that part of history while others who
are offended can have them removed from public view.
That is what I would do if I was Roy Cooper.
Good luck.
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Message
From: LEE
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:20:04 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I'd rather see the Silent Sam statue rebuilt and placed in a museum where its protected from any kind
of violence.
Why pay another $390.00 a year on the statue to be protected by security on UNC campus when the
chances of it being vandalized may be repeated.
I would rather see it placed in a museum , where the people can view the statue read about its
history, without kind any threat.
Message
From: Charles Hughes
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:27:32 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I would like to encourage a compromise to the Silent Sam controversy. UNC students and faculty as well as Chapel Hill
residents and leadership overwhelming view the statute as a symbol of Jim Crow racism . I consider this as the
historically correct view as verified by Julian Carr's comments at the dedication in 1913.
However, there are others who genuinely see Silent Sam as a memorial to family members who were among the
confederate dead. I too have relatives whose remains rest under tombstones with the marking CSA and I honor them as
family while opposing the cause that they served.
With consideration for all viewpoints, I suggest that the statute be moved either to a cemetery memorializing
confederate dead or a historic civil war battlefield.
Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh was started as a confederate cemetery and has 1,388 confederate and 3 union dead
buried there some of whom where moved from Gettysburg and Arlington to be reinterred in their home state. Brigadier
General George Burgwyn Anderson, UNC Class of 1852, was killed at Antietam and is buried in the Historic Confederate
Cemetery in Oakwood Cemetery. Likely, further research would reveal other UNC alums buried there.
The Battle of Bentonville was fought in North Carolina in the spring of 1865 and was the last battle of the Civil War.
Edward Mallett, UNC Class of 1849, died at Bentonville. While there are monuments there, none are statutes. This
historic site is located off exit 343, interstate 40 and is another possible site for Silent Sam.
Charles Hughes,
Class of 1969
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:29:49 PM
Subject: Idea for relocation of "Silent Sam"
I'm a former "Yankee" who has resided in NC for 20 years. My great-great grandfather fought in an Ohio
regiment for the Union during the Civil War. While in North Carolina, he met and fell in love with a North
Carolina woman. They married and moved back to Ohio. My is currently a senior in high school and is
applying for admission to UNC-Chapel Hill.
My idea would be to donate the "Silent Sam" statue to the NC Museum of History, to be placed in its "Story of
North Carolina" exhibit with an explanation of the statue's history and controversy. On the pedestal where the
statue stood, place a plaque that also explains the history and controversy of "Silent Sam." Commission a North
Carolina African-American sculptor, preferably one with ties to UNC, to create a new statue, celebrating the
diversity and unity of the UNC community, to be placed next to the "Silent Sam" pedestal.
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Message
From: Francis F. Hobart
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:31:26 PM
This is to suggest that an appropriate campus location for the Silent Sam monument would be in the
University Memoria Grove area on South Rd.
Sincerely,
John D. Hobart
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:41:52 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I don't believe it belongs on state owned properties; certainly not at the front door of the university.
I don't feel passionate about saving silent Sam, but possibly it would be better placed at one of the
State Battleground parks.
Be the different drummer. . .

Message
From: Joseph Janeczko
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:45:00 PM
Subject: Monument
It is a monument that needs to remain part of UNC.

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Message
From: Anthony James
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:49:57 PM
Subject: New home for Silent Sam
Somewhere in the North Carolina Collection or UNC Museums? Display every so often?
Keep current base intact but create hologram statues on the base, this way a person or object could be changed
monthly if need be, everyone would have their day on the pedestal, new technology would be employed.
This would be a conversation starter that would never grow old.

Message
From: Bonner Latham
Sent: 9/25/2018 9:58:04 PM
First let me say, as a former UNC graduate, I am completely embarrassed in the manner this whole statue
thing was handled. From the chancellor's office, to the chapel Hill Police department, the lack of
holding folks accountable for destroying public property was unacceptable. With police officers feet
away, protesters tore a statue that had been a part of the UNC campus for decades, and did nothing.
Then the Saturday following these protests, you guys come out and state a full investigation would be
taking place and those involved would be he l d accountable. Here's my question - Why didn't the police
simply arrest and handcuff those involved that night- I mean, they were feet away from t he crime and
turned their heads. what, was it going to offend folks to arrest young people for destroying public
property.
such actions or lack thereof give the impression people can do whatever they want, in spite of laws.
Where there are no laws, there is no order. From what I can tell, the individual at the induction
ceremony of the silent Sam statue unveiling said some extremely racists things, but the statue itself
didn't represent white supremacy or racism- From what I can tell, it was put up to honor UNC students
that were drafted and fought in the confederate war. Many of which lost their lives. so what's next?
By law that statue is supposed to be restored to it's original place within 90 days or such. Yet nobody
wants to get involved.
I"ve read that 70% of North Carolinians want the statue restored in it's original place, so it seems like
that is what you guys need to do.
Message
From: Deborah Price
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:04:07 PM
Subject: Fate of Confederate Monument
I believe this monument should be erected again. It is a symbol of America's past, no matter how
shameful .
However along with placing the monument back on its pedestal, a plaque would HAVE to accompany it. The
wording on this plaque should be developed by community leaders and university staff who are on both
sides of the issue.
Allow me to give a summary of what could be said:
"All soldiers of the civil War were inspired to fight for patriotism. The Union soldiers fought to
preserve the Union whereas the Confederate soldiers fought to preserve their homes and way of life. This
way of life revolved and was entangled around the institution of slavery. slavery in the United States is
the prime example of how man on man can be so unkind. The brutality, mutilation, murder, rape, poor
living conditions and separation of families only skims the surface of the horrors which accompanied
slavery. This is part of America's past which should never be forgotten."
so yes, return the monument, but a plaque must accompany it to tell the rest of the story.
Regards,
Deborah A. Price
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Message
From: James Allred
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:04:22 PM
Subject: Letter Regarding Si lent Sam Decision
Attachments: Al lred Letter September 2018 .pdf
As UNC has opened a new inbox for public input regarding the Silent Sam decision, I am delivering to this
inbox a copy of the letter that I sent to the University Trustees and Chancellor Folt on September 18,
2018. Thank you for your consideration of my views.
James Allred
Student Body President, 2006-2007
UNC Chemistry '07 I Emory MTS '10 I UVA Law '13
September 18, 2018
Dear University Trustees and Chancellor Folt:
As you are aware, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors has directed
you to present a plan "for [Silent Sam]'s disposition and preservation" by November
15. I am writing to urge you to present a plan that will not return the statue to
monumental display, and that will only allow the statue to be seen in a setting that
makes evident its historical purpose of promoting white supremacy. This cannot
include returning Silent Sam to its former location or any other place of honor or
prominence on campus.
Silent Sam Was Erected to Serve a Particular Historical Purpose
The circumstances under which Silent Sam was erected explain the purpose and
meaning of the statue and underscore the reasons that it cannot be returned to its
former location. Much has been written about the specific words spoken by Julian
Carr at the statue's dedication. However, even more revealing is the historical
context surrounding the installation of the statue. In short, Silent Sam was erected
to make a specific political statement in opposition to African American political
power and African American education.
Following the Civil War and the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the US
Constitution, African Americans gained the right to vote in North Carolina for the
first time. Through the remainder of the Nineteenth Century, African Americans
exercised their political power, at times in concert with white yeomen, to bring
about a series of economic and political democratizing reforms. 1 The zenith of
African American political power came in 1894, when white populists unified with
African American voters to form a "Fusion" ticket to advocate for a more equitable
economic system, greater local government control, and greater education funding.
By 1896, the black-white Fusion ticket controlled the governorship, both US Senate
seats, 94 of 120 state House seats and 43 of 50 state Senate seats in North Carolina.
The white supremacist opponents of the Fusion coalition responded with violence,
election fraud, race-baiting, intimidation, and, finally, a coup d'etat in which they
killed black citizens and overthrew the city government of Wilmington at gunpoint.
Once they regained control of state government, the white supremacist political
coalition proceeded to systematically disenfranchise African Americans between
1This history is more fully explored in Paul D. Escott, iVlany Excellent People: Power and Privilege in
North Carolina, 18.50-1900 (Univ. of North Carolina PnJss 1985).
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1900 and 1904 - a change that would last until passage of the Voting Rights Act in
1965. At the same time, the white supremacist political coalition began installing
Civil War memorials across North Carolina. Although only six such memorials had
been erected before 1902, 59 were standing by 1926. 2 Silent Sam, planned in 1908
and installed in 1913, was an integral part of this campaign. At the time, the
message was unambiguous: Silent Sam was erected as a celebration of the white
supremacists' triumph and as a direct threat to African Americans to stay out of the
political and white educational systems of North Carolina.
The Statue is in Conflict with Carolina's Values
The stated purpose for erecting Silent Sam in 1913 was to celebrate and maintain
white supremacy over political and educational affairs in North Carolina. In
contrast, Carolina has established itself as a leader in promoting diversity and
inclusion in higher education. As catalogued in the annual Diversity Plan Reports, 3
Carolina has committed significant institutional resources and efforts to increase
the diversity of its student body; improve academic achievement among historically
underserved students; enhance diversity among university leadership, faculty, and
staff; improve the cultural competence of the university community around issues of
diversity; engage in research that deepens our understanding of issues critical to
improving the lives of underserved populations on campus, across the state, and
beyond; and celebrate and promote the achievements of minority students, staff,
and faculty. As you are aware, this list only scratches the surface of the efforts and
achievements of Carolina to benefit historically underserved populations. Carolina
has rightly concluded that it cannot be a successful public university unless it
achieves excellence in diversity and serving historically marginalized groups.
Simply stated, the ongoing presence of Silent Sam was anathema to the values of
the university and undermined the efforts of university faculty, staff, and students
to embrace its mission as the university of the people. Returning Silent Sam to its
original position, or to any place of prominence, would contravene the significant
expense and effort the university has undertaken to promote diversity and the
benefits that diversity bestows. What good is it to put "[e]normous effort" into
training for faculty, staff, and students to identify and reduce implicit biases and
prejudices 4 if students of color are then asked to walk to class under the shadow of a
monument erected to promote white supremacy and to challenge their presence at
2 James Leloudis, History Speahs on Intentions Behind Confederate Statues, NEWS&OBSERVER,

Aug. 23, 2017.
3 Previous Diversity Plan Annual Reports are available at:
http s: // diversity. unc. edu/resources/best/reports/.

4 See, e.g., UNC Diversity Plan Report 2014-15 at 5, 24.
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the university? What is the benefit of identifying, recruiting, and enrolling
historically diverse incoming classes, and establishing academic support for first-
generation and historically underserved students, if these students' sense of
inclusion will be undermined by a prominent demoralizing message in their
physical environment? 5
The juxtaposition between our stated values and this physical monument is not lost
on potential faculty and students. Carolina's listed top priorities include recruiting
and retaining world-class faculty and attracting and enrolling outstanding students
from North Carolina and beyond. 6 Returning a symbol of white supremacy to a
place of prominence on campus will undercut faculty recruitment and retention
efforts and will dissuade meritorious students from enrolling at Carolina. Carolina
can no longer say that Silent Sam is merely a legacy of white supremacy if its
leaders make an affirmative choice to put it back. As leaders, you must not ignore
the risk that returning the statue would communicate to faculty and students of
color that they are unwelcome here or that Carolina is uninterested in their
concerns and unsupportive of their success. Restoring the monument could also
hamper recruitment of faculty and students who are not themselves people of color,
but who are nevertheless repelled by the return of a monument to white supremacy.
The Statue Should Neither Return, Nor Be Placed on Similar Display
Your recommendation will communicate the values of the university. If Carolina is

to be true to its stated vision and values, its leaders cannot recommend returning
Silent Sam to its former location on McCorkle Place. But its presence would be no
less destructive to Carolina's priorities in similar display in some other place on
campus, where the inference of its history and purpose would be no less acute.
There is no better rebuke to the white supremacy that created the statue, the
history of which has been well documented, than to remove the statue, fully and
permanently, from the university's grounds.
Preventing the return of Silent Sam should be your goal and your recommendation.
If this course proves impossible, then any future reinstallation must make explicit
5 Silent Sam has contributed to perceived differences of experience and a lower sense of belonging
among African-American students at Carolina. Research has ckJmonstratrnl that a lower sensfl of
belonging is correlated with greater perception of stm·eotype vulnerability and the potential for
decreased academic achievement. See Loren W. Thompson, Perceptions of Stereotype Vulnerability,
Belonging and Campus Climate by African Americans Attending a Predominately White Institution
(2017) (unpublishfld Ph.D. dissm·tation, University of North Carolina at Cha pd Hill), available at
https://cdr.lib. unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:c8c4e8f5-dea 7 -4f2 l-9a06-8 739e36abd64.
Co See, e.g., Campaign for Carolina: Our Priorities,
https://campaign.unc.edu/#campaign_stories_grid_2_column_3.
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(1) the full history, the circumstances, and the intentions of those that erected the
statue to exclude people of color from political and educational life in North
Carolina, including- the shameful words that accompanied its installation; (2) the
effects of the white supremacists' campaign on the citizens of North Carolina,
including- the exclusion of many from the benefits of the university; and (3) a
statement decrying- the history of the statue and publicizing- Carolina's commitment
to diversity and to promoting- the achievement of Carolina community members
from historically underserved groups. Even this path imposes costs on people of
color by asking- them to tolerate the return of a statue erected to promote white
supremacy, and it risks undermining- the priorities of the university. It also risks
any future display becoming- a flashpoint for demonstrations that disrupt the vital
work of the university. It is not clear whether it is possible to sufficiently
contextualize the statue, but any attempt to do so must be judged on whether the
display advances Carolina's mission of fostering- a productive educational and
research environment and supporting- the cohesion and mutual growth of students,
staff, faculty, and guests at Carolina. For this reason, I recommend removing- Silent
Sam from the university campus completely. But if you see fit to return it, any
display must include these steps or it will unacceptably risk Carolina's mission.
I recognize that making- such a recommendation could engender reluctance or

resistance, even from people of good intention. Yet the statue's history is as
inescapable as its ramifications for the university's priorities and future. If, indeed,
Carolina's values are what its leaders have said they are, then its leaders must hold
fast to them, even in the face of adversity. If Carolina is to enhance access to
learning- and to foster the success and prosperity of the entire rising- generation of
North Carolinians, if Carolina is to remain a great public university and a priceless
gem to North Carolina's citizens, and if Carolina is to secure access to light and
liberty for all people in the State, 7 then it cannot tolerate the restoration of the
statue to any place of honor, prominence, or uncontextualized display on campus. To
do so is an unacceptable threat to the very mission of our university.
I thank you for your careful consideration of this letter and for your stewardship of
the university of the people.
Respectfully,
James Allred
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mission and Values, https://www.unc.edu/about/mission/.
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Message
From: Christian
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:05:42 PM
This monument does not deserve to have any space in any public place. The statue is discriminatory to people of color
and I cannot believe that I am even typing an email about this topic. The fact that UNC needs peoples opinions on where
to place this statue is utterly repulsive.
Message
From: Ke ll y Fau lk
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:07:07 PM
Subject: Simple Sam
I know it would be expensive, and maybe not even possible; but here's my dream. Make a significant part
of Wilson Lib rary the Museum of UNC History. I know Wilson houses the priceless southern Historical and
North Carolina collections-and should continue to do so. But there is lot of wasted space in the stacks
that just has a lot of books waiting to be digitized. Those books can be stored somewhere else ... Think
of this as an opportunity for the oldest state university to create a first class history museum that
others will want to emulate. And, silent Sam can be displayed somewhere in there in a discreet way that
tells its story in a proper and fair way ... R. Kelly Fa ulk, Jr. (BA '87, DDS '91)
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Message
From: Jan Fernandez-Castillo Lijferna2@ncsu.edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:08:48 PM
please jettison it into ted cruz's office thank you!!
His Shartness Satan

Russell Senate Office Bldg
404
Washington. DC 20510
Message
From: william farris
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:09:03 PM
Please do not display this or other symbols of hatred. Thank you.
An alumnus
Message
From: Donald T
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:13:47 PM
CC: larry walker Matt Joyner ; public@bog.northcarol ina.edu
"an object of remembrance that is permanently relocated shall be relocated to a site of similar prominence,
honor, visibility,availability, and access. In the case of Silent Sam there is no alternative site on the UNC
campus of "similar prominence, honor, visibility, availability and access." Consequently, you need to obey the
law and return Sam to his initial site.
Donald Thompson
UNC Class of 1968
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:15:10 PM
Silent Sam should be placed where he was before. A statue should not have to be removed due to
people obviously not reading or being taught the truth of the Confederate war. It should be treated
with respect. If the History Professor's are not teaching the truth maybe they need a refresher
course. Anyone defacing, vandalizing, or disrespecting any monument should be arrested and
punished. You do the crime you pay the time.
Sent ti-om my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

Message
From: Victoria Spagnoli
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:15:12 PM
Subject: Remove and Document
Remove the monument, place it in history museum setting and offer information in context of the document -
when was it erected, the political/cultural environment that would have encouraged its presence, the
racial/ideological/political symbolism that makes it no longer tolerable on a public university campus.
Message
From: Nathan Hartsoe [ncharts2@ncsu .edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:18:40 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Relocation
Send it to the bottom of the ocean please, thanks.

Message
From: Jennifer Collins
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:18:41 PM
Subject: Relocate Silent Sam
Silent Sam needs to be relocated within the University. It can be housed in a building, or a museum, or a
remote location outdoors. It must have contextual information included wherever it is displayed, and it should
not be prominently located if relocated outdoors. Providing context for the statue is key, and making sure the
university really is a place where all feel welcome and supported should be the paramount concern in
relocation. Silent Sam must not be returned to it's previous location, nor should it be stored where none can see
it. We need to own our history, even the bad parts, and use proper context/location to show how we have grown
thus far in our understanding of race and humanity.
Message
From: Cindy Capwell
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:29:36 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The monument should be placed in a location which marks the history of racism in our country, and the
text of the dedication remarks should be placed next to the statute for all to read. so there is no
misunderstanding about what the monument stood for.
Message
From: Mara Hussey [mbhussey@ncsu .edu]
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:30:14 PM
Melt it down into cans.

Message
From: Mark Howell
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:39:12 PM
Subject: Silent Sam belongs back in his origina l place that is where his was placed to honor the brave students who
volunteered to defend the Confederate States of America against the Northern Aggression tearing down the statue
was tearing the grave stone of A .. .
Message
From: Bill Stephens
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:47:48 PM
Subject: Return Silent Sam to pedestal where removed
Historical monument return to the place removed. A monument does no harm. Inert object.
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Message
From: Sam C
Sent: 9/25/2018 10:47:54 PM
Subject: Anarchy or democracy
If we don't put this statue back where it was we give credibility to anarchy and violence. Once it is back in
place, a democratic and lawful debate for moving it can begin and all voices can be heard. No matter how
difficult, this is the right path.
Message
From: Rhonda Brooks
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:10:42 PM
Subject: Museum relic
To preserve the history, have the monument erected in a history museum telling stories from both
perspectives - confederate pride and symbol of racism.
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Message
From: Wendy Poteat
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:13:20 PM
Subject: Monument
Dean Smith
Message
From: Richard Collier
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:14:07 PM
Subject: Monument
I believe you should put the statue back where it was and arrest those who vandalized it! The statue reflected only the
hatred and bigotry of those opposing it ... it was harming no one.
Message
From: Susan Givens
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:22:55 PM
My first preference would be to destroy it in solidarity with all of the African Americans
who have suffered from abuse of their basic human rights.
In lieu of destruction, I would favor placement in a (history) museum that would explain
the ugly context of this statue. I do not think this statue should be honored.
Susan Givens
Susan Givens, RNC~OB, MPH, LCCE

Leed i'Jurse Planner. Lamaze lntemafonal
Message
From: John Mims
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:24:07 PM
The monument remembering deceased American as well as Confederate Patriots should remain where it has
always been.
Message
From: Caro l Clark
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:36:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please put silent Sam back where he was.

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Message
From: Weir, Scott [Weir-Scott@aramark.com]
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:42:11 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

In the interest of full disclosure, I am a proud NCSU graduate and also the Aramark GM for your dining
program here on the campus of UNCCH. However, I have always held UNCCH in high regard as one of the
flagship schools for what I believe is one of the best higher education systems in the country.
Regarding silent Sam, I believe that he should be returned to his pedestal but t hat there should be a
first-year 1 credit hour course that covers the following topics, which you will notice includes a
discussion of Sam and the history of NC and UNCCH:
1) The history of the university (founding, first class, who built the original buildings (slaves), why
we are not changing the names of buildings bearing slaveholder names (if you erase history, you are
doomed to repeat it)) - in a 16 week semester, this part cou l d take 5 weeks of lx per week class and
include a trip to the Sam statue where you have a reasonable person from each side articulate their case
of whether the civil War was about slavery or states' rights (it is not the role of UNCCH to tell their
students how to think, but to teach them to think).
2) How special the UNC system is via a vis the NC Constitution re "as close to free" and how exceptional
our state's HE system is compared to other states. That could take 2-3 weeks and include havi ng a
trustee or legislator come speak to the class).
3) I graduated from State and I know one line from the alma mater, so let's have fun and for one week
have the band come through to teach these new Tar Heels the alma mater .... words and all! We all know
the fight song from going to football games ... not so much the alma mater!
4) so we have 6 weeks left .... let's talk to them about expectations we have of them to be a Tar Heel.
We have students that come to bottom of Lenoir every day that try to steal food from us (which is an
honor violation). We have a very aspirational goal on campus around 3 Zeros, yet there are no compost
receptacles on the Pit ... so take the 40 extra steps to put that compostable clamshell in the bins inside
Lenoir! Is there a water leak in your residence hall bathroom? Send in work order ASAP and make sure
Facilities address a that ASAP! You see something that is inconsistent with the University values, we do
not ask, but we EXPECT you to report it.
In a much shorter way, I would say put Sam back up but use him as an educational tool for new first-
years.
I wish yo u the best as you navigate this Sam thing. I do not envy you.
Best,
Scott
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From:
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:46:26 PM
Please return Silent Sam to his rightful place on campus where he has stood for 105 years. He has stood in
remembrance of our Tarheel family that left school to fight and many died for their beloved "South". He is
part of our NC history and is protected by a bill that bans government agencies from removing "any object of
remembrance on public property". I expect our spineless officials to stand up for justice for Sam and any other
monument that has been damaged by these vandals and prosecuted. They should have to pay restitution on
restoring the statues and community service to clean up around them. If Durham had prosecuted these
vandals from the toppling of the
Confederate statue in that city, it may have prevented the vandalism of Sam. Acts of vandalism are violations
of the law and have consequences ... otherwise there is chaos as we have seen. Do Not let this wrongdoing
result in the movement of Sam to another location
or his removal completely or the vandals will have another victory. The Civil War was about oppression .....the
North oppressing the South on states rights, tariffs and trade and wanting to have control over the South. Isn't
oppression what these vandals and protestors are
doing ....trying to control our legal system and using unreasonable and unjust actions against our university and
state? Please seek Justice
For Sam. He is a memorial to previous students at this great university.
"I thank you in the name of the eighteen hundred brave, loyal, patriotic, home loving young student soldiers
who went out from this
grand old university to battle for Southern rights and Southern liberties, five hundred of whom never came
back. God bless every one
of you, and every Daughter of the Confederacy in our dear Southland". Julian Carr 1913 dedication
Sincerely,
REDACTED
UNC Class of 1982
School of Pharmacy

Message
From: Rose Hockett
Sent: 9/25/2018 11:51:46 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think you are incorrect about the 70%. I do not want the monument returned to campus, if it must be
displayed, place in a museum.
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From: Walters, Kellie Marie [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Suggestions for UNC Monument
I suggest the University and State create a permanent museum on campus focused on UNC and North Carolina's role in
slavery, the Civil War, and the post-Civil War era ranging from Jim Crow to recent years. I have the following specific
ideas and suggestions for the museum:
• While the museum should be easily accessible and far from hidden, it should not be a focal point of the building
it is in. That way individuals can choose to see it when they are ready to see it, and not have to see symbols of
hate when they are not prepared for it.
• The museum will remain the home for the Silent Sam monument.
• The museum should fully discuss North Carolina's long, painful, and difficult history with slavery, and how that
history influenced North Carolina's role in the Civil War. The museum should also cover Jim Crow era, the civil
rights movement, and the civil rights and racial injustice in the present time.
• The curators should be a racially diverse and representative group of North Carolinians.
• The museum should include an exhibit on the history of protests regarding Silent Sam, including its final removal
by protestors.
• Communities throughout North Carolina and from the campus should be involved in planning of the museum.
• If deemed fitting by the communities, the museum might include an exhibit on how the campus has grown in
inclusiveness and representation in recent decades - and how much further it has to go.
• Many museums exist that discuss painful pasts that may bring up less than desirable emotions. Notable
th
examples include the Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro and the May 4 Visitor's Center at Kent State
University (I am a Kent State alumna). UNC should seek to understand and follow the example of these other
th
centers, particularly Kent State's May 4 exhibit, as this is an example of such an exhibit on a college campus.
The day after the Silent Sam monument was removed, the base of the monument was covered in signs listing individuals
who might replace the Silent Sam statue. I list some of those here, without comment.
• Henry Owl - First Native Student at UNC
• Elizabeth Brooks and Mary Smith - UNC food service strike leaders
• Oscar Diggs - First black student to enroll in UNC's medical school
• John Lewis Brandon, LeRoy B Frasier Jr, Ralph K. Frasier - First Black undergraduates enrolled at UNC
Communities throughout North Carolina and from campus should be involved in deciding on the best replacement
monument. Ideally the sculptor will be a North Carolinian.
Best,
Kellie Walters, MPH, CHES

Employee, UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Alumna, Gillings Global School of Public Health, Class of 2014
kellie walters@med.unc.edu
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Message
From: james graham
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:10:42 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I would strongly recommend that the board would consider where they want to be viewed in the history books
20 to 25 years from now.
This monument is not serving well in bringing unity to our diverse community at UNC or the surrounding areas.
Therefore I feel it is in the best interest of all to make the neccessary change by relocating the monument in a
historical setting/museum. It doesn't need to be in any prominent place on campus. UNC has a wonderful
opportunity to lead here and be a great part of redefining the future on North Carolina race relations.
Rest assure all will not see the future for being captivated in the past, this is your opportunity to lead in such a
time as this.
Leadership is about leading it's followers to a better future even though some maybe content dwelling in the
darkness of the past.
Regards,
JE Graham
Message
From: Gene Eplee
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:30:12 AM
Subject: Silent Sam must not go back to Mccorkle Place
I am an alumnus ofUNC (BS Physics 1981). Whatever decision is made about relocating Silent Sam, it must
not go back to its pedestal on McCorkle Place. Such ab action would constitute an explicit endorsement of the
blatant racism often quoted from the statue's dedicatory speech. If the statue is returned to McCorkle Place, I
will never again make any financial contributions to the institution that carries out such a racist, hate-filled,
divisive action.
Robert E. Eplee, Jr., Ph.D.

BS Physics 1981
Gene Eplee
NCAC National Camp Accreditation Chairman

NCAC Goshen Operations Committee Chairman
Laurel Presbyterian Church Clerk of Session
Message
From: Jimmy Boykin
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:31:12 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
To whom it may concern. Put Sam BACK WHERE HE WAS!!!!.

Message
From: Jennifer Thorne
Sent: 9/26/2018 1:04:51 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hi,
Leave the statue down. Put it in a museum. On the empty pedestal, put a plaque that explains the statue was put
up during the Jim Crow era as a symbol of white supremacy (reference Carr speech) and that it was finally
taken down after decades of protest.
Or throw it in a dumpster.
You're a great university, be better. Listen to your students.
Jennifer Thorne
Raleigh, NC
"If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain
Message
From: Boone Sr, Derrick [booneds@wfu .edu]
Sent: 9/26/2018 1:51:43 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Folt,
While I don't agree with how Silent Sam was removed, I am glad it was finally removed.
Please have the moral courage to be on the right side of history. Do not restore Silent Sam. It's offensive and an
affront to all things our beloved university of the people stands for.
Sincerely,
Derrick Boone, '81
Life member GAA
Message
From: Eldridge Easter
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:28:05 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor foit: congratulations, you may have ruined the lives of many promising future "leaders". Look at the
Kavanah side show today! 36 years from now one of your students may be in the same chair and someone has
the video of the destruction of Silent Sam and asks how you can be trusted to uphold the law when you went to
a university that advocated the destruction of property and disregard for written law because you were
"offended". You have lost your credibility as a teaching institution for not allowing diverse thinklng! The lives
of your "future" leaders has been compromised by your reckless disregard for rule of law! If the charges are
dismissed as in Durham and the statue not returned according to state law, where does it lead from here?
Murder anyone who disagrees with you or offends you! Will you defend them also???????????????
Message
From: Eldridge Easter
Sent: 9/26/2018 5:10:39 AM
Subject: Termination
Comrad Folt: would you hire a person to work in a bank who had been convicted for embezzling money???
Why would you hire a lawyer or vote for a judge who attended a university that advocated the destruction of
public property and breaking of state law because they are "offended! The future of all students at UNC has
been compromised! Your only choice is to resign immediately and prosecute all involved in the destruction of
Silent Sam to the fullest extent of the law and quit letting the inmates and outsiders run the
prison!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message
From: James Dickman
Sent: 9/26/2018 6:06:24 AM
Subject: Statue Idea
Rededicate the statue to all of the UNC students/graduates that gave their lives in all the US/American
wars (civil, WWl, WW2, Korean, Vietnam, Gulf War, .... ) as a memorial of the cost, beyond dollars and
cents, to have the freedom to be educated at an outstanding university like UNC.
Thanks,
James Dickman
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Larry Anderson
Sent: 9/26/2018 6:14:24 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Return the monument to it's original location and do so quickly.

Message
From: Lou Ann Belvin
Sent: 9/26/2018 6:46:39 AM
Subject: History
The monument should be put back where it belongs. I am 80 yoa and it saddens me to see history being
destroyed. If these memorials bother a few they have to be destroyed!! The minority rules now days and
history is being destroyed!! Reminds me of someone who finds fault with everything and tolerance will
become a lost ability. unless we are all robots we will not be able to live with one another without
tolerance. Be tolerable and learn to accept and love history!
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Ahmed Shabazz
Sent: 9/26/2018 6:52:08 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
At some point in history Silent Sam did enough to get a statue in his honor. Before you can tear a man's statue
down a person should do enough to get his/her own statue. Americans want to pretend racism isn't t a thread
in the fabric that makes America. It is. Don't try to erase what was because the past gives way to a future
where an individual can fix the things that were.
Leave the statue where it was. It should be used as motivation for every minority who passes it on campus. If
he hated you, you should be able to walk pass his statue and be reminded of the sacrifices that were made for
you to have the opportunity to succeed.

Message
From: John Chapman
Sent: 9/26/2018 6:54:07 AM
Why not move it to a location near the Alumni Center. This area and the center already contains historic items relating
to the university's and NC's history.
The "Grey Room "inside the center contains Confederate items, but is not generally considered controversial as it is
seen as a museum and not a political statement.
Perhaps the statue could be viewed this in way as well if it is accompanied by a plaque explaining it's historic significance
in a way that disarms any notion of it's being placed there as a current political statement.
Message
From: Chester Tyson
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:00:12 AM
Subject: Idea
I think moving silent Sam to a location of the boards choice ... museum, library, etc
BUT replace the statue with something else that can watch over campus. Say ... like an old grandfather
soul ... or even a warm looking Ramses. Not a sca ry one, a happy, but con fi dent one.
You need to put something up there that can watch over our camp us and our students!
Especially in this day and age!!
Thanks!
Sent from my iPhone

Message
From: Donald E. Moore [Dona ld.MooreJr@wakegov.com]
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:29:12 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
1) The only course of action available to the University under the law is to restore and protect the
memorial.
2) They have no authority to move it so that they can re--contextualize or curate it with modern--day lies
about white supremacy.
3) The University belongs to the people of North Carolina and NOT an extremist minority of paid activists.
E-mail correspondence sent to and received from this address may be subject to disclosure under the North
Carolina Public Records Act unless made confidential under applicable law.
Message
From: Susan Newberry
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:47:59 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a UNC Alumni and North Carolina resident. I am very disappointed at the Unicersity's weak response to
the violent mob that took down Silent Sam. It should have never happened. Put Silent Sam back where he has
been for over 100 years. You can not re-write history. You need to learn from history. The thoughts and actions
from a few radicals should not dictate policy at North Carolina's first state university. Repair Silent Sam and put
him back where he belongs!
Susan Newberry
New Bern, NC
UNC-CH Class of 1991
Scn1 from my Verizon, Samsung smactphonc

Message
From: William Mcsherry
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:02:38 AM
Subject: Too Vile for pub lic display
Dear Sirs and Madams:
As a thoughtful and well educated citizen of Durham County, I've read a fair amount about the history of
slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the ideology of many influential Southerners in our nation's past. Given the facts
we know, and the horrific realities of institutional slavery, it seems to me that in order for our country to ever
begin to truly heal, we must act as adults and first admit that slavery of kidnapped and perpetually abused
Africans was an inexcusable tragedy of the highest order.
Having accepted that slavery was an extreme moral failure, we must then do whatever is necessary to not only
atone for that sin, but also whatever we can to address the remaining stains on our relationships with our fellow
citizens. Every memorial to those who fought in the Civil War to defend slavery should be placed in museums
that focus on the sin of slavery. In this way, future generations can study and consider how deeply ingrained in
Southern culture was the rationalization that slavery was somehow acceptable, and even essential, for that
culture to endure.
To enslave another human being is obviously and unequivocally a crime and a sin so heinous as to be almost
inconceivable. By erecting monuments to a time and a culture that relied on such a disgusting practice may be
an even worse act. These statues are therefore too vile for public display, and should be hidden in buildings
erected for the purpose of reminding future generations of the horrors we humans are capable of inflicting on
fellow humans.
Sincerely,
William Clinton McSherry PhD

Durham, NC
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From: Margaret Palmer
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:21:41 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
My thoughts are with the heartbreak of the mothers during the civil War who watched young sons go off to
protect their families and their homes. Some of the families were slave owners, many were not. That's
what I see when I see the boy in that statue, and it's about irrevocable loss.
But the middle of a college campus is not the place for him. A quiet memorial site with information about
the confederate forces, some of whom gave their lives to protect their homes and families more than to
protect slavery as a way of life seems possible. The tragedy of human enslavement, the insidious
establishment of it as a way of life that envelopes even those who do not participate directly, the
trade-offs and the true cost can be better elucidated at a site like this. Because these are battles we
are still fighting.
Message
From: Mike Little
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:29:13 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam belongs in a museum - where you can have adequate space to explain the history of this
divisive monument. It was an issue before I arrived on campus, and issue when I graduated in the 90s, and
has been a divisive symbol staining the main quad of our campus for far too long.
Mike Little, class of 93
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:33:14 AM
Subject: how far do we go
Chancellor,
My is a junior, my wife is UNC Med 1987, and we sponsor the Stacy Family Scholarship at the UNC Medical School
through the Medical Foundation.
I think allowing mob rule to stand is a dangerous precedent. There is a reason the US revolution resulted in a better
system than the French revolution. We had the rule of law and upheld it. France sent tens of thousands to the
guillotine.
As a former submarine officer during the Cold War, I actually wonder that if we get a President Bernie Sanders, who
honeymooned in Moscow in 1988 - the year before the Berlin Wall came down; whether those of us who struggled
against communism would be declared persona non grata. What would stop a mob from removing all references and
honors to those who served or gave their lives for their state and country? Not the UNC administration, it would
currently appear.
It goes without saying that the professor who led this vandalism should never be allowed back on campus until he pays
full restitution for all damages and subsequent expenses. I find it no different than if a different employee who hated
football snuck into Kenan and tore down the goal posts or burned the field. Or if a racist defaced the African Studies
Center. Vandalism is vandalism; the punishment should be the same.
Good luck,
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:33:39 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
FIRST .. Arrest and prosecute the vandals who tore it down. This is HISTORY of UNC of students
who served the state during a time of crisis. Teach these vandals and misguided kids how to respect
and learn from history.
Sam sh ould be put back in it's place, and a new fence erected around it. Add security cameras
around it and warn people that they WILL be prosecuted. I wonder just how many of these kids that
did this were from outside our state.
Thank You
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Message
From: Jim Kosa
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:34:44 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Return Silent Sam to it's original location ..

Message
From: mikefarra
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:35:29 AM
Subject: Statue
I feel the statue should remain where it has been located for years .
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:37:25 AM
Subject: statue
My daughter graduated from Carolina and is more liberal than her dad.The way it was removed was
unlawful. I will be glad to accept the statue and let it stand guard at my driveway. If that is not
appropriate,maybe someone has an old southern mansion like the one in Gone With The Wind to
display it. Thanks
Message
From: Lash Wrightenberry
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:37:36 AM

From: Lash Wrightenberry
Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:07 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
To: <NCmonuments@unc.edu>
The Silent Sam Monument should be put back where it was before paid protesters tore it down , UNC-
Chapel Hill is a TAXPAYER funded school and as a North Carolina taxpayer and according to a North
Carolina law you do not have the right to move it. The Chancellor knew what was going to happen and
stood by without trying to protect the monument , she and the Professor that was there should both be
terminated . There is only one member on the Board of Governors that has the courage to speak out
against these thug protesters and that is a shame. I am a 74 year old white male, Southern and Proud ,I
am not a racist nor do I belong to any racist organization , I support my Southern Heritage and history
!!!!
Lash Wrightenberry
Message
From: James Green
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:43:54 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Stature Removal.
Dear Chancellor of UNC:
I am writing to protest the removal of the Silent Sam Statue from the campus of UNC at Chapel
Hill. That statue had been there for over a hundred years and DIDN'T represent slavery or white
supremacy. It represented the valor of Confederate soldiers who fought the war of Northern
Aggression against the Lincolnite Yankee invaders who attacked our Southern homeland
illegally and unconstitutionally. Why aren't you teaching your students TH IS version of "Civil War"
history.
Message
From: Judith West
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:44:02 AM
Subject: silent sam
Hi,
I believe the statue should find a home in an as yet unbuilt museum covering the history of race and ethnic
groups and their relationships in NC. It is a racist statue and should not be put back in place. The new museum
could cover not only black/African American, but also include Irish, English, German settlers and the relations
among them. It could also cover American Indian and then the more recent waves of immigrants into NC.
Just my thoughts as a Caucasian with roots going way back in NC. We need to fight the hate where ever we find
it and educate those who see some as superior to others based on ridiculous criteria.
Thanks for asking for input,

Judith West
Message
From: Lee Quinn
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:45:45 AM
Subject: Silent Sam plans
Dear Chancellor Falt-
Good morning. My name is Lee Quinn, and I am a public school teacher in Raleigh. I'm also an alumnus of
Carolina -- BA 2000 and MAT 2001.
Thank you for your call for ideas and suggestions regarding what our community ought to do with the Silent
Sam statue. As a student and teacher of history -- particularly of this era -- I believe that monuments to violent
rebellions incited to destroy the United States so that the buying and selling of children might be maintained and
expanded have no place on public property, especially university property.
As such I would like to share, in brief, what has long been my plan for how to best dispose of Silent Sam. Given
our current moment, I stand even more firmly by my suggestion, which is:
1. Leave the pedestal where it is, but add a plaque or additional sign providing historically accurate (and not
Lost Cause-saturated) context for the statue, its dedication, and its removal.
2. Hold a public auction for the statue itself, with Sam going to the highest bidder. The holder of the winning
bid would provide transport for the statue to the private property of their choosing. I am certain that the
University could hire an auctioneer of appropriate qualification and skill to undertake a sale such as this one.
3. All proceeds for the sale of the statue would go to the University.
4. Most importantly, all monies generated from the auctioning of the statue would go to fund scholarships for
first generation college students of color to attend Carolina.
I am glad to provide further clarification or detail on this plan as you like.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.
Best regards, and Go Heels-
Lee Quinn
Message
From: Kara Ikenberry
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:46:57 AM
Subject: Statue
I grew up in Chapel Hill and now live here with my husband and two sons. I do not want "Silent Sam" in a
public place of honor.
The statue belongs in an educational setting (museum) to teach kids about the areas past and history, to show
them how we have learned from our mistakes, and how we've moved towards a more just society.
Returning the statue to its original spot is a slap in the face to all people of color, but especially to the
descendants of the people of color living here at the time the statue was erected.
My family will be very disappointed in the university if you choose to return "Sam" to his original place, and
will remember it as we begin to look into colleges.
Sincerely,
Kara Ikenberry
Message
From: E. B. Springs
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:48:36 AM
Subject: put it back
The Confederate monument at Mccorkle Place on the UNC campus should be repaired and restored to its
original condition and location. The vandals who defiled it should be criminally prosecuted to the
maximum degree, and any vandal who is a UNC student should be expelled.
Yours very truly,
Eli Baxter Springs IV
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:50:04 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
As a Carolina alumna, I'm appalled that the university is even considering restoring a symbol of racial
oppression and white supremacy to a location on campus. As the parent of a junior, I'm terrified.
Twice in the last few weeks, Carolina parents have received emails about protests on Mccorkle Place that
urged students to stay away. neither of whom participated in the protests,
were accosted on Cameron Avenue a couple of weeks ago by someone yelling at them about silent Sam. They
were so frightened that they called the police.
It has been clear for a long time that the presence of silent Sam on campus is a threat to public safety.
Restoring the statue would only increase the risk. For the safety of the Carolina community, please move
the statue to a museum or battlefield. The security and well-being of students, staff and faculty should
be the primary consideration.
Thank you.
Sent from my iPhone

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From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:56:30 AM
Please return Silent Sam to his original post, as he represents so much UNC history.
Thank you,
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Message
From: Renee Addison
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:56:36 AM
Subject: Sam
It is with much seriousness that I implore the powers that be to remove the Jim Crow intimidation statue to the
cemetery. If it is indeed meant to be a memorial that is the appropriate place.
I, however, do not feel it has ANY place on the campus of a respected University. It IS inherently racist and an
insult to POC and all with any sense of integrity.
It's 2018, PLEASE have the courage to do the right thing and relegate the Lost Cause narrative to its place on
the trash heap of History.
Respectfully,
A Renee Addison
Message
From: Lisa Huffines
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:57:36 AM
Subject: The monument should come down
I recognize the competing interests in questions like this. Here, though, the historical context in which
the statue was erected makes it crystal clear: this was a monument to racism and has no place in an
enlightened community.
Lisa Goddard Huffines '88, P'17, P'20
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:00:26 AM
Subject: Put Silent Sam in a museum
Good morning. As a resident of North Carolina, I do not feel that having Silent Sam on the front lawn
represents the idea of a diverse and inclusive university. I believe the best home for Silent Sam is a
museum. By putting Silent Sam in a museum, it will give others the opportunity to learn about Silent Sam. It
will also allow the statue to be protected from vandals as well as the elements of weather. As a mother of a
UNC-Chapel Hill student, I am concerned with the safety of the students. As a North Carolinian, placing Silent
Sam back on the campus of Carolina is almost condoning the treasonous act of succeeding from the Union and
the slavery that they were trying to protect. We have moved past slavery, but we will impede race relations by
returning this statue to the Carolina campus. As a southerner, I believe we need to try harder to show our
diverse and inclusive feelings to the world.
Thank You,
Message
From: Leslie Holder Martin
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:02:06 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam's future should be in an incinerator. Racist monuments have no place on campus.
Leslie Martin
Oak Ridge

Message
From: Jim Easterling
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:04:07 AM
CC: public@bog.northcarolina.edu
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam should be returned to it's original site. It's thoroughly disgusting that the administration
would condone and allow the mob removal without any intervention. While I live in SC, I'm from Charlotte
and have god son and nieces and nephews that attend and have graduated from UNC. Never again will I
support anything there until current leaders that allowed this mob rule are gone.
Message
From: Janet Trent
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:05:02 AM
Subject: Statue
If and when the statue is re-erected in any location, in my op1n1on, the dedication speech made at its
original unveiling should be made permanent and placed alongside the statue.
Thanks for asking our opinions,
Janet Trent
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:07:43 AM
CC:
Subject: Confederate Monument (Silent Sam)
As the father of two current UNC students and an expert in postbellum southern history, I feel compelled to
answer your call for ideas about the "disposition and preservation" of Silent Sam. I have three main
suggestions:
1. Consult the experts. The UNC History Department has several scholars on this era who can provide
informed suggestions. In addition, please consider contacting my colleague at UNC Charlotte, Karen
Cox, author of Dixie's Daughters, the most widely-cited book on the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, the group that led the drive to erect Silent Sam in 1913.
2. Strike a balance. As you wrote, many feel "passionately" about the monument, so protecting it and
putting it into proper historical context are crucial. I suggest placing it inside Wilson Library, home of
the Southern Historical Collection (begun by the important and notoriously-racist UNC historian J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton). Inside this controlled environment, the statue and its new contextual signs can help
draw attention to Hamilton's Southern Historical Collection as well as the legacy of the Lost Cause at
UNC and in the South.
3. Don't hide the truth about the past. The statue is not Civil War "history"; it is a specific and biased
version of history created by whites in the early 20th century. The contextual signs should explain in
detail why, according to today's best scholarship, the UDC and the UNC community erected this statue
and what the words of the speakers really meant. This will involve discussing the Civil War,
Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. It's a teaching opportunity!
Hope this helps,
Sincerely,
Message
From: Nick Strayhorn
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:08:06 AM
Subject: Put back Silent Sam
To Chancellor Falt and the Board of Trustees,
I am writing to you to request that you put the statue back up, as is required by law (NC General Statues 100-2 (b). To
start with, while no moral person today could ever defend Mr. Carr's speech, there were several other speakers who
made it clear that the memorial was to commemorate those students who volunteered to serve their country in war, my
ancestors included. I have always seen this statue as a memorial to them, rather than a racist oppressor. While I
understand that some people are offended by history, we cannot go around rewriting it just to make them feel safe. To
allow Antifa and other law-breakers to get away with tearing down this statue, purely because they yell the loudest,
would be to give in to one of the biggest problems in our country today. These people do not want an end to racism,
they THRIVE upon such controversy. They are most likely the same people that openly condemn me for being a white,
male, gun-owner. Universities are supposed to be a place of controversy, difference of opinion, and not-so-safe ideas
that challenge the way we think. Too often Universities are pandering to those who whine the loudest (ex: Univ. of
California - Berkely is extremely guilty of this), rather than allowing open discourse on topics. What kind of world are we
creating for our children if we think they are too weak to go on, knowing there is a statue? If we truly want racism to
end, we must move past being offended by it. Turn off the TV when the media discusses it as the "topic of today." Stop
allowing politicians to use it against us and keep us divided as a nation. In reality, 99% of people are just trying to live
their lives and are not focused on oppressing anyone.
If there had been an open forum to discuss the removal of this statue, or perhaps a VOTE by a fair and balanced court,
and the end result was that it should be in a museum, then I would be upset, but I would understand. But that didn't
happen. Some vandals tore down a statue, and you haven't put it back yet.
Either the statue goes back up in its rightful place, or my family and I am cutting ties with the university. Not another
dollar will be donated, my sons will not attend, and I will not buy any more tickets for games. Which is a shame because
I was the third generation of Strayhorns to graduate from UNC. The extremely minor amount of people who are upset
by the statue being up are vastly outnumbered by those who are angered by the illegal removal, and direct insult to our
ancestors and history. We must be willing to stand up to Antifa and these vandals and say "enough!"
I pray that you do the right thing, and put the statue back.
Sincerely,
Ralph "Nick" Strayhorn

Class of '06
Message
From: Cliff Butler
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:14:07 AM
Subject: Sam
Anarchist should not determine this. You can choose to be offended by numerous things
from our past. Silent Sam was a monument to the students at that time that did what they
saw as their duty just like myself when I was drafted during the Vietnam era. The Playmakers read letters from
these students at a Friends of the Library event and they only mentioned in
the letters that their state was being invaded.
Put Sam back and continue to arrest those that break the law,
Cliff Butler class of 68
PS: all the Kenan legacy will be at risk as well as every building and street named for a
person who lived prior to the Civil War.
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Good morning,
First, let me say thank you for the opportunity to weigh in on this important matter.
I would personally like to see the Silent Sam statue placed in a museum along with other artifacts regarding civil rights
history. In my opinion, it should include a full accounting of when it was placed, by who, with an explanation of the
strong societal trends (Jim Crow laws) of the time and what that specific group, who donated it, stood for. Further, as a
learning tool, I believe it to be greatly important to place the full accounting of the words spoken at the dedication
ceremony, along with the statue, so that those who have not seen or heard them, have an opportunity to understand
just a small piece of our brutal history, thus giving individuals an opportunity to grow.
It is my sincere hope that, as an institution of higher education, that we put this monument squarely into history. UNC
Chapel Hill should be known as being the beacon of respect and dignity that it is, for ALL people, regardless of
background, race, ethnicity, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and the like. I would also offer that we should
replace the monument with something that speaks to all UNC Chapel Hill faculty, staff, and students, both current and
future, whether it be Rameses, an artist's rendering of something unique to Chapel Hill, or the like.
Thanks again for this opportunity and I wish you great success in finding a socially responsible location for this divisive
statue. UNC Chapel Hill's reputation has been tarnished long enough, let's make a new history together.
Gi.na Fogdso riger

Senior Project and Program Manager
HCM Systems (HR, Benefits, Payroll, Commitment Accounting)
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Message
From: Kris Porter
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:19:45 AM
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applications, including small electric motors and automobile transmissions.
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silicon was introduced to the alloy mix in the 20th century, silicon bronze became the primary form used in
sculpture.
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surfaces. Because it resists corrosion and doesn't shed like steel wool - leaving particles that could cause
electrical shorts - bronze wool is ideal for industrial, construction, and marine applications and won't leave
stains on wood."
Porter
Message
From: Tommy Morgan
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:32:51 AM
Chancellor Folt,
My name is Thomas W. Morgan and I am an alumnus of UNC with a BS Degree in Geology, 1979. I am writing this
letter in support of placing the Silent Sam Monument back upon its pedestal in Mccorkle Place on the campus of the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Silent Sam represents Carolina as much as the Old Well, Bell Tower, Rameses or any other land mark on campus.
Actually, Silent Sam represents much more, because this memorial was dedicated to fellow Tar Heel alumni and
faculty that gave the ultimate sacrifice with their lives to defend the Tar Heel State.
Respectfully,
Thomas W. Morgan
UNC Class of '79
Message
From: Barbara Ziff
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:37:23 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam should not be reinstalled on Mccorkle Place

Thank you,
Barbara
Message
From: Sue Obenshain
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:37:43 AM
Subject: Sam in History
NC Museum of History, Raleigh, NC

Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:39:32 AM
Hello,
My attends UNC and I would like to comment on the future of the Confederate monument per the
Chancellor's invitation.
I urge you to remove the monument from the campus ofUNC at the earliest possible time.
A monument to those who served in the Confederate Army is a monument to those who served the cause of
white supremacy. I understand that a variety of motives were at work in the hearts and minds of individual
Confederate soldiers, but there was very little doubt about what motivated the political entity they fought to
support. The Confederacy came into being to preserve slavery and to continue the domination and exploitation
of African-Americans by white Americans. A cursory glance at the historical record is sufficient to establish
this. Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, referred to African-Americans as a "lower caste" and a
"servile race"--- and he was a comparative moderate on the subject.
I realize that many Confederate soldiers displayed great courage; I know that many endured incredible hardship
and made enormous sacrifices. This can, and should, matter to our evaluations of who they were as human
beings. But it must not obscure our judgment of the state their courage and sacrifices promoted. The
Confederacy was the 19th-century version of the Third Reich, a political entity built on sadism and cruelty and
buttressed by a junk science of biological superiority and racial destiny. Many of those who served in the
Wehrmacht exhibited great valor and skill, but we do not build monuments to them.
Put "Silent Sam" in a museum and surround him with the proper historical context. He doesn't belong on a state-
supported college campus dedicated to the values of enlightenment and civilization.
Sincerely,
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:47:48 AM
Subject: Opinion about monuments on the UNC campus
Hello,
It is my opinion that NO monuments honoring one group should be on display at Mccorkl e Pl ace. These monuments
should be on display in a museum or area where they can be protected. I don't understand why it is acceptable to
destroy one monument because you feel it isolates a group of people, and leave another in very close proximity, that
also isolates a group of people.
Thank you
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Message
From: T. Christopher Larr
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:53:10 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear chancellor Folt & the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees:

My question is: Why does UNC-Chapel Hill actually want to preserve this (or any) symbol of racism,
fascism, and brutal oppression? You' re asking the public what should be done about the silent Sam
statue. The students already did the right thing.
They tore it down.
It seems, to me, that they have the moral clarity and vision that you and the Board lack.
Sincerely,
(NC resident)
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:56:37 AM
Subject: Replacement statue idea
Dr. Folt and monument team ...
Thanks for the thoughtful and careful and sensitive treatment you are giving to the matter of the Confederate Statue
controversy/opportunity at UNC.
Contextually I am a 1984 graduate and my wife Jeanne received her BSN in 85. My father graduated in '57
and passed away this January having seen two of his grandsons (our sons) finish in 2013 and 2017. Our at
UNC this fall and our working on his common app for UNC this week. My Great uncle
Tom Graham played on the UNC basketball team in 1925 and I was born my father's first week of law school in 1961. My
father attended as first from his immediate family on a naval ROTC scholarship. Dr. Folt we met you at the Carolina Inn at
before our and at our presentation in Wilson. At the risk of a bad
choice of words we have 'skin' and blood in the game and could not be more proud to be a Tar Heel family.
I am a pastor and realtor and have had such a heavy heart for both 'sides' of this conversation. I have ancestors who fought in
the 'rebellion' or 'war of northern aggression' depending on which side of the conversation one sits but have no doubt or
reservation that Silent Sam needs to find a new home but not a smelting pot or scrap heap. I am burdened deeply for the
divisive nature of the debate and the offense that African American brothers and sisters rightly experience at what appears to be
a celebration of men who fought in part to keep their ancestors horrifically enslaved.
Two pieces to this question clearly are where 'if anywhere' the statues goes? I cannot see any reasonable or wise path towards
restoration of the statue in its fonner location. I do believe that an indoor 'heritage and history' destination is the more proper
'resting place' but do not know what the logical destination is for such. Private setting or public enclosure?
In the realm of opportunity I could see in its place a dual statue of Dean Smith and Charles Scott being erected to celebrate the
path of the University towards equality of race, person and opportunity. I could see both men in suits - not Charlie Scott in
uniform - but facing one another in a handshake or embrace as co-pioneers in the break down of a segregated and subjugated
system.
I believe that a proposal which is positive will soften the rhetoric and the bitterness surrounding the unfortunate and emotionally
charged scene at the statue in recent months and set the tone moving forward.
Thanks for the consideration

Message
From: elizabeth gilson
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:09:48 AM
Subject: Silent sam
No, do not put back, change the focus,
Start our civil war hall

That shows how people can be manipulated
In believing slavery is fine ... Show history of bro against brother, Enlighten our future students.
Show it in teaching how people follow leaders even in bad caused.
Not an outside exhibition, a thought provoking experience inside ,a great teaching moment,if you will.. ..
Develop history, philosophy courses show how easily we can forget our humanity ...

Message
From: C Scofield
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:15:32 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Good morning, I am a long-time chapel Hill resident and am wr1t1ng to let you know I do NOT support the
silent Sam monument being displayed anywhere other than a setting (i.e. museum), where it can be shown
with detailed and accurate information regarding the context of its origins. Th at is, its symbolism of
this country's shameful history of slave ry.
It has No place in a state-funded public space in an attempt to glorify its meaning.
Carol Scofield
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From: Hutchison, Sarah A [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Silent Sam
This statue conveys a message of racial hate and oppression.
Please do all you can to ensure that Silent Sam is permanently removed from the UNC-CH campus.
Sincerely,
Sarah A. Hutchison PhD
TAM Associate Director
Center for European Studies
UNC-CH; REDACTED
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Message
From: Stephen Quick
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:17:26 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put him back, and prosecute the vandals that tore it down. Make the story of the UNC students part of a
mandatory history curriculum ( not the race-class-gender polemic) Protect the Monument and make sure it
NEVER happens again. Steve Quick Hilton Head, SC
www.stevequick.org
Message
From: Jim and Bev Wiggins
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:27:55 AM
Subject: silent sam
I believe that silent Sam represents different things to different people--and always has. Finding a
location that respects all of these perspectives will be difficult.
To the extent that the monument represents the sacrifice of Confederate soldiers, some of whom may have
served the cause reluctantly, perhaps a cemetery or battlefield would be an appropriate location.
To the extent that it represents white supremacy--and it most certainly did for many of those who had it
erected--its controversial and blemished history should be prominently displayed wherever it is
relocated. This might best be done in a museum setting.
I would oppose returning the monument to its original location, where it has long been a divisive
feature. I believe the monument should be removed from campus entirely.
Consider giving the monument back to the UDC and let them determine its future.
Thank you,
Beverly Wiggins
UNC 1980
Message
From: Tar Heel Fan On Hold I
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:28:55 AM
Subject: Return Silent Sam to original location. The monument belongs to the entire population of the great state of North
Carolina. Waiting .... .

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Subject: Do Not Return Silent Sam to Mccorkle Place.
Dear Chancellor Holt and the Board of Trustees,
I implore you to listen to the UNC Chapel Hill community and not return the Silent Sam monument to Mccorkle Place. It
would be hypocritical to say that UNC Chapel Hill is committed to creating a welcoming and safe environment for all
students, staff, faculty, and community members and then return this statue to such a place of honor. If this happens,
UNC Chapel Hill would be continuing a tradition of greeting all current and future students with a statue that honors one
side of a dark period in our nation's history.
As leaders of this great academic institution situated in such a vibrant and diverse community, this question offers you
the unique opportunity to move forward our community and state's discourse on race and remembrance. These statues
belong in a museum or another location where they can be fully contextualized in their remembrance of these North
Carolinians as well as the North Carolinians that are commonly forgotten. This is your opportunity to provide genuine
leadership instead of continuing more of the same stalemate of the past decades.
Don't return Silent Sam to Mccorkle Place.

Listen to your community and honor their wishes.
Provide genuine leadership and see this as the valuable teaching moment it is.
Thank you very much.
Best,
Courtney McGuire
Message
From: George Dill
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:31:38 AM
Subject: Re: Permanently remove the racist monument
P. S. The reasons given by proponents of returning Silent Sam to McCorkle Place ultimately trace back to
notions of racism and white supremacy. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 5:46 PM George Dill wrote:

Silent Sam represents a pro-slavery, pro-segregationist ideology to both its supporters and detractors. It is not
difficult to choose the correct side here. Defy the Board of Governors and General Assembly if necessary and
do whatever it takes to make sure the statue never returns. Replace it with a monument to the activists and
students who worked for decades to remove Sam from our campus.
Class of 2002
Message
From: Jay Kennett [jaykennett@hucc.org]
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:32:10 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor Folt and the UNC Board of Governors,
I am deeply sadden by Chancellor Folt's comments that the majority of North Carolinian's what Silent Sam back where it was
in a place of prominence on Campus on the UNC campus. Even if this was true replacing this statute celebrating white
supremacy to its former location or any location outside of one that would considered it as a historic icon of a past age with the
story of its racist past told as well as the racism of the institution who maintained it, is a horrific step backward in the move to
make our institutions of higher education ones that are inclusive for all North Carolinians. Chancellor Folt, even if the poll you
y
are relying upon where a nonbiased one and sevent percent of the people of this state wanted the statue back where it was if
you are committed to education, trnth and an inclusive learning environment you would lead by what is right to maintain those
values and not by popular opinion. As a pastor and community member I deeply disappointed by the lack of moral leadership
shown by the University up to this point, but I call upon you now to become the leaders you have been chosen to be and do
what is right for all the people of this state, the students on your campus and in particular your African American students. Now
is the time to lead and to show that your institution stands for inclusion, truth and a learning environment free from racism and
intimidation. The choice is yours, lead us into that future or show us that your institution is still ruled by the small-minded racist
voices that erected the statute in the first place.
Sincerely,
The Reverend J Jay Kennett
Pastor,
Hillsborough UCC
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Hillsborough, NC 27278
Progressive, Inclusive, Creative,
Caring and Kid-Friendly
Message
From: Lonnie Myers
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:39:27 AM
During my four years at Carolina I was unaware of the racist message put forth by the Daughters of
the Confederacy and similar groups. There was less a message of tribute than a furthering of the Jim
Crow laws that sought to perpetuate the idea of White Supremacy/Privelege.
This monument should not be replaced.
Its proper place would be an exhibition space alongside Confederate battle flags and Ku Klux Klan
symbols to educate future generations about this dark time in American history.
Thanks for the forum to express my views.
Lonnie Myers
Class of 1978
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:44:40 AM
Subject: monument
We appreciate the chance to give input on this dilemma We also appreciate the alert emails
regarding news on the campus, as our
We think the statue should be put in a museum on campus or somewhere in North
Carolina. It is part of our nation's history, ugly though, it may have been for some. You cannot
change history by ignoring it or erasing it We must learn from it. Thank you
Message
From: Andrea Carson Tanner
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:48:32 AM
Subject: No on Silent Sam
I live in Chapel Hill, and while I'm not affiliated with the University, this is my community. I would like to
respectfully request that the Silent Sam statue be relocated to an appropriate venue where it can be considered in
its context of racial intimidation and civil rights.
We as a community are better than this. Better than "celebrating" and "honoring" a movement in the South that
worked to suppress the rights - in fact the very freedom - of African Africans. Taking down Confederate
monuments is not erasing history - it's declaring that some parts of history belong in a museum, not
on a pedestal.
Sincerely,
Andrea Tanner
Sent from my iPhone

Message
From: Linda Yeatts
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:48:48 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
No conversation needed - He needs to stand exactly as he always has.

Message
From: Bryn Panee Burkhart
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:50:19 AM
Subject: Long overdue
Hello,
I graduated from Carolina with my Bachelor's in Journalism in 1995. The time for Silent Sam to come down is
long overdue. The confederacy, from my perspective, was about the preservation of slavery, a deplorable and
inhumane institution.
I am not in favor of preserving the monument or dedicating extra funds towards its preservation. I applaud
leaders like Mitch Landreiu in New Orleans, who took a stand for the dignity of our African American brothers
and sisters who felt the sting of these monuments for decades.
Thank you for listening.
Bryn
Message
From: Shiva Sethi
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:53:08 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
My name is Shiva Sethi and I graduated from UNC in May 2017 with a degree in economics and global studies.
I oppose returning Silent Sam to its original location on McCorkle Place. I believe that its former location
honored the legacy of racism and white supremacy espoused by the Confederate States of America. I
acknowledge that the removal of a statue will, and should not erase history. I believe the University should
move the statue to the Department of History or American Studies where either or both departments can create a
plaque that describes the statue's role in the University's history. If the statue is returned to McCorkle Place I
will reconsider donating to the University in the future. I believe that my opinions reflect those of the majority
of younger alums and students and by extension, those of the people who will determine the future of the
University. I am a proud alum ofUNC despite the dark chapters of its past, I only ask that the University boldly
commit to working towards a brighter future.
Thank you,
Shiva M. Sethi '17

Message
From: Ryan Burgess
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:58:58 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I strongly believe that Silent Sam should not be replaced in its original location. It is an affront to common
decency and sense. I would like to see the statue moved to a battleground location and another piece added to
let people know the racist history of this statue.
Ryan Burgess
Message
From: Wesley Harrill
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:04:28 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please put the monument of Silent Sam back up. I had two Great Great Grandfathers that fought for the state of
NC during the Civil War as well as their brothers and cousins. Private Samuel Harrill of the 16th NC and
Corporal Laban Hovis of the 11th NC. Letting the vandals take down the monument was a slap in the face to
their memory. Please make things right by putting Sam back up.
Thank you.
Wes Harrill
"God bless those Tarheels."
RobertE Lee
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Subject: Feedback on Silent Sam
Hello,
I have submitted comments previously through other venues, but as I am not sure what has been conveyed to who, I
would like to reiterate my opinion here:
I strongly believe that the Silent Sam statue should NOT be returned to campus, and definitely not to its previous site in
Mccorkle Place -- with its history of racism and hatred, it does not belong in a place of honor on our campus. The
appropriate choice would be to send it to a museum: it makes sense to preserve it somewhere where history (and not
education or "Light and Liberty") is the focus.) I believe the existing plinth/pedestal in Mccorkle Place should be
removed. To acknowledge its previous location, I would suggest replacing it with one of the "Historic" signs already
around town that acknowledged that this was the former site of the stature known as Silent Sam (for examples of the
signs I am thinking of, see the Elizabeth Cotton sign here: https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2013/10/29/honoring-the
beginning-of-folk-legend-in-carrboro or the "UNC Historical Marker" by Will Mcinerney" here:
https://healthyheels.org/tag/chapel-hill/).
The best way for the University to proceed is to act as a beacon for "Light and Liberty" and to take a stand against the
racism and hatred embodied by this statue by ensuring it does not return to its previous place on campus.
It might be beneficial to the University and local communities to subsequently hold a symposium on race and our
institution's history with those issues over the years, or hold a series of seminars on these topics that are open to the
public as well as campus.
Best,
Elizabeth Shank, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biology
Genome Sciences Building 4157
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To whom it may concern in making this decision:
Getting directly to the point, history is history···it can not be changed. It is disturbing that in a
world of being able to push the delete button and concurrently delete the item from one' s personal world
that anyone would think that by deleting or deforming a statue that they can re-write or change the past.
This statue should be a reminder of just how far the most wonderful, constantly changing country in the
word has actually come! This statue is an intricale part of the UNC campus history as well as US history
and should remain firmly placed where it has always been. Again, if for no other reason, then as a
reminder of just how far this country has come!
Thank you,
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Adjunct Faculty, UNC Dental School
Wife of a UNC Alumnus
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Put silent Sam back up in his original location and bring all the
criminals inv olv ed in v andalizing Sam to justice and giv e them the
maximum allowable penalties and fines.
These people need to be punished sev erely or else they are just going to
keep repeating these crimes.
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chancellor Folt,
I am an alumnus of UNC-CH.
In 2013, I retired from the faculty of the UNC-CH school of Medicine.
under no circumstances should that statue be returned to its pedestal.
Doing so would be an insult to my former colleagues and former students.
Carolina must again lead the way.
Regards,
Bruce Alexander
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Message
From: Kathy Therber
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:33:29 AM
Subject: Please Get Rid of It
The fact that our country and the rest of the world has to watch you struggle with this decision is an
embarrassment.
Thank you
Message
From: Julian Minshew
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:33:35 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
My recommendation is to put the monument of Silent Sam back in its rightful place that it has stood for over
100 years and apply severe punishment to anyone that tries to damage or remove the statue again.
Regards,
Julian A. Minshew
Message
From: Jo Ann Harllee
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:45:28 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I don't think this statute should be anywhere on the UNC campus, it is racist and dedicated to people who
wanted to continue to own slaves. I think it should be melted down.
I also think that the statute's base that is currently on campus should also be removed and melted down.
For some period of time (until a new statute is decided upon) the space where Silent Sam was located should be
left empty.
Jo Ann Harllee
UNCJD 1978
Message
From: Jim Harllee
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:48:04 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am very happy that silent Sam is off the pedestal and away from UNC's" Front Door" in Mccorkle Place.
This statue was erected by racists and dedicated by the racist Mr. Carr to
promote white supremacy and it has no place on the UNC campus.
Thank you,
James E Harllee
chapel Hill, NC
Go Heels !
Message
From: Don Michael
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:48:34 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam has been a symbol for several generations of students at UNC of the valiant heritage of those
Alumni who fought bravely for honor and heritage in our Civil War.
We must not lose sight of the FACT that at the height of slavery, only a few percent of Americans owned
slaves. America was in it's infancy and the vast majority were fighting for their fellow North Carolinians, and
the real and perceived injustices that the more populous North was placing upon Southerners.
Silent Sam is not a tribute to slavery, but rather a tribute to the valor shown by these young men in their
sacrifices for North Carolina. 1861 was a different time, and to place today's moral compass on these brave men
is just wrong. It's history and should be well preserved.
In my opinion Silent Sam should return to it's original location and these hoodlums who tore it down should be
punished. PLEASE do not allow a vocal and militant minority to be rewarded through their villainous actions.
Message
From: Jack Largess
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:58:18 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Pedastal
Dear Chancellor Falt and BOT:
Please do not bring Silent Sam back to UNC's campus.
If you do, please fully contextualize the statue.
That contextualization should include an apology that the statue was ever a part of the fabric of campus, and a
clear argument that it remains on campus to remind the university that it was founded on a violent, patriarchal
white supremacy and that we have much to do to correct our past and current wrongs.
In particular, please never put the confederate monument back on the pedestal in McCorkle place.
Thank you,
Jack Largess
Geography 2016
Message
From: Alli Cooke
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:05:53 PM
Subject: My thoughts on Silent Sam
I write as an alumna to thank you for your leadership thus far on the Silent Sam issue, and to urge you to stay
the course in keeping him off "our front lawn." While your statements haven't been perfect, I (as a PR
professional at a prestigious liberal arts college) respect the tremendous amount of effort that goes into crafting
something so delicate, and the incredibly difficult and nuanced conversations you are engaged in.
UNC is my proudest achievement, and despite leaving NC in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, I carry the
university with me everywhere I go. (I have a tattoo of the Old Well letterhead logo on my arm - it helps me
find alumni everywhere!) Being part of the very first class of Covenant Scholars has made my entire life
possible. Many of my fellow Covenant Scholars were students of color, and while I (a white girl from Chicago)
cannot fully understand the legacy of slavery and segregation, I know that Silent Sam is an affront to POCs who
only want to feel safe and equal in the academic environment that they've strived so hard to attend. Furthermore,
the Unsung Founders Memorial was installed while I was a student, and its close proximity to Sam always
struck me as insensitive. I believe Sam belongs--dents, dirt and all--in a museum, indicating its place as a thing
of history. Its only value now, in fact, is academic.
Please stand strong. The BOT and BOG are a bunch of overwhelmingly "old white Southern men" - I say this
not to denigrate them but to point out their extreme blind spots and biases - and UNC, as a globally respected
university, owes it to alumni and future students to act globally and in the best interest of the entire University
community, not just for the people who have always lived free and without fear.
Sincerely,
Alli Cooke '08
Message
From: Johnny
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:07:35 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam Statue needs to be put back where it was, no question ask.
Are the Professors who were involved still employed at UNC? If so why? They knew before they went to
work at UNC that silent Sam was t here and if it bothered them so badly why did they want to work at UNC?
Are those students who were arrested still allowed to attend UNC? If so why? Each student who gets
accepted at UNC has had at least 2 tours of campus and they knew silent Sam was there before they all pied
to attend UNC so if the statue bothered them so badly why did they apply to attend UNC?
UNC is one of the greatest universities in the country and should never stand and or back any professor
or student who disgraces the great name of UNC chape l Hill.
Thank charge of your university and put silent Sam back in his spot.
Message
From: Jim Davis
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:07:38 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Personally I feel that only two groups should have a say: current students and UNC-CH alumni. Yes, it is a
public university but it is there for students, past and present, so I would let those who have lived and studied
there decide. All others are just bystanders.
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Sent: 9/26/2018 12:14:56 PM
silent Sam needs to go back up at the location it has been since 1913. Measures need to be put in place
to ensure that marxist thugs are not able to pull it down ever again. If silent Sam is not replaced by
the November 15 deadline, and the marxists that pulled down silent Sam are not prosecuted and imprisoned,
monuments and markers to nonwhites across North Carolina will start to be pulled down. The MLK statue in
Raleigh is the first one that will be destroyed. After that one is pulled down there will be others.
count on it.
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Sent: 9/26/2018 12:22:15 PM
Subject: The Confederate monument
From: McGowan, John

Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 12:18 PM
To: monument@unc.edu
Subject: The Confederate monument
I don't know that I have anything original to say about the monument, but here goes.
1. It is crucial that the monument not go back up on Mccorkle Place. The letter from Chapel Hill mayor
Pam Hemminger lists several good reasons for that assertion. In addition, the national and
international reputation of UNC, plus our ability to recruit faculty and students of color for the next 20
years, are at stake. The Chancellor, whose primary responsibility is to the well-being of the university,
must make the case to the BOT and the BOG that UNC will be severely harmed (both in terms of the
inevitable riot and the physical/emotional damage it will cause to our campus and to our standing in
the world) if the statue is restored to its previous location. In standing up for what is best for the
university, the Chancellor may well be overruled and even fired, but her job is to advance our best
interests--and it is, with no room for doubt, in the best interests of the university to not restore the
statue to that empty pedestal. The only counter-argument is what the BOG and the state legislature
might do to us in retaliation for not reinstating the statue. Frankly, the damage they can do is more
short-term than the damage restoration would inflict and, more to the point, there is no evidence that
bowing to their wishes ever gains us anything at all. We do what they want and they just push harder
for the various ways in which they are striving to control and weaken us. I don't see any upside to
acceding to their wishes.
2. But where should the statue go? A significant (I would put the number at 25%; I have talked to a wide
sample of faculty about this issue over the past six weeks) percentage of faculty do not want the statue
anywhere on campus. Much more troubling is that I would estimate that 85% of the faculty of color do
not want the statue anywhere on campus. The faculty of color feel like they have been ignored and/or
condescended to on this issue for the past few years and are in no mood for a compromise solution.
Thus, the Chancellor is in a very tight spot. She needs to do a huge amount of work to bring faculty of
color aboard for any compromise--even with full historical contextualization in any re-siting.
3. In terms of the general state politics--where there is a sense that the majority of North Carolina citizens
want the statue reinstated in its original location --the Chancellor needs to assert that the university's
mission and its welfare both make restoration the wrong way to go. The Republicans obviously want
to demagogue this issue to bring out their base. The Chancellor needs to get out on the road and tell
our side of the story--to alums, to the parents of our students, to donors. She needs to be barn-
storming, not ignoring the elephant in the room, but speaking directly to the issue every time she is in
front of an audience. Having (as I take it) made her stand that the statue cannot be restored, she needs
to strongly articulate why that is the right position to take. A principled position, even when
unpopular, is always more respected than waffling or trying to avoid talking about something
controversia I.
4. I would hate to be in Chancellor Folt's shoes, but (as I hope these comments make clear), I accept that
a relocation, with adequate historical contextualization, of the statue on campus is the most feasible
outcome, even if it will not please all. With time, the heat will fade. But while the heat is still on, the
Chancellor needs to make her stand as resolute as possible: that statue cannot return to Mccorkle
Place. Finally, in a time frame of six to 12 months after the statue's relocation, some kind of truth and
reconciliation process would be a very good idea. Giving people a chance to air their views--in a setting
where there can be respectful listening, but also the knowledge that the decision has been made, that
there is no going back--can prove healing.
John McGowan
Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Message
From: Kathy Mayhew
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:25:19 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please put the Silent Sam Monument back up where he previously stood.
Silent Sam is to remember the sons of UNC that fought honorably.

Kathy Mayhew
Message
From: Cortney Davis
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:32:51 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dr. Folt, My name is Cortney Davis. I attended UNC Chapel Hill for 8 years from 1994 to 2002. I have a B.S.
in Biology and a D.D.S. I feel it would be a very bad idea to place Silent Sam back on UNC campus ,and am
strongly against it. Sincerely, Cortney M Davis
Message
From: C LANGE
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:35:52 PM
Subject: ****Put Silent Sam in a Museum***
Good afternoon,
I am writing to strongly suggest that Silent Sam be put into a museum. I lived in South Carolina for years.
When the public and leaders decided that the confederate flag which once flew atop the statehouse was to be
taken off the capitol dome and off the statehouse grounds, it was put into a museum. Silent Sam and other
monuments should also be moved to museums where they can do much more good by being used as teaching
tools.
I have heard many arguments, including that these monuments are our "heritage." I agree; it is some people's
"heritage." However, it is not to be celebrated or given a place of prominence on public land, which is for ALL
people. The heritage, unfortunately, is one of slavery, extreme oppression, and domination. My maternal side
hails from Italy. Our "heritage" involves Benito Mussolini. In my opinion, keeping these confederate
monuments up on public land is akin to Italians putting up monuments to Mussolini. It may be my heritage but
oppression is nothing to value, nothing to celebrate or honor. Should Germans be putting up monuments to
Hitler? That may sound like an extreme comparison. However, if one put themselves into the shoes of black
people - 400 years in bondage, being bought and sold, families ripped apart, women raped, being beaten and
used for medical experiments without their knowledge or consent, Jim Crow, cross burnings, redlining of
neighborhoods to keep them out, lynchings and other murders that were never solved or even for
and the millions upon millions of microaggressions and insults to human dignity
Therefore, the monuments on PUBLIC LAND to those who advocated the enslavement of an
entire group of people for hundreds of years is a shocking slap in the face to all of those who ancestors fought
tooth and nail for freedom. Frankly, these monuments should have been taken down long ago. I am aghast that I
even have to write these words in this day and age.
Sincerely,
Claudia Lange, RPh, BA

Message
From: Colleen Lee
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:51:17 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Dr. Folt,

My husband is a 1970 BA graduate and a 1974 Medicine graduate and I am a 1973 BSN graduate. We both feel
strongly that if silent Sam goes back to his old site on Polk Place he will continue to be a lightning
rod for protests, an intimidating symbol for black students and a divisive symbol for all alumni, current
students and supporters of the university. It is not safe or welcoming to return the statue to its old
site.
Ideally we would both rather see it be relocated to somewhere like the Bentonville Historical site where
it can be seen in context with other artifacts from the civil War. If there is strong sentiment to keep
silent Sam on campus then one solution might be to move the statue to the cemetery on campus and provide
some signage that places it in historical context and explains the divisiveness associated with it.
My husband is a native North Carolinian from Raleigh, while I grew up in Canada (born of American
parents) and then moved to the Akron Ohio area. However we are both in total agreement that the statue
cannot go back to its original site.
Sincerely,
William D. Lee, BA 1970, MD 1974

Colleen H. Lee, BSN 1973
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Message
From: Mike
Sent: 9/26/2018 1:02:49 PM
Subject: Disposition of Si lent Sam Statue

Many thanks for your reaching out for input regarding the s t atue.
I graduated cum laude from UNCCH in 1972 and earned a masters in education there in 1974. In addition,
official records document that both of my maternal great-grandfathers and a paternal second great-grand
father fought as members of the Confederate Army.
Wherever the statue were to reside on campus, among other significance, it would remain a symbol of the
racial hatred that fueled its erection in the early 20th Century; therefore, the outdoor location or the
enclosing building would be in peril.
Despite the pressures exerted, please voice the above points. The rema1n1ng options would include
relocation to an appropriate and less risky indoor location elsewhere such as the Museum of History in
Raleigh and to erect it at an existing battl efield monument area.
Thank you again.
Michael Allen Massey
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Subject: process
Dear Chancellor Folt and UNC Board of Trustees,
My first reaction upon receiving the communication announcing the creation of this email address was,
really? After weeks of silence, you come up with a central email address? I find this to be very disappointing.
Whatever you recommend to the BOG on Silent Sam, it is imperative that the process you use is
transparent. As you're aware more than most, all the options for the future of Silent Sam will have
detractors. However, if the process is open and fair, you will have more success in bringing the broader UNC
community along with you.
Community meetings, open forums, small group discussion would all be helpful. Ideally, a charrette would be
used. But most importantly, understanding how the recommendation will be reached, the rationale and inputs
that shaped it would be invaluable. As it is now, from the perspective of a faculty member and diversity leader
on campus, it feels like the campus community is being shrugged off This is most distressing.
Sincerely,
Sabrina Burmeister
Sabrina S. Bwmeister
Associate Professor of Biology
Director ofFaculty Diversity Initiatives, College of Arts and Sciences
Scientific Teaching Fellow
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Subject: Silent Sam has no place on our campus
Silent Sam leaves a legacy of racism and hatred on our campus. We must remove this stain from our public
squares. Silent Sam must be kept away from our public spaces, and it must be banished forever from the face our great
University puts forward to students, staff, visitors, and all other member of our community.
It rightfully belongs in a history museum---such as the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh---where the artifact
can be contextualized properly within the history that surrounds its original construction and intended message.
Sincerely,
David Gatz
David Gatz, PhD

gotz@unc.edu / gotz.web.unc.edu
Associate Professor, Information Science
Assistant Director, Carolina Health Informatics Program
Associate Member, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Message
From: Lea Palmer
Sent: 9/26/2018 1:13:01 PM
Subject: What to do with Silent Sam?
The Levine's Museum of the New South might be a good place to start. It's a museum in Charlotte that is
dedicated to telling the "diverse history of the South since the Civil War." I absolutely loved the museum as a
kid. It is located on 200 E. 7th St. Charlotte, NC 28202.
This could be the start of removing Confederate monuments all over the state and would make an incredibly
interesting "post-Civil War" exhibit on the countries reaction to Jim Crow laws.
Thanks for taking the initiative to do something productive with this monument. I think UNC has a unique
opportunity to lead the country in a much needed revival. Slavery, the Confederacy, the Civil War, and these
monuments are all part of our nations history, but we can show everyone that while learning and understanding
our history is integral to the advancement of society, that does not mean we have to worship those who enslaved
and beat African-Americans, fought for the continuation of hatred and bigotry, and sought every avenue
possible to ensure African-Americans felt unsafe and inferior to their fellow countrymen.
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Subject: Thoughts on Silent Sam from UNC-CH School of Education Members
Attachments: SOE Community Statement (8 24).pdf
To chancellor Folt, the Board of Governors, the Board of Trustees, and the general public:
Attached is a statement signed by 82 community members of the University of North Carolina-chapel Hill
school of Education, including current and past students and faculty.
Sincerely,
James Sadler
School of Education Community Statement on the Fall of Silent Sam
As individual graduate students, staff, faculty, and alumni of the School of Education at UNC
Chapel Hill, we support those who spoke up against Silent Sam and those who eventually
brought the statue down last Monday night. Silent Sam-erected in 1913 as a monument to
white supremacy-was a symbol of oppression. It communicated to Black and Brown students,
staff, and faculty that their livelihood comes second to those of white community members. The
mission statement of UNC Chapel Hill expresses valuing the prosperity of its students. We
expected that this would include the dismantling of symbols of hate that were constructed to
demean and exclude Black people and are pleased to see students work towards this mission.
At the same time, the actions taken Monday night should not have been necessary in the first
place. The administration at UNC had multiple opportunities to work with students towards the
removal of Silent Sam, but instead they chose to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars
protecting the statue and use police resources to spy on student activists. This criminalization of
student leaders is inconsistent with statements issued by the chancellor that all students should
feel safe and welcomed on UNC's campus. While the University was telling students that
administrators were listening to students' concerns, administrators were comforting concerned
donors, claiming that they had every intention of preserving and protecting the statue. UNC
failed to support students, leaving a void that students were thankfully able to fill through
activism and action.
We are also disappointed by the response following Silent Sam's fall from UNC Leadership,
including Chancellor Folt, President Spellings, the Board of Trustees, and the Board of
Governors. In their statements following the removal of Silent Sam, UNC administrators labelled
the peaceful actions of protesters as "violent", ignored violent actions and threats against
students, and continued to prioritize protecting UNC property over student physical and mental
health. We hope for a day when UNC leadership shows as much passion and dedication for
protecting Black students' health and security as they have shown for Silent Sam.
We acknowledge that while the fall of Silent Sam is a step in the right direction, problems
involving racial equity at U NC remain. Black students are underrepresented as a whole on
campus. Several buildings on campus are named after notorious white supremacists and
leaders of the KKK. Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) remains underfunded to
provide adequate short- and long-term mental health care for students. As long as these and
other issues persist, we stand with students and colleagues engaged in the fight against white
supremacy and will continue to support them. As educators and education scholars, we know
that students cannot prosper in the classroom if they do not feel affirmed in their most salient
identities. We, as members of the School of Education community, will continue to support
expressions of advocacy in which students demand fair treatment and respect for themselves
and other marginalized people within and beyond our campus community.
Signed,
James Sadler Heather Aiken Deborah Eaker-Rich

Lucia Mock Munoz de Luna Caitlin O'Loughlin Christopher Harrison
Jessica Benton Allison Murray-Nikkel Ayesha Hashim
Amber Majors Toni Miguel Xue Rong
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Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
I do not believe that Silent Sam should get reinstated at its previous location on UNC Campus. It's place is in a
Confederate monument park or museum, not at the front door of a liberal arts university.
Sarah C. Richardson
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From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 1:26:22 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello!
I was the Director of Diversity Educ ation , Researc h and Assessment at UNC from 2003
until 2013. The campus had a sincere desire to engage in topics concerning oppression,
historical and present and to work to make certain all members of the Carolina family,
fac ulty, staff and students were treated fairly and provided with a welc oming c ampus. A
statue honoring the Confederac y c annot by any stretc h of the imagination be considered
a welc oming sight to anyone who understands history. Leave it down, put it in a
museum.
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Message
From: Sheila Beaudry
Sent: 9/26/2018 1:32:56 PM
Subject: Keep Silent Sam silent
Rich is class of 69 and I am class of 70. We do not want Silent Sam back on any public grounds and especially not on UNC
campus. It is way past time to remove these representations of a prejudiced past.
Rich & Sheila Beaudry
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Subject: silent Sam
The monument should be returned to the UNC campus.
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Message
From: Madeleine Jacobs
Sent: 9/26/2018 1:46:39 PM
Subject: Please remove the offensive pedestal as we ll as the statue
When I first visited UNC's Chapel Hill campus, I was shocked and offended to immediately encounter the
Silent Sam statue, which does not merely recognize that students died in the Civil War, but glorifies their
support of the confederate cause. It has no place on campus! It should be in a museum as an artifact of
ins ti tuti onalized racism.
Best,
Madeleine Jacobs
Message
From: Michael Childs
Sent: 9/26/2018 1:55:41 PM
The proper place for Silent Sam is just where it was before the vandals tore it down.
Moving it elsewhere is an insult to and serious disrespect of
• Our history.
• The courageous, sacrificial alumni who answered the call of their country and often died or were disabled or
disfigured in the process.
• The family and others who respected and loved those alumni, many of whom suffered greatly by their absence,
loss or injury.
• The people who, in hard times, raised and paid the money for Silent Sam.
• The University, which welcomed and provided the proper place for SS.
• The 100s of alumni, descendants and others who have asked the Chancellor and other officials to leave the
monument alone.
• Public opinion, which polls show supports leaving monuments in place.
• Rational, considered judgment, which does not react to the tempers of the times.
• Citizens of North Carolina who have long identified with the state and its history and heritage - as opposed to
relative newcomers with little or no appreciation of either.
• The General Assembly.
If an alternative site is considered, it should be prominent, in order to respect the monument and all of the above.
Message
From: Donna Royster
Sent: 9/26/2018 1:56:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I'm not going to go into the politics of the removal of the statue. When I was on campus in the 1970's, Silent
Sam had more of a social connotation in my mind, and less of a political or historical connotation. I will say that
now that the statue has been removed, I would not want it put back where it was. Social consciousness has
changed and the statue's relevancy has also changed. My suggestion would be to put it in a museum somewhere,
with the context of the statue explained as part of the display.
Donna Clapp Royster

Class of 1978
Donna Royster
Message
From: John Tasker
Sent: 9/26/2018 2:05:27 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
It's okay for campus to change in response to the pressure of time. Sentiment only goes so far and anything
becomes an anachronism one day.
UNC has historical collections within the library system, the Southern Historical Collection comes to mind. I
thought there was a collection for North Carolina as well. It is possible to make space inside one of those
collections, North Carolina preferred, if it exists. There the statue would be safe, in its element for historical
purpose, and available to be seen by anyone interested.
John Tasker, Jr. '64

Message
From: Margaret Porter
Sent: 9/26/2018 2:20:03 PM
Subject: Comments on Silent Sam placement
I do not believe that Silent Sam belongs on the UNC Campus. I would suggest somewhere in the History
Museum (and not out front of that Museum). It needs explanation about its place in history and racism that it
represents.
Thank you for encouraging comments.
Margaret Porter
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Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
I have been an employee at UNC since 2013. I would prefer that the statue does not return to campus. My department
works to increase diversity in global programs on campus, and opening access to global opportunities to students that
have traditionally been underrepresented in global programs. I also work to increase global education in K-14 schools in
North Carolina. Silent Sam goes against all that I work for here at UNC. Thank you for taking this into consideration.
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From: AnneA
Sent: 9/26/2018 2:27:15 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a UNC alum, class of 1981. I don't care what you do with the statue as long as you don't put it
back in such a prominent place on our beautiful campus. Maybe it can go in the Ackland or some
other museum, with a sign explaining its horrible racist background and the progress that was
made when it was removed from public view.
Thank you, Anne Atwell

Message
From: Treadaway, Rhonda [rhonda.treadaway@dhhs.nc.gov]
Sent: 9/26/2018 2:39:34 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am one of the many UNC alumni. I have both my bachelor's and master's degrees from this wonderful institution. I
believe that Silent Sam would be best placed at the Army ROTC building since he was a soldier. Although the civil war
was a very difficult time in history, the men who gave their lives on both sides of the war felt that they were doing their
duty to their country. Silent Sam reminds us that soldiers take a pledge to defend the country, standing and fighting
until death, if necessary. I personally feel that the civil war was very destructive, but the men who died deserve to be
remembered. And we should learn that fighting each other in America is never a good thing. Unfortunately, that lesson
has still not been learned, as the division in the US is greater than I have ever witnessed in my lifetime, as far back as my
memory goes. I am sad to see so much discord. It would be great if people would learn to set aside their differences
and come together as A mericans. We need to move forward, but in doing so, we can never forget the past. History is so
important. Thank you for listening to my idea.
Rhonda W. Treadaway, MSRC

Vocational Evaluator II
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Albemarle Unit Office
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
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Message
From: Amber Suzanne Ramsey
Sent: 9/26/2018 2:41:51 PM
Subject: The disgusting confederate statue shou ld be removed permanently
That statue should be permanently removed, for the health & welfare of the students. what it represents
is passe. The students should be building a future that doesn't include the shackels of the past; nor
illuminate the torch of slavery the confederacy, and what that represents to the multi-cultural ethnic &
diverse student body. That statue is disgusting & should be permanently removed.
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Message
From: Paula Price
Sent: 9/26/2018 2:42:07 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As a two-time alumna ofUNC-Chapel Hill (Bachelor of Science in Zoology in 1979 and Master of Arts in
Teaching in 1982), I was sad to see the Silent Sam monument ripped down by an unruly mob while Chapel Hill
police stood by and watched. It's even sadder to hear that there were UNC students among the mob. As an
undergraduate, I was told that Silent Sam was a tribute to those UNC students who left school to fight in the
civil war - many of whom were killed in battle and never returned to resume their studies. I now understand
that the matter is more complicated and that some believe that the statue was erected as a racist
statement. While I believe that slavery has always been wrong, I can understand how these young soldiers from
the South may very well not have seen this as a fight over slavery at the time. Even today, many young soldiers
believe they are serving noble aims when they go off to battle and remain unaware of the less noble motives of
the politicians who declare the wars.
I recently heard an interview with a history professor on 60 minutes who suggested that, rather than tearing
down all of the monuments across our country that have been erected over the centuries to commemorate
various points in our history, we instead add a plaque near the moment explaining all of the facts regarding the
history of the monument. That way, anyone who views the monument has all of the facts available. I would be
in favor of this approach. I think that Silent Sam should be returned to the place that he has occupied for
decades with the addition of a plaque explaining both sides of the controversy which surround his existence.
I would like to add one more suggestion. I think that any students who were involved in the vandalism of the
monument should be expelled from the university and their place given to more worthy applicants who have the
good judgment and character to pursue change through legal, non-violent and constructive means. I do not
think the university should reward the type of behavior that was demonstrated by the individuals who attempted
to destroy property that belongs not to them alone, but to all of the citizens of North Carolina.
Paula Middleton Price

Message
From: Andrea T. Deyrup
Sent: 9/26/2018 2:49:22 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please do not place this racist monument back at the UNC campus. It is a disgrace to our fine
university.
Andrea T. Deyrup, M.D., Ph.D.

Message
From: Bill Workman
Sent: 9/26/2018 2:51:42 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The best choice is to put silent Sam back where he was, and to build a boundary around it marked by 'no
trespassing' signs.
Keep History in its place, and keep the haters of history in their place.
Thank You
Bill Workman
Lexington, NC
Message
From: Peter K
Sent: 9/26/2018 3:06:46 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put it back as the law requires.
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Message
From: Wesley Phillips [wes.phil lips@duke.edu]
Sent: 9/26/2018 3:08:45 PM
Subject: Monument
I have conflicting thoughts about Silent Sam but I do not about rule of law. The UNC police or the person that
called a stand down order in the cause of safety should be terminated, none of us are safe without all of us
being held to the same standard under the law. All the people involved became anarchist and not protesters
when destruction began. The chancellor nor the board have the right or the authority to chose to ignore the
laws passed by the legislators that were elected by the people. With that said, the statue needs to be put back
in its original place and the process started in a legal manner. If the mob can achieve its desire by violence we
are a step away from anarchy and another from tyranny where the largest group will dictate how we live our
lives. I believe the only coarse of action is to restore the monument to its original place and follow the laws
and statutes related to its change of location.
Message
From: Eric Roehrig
Sent: 9/26/2018 3:13:10 PM
Subject: Keep Silent Sam Off of UNC's campus
I am a graduate of UNC undergrad and UNC School of Law, as well as a former UNC employee. Silent Sam
served as a monument to white supremacy. If it should be displayed anywhere, it should be in a museum off
campus, like the North Carolina Museum of History where it can be given the proper context.
Sincerely,
Eric Roehrig
University of North Carolina, Class of 1996
University of North Carolina School of Law, Class of 2012
Eric L. Roehrig
Message
From: Andrew Mayernik
Sent: 9/26/2018 3:17:34 PM
Subject: Monument
I like the idea of placing the monument in a place for the students to see, but not in a place of
prominence. Maybe the art cente r ?
carol Mayernik
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Message
From: G.W. Brown
Sent: 9/26/2018 3:23:15 PM
Subject: Seize this moment in history ...
To Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees-
It's my desire to see that what remains of Silent Sam be relegated to a means of education and not
prosthelytization or distress to all the great children of this University. I certainly do not think it belongs
outdoors, in plain view. Of course I disagree with it's legal protection and designation. I do agree with the
Libraries that it should not be left to them to house.
Therein, think boldly. This isn't the end of this rightful movement. Far from it. Seize this moment in history to
create some sort of educational environment which can house the racist, historical objects we still have to deal
with as a university; the names and stories of the University's racist benefactors, for which many campus
buildings are named (and which will surely be altered in due course); and any other uncomfortable
anachronisms we can and should place within the distinct context of their history, those which tarnish the
veritable reason we exist-inclusion and promotion of the most humanistic ideals known to man-but which
shouldn't necessarily be erased from the annals.
Become the LEADER in this space. Map out the blueprint. All public and private institutions throughout the
South are grappling with this very same dilemma. Even institutions throughout the Northeast and the rest of the
country are rife with this sort of historical blemishment. Show them, as we have throughout our entire history,
how. it. is. done.
Or else, cart that damn thing off to the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh.
Thank you so much for listening!
Garrett Williams Brown

Class of 2012
Message
From: Arthur Ollendorff
Sent: 9/26/2018 3:25:47 PM
Subject: The Confederate Monument
I am both a and a clinical faculty member in the school of medicine.I believe

that the monument needs to be pr eserved as does that moment in history that the monument recognizes. We
cannot hide things that we now regret. We must learn from those experiences as a community. As
educators, we are compelled to tell that story and the lesson we have learned to the community at large.
My suggestion is that the monument be placed somewhere in the university and be accompanies with a small
plague discussing the issues invo l ved. The location should not be as prominent as it is now but s hied
also not be tucked away where it cannot be seen by the faculty, students and visitors.
Thank you.
Arthur ollendorff
Message
From: Michel le Engle
Sent: 9/26/2018 3:39:28 PM
Subject: Fwd: No to silent sam

From: Folt, Carol Lynn <carol.folt(a)unc.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: No to silent sam
To: Michelle Engle
Thank you.
From: Michelle Engle

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 10: 12 PM
To: Carol Folt <carol.folt@unc.edu>
Subject: No to silent sam
Please do NOT allow Silent Sam to go back onto UNC. Silent Sam celebrates the southern soldiers who were
fighting to keep the south out of the United States and a place where slavery was legal. It has no place in our
modem south, no place in a place of learning and no place in a university with citizens of this state from all
backgrounds. In fact- for a place that should be welcoming- silent same detracts from that.
It should stay down.
Michelle Engle
Message
From: Amy Pul liam
Sent: 9/26/2018 3:41:30 PM
Subject: Silent Sam-lay him to rest

silent Sam represents an ugly time in our history. I support removing the monument for good.
Sincerely,
Amy Pu lli am
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Message
From: DENISE MARK MCCOY
Sent: 9/26/2018 3:49:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

I sincerely hope the Silent Sam monument will be reinstated to the UNC campus grounds asap.
Thank you,
D McCoy
Message
From: Henry Graham
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:03:46 PM
To: 'public@bog.northcarolina.edu.'; UNC Monument [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: monument laws
Confederate monument "Silent Sam' must be placed in it's original location.
Maybe some of our "educators" could require students(?) to study a little bit of NC and Southern history
Henry N Graham
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From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:04:27 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The question is pretty simple. Does Carol Falt have the leadership skills to ensure that UNC is run lawfully or
will she defer to a mob? Silent Sam should be returned immediately. She absolutely knew that mob was there
that evening and that they were going to pull the statue down. I wonder how she would handle it if people
started throwing paint at the W ilson Library. It's all vandalism. If the State of North Carolina, through proper
deliberations, determines the statue should no longer stand on the campus then it should be removed. That's
not very complicated. I believe we all know now the statue will never be returned. Mobs are scary, obnoxious
and easy to get rid of if you just do exactly what they say. That's until they show up again demanding
something else which they will.
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Richmond, Virginia
Message
From: Richard Jones
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:05:27 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put i t back up
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Message
From: William Kornegay
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:06:34 PM
Subject: Lot 46 - Bye Silent Slavery Loving Sam
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:09:55 PM
Subject: sam
Sam should go back where he was. He represents all the underage boys who never got an opportunity to go to college
because they had to go to war instead, and the children at UNC need to just deal with it.
Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:21:19 PM
Subject: Silent SAM
What to do?
Absolutely nothing... Be stem and remind others of the rule of law. Shield it from vandals.
Perhaps an iron gate surrounding it with a certain circumstance to prevent people from getting to close. That
seems to work at most institutions.
We don't remove reminders of history, we preserve and explain them. To educate is what UNC is about, so lets
educate.
Should Auschwitz be destroyed? No, It's a reminder of a time in our world history of an evil that once
existed. But that evil was destroyed by the good that is in this world.
History occurs every day. The civil war, that seems forgotten at times, was over 150 years ago. We are now
fighting over a
Statue that honors the sacrifice of students, brothers, and fathers from a time that no longer exists.
It's not promoting racism, it's a representation of UNC students and others that sacrificed for a cause they
believed in.
For the University to "CAVE" and not recognize those that are no longer with us is a disgrace to their memory.
Perhaps it's time for the school to erect a highly visible plaque that explains the time and reason for its erection.
Are U.S. war memorials next because a certain population does not agree with its campaigns?
What's next? When do we begin to educate?
Sincerely
Concerned parent of UNC student
Message
From: Diane rodelli
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:21:47 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
In whatever corner you relegate this statue, I hope you include the racist, offensive language used in
its first dedication. I hope you include information about why this statue was created and erected when
it was- not directly after the war, but much later, as another tool of intimidation and suppression.
And then include the history of its toppling- why now- what the current state of affairs in our country
that made it necessary for people of conscience to take it down and speak truth to those who would revise
history to lie about what really was and what really is.
Thanks
Diane Rodelli
Durham, NC
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Message
From: Lori Mitchell Barnett
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:34:02 PM
Subject: play the induction speech in background
Wherever you feel obligated to put this thing instead of donating it to a white supremacy group please be
sure that the speech where Mr. Carr was talking about beating a black woman and all the other Racists
that day is playing in the background and written on the walls.
If the University is so beholden to Racists who want this to be a big part of the university then the
racists words spoken that day need to be a big part of its re-display and presentation. Quit making it
pretty because it is not.
Message
From: George Whitaker
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:36:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a 1966 graduate of UNC and a 1969 graduate of UNC Law School. My father and brother are also UNC
graduates. I am proud to be a UNC graduate but ashamed at the failure of the University to protect Silent Sam.
This was the willful destruction of public property in front of cameras and police. As if they knew nothing
would be done. It is my opinion that Sam should be placed back on the pedestal and be protected against
vandalism like any other public property. The statue is by no means located at a main entrance to the campus.
I have driven on and off campus hundreds of times and never seen Sam. I have walked to and from dorms and
classes and never walked by Sam. Only if someone is walking to Franklin St. are they likely to see this statue.
Last fall before a football game I asked a protester why would she enroll at Carolina if she were so offended by
Sam. Her response was she was on campus several weeks before she knew it was there. Enough said about
that. One thing I learned at Carolina was how to cope with things and people that offended me or had
different points of view than mine. I avoided them when possible or learned to live with them. I believe there
are people who get pleasure out of protesting. If they get their way with Sam, or not, they will find something
else that offends them. Put Sam back and protect him. George G. Whitaker.
Message
From: rlmerrell
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:41:20 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please have Silent Sam returned to his original pedestal. He was illegally removed, and the right action is to
restore him.
Thank you,
Randy L. Merrell
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Message
From: Johnny Asconi
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:43:18 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put him back where he was!

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Message
From: Walter Conine
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:43:51 PM
The subject statue should be returned to its previous location. The statue does not represent support for slavery. It does
not represent a call for harassment of any racial group. It is a monument to the young men of the University who gave
their lives ,not to support slavery, but to fight to protect their state.
Thank you for the opportunity to express an opinion.
Walter L Conine
UNC class of 1968

Message
From: Cynthia van Duin
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:48:21 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

I have trouble accepting that 70% of North Carolina residents want silent Sam returned to his pedestal on
McCo r kl e Pl ace.
As chapel Hill residents, I and my family personally would like to see the statue destroyed and turned
into a true memorial for all who died in the civil War. Northern, southern, free, and slave alike.
History is always changing insofar as ou r views on it as time races away from any particular event, and
we should not accept or celebrate views or monuments that denigrate others no matter their "historical"
circumstances.
Thank you,
Cynthia van Duin
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Message
From: Chip Bates
Sent: 9/26/2018 4:53:09 PM
Subject: Keep Silent Sam where he's always been
Put up a heavy fence with inside motion detection, alarms and nobody telling the Police to stand down .
Message
From: Steven Pendry
Sent: 9/26/2018 5:02:15 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Leave the statue where it is. Teach students history. If the students don't like something about the
campus there are other schools to attend.
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 5:11:53 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear UNCCH,
It is my opinion that the university should replace Silent Sam in the location he was stricken down from. First
of all, it is in accordance with the law {NCGS Section 100-2.l(b)}. Secondly, it's main purpose is to honor those
UNCCH students that went to war and fought for Southern lndependance, many of which lost their lives for a
cause they believed in. Thirdly, it also honors those mothers who lost a son in the war of Northern
agression. I would like to add that if HE is returned to stand on that pedestal, there should be some sort of tall
fence around it to protect it's survival from a duplicate illegal act. One must remember that no person alive
can ever change history, they can only make NEW history. Thank you for your indulgence in this matter.
Sincerely,
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Message
From: Jim Stutts
Sent: 9/26/2018 5:24:53 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
It is a no-brainer: you must obey the law and return Silent Sam to his lawful place! Jim Stutts, Southern historian

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From: David Henson [dhenson@lawmed.com]
Sent: 9/26/2018 5:25:30 PM
Subject: Oppose Silent Sam
Chancellor Falt,
As a 1995 undergraduate and 1998 law school alum, I strongly oppose the replacement of Silent Sam to the UNC-
Chapel Hill campus. This statute has no place being on a campus that is of and for the people of North Carolina. All
students of all races, religions, orientations, and beliefs should be welcomed to our University of higher learning. The
history and intent of this hate-filled statue is undeniable, and it should be banished from our campus permanently.
Please step forward and represent ALL North Carolinians, whom you serve.
David
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Message
From: Jo Anne Clayton
Sent: 9/26/2018 5:32:17 PM
Subject: NO to Silent Sam
A NO vote for reinstating the statue on UNC campus!!

Message
From: Mary Beth Merrell
Sent: 9/26/2018 5:34:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I fervently request that you put the statue of Silent Sam back on the pedestal where he has stood for around a
100 years showing tribute to all the young men from the University of North Carolina who fought in The War
Between the States from both sides - The Union and The South. The removal of this statue was illegal and he
should be returned to his rightful place of honor, silently watching over all of the students of Carolina as they
pass him on the campus.
Thank you,
Mary Beth Merrell

Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 6:04:59 PM
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT from UNC: Message from the Chancellor - September 24, 2018
To the Carolina Powers that be:
As a parent of a current senior at UNC-CH, I'm appalled at the number of protesters who are allowed on your
campus who have no ties to UNC-CH whatsoever. If all of the Pro-keep the racist monument protesters had
ties to the campus or the university, I could see your allowance. However, most of the people who want to
keep the monument seem barely literate, much less educated at UNC-CH. If they want the statue so badly,
give it to them, and let the city decide where to put it. It DOES NOT belong anywhere on any college campus,
much less a university in the South where Jim Crow has been dead less than 75 years. If the Pro Statue people
are so passionate about their ancestors/relatives who fought in the Civil War, then let them erect the statue in
a Confederate cemetery!
Silent Sam does NOT belong on your campus, and it's unbelievable to me that you continue to put your
students, our children, at risk by considering moving it to another location on campus.
Sincerely,
From: UNC Family Experience <families@unc.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 10:07 AM
To: jeannine427@hotmail.com
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT from UNC: Message from the Chancellor - September 24, 2018
As you likely are aware, recently the UNC System

of Trustees and me a clear path to develop a for
the Confederate Monument's "disposition and
preservation." We have been asked to present our
plan to UNC System President Margaret Spellings and
the Board of Governors by November 15, 2018,
! know that many in our community and beyond fee!

passionately about the monument. As a next step, we
have created a dedicated email address,
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about the statue's future. While we will not be ab!e to
provide individual responses, we will carefully review
and consider al! ideas as we prepare a plan to present
that all email submissions will be subject to disclosure
under North Carolina's public records law.
Thank you in advance for your input on this important

topic that will help shape the future of Carolina.
Sincerely,
Chancellor Carol L. Folt and the UNG-Chapel Hill

Board of Trustees

Chancellor
Message
From: Caro l Teal
Sent: 9/26/2018 6:15:29 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Holt,
I am a 1977 graduate of UNC. Both my parents and my husband are UNC-CH grads. Silent Sam must not be
replaced.
Carol Teal
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 6:24:02 PM
Subject: statue
As a parent of a UNC junior, I believe that the Silent Sam statue has no place on the campus.
If indeed it is to be displayed somewhere, it should be in a place where the context and history can be
explored: perhaps in a Civiil Rights display in a history museum. It should never be presented without the full
context of all the speeches that were delivered at the time of its "dedication". The attitude of the people who
funded these kinds of things was not to honor their families' fallen warriors, but to let the people of color
remaining in their communities know that the federals marching in with laws could never change the hearts of
the locals. And that, in the dead of night, there was still much to fear.
I am glad and grateful that our children, this generation of students, are aware of the issues here. I am proud
that they want change on their watch.
I am confident you will honor them in your plan and take another step forward for education, equality and
opportunity for the people of North Carolina.
Sincerely,
Message
From: Bill Wilson
Sent: 9/26/2018 6:33:34 PM
Subject: Silengt Sam
I urge urge you to put the Silent Sam monument in a place where the history of this memorial and the context of
it placement on the UNC campus can be shared with the public. Otherwise the statute should be destroyed as an
example of racism that needs to be a part of our history that we have concluded was quite simply wrong.
Furthermore, Civitas has an agenda, evident in the question asked (which does not say 70% support putting the
statute back, and in their sampling. You should ignore this biased information from Art Pope.
Anything else will promote a backlash against the university ... and no doubt will impact fundraising.
Bill Wilson, UNC Journalism 1976
We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. -
Louis Brandeis.
Bill Wilson
Message
From: Bul lard, Melissa M . [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Dear Chancellor and Board of Trustees,
There are many folks around the state, most of whom do not live in Chapel Hill and do not have to live with that toxic
statue in their midst. They have a right to their opinions, but those opinions should not determine the fate of the
statue here in Chapel Hill. Silent Sam now represents a threat to the safety of our UNC students, faculty, staff, and
community. Do not put the statue back on its pedestal in Mccorkle Place. At the very least, it would be too expensive
to provide round-the-clock security to ensure the safety of passers-by, protesters, and defenders alike, an expense
neither the university nor the town can be expected to bear or should bear.
The cause for which Silent Sam was erected more than a century back, was lost long ago . Consign the statue to some
other place, where its lessons can be properly contextualized, and please let the campus community get back to being a
university, a place of free inquiry and engaged discussion, one that we can all be proud of. This is a moment that
requires leadership and foresight. Don't waste another opportunity to act for the future of UNC, to be a place where all
can be welcome.
Melissa M. Bullard
UNC-CH
Message
From: Spero, Julie [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=e558c852481d4flc96131c38dfc906al-Julie Spero]
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:05:50 PM
I am uncomfortable with the values that Silent Sam represents.
Aside from those feelings, from a practical standpoint, the University has dedicated significant financial resources to
maintaining Silent Sam in its current location, where it has been repeatedly vandalized and poses a continual threat to
public safety. It seems likely that the university would have to continue to spend money on campus security,
maintenance, etc. if the statue is returned to its prior location, and it seems likely that that location will continue to be a
site for protests on campus. With those realities in mind, it seems more practical from a financial and public safety
standpoint to move the statue to a building that is locked after hours, in a location that can be easily secured and in a
room that is small enough to discourage the congregation of large groups of people.
Julie Spero
Message
From: Nelson, Alan J [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=B21E2B2804C34E9BB4 73E94BA7F3B8DD-ALAN J NELS]
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:07:22 PM
The pedestal can remain it the courtyard with a new plaque describing the circumstances of the original
erection of Silent Sam. If the statue itself must be displayed, it can be moved to an appropriate place on
campus. The graveyard would be good. It might also go in the Student Center with a new, educational
plaque.
Alan Nelson
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Philosophy
UNC at Chapel Hill
Message
From: Richard Wright
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:10:06 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
My Name is Richard Wright.I had the pleasure of attending the School of Public Health, and graduating
in 1990. I have three children, all of whom I would love to have attend the University,It's a special place on
multiple levels. My thought on Silent Sam is different than the installation of bronze students (depicting various
aspects of college life.) I know the installation too had been vandalized and was offensive to some students. As
an artist, I look back and now older, realize the thoughtfulness that is required for symbols in being accepted
when used as public works of art. I believe the conversation regarding the African American student with the
basketball, versus say books can strike a cord with many as requiring a conversation about race, and the
continued sensitivity we require from all students regarding diversity. The critique of the bronze student
installation was one due to the subtle depiction of a student of color,albeit controversial to many. Where this
artwork and Silent Sam differ,! believe, is in their symbolic intent. I truly believe the student bronzes were
wonderfully crafted, with the artists detailing the various activities in a thoughtful manner. If there was an
ability to have a redo,I believe the artist would have drawn the genders, racial differences and activities out of a
hat, allowing for random matching. Silent Sam certainly honored the confederate soldiers in its detail. Unlike
the student bronze installation, it did not attempt to incorporate the entire University, nor most groups for that
matter. It is best suited for a place other than one which strives to be conscious of diversity and it's importance
in higher learning. I don't have an answer to the question of where it should be placed. I only can state where it
should not be, and that is on campus. The policies governing the removal of such a statue require
thoughtfulness, yet quick action. If, having been erected when the University was in its early years versus the
1900's it would not change how far the world has come in its conversation of racism. We are truly fortunate to
be in a time where a nationally recognized university in the south can become a leader in the conversation of
diversity. The symbol of Silent Sam brings with it many difficult conversations about the United States and it's
history with inequality. UNC Chapel Hill has the potential to become not simply a, but the University which not
only addressed a controversial symbol, but is the leader in open and thoughtful dialogue on diversity. It seems
like an opportune time for this University.It is my hope that all parties involved can see the incredible ability to
elevate the University and the discussion to a higher level. Thank you, Richard Wright.
Sent from my iPad
Message
From: Mary Alex Staude
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:14:32 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Removal
Dear UNC Board,

Please do not install or replace any Confederate monuments on campus. silent Sam was a tool of
intimidation, not of memory. Please keep our campus safe and allow Carolina to be a safe and open space
for all.
Sincerely,
Mary Alex Staude
Message
From: Ashley McKenna
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:28:50 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As a North Carolina resident and taxpayer in a neighboring county, I'd like to let you know that I don't
agree with the idea of putting the silent Sam statue back up on public land or using public money to
repair/maintain it. It offends more people than it is worth and it has a crude history which should be
reserved for textbooks/museums.
Ashley J. McKenna, M.S.
Message
From: Danmcgrew
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:32:52 PM
Subject: Subject: MEMORIAL TO CIVIL WAR FOOT SOLDIERS--SILENT SAM
The Correct Answer was to not allow MOB RULE!!!!

Which is exactly what authorities did by standing back, away from the statue, and allowing a mob
lead by off-campus agitators to destroy University property.
The second Answer is to finally get the truth out concerning the REAL CAUSE for the War
Between the States or the Civil War, The War Between North and South -- or whatever
anyone calls it. (Reality is, the victors WROTE U.S. history from 1860 through 1960, ignoring tariffs and declaring the
non-issue of slavery to be the only issue.)
From any perspective, the war started at the military installation supporting Northern Customs Agents
at Charleston Harbor.
The basic and only causative factor behind that early attack -- Oppressive import
duties (tariffs) imposed through the Missouri Compromise on all European manufactured and
processed goods -- Skillets, Clothing irons, hammers, axeheads, anvils, wagon wheel parts, wagon
"steel", rifle barrels, fine furniture, medicines, fabrics, shoes, corsets, hats, boots, shoes, etc. -- in
short the needs of every day common-man living.
In reality, the majority of Southerners, in particular Confederate President and public abolitionist
Jefferson Davis, and at least 95% of common soldiers, were strongly opposed to slavery.
Davis and his fellow 2nd Lt. (Both recent West Point Graduates) Bobby Lee, joined the Western Army
headquarters at Baton Rouge.
There they engineered building projects and "taught school" for army recruits, civilian workers,
freedmen and reservation slaves.
Their commander and future father-in-law Zachary Taylor used his taxing powers to acquire "Slave
families" from large plantations.
He then educated the entire families, trained the men and young boys in trades and crafts, and after
moving Western Army headquarters to Fort Smith, Ark. and Ft. Gibson, Indian Terr., emancipated the
now educated slaves, helping them and freedmen in establishing black communities north of Ft.
Gibson. (This early 1830s program resulted in Oklahoma having more independent, self supporting black communities
than any other state.)
Lee took slave building craftsmen, and some families to San Francisco to build Fort Point.
These men, and some women, were paid according to inflated Gold Rush wages, gaining freedom in
the process.
Lee, by his actions, clearly favored freeing slaves, and from the Baton Rouge classrooms was aware
of their academic capabilities.
The Missouri Compromise in its several phases of political generation had already settled the issue of
slavery, which existed in virtually every state and territory, including 'apprenticed children of every
race" in most northern industries, indentured servants from throughout Europe contracted to ten,
twenty, even forty years indenture to pay shipping passages for entire families-- who also became
indentured servants for decades, often their productive life.
These unpaid slaves were present in the coastal, New England and Great Lakes regions through the
1930s.
Silent Sam represents the hundreds of thousands of Confederate Foot Soldiers who were fighting
only against the oppressive protectionist Import Tariffs imposed for the profits of the North's Wealthy
One Per Cent which owned the mills, smelters, factories and shipping.
Again, in reality, not even the Cavalier Plantation Owners were fighting for slavery. That issue had
been settled with the Compromise and the largely European large plantation slave owners (Most
major slave holders were English, Dutch, French, German and Scandinavian investors who had
acquired major land holdings, often buying slaves in the purchase.
In the 1860s, the One Per Centers controlled education, communication (And thereby Politics), banking,
access to the legal world, the mercantile world and direct access to smuggling schooners.
[This writer is a direct descendant of abolitionist eastern Kentucky Wagon Traders who operated throughout the South
with ten to twelve Conestoga freight wagons, acquiring smuggled goods around the Carolina Sounds, Georgia's Gullah
Islands, Mobile Bay, etc. and selling and trading for profit throughout the south.
Secretly, of course, they contacted slave families on the plantations, coached them in preparing, providing "scent
materials" to lay false trails to the not1h, with "drags" behind a horseback rider, then escape to the south with covered
trails, before climbing into empty barrels and crates on the trade wagons and rolling non-stop SOUTH for 48 to 72 hours
enroute to one of the smuggling pot1s where they escaped, usually not1h to Canada.]
They could not have operated their combined trading and escape program without the help of the
many abolitionist southerners.
Young local men who would ride north two and three days with scent drags covering escapes.
Others who would watch the trade wagons' back trails as they rushed south with the escapees.
Families who provided or at least maintained relief relay wagon teams, and provided hot food for the
team drivers and escapees.
The wagon trader escape program could not have operated except with widespread local and
regional help.
Message
From: Kathy Therber
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:33:57 PM
Subject: Please get rid of it!
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Message
From: Al Munday
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:40:49 PM
Subject: statue
Put the statue back where it was.

Allen Munday
Class of 1980
Message
From: Claude Medlin
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:43:43 PM
Carol Folt's unilateral decision that the Confederate monument should be located
"not at the front door" of the university is not only capricious, arbitrary, and
dictatorial but also shameful and cowardly.
As a white male native Tar Heel whose family has lived in North Carolina for more
10 generations, I feel impelled to respond to recent radical extremists demands for
removal of Confederate monuments.
Radical critics condemning and bashing the Confederacy, while blaming many of
our nation's ills, including racism, on Confederate soldiers who answered the call
to duty to protect their homeland, choose to ignore facts, to selectively view
history, and to wrongfully judge our imperfect ancestors by today mores.
Many of these critics are misinformed and ignorant of true history and while
certainly entitled to their opinions, they are not entitled to ignore facts while
spewing their venomous attacks on history and making intolerant demands to
remove symbols of the Confederacy.
I am living peacefully in a subjugated land and only wish to be able to peacefully

honor and pay homage to my Confederate veteran ancestors who gave their all
fighting for independence from the tryant Lincoln.
If these intolerant radicals are allowed to continue their brainwashed attacks on

our monuments which they feign are offensive, history may have to be repeated
and our nation may have to endure another civil war.
I for one will peacefully and legally fight any resistance to my right to honor the
service of Confederate veterans including the right to pay homage at monuments
on public land. Tolerance is a two-way street and extreme radical minority views
cannot be allowed to militantly demand removal of monuments they dislike nor
can they can they be allowed to resort to mob violence to get their way.
Confederate soldiers did not create slavery, racism, white supremacy, or male
supremacy.
Radical critics claiming that statues honoring the military service of Confederate
veterans are offensive to them and therefore violate their civil rights are barking
up the wrong tree. Racism and white supremacy exist today through the world but
lashing out at monuments and symbols of the Confederate soldiers is wrongfully
misguided. The Confederate soldier and his battle flag are universally recognized
as symbols of gallant bravery, devotion to duty, and defiance of tyranny. It is
unfortunate that certain extreme hate groups have recently adopted the battle
flag as their rallying symbol but that is not relevant to those who respect fully
honor the military service of their ancestors who fought against Lincoln's
marauders.
Many of these radical militant protestors ignore two other crucial and relevant
facts: the Constitution at that time protected both secession and slavery.
Ludicrous demands that symbols of the Confederacy be removed and that history
offensive to them be erased must be resisted. History cannot be re-written to
satisfy extreme vocal radicals who resort to violent mob action over issues with
which they disagree especially when they choose to cherry-pick their set of facts.
These extreme radical critics imply that Southerners did not have the right to
defend themselves against hostile invaders but instead should have allowed
themselves to be annihilated.
Today, slavery is indefensible but contemporary revisionists cannot morally justify

the most shameful period in American history, the War of Northern Aggression
and Reconstruction by condemning monuments to soldiers.
The original 13 revolting colonies broke ties with King George and formed this
independent country in 1776 after first voluntarily entering into a confederation of
sovereign states.
My ancestors came to Carolina over 300 years ago and I am proud that they
valiantly fought against invasion of the South by the troops of two kings of England
and later those of the tyrant Lincoln.
The Morrill Tariff Act of 1861 wrongfully increased already harsh tariffs on the
South, which contributed more than its share of revenue for the Federal treasury,
leading to the legal secession of South Carolina.
When the tyrant Lincoln demanded troops to put down the secession in South
Carolina, our brave governor Ellis responded to this "war upon the liberties of a
free people" by telling the wicked usurping dictator that "You can get no troops
from North Carolina".
After the South asserted its sovereign right to be free and exercised its legal right
to secede, the despot Lincoln would not let the South go in peace and invaded the
South without authorization, waging an illegal war that killed more Americans than
all of its other wars combined.
Confederate soldiers fought for the Cause of states' rights, for freedom from an
oppressive central Federal government, and for self-defense against a hostile
invading army.
Poorly equipped, poorly fed, but ably led, the South held off for four years the
army of the tyrant Lincoln, fighting against overwhelming odds in defense of their
families and their homes.
Though the South was not able to overcome superior resources of the North in a
war of attrition, might does not make right.
I will continue to honor my Confederate ancestors by paying tribute to their

sacrifices and preserving my heritage for my children and grandchildren.
Like their ancestors who fought as Patriot soldiers in the Revolutionary War for
independence from England, the Confederate soldiers fought in the War for
Southern Independence to be free of a central Federal government with too much
control and defended themselves against hostile invading troops.
All descendants of Confederate veterans should be justifiably proud of their

Confederate ancestors who took a stand and fought for a Cause in which they
believed. That Cause was for autonomy, for the sovereignty of state's rights, for
the preservation of the original intent of the Constitution, for freedom from an
oppressive Federal government, for preservation of the consent of the governed,
and for self-defense against a hostile invading army.
The North had an established government with a larger treasury, larger army,
larger navy, larger population, more railroads, and more factories for producing
food, uniforms, weapons, and ammunition.
Poorly equipped, poorly fed, but ably led, the army of Southern warriors held off
for 4 years the army of the North which was at all times during the war at least 3
times larger.
Our Confederate ancestors bravely suffered huge sacrifices fighting for

Independence against overwhelming odds.
No braver army ever walked on the face of this planet than the combined military
forces of the Confederate States of America who fought in the War for Southern
Independence from 1861 to 1865.
The innate skills of Confederate soldiers, rising from chiefly Celtic blood lines, as
brave warriors, always ready to fight to defend their families and their hearth and
home from those who would try to tread on them, made these men unsurpassed
as fighters of those who would dare invade them.
North Carolina was always [{first, farthest, and foremost" in her efforts to support
the Confederate Cause. North Carolina gave more troops and North Carolina lost
more troops than any other Southern state.
The sublime record of valor, self-sacrifice and undying devotion to duty of the
North Carolina Tar Heel Confederate Troops is unsurpassed in the annals of the
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history of the world. General Robert E. Lee once declared Thank God for the Tar
Heel boys" due to standing their ground in battle and their roles in leading to
victory in battle.
Outmanned, out-gunned, and out-supplied, but never out-fought, unfortunately,

the South was not able to overcome the superior resources of the North. The
North strangled the supply lines of the South through blockade and siege and
eventually starved out the South in a war of attrition.
The Confederate Cause was the Right Cause and though lost on the battlefield,
that Cause shall never be lost in my heart and mind.
I must not, I cannot, and I will not forget the sacrifices of my Confederate
ancestors especially those who perished in the struggle for liberty.
I am justifiably proud of my Confederate ancestors who fought so gallantly for a

cause in which they believed.
The surviving Confederate soldiers, tattered in rags and emaciated from

deprivation, starvation, and the horrific fighting, limped home, often barefoot,
with wounds and illnesses from battle to find the South left in ruins.
After being forced back into the union at bayonet point, after being denied their
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seats in Congress until being forced to ratify the 13 and 14 amendments, after
all ex-Confederate soldiers were disenfranchised and not allowed to vote, after
corrupt sham elections put into office unqualified carpetbaggers and scalawags,
after enduring heinous acts of violence by groups like the Union League, after
being subjected to the terrorism of unconstitutional Reconstruction and
occupation, after being under illegal martial law from armed soldiers for 12 years,
the South was totally subjugated.
Blue-belly troops garrisoned in the towns of the South with rifles and bayonets,
not only looked the other way while women and children were assaulted and
raped, they promoted prostitution and themselves committed rapes.
Heroic Confederate soldiers were falsely labeled during Reconstruction as traitors

despite the fact that no court could try Confederate soldiers and leaders for
treason since secession was the legal right of the sovereign states.
For survival, self-respecting Southerners eventually had to rise up against the

harsh inequities, the horrific punishment, the radical political corruption, the
rampant unchecked crimes committed, and the hatred sowed during this illegal
Reconstruction and occupation enforced by bayonet. Southerners had to resort to
guerrilla resistance, including the rise of vigilante groups like the Klan, to fight back
against the unjust punishment and illegal occupation.
The Federal government finally ended martial law after realizing that Southerners
would tolerant no more but the since the unjust imbalances were left uncorrected,
Jim Crow segregation and white supremacy naturally resulted when the bayonet-
backed corrupt sham governments collapsed.
It took decades to recover from the atrocities and destruction of the war and from
the horrors of Reconstruction that followed. The South was physically and
financially in ruins. Occupying troops would not allow Confederate flags to be
unfurled during Reconstruction and there was no money for memorials to soldiers.
Three decades after the end of the war, as many of the surviving Confederate
Veterans had passed away, when the South finally started to recover,
organizations were established including the UDC in 1894 and the SCV in 1896, for
the purposes of remembering the Confederate soldiers.
Early monuments were erected throughout the South by sons and daughters of
the veterans who had the foresight to see the day when the deeds of the
Confederate veterans would be forgotten. Children in the South sold apples to
raise pennies to donate to UDC fund raisers for the monuments.
Our ancestors wisely engraved upon many of these early monuments three
important words, "Lest We Forget".
Unfortunately most Southerners have forgotten their Confederate ancestors amid

the political correctness brought upon by liberal media and extreme radical
minority groups intent upon trying to make Southerners feel guilt for our nation's
imperfect past.
The true history of the South is not being taught to our children in public schools
today but I will not forget the true history of the war nor will I allow the true
history of the war to be forgotten. The true history of the war cannot be erased
nor can it be forgotten. Our Confederate heroes deserve remembrance. These
Confederate soldiers gave it their all on the battlefield fighting Lincoln's invaders.
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The blood of these brave-hearted fighting Tar Heel males is in my veins. As an 11
generation native of the Tar Heel State, I carry today in my genes the DNA of these
noble southern warriors.
The war is over but not forgotten by true Southerners. I submit that any man who
does not remember his past and who forgets his ancestors does not have much of
a future. Any man who forgets history is bound to repeat mistakes of the past.
I will not forget the bravery, the obedience to duty, the sacrifices, the blood that
was shed, and the lives that were lost by the Confederate soldiers fighting valiantly
to protect their homeland.
I will not forget that this was a holy war, fought for independence and self-
defense, vindicated by God.
I will not forget that the despicable warmongering tyrant Lincoln sent his
lieutenants, like Billy Sherman, to invade us on a scorched earth policy to crush
and punish the South.
I will not forget that those invaders burned and destroyed homes and towns,
robbed and pillaged homes and farms, and stole from starving families their
livestock, crops, food, clothing, and other possessions.
I will not forget that those invaders killed innocent women and children of the
South.
I will not forget that the South was forced back into the Union at bayonet point.
The dictator Lincoln repeatedly violated the Constitution. He illegally jailed citizens
including newspaper publishers that dared print views opposing his immoral illegal
policies and then suspended the right of habeas corpus of these victims of his evil
injustice.
Lincoln the barbarian hired thousands of foreign mercenary troops to assassinate

Southerners when insufficient Yankees volunteered. Evil Lincoln declared medicine
as war contraband. He stopped all prisoner exchanges the last year of the war and
then blamed the South for the malnutrition and death of Union soldiers at prison
camps whom he made no attempt to rescue. His bully Grant sent to death at Cold
Harbor, Virginia more U.S. soldiers killed in less than thirty minutes than has ever
occurred in history. Lincoln sent his barbarian Sherman to murder women and
children in their homes in an attempt to exterminate all Southerners. Lincoln
repeatedly refused to meet with Confederate peace ambassadors unless the South
would first agreed to rejoin the union.
Lincoln was truly a white supremacist and his solution in his own words to the
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inferior Negro problem" was to ship them back to Africa".
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was pure political propaganda and a

fraudulent hoax; not one slave was freed by this deceptive ploy.
Lincoln stated that if he could preserve the union and not free one slave, he would
do it, proved by passage of the Corwin amendment by both houses of Congress in
1861. Northerners, including General Ulysses S. Grant, would not free slaves under
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their control until the 13 amendment was ratified after the war ended.
Slavery had existed for centuries around the world including in the British colonies
in America.
Most all early US Presidents owned slaves; it was an accepted practice of the
times, as was male supremacy. Our imperfect early leaders cannot be judged by
modern morals and it is wrong to condemn them, demanding that monuments to
them be torn down.
Tearing down monuments to our early leaders who denied women equal rights,
including the right to vote which was not granted until 1920, also cannot be
justified to satisfy the whims of radical extremists.
Slavery only existed under the Confederate flag for four years in the South but
critics ignore that slavery continued in the North during those same four years.
Slavery had existed in the North since 1776 under the US flag and continued until
after the war; this same US flag flew over Federal troops who massacred innocent
native-Americans for decades before and after the war.
Southerners did not bring the ancestors of slaves to the colonies; dominant African
tribes captured and enslaved weaker tribes and sold them to trading companies
from Europe and New England.
More than 97% of Confederate soldiers, including my ancestor veterans, did not
own slaves and they were not fighting to preserve slavery. These brave men
fought against overwhelming odds to drive out hostile invaders.
One of the first acts of the Confederate government was to ban further
importation of slaves into the Confederate states. Slavery could have been
peacefully abolished with restitution but not by tyrannical force.
The scheming usurper Lincoln unilaterally decided that the union must be
preserved at all costs even if it meant the genocide of all southerners. Lincoln was
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intent on crushing the rebels" at all costs.
Reeling from the loss of revenue from tariffs on goods from the seceded Southern
states, Lincoln led the US treasury from being debt-free to a deficit that swelled to
over 2 billion dollars. To feed his Leviathan monster, Lincoln had to resort to
introducing Federal income tax on personal income of Americans. Later the cost of
pensions to beneficiaries of the foreign mercenary soldiers alone would cost
millions of dollars.
Lincoln was a despicable warmongering tyrant that deserved the bullet that felled
him. Sic Semper Tyrannis!
If Lincoln can have his monuments so should the Confederate soldier "at the front
door" of the university.
Claude Medlin
Message
From: A. Michael Edwards
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:54:25 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a double Tar Heel, 1978-1985, Business and Law. The statue needs to be placed back where it has
stood for over 100 years. Any decision short of that supports mob rule over democracy, lawlessness over
order and ignorance over truth.
silent Sam honors UNC men who died. They had no choice, and if you were a UNC student in that time, you
served. The statue does not celebrate nor honor the confederacy nor slavery. Does anyone involved in
forcibly destroying what belongs to all UNC students, past and present, and to the university, even know
the true history or understand what the depiction on the pedestal really means?
The involvement of university officials, including police and administration officials is sickening. The
emails uncovered of Crisp, former Dean Wegner and the others is telling of the hypocrisy. Crisp and any
other university employee paid by our tax dollars and tuition fees and alumni gifts should be outed and
fired. chancellor included. There are plenty of people very qualified to replace them, who will observe
the law and respect the integrity of UNC. UNC played by the rules when I was there.
Every alum that I have spoken to, hundreds, including this one, will not send one red cent to UNC until
Sam is put back where he belongs.
Message
From: Oha, Mark [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=362958f11503497abfd91e7166d7dd9b-Mark Oha (o]
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:04:44 PM
Subject: Monument plan
There is no need for a Monument plan. NC General Statue states it shall be reinstalled in it's original position. NC law
forbids taking it down. There is no provision for the BOG, BOT, Chancellor, or Governor to decide otherwise. Gathering
input from faculty, staff, students, and community members is no more than citing MOB rule.
Message
From: Al Bellflower
Sent: 9/26/2018 8:07:44 PM
Subject: Monument
It's so simple, put it back. I find it extremely hypocritical at this junction summoning public input
when you made the decision and enabled a lawless crowd to destroy it.
Al Bel l fl owe r
Message
From: MP
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:10:20 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear chancellor Folt and other decision makers,

I moved to North Carolina from New Jersey in 2001 for graduate school. shortly after I arrived, the
horror of 9/11 happened. The community gathered, largely supporting one another in the best ways
possible. I have since graduated and made chapel Hill my home with my family. I have taken my children to
play on the grounds of Mccorkle Place, to gather for school fundraising walks and winter parades, and for
scouting meetings. My children have asked about the statue they played next to and wanted to climb. As
best as possible, I explained various aspects of the complexities the statue represents to a 7 year old,
then 8, then 9 and now 10 year old. I've then brought them to the "table" of the Unsung Founders and
tried my best to continue the story. The beauty of children is in their honesty. My children wanted to
still climb and play at the tall, impressive statue of silent Sam. I think it would be just as impressive
to leave the pedestal but without the statue. The height would still be impressive, the plaques would
still tell the story and new information added for why there is now a void. The statue itself can be
moved to a museum providing more people an opportunity to come upon the story-either at the pedestal or
at the statue. While the method to remove the statue was not close to ideal, it is an opportunity that
shouldn't be ignored.
I wish you all the compassion and fortitude to work through this opportunity of change.
Monique Peloquin Mueller
Message
From: Steven Kinsella
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:29:26 PM
As a proud Carolina alumnus and an avid student of history, I personally think Silent Sam should be melted
down and destroyed. I understand that isn't a possibility at the moment because of our history-distorting
legislature.
Silent Sam was placed by white supremacists as a testament to an act of treason against the United States. This
is a basic, irrefutable fact. Silent Sam can be interpreted no other way, with no other context that ignores this
basic reality. The kind of Lost Cause-style historical whitewashing he represents has no place in the modern
world. If you have to place him anywhere, place him far from the center of campus, out beyond Kenan-Flagler
or some other remote location, and place a sign near him explaining why he's still standing and what he really
stands for ..
Further, if he's placed in another prominent position, any intelligent person can foresee that violence is likely to
follow. Carolina was very lucky no one was hurt when they tore him down, but it's clear the Carolina
community won't stand idly by if he's placed in another prominent location. The actions of the student body
make it very clear where they stand on the issue, and the university has an obligation to the community as well
as the student body to avoid an potentially-dangerous conflict in the name of a very stupid law.
Thank you,
Steven Kinsella
UNC class of 2011
Message
From: Joseph Guglielmo
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:31:14 PM
Subject: Silent Sam needs t o be restored to its original place
It saddens me greatly to see my Country so divided. To fought in the Vietnam VN War ( been back there twice
and have former Enemies close friends. Their forgiveness is so moving and causes much pain because they are
still being injured by agent orange and unexploded ordinances) I was a NYPD police officer, shot in the line of
duty during an armed robbery. I've earned my place here in America. As did my Italian ancestors. I'm 2nd
generation Italian and have an Italian passport as well as US. I'm truly Italian American.
It seems there is only two races in this Country Black, White. The Black community is constantly looking at
everything as a racist incident. Their racist mentality, and make no mistake about this aspect, has polarized them
more and more. There simply is not as much discrimination as they profess there is. How many lawsuits are
unfounded? Many. How many times has civil service tests been challenged as racially discriminatory and were
tied up for years and proven unfounded.
The more we treat someone like a victim .... the more they rely on that status to exist. The more we treat anyone
as a special group with special concessions made because of their race, color or creed, the more divided we
become.
I know for a fact that a durham middle school principle was forced out because they said he disciplined too
many Black children. He stated directly to me," My God Joe!! I'm disciplining behavior not color. He was
Black. Durham police Commissioner was forced out because they said he was racist. He was a Puerto Rican
from Queens NY. He went to the Hispanic Community and asked their help to cut down the crime. He got their
backing and help and crime dropped considerably. The Black community refused to work with him.
Somewhere someone needs to say no to someone who sees nothing but racism and not realizing that that
attitude is racist in itself
If you don't stop this constant demand from those who really have never suffered any more or less than other
humans in this planet, then next come those Tombstones.
Silent Sam deserves to be to left alone. And those lawbreakers need to stop being given concessions instead of
adherence to the Laws of the land.
We should be teaching how all immigrants suffered and made their way. How about teaching how the Chinese
slave labor built the Railroads. How the Irish were treated was then blacks in nyc. How about we stop looking at
someone's color altogether. How about we stay asking for race on forms. How about we finally join as one
people.
I recently was on a friends Facebook page, whereby a black Chapel Hill politician stated, during a banter about
current politics in this Country, ... "we could do with some less white men" the shocking aspect is how that
statement was reinforced and applauded.
Whe will this double standard end? Where's The hero's to finally bring true Equality to this nation. That means
someone has to stand up and say no ..... Silent Sam, according to NC needs to stay where he is. Those who take
the law into their own hands will need to answer for those actions. Period.
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:46:42 PM
Subject: idea for UNC

I think the UNC system should construct a Civil War museum to house Silent Sam and other Civil War relics,
contentious or otherwise. This will allow people to honor their heritage while showcasing important relics from
that time. It will allow these items to be stored indoors, in a confined space for people to view if they choose,
and not outside for public viewing.
As a parent of a current UNC student, i feel this controversy is detracting from academics and the reputation of
UNC Chapel Hill.
It is time to move on, while respecting all concerned.
Thank you for this opportunity,

Message
From: Jennifer Marsh
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:49:52 PM
Subject: Relegate Silent Sam to history books
Chancellor Folt,
I do not want Silent Sam returned to the original location. I do not want to see that statue ever again. It should
find a final resting place melted down to metal blocks. I don't know a person who has indicated it should be
replaced, and certainly not a fellow alumni.
As a person of color that grew up in and lives in Chapel Hill, I always found the statue repulsive and
inappropriate. The racial intimidation is real when your grandmother worked in Lenoir Hall and can recall with
detail the harassment and fear she experienced at the hands of white male students as she tried to make her way
across campus to catch a ride home after her shift. The racial intimidation is real when your ancestors were
slaves in Orange County who were forced to build this university and farm the land while they were property of
the families that eventually erected that despicable statue. The rage is real when this university has a drawn out
debate of if it is acceptable to continue honoring those who created and sustained the culture of racism that
dominates our country.
In case you are not hearing a loud enough message from those ofus that do not want Silent Sam returned, hear
me now. This is not the way of my university. This is not the way of the future. End this ridiculous debate now
and stand up for what is right and just. Tear down symbols of racism one by one, just as they were erected. Take
the steps necessary to correct the racist and sexist culture that has been protected and perpetuated through
symbols such as Silent Sam.
Jennifer Watson Marsh

UNC BA 1993, JD 2009
Chapel Hill native and resident
Message
From: John Bonitz
Sent: 9/26/2018 9:55:18 PM
Subject: opposed to return of Si lent Sam
I am a graduate of UNCG, having studied in summer school at UNC Chapel Hill. I am a native North
Carolinian, fourth generation on paternal side, seventh generation on maternal side. My father graduated from
UNC Chapel Hill. My great great great grandfather fought for North Carolina at the Battle at Bentonville,
1865.
It is my preference that the Confederate monument, 11 Silent Sam, 11 NOT be returned to it's former place on the
UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Put it in a museum. Or in a dark alleyway. But please do not return it to that
pedestal.
I have read Julian Carr's racist and hateful invocation. I urge you to treat this statue as the monument to hate
that it truly is.
Thank you,
John Bonitz
Town Commissioner
Message
From: Lisa Southwick
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:08:13 PM
Subject: Confederate Monuments
Put simply, you can't have it both ways UNC. You can't say you have a commitment to "diversity and
inclusivity" and then then have a monument on your campus that was erected as a reminder that while the
south may have lost the war, it won the battle. The battle to control Black bodies in nearly every way
imaginable. In the words of Austin Channing Brown "It's not enough to dabble at diversity and inclusion
while leaving the existing authority structure in place." Don't dabble UNC- you are better than that.
This monument was put in place largely through the efforts of a group called the United Daughters of the
Confederacy- a group known to defend white supremacy and vindicate the south's loss. silent Sam is yet
another symbol of the subordination of Blacks to whites. Again, in the words of Austin Channing Brown
"How long will it be before we finally choose to connect all the dots? How long before we confess the
history of racism embedded in our systems of housing, education, health, criminal justice, and more? How
long before we dig to the root? Because it is the truth that will set us free." This should not be about
hurting white people's feelings by "erasing history". This is about facing history head on and the ugly
truth about one groups rein of power over another and the devastating consequences to the oppressed.
White people don't want to face the truth of what they have and continue to do to Black people because it
would mean doing something about it and they are so so afraid of losing their power, privilege and pride.
In regard to the statue's future location- perhaps there is a museum where all of the Confederate
monuments could be displayed together along with the true history of oppression, marginalization,
humiliation, and dehumanization African Americans have endured and still do endure this very minute. We
can tell the story of the monuments and the groups who put them in place- the true story. This will
serve to educate people about racial injustice- which is a key to changing the power structure in this
country and removing African Americans from the subordinate position they are in.
Lisa Southwick
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:18:37 PM
Please don't put the monument back on campus! It is too controversial and could cause someone to get
hurt. My suggestion is a history museum for the town.
While one of the students is my child, the student body as a whole is too forward thinking to have what
this statue represents displayed prominently on campus.
Sincerely,
Message
From: James Bowman
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:23:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The statue belongs on its pedestal. The law should be followed. The actions of the radicals who pulled it down
should not overrule the law. It represents part of our history and should be restored to its proper place as soon as
possible.
James D. Bowman
UNC Class of 1980
Message
From: Matt McCullough
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:24:10 PM
Subject: Silent Sam should head to the trash heap
Dear Chancellor Falt (and the poor staff members who have to wade through this hot garbage pile of emails),
As a "Yankee" alumnus of the University, class of 2000, I've been embarrassed by Silent Sam's presence for
many years. I only wish I had the cojofies to do something about it back when I was in school.
Statues and monuments are erected of heroes that represent the best in humanity. They represent and personify
the ideals we should all strive for. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rosa Parks. Abraham Lincoln.
Statues are, literally, larger than life and you are forced to look up to them.
Silent Sam doesn't rise to this level.
Not even close.
Silent Sam is the personification of soldiers that went off to fight a war over their side's want or need to oppress
an entire race of people. An unfortunately-misguided majority of the state's residents likely would say it was a
"war against Northern aggression," but a quick discussion with the history department on campus will tell you
that's utter bullshit. All the states' articles of succession mentioned slavery by name; some, multiple times. That
wasn't accidental, and it's not lost on the people they fought to keep enslaved.
To erect a monument to that war, and place it at a prominent spot on our great campus, is an affront to every
minority student we've ever served. To every black father who worked his hands to the bone to pay for his first-
generation college student. To every mother who worried about the racism her student would encounter at
Carolina.
To leave up a statue that was dedicated, in part, by a virulent racist who literally told a story of whipping a black
woman at the dedication, is beyond my comprehension. Words matter. This context matters.
Would you expect a German university to erect a statue of Hitler at its front door, then tell Jew students to "get
over it?" He was a German, working to (in his mind) better Germany. He was on the wrong side of history, as
were the soldiers Sam represents.
An extreme example, to be sure, but still apropos. Silent Sam personifies all the soldiers who dutifully went to
war to try to keep black people on the farm. Slaves for the betterment of North Carolina.
This is the message we want at our front door? This is inclusivity and compassion? This is righting our
wrongs?
I imagine this is hard pill for the residents of our state to swallow, and I don't expect it'll happen until
50 years from now, when whites are no longer the majority.
So, if we must put Silent Sam back on the pedastal, it should only be in an on-campus museum, with
appropriate historical context. Post the racist dedicaction speech. Post about the complicated history of race at
Carolina. Post about the protests that ultimately brought him down. Put it in the context of the war, yes, but also
in the context of segregation and the reasoning behind its erection at that time and the hate-filled speech that
accompanied it. Put it all there, and let people make their decisions.
Finally, if a misguided decision is made to return Sam to McCorkle Place, please let me know where I can send
my donation for the Martin Luther King, Jr. statue that you'll be erecting right next to Sam.
Matt McCullough
Class of 2000
North Haven, CT
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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 20:23:53 -0400
Subject: Silent Sam
The students & people protesting the

Silent Sam statue are doing so, it seems,
merely for attention & publicity. A Civil War statue has nothing to do with racism or white supremacy. The
Civil War is an important part of United States history. In fact, a very significient part in that it is the very root
of the elimination of slavery & segregation.
No one can fault any generals or officers, or anyone in the Lincoln administration, for the bringing of blacks to
America & enslaving them. It was what was happening in the world at the time. The states went to war. People
chose sides. Some military officers stood out as strong, competent leaders on both sides of the war. Any could
have a statue, a commendation, plaque, or other
award the same as any could today.
Everything is NOT about race. All races have equal rights these days. No one is trying to suppress blacks,
Latinos, Asians, anyone, hopefully including white Civil War
heroes. Let the statue have its place in American History. Hopefully, the people will
want to learn the history of this country.
It should start in grade school, and should be reinterated through high school and college. We are a strong, free
country, the greatest on Earth. Let us be thankful and proud that we live in the US and can visit, enjoy, and learn
from all the heroes in our
Message
From: Luke Largess [llargess@tinfulton .com]
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:55:07 PM
CC:
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor Folt .
I am a 1990 UNC law grad, my wife, Elizabeth Leland is a J-school grad who covered North Carolina life and politics for
over 30 years, and now contributes profiles to the Alumni Magazine. Our children, .lack and Abbie both graduated from
the Honors College, in 2016 and 2018 respectively. We have given generously to UNC over the years.
You have the opportunity of a lifetime to take a principled stand as a leader - to tell the African-American citizens of
North Carolina that this symbol of their subjugation will not be resurrected on the campus on your watch. Otherwise,
you and the University will be legitimizing what Sam stands for - a romantic revision of a brutal racial history into an
hallowed heritage that we still struggle to get beyond. Most of the 70?/ci of people whom you say want Silent Sam
returned to campus want to embrace that myth. They believe the Civil War was not really about slavery. They do not
know that this statute was erected during a violent backlash against Reconstruction, right after the only coup in
American history took lace in Wilmington; or that the speaker at Sam's dedication boasted of whipping a black woman
into submission. The people who want the statue back do not know, or do not want to recognize, the history it
represents and glorifies.
This is your chance to teach that lesson. Sam is no different than a confederate flag flying in the middle of campus.
Put Silent Sam at an Orange County battlefield or some other civil war site or a county museum. All of those are within
the "jurisdiction'' where Sam stood. But not on the campus of an institution that has tried in important ways to move
our society past the vestiges of our past.
let your legacy as Chancellor be that you said "no" to a symbol of racial supremacy masked as "tradition" You have that
chance. You will never have a similar one in your lifetime. Embrace it.
Message
From: Alf Houck.
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:06:55 PM
Subject: statue
My great Grandfather fought for the South at Gettysburg & lived until the 1930s. A religious man, he meant
no harm to any man & probably fought because it was his duty to preserve the South. A mountain man, he had a
harsh life he chose & definitely not easy living.
All this fuss about the rebel flag and statues, the hate & decisiveness; I'm sure he would condemn as sinful. God
made all men equal and meant for man to be peaceful & worship God & be thankful for their blessings.
So, some people are offended by the statue, that's understandable. Others, maybe a little too right winged &
racist, want to see it/them preserved. If Mickey Mouse can have a theme park & thrive, let's put the statues in a
private Nationalists, racists, radical Right conservative park, right? Let them buy the statue(s), establish a
historic preserve on private land, off the college campus so the University doesn't continue to waste money &
look like just another "Whites are Superior" institution.
Why is this so complicated for y'all to take care of?
Message
From: Sam and Carolyn
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:10:25 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am not a political activist in any sense . I am just a concerned citizen .
I am a 6th generation native North Carolinian, which I suppose puts me in somewhat of a minority. None of my ancestors
ever used slave labor. I grew up in a Christian home, and was always taught that God made all men equal.
I mainly learned about the Civil War in public school history classes, right along with the American Revolution, WWI, WWII
and Korean War. Our class field trips included visits to Raleigh - the Capitol Building, Legislative Building and other points
of educational value to students. I recall many of the statues, memorials and historical markers. I never considered the
Confederate Memorials and markers to be any different from the others . To me, they were all monuments that helped me
better understand our history and honor the great men and women who came before me.
I'm getting older now. I myself have made mistakes and changed my views on some things over the years. I know that
same thing applies to all. However, it doesn't change our past. We have to grow in life and keep pressing forward. It
seems foolish to pretend that we can wipe history away simply by destroying a few monuments and renaming buildings.
We are rapidly becoming lawless, when we allow crimes to be rewarded. It's time to put this silliness behind us, grow up
and move on with our lives.
Thank you,
Sam Barbour
Pray Always!
Message
From:
Sent: 9/26/2018 11:40:52 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Foyt,
I am a native North Carolinian and could qualify for membership to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, if
I chose to.
I honor my relatives for the hard working farmers they were. They were drafted into a conflict not of their
making and not for any personal gain. Just like today, those in power create the conflict and spin it in a way that
compels ordinary people to do their dirty work for them.
I think a monument honoring a horrific, racist period when it was OK to own another human being should NOT
have a place of honor on this campus.
The racist, purposeful intimidation of this monument was made very clear the dedication byJulian Carr and by
the KKK glorifying United Daughters of the Confederacy, the same group who also later dedicated a monument
to the KKK.
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My ancestors who fought in the Civil War lived here where slavery had been in place since before the time they
immigrated in the 18th century. It was the way society was structured during those times and they did not know
anything different. But, WE DO know differently and for us to perpetuate the glorification of a time when the
"White Anglo-Saxton Race" was the only race that mattered is unconscionable and. an insult to minorities.
Put the monument, base and all in a Civil War cemetery or in a museum off campus. It deserves no place of
honor on this campus.
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Message
From: David Southworth
Sent: 9/27/2018 1:39:16 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam belongs in the nearest landfill.
David Southworth
Greensboro NC 27455
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Message
From: Mr. Tatterscratch
Sent: 9/27/2018 3:54:21 AM
Subject: Destination of Silent Sam ...
Chancellor Folt and Staff,
Put our monument to your school's brave young men back in its proper and original place, and stop acquiescing
to the will of spoiled children and anti-American agitators who neither understand or respect your school's
history or culture. You know its the only right thing to do.
Thank you.
Message
From: Kenneth Dollar
Sent: 9/27/2018 4:31:20 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Simple solution - Put him back - he is history - we learn from history - the university is a place to learn
Not a complicated problem to solve

Message
From: Andy Upshaw
Sent: 9/27/2018 5:11:46 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a UNC graduate and a resident voter in NC.I do not support the return of Silent Sam to the UNC campus.
It remains a symbol of racism and views contrary to the constitution of the United States.
Leave it down. Put it away.
Andy Upshaw
Pittsboro
Message
From: Jon Butters
Sent: 9/27/2018 6:23:31 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
The silent Sam statue should not be on the UNC campus, anywhere. It is a racist symbol.
I am completely against it being on any public property.
Jonathan s. Butters
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Susana Dancy
Sent: 9/27/2018 6:25:45 AM
Subject: Please put Sam someplace else

As a native North Carolinian and UNC graduate (ABJour, '90, MRP, '06), I encourage you to put silent Sam
in a museum where it's history and context can be properly explained. In the past, I have considered Sam
to be a benign memorial, yet I now understand better the wounds it's presence inflicts on African
Americans in particular. I encourage you to lead the university forward together. Put Sam in a museum
where his significance can be explained more fully.
Kind regards,
Susana L. Dancy
Message
From: Arlene Medder
Sent: 9/27/2018 6:46:45 AM
Subject: Where to put Sam
As a memorial to dead soldiers of the Civil War, where better than in the cemetery?
Arlene
Durham, NC
Message
From: Jackie Kylander
Sent: 9/27/2018 6:47:50 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I'm wr1t1ng in support of silent Sam and placing him back on his current pedestal. According to current
state law, this is the only course of action open to the University and the Board. This statue is NOT
about white supremacy, it is a memorial to all the students who gave their lives in that war, just like
Memo r ial Hall and the memorials pl aced outside of it. The current push to re-write history and to remove
anything that doesn't conform to the mob intellect is wrong. outside gro up s comi ng to the University and
destroying property is wrong. Groups who deny other groups with which they disagree their First Amendment
Rights are wrong. We, as a society, cannot have mob rule. People who were involved in toppling that
statue should be prosecuted. Students involved should be prosecuted and Honor court charges brought and
prosecuted. The graduate student who damaged the statue shou l d have al ready been tried and expel l ed.
The City of Raleigh was faced with moving statues. They opted to add an explanatory plaque. These
plaques, in my opinion, are NOT necessary if history has been properly taught in school. You cannot judge
the past by present day morals.
Please do the right thing and place Sam back on his pedestal and return order to our University.
Jackie Kylander
class of '80
Retired employee with 30 years of service
Message
From: P.A. Moffatt
Sent: 9/27/2018 6:49:27 AM
Subject: Do Not Silence UN C's Mission Statement
Dear Chancellor Falt and the UNC Board of Trustees,
Please put the Confederate memorial statue "Silent Sam" in a museum such as the International Civil Rights
Center and Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Perhaps Chapel Hill needs to create such a museum.
Besides the insidious message of contempt, the exoneration and praise of torture and humiliation of fellow
Americans at the inauguration of the Confederate statue in 1913, its contemporary moniker of "Silent Sam" is
an insult to all women as the inanimate object is supposed to fire his gun only when a female virgin walks by as
per "locker room" humor.
In its stead, I would suggest a statue of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who, in May of 1960, spoke at the
University of North Carolina's Hill Hall-a historic event that all can celebrate.
I lived across the street from the statue as an undergraduate and never felt it uplifted the campus as a place of
higher learning. To me, it added to the weight of Confederate malaise that only tarnishes the university and
distracts from its mission of being "a center for research, scholarship, and creativity and to teach a diverse
community of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to become the next generation of leaders."
Now is the moment to exemplify the leadership you aspire to instill.
Sincerely,
Pamela A Claxton Moffatt
US citizen by birth, Tarheel by choice
B.A. UNC, Chapel Hill

M.A. UNC, Chapel Hill
Ph.D. Rutgers University
Pamela A. Claxton Moffatt

Message
From: Daniel Uribe Berna l
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:07:02 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
The Silent Sam monument should be moved to a civil war history museum or destroyed and disposed of without
a ceremony.
Message
From: z.regan
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:37:17 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
My idea for the monument is that you follow the law and return it to its rightful place. Secondly you fire your
entire history dept because they have failed miserably. Union at all costs by John m. Taylor becomes mandatory
reading and encourage your students to discount it. If history was taught balanced along with respect we would
not be in this situation. I thought a fundamental principle of higher education is to seek truth and respect others
opinions in order for there to be dialogue.
Best regards,
Zachary Regan
WT AivITJ Social Work Maj or
Scn1 via the Samsung Galaxy S7, an AT&T 4G LTE smmiphone

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From:
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:38:34 AM
Do what the law says put it back up in same place. U people are a bunch of spineless cowards who cater to
destructive lawbreakers. You are a disgrace to North Carolina history and heritage.
Message
From: Ralph Frasier [ralphfrasier@frasierandgriffin.com]
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:40:19 AM
Subject: Burn it!!!
Treason to promote the Confederacy!!!
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Message
From: Dwight Thomas
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:41:50 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
As an alumnus and resident of orange county, I would encourage you to restore silent Sam to it's original
location on campus.
Thank you for the oppo rt unity to provide input.
Dwight Thomas
class of 1967
Message
From: Greg Pearson
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:50:24 AM
Subject: Silent sam
Since there are no valid arguments for the removal of the "silent sam" memorial and state law requires such
memorials to be preserved and not moved and the damage to the memorial was done by cultural terrorist bent
on forcing their views upon others I suggest obeying the law while also doing what is morally right. Place the
"silent sam" back on his pedestal in it's current location. The university must not allow nazi style actions of the
mob to dictate what the university does. What will that teach students?
Return the memorial to it's current location. If some complain simply educate them about history instead of
ignoring it.. ... that's what a school SHOULD do.

Message
From: Virginia Wilson
Sent: 9/27/2018 8:00:07 AM
Subject: silent sam monument
America has a lot to be thankful for. So many people contributed to the building up of this great
nation. Unfortunately, there is no acknowledgement of ALL of the labor, sweat, and hard work that
many Americans have contributed. It appears that the memory of the contribution toward this nation
is only from the white race . People are not asleep. It is obvious that these monuments represent his
tory of only one race of Americans. This is not representative of a Nation, but only the opinions of a
small segment of people who want to keep their point of views of power. There are many ways to
remember contribution to the establishing of a nation. We seem to forget about books,
documentaries, and museums. silent sam MONUMENT and all representative of the same, should
not be memorialized by statues or monuments. Let's come together and embrace the true history of
the building of this great nation by inclusion of ALL not some. As an institution of higher learning, be
the example of leadership in this country by exhibiting unity, and embracing truth not political
persuasion or self indulgence.
Message
From: Timothy Gerla
Sent: 9/27/2018 8:21:26 AM
Subject: My idea for the Silent Sam statue
I believe that the statue of Silent Sam should be located at a museum. If she is willing, should be
offered the chance to design and build an exhibit, to contextualize the statue and the associated Carr speech. I
think that would be a fitting way to acknowledge the history of the monument and it would allow the
community to begin to atone for the racist past that it symbolized before being removed from the UNC campus.
Tim Gerla
Chapel Hill, NC
Message
From: Christopher Nobblitt [ccnobbli@ncsu.edu]
Sent: 9/27/2018 8:27:57 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Op inion
Hello,
I have been an NC resident for 23 years, I grew up in Hillsborough, have always been a UNC fan, and now I am
getting my masters at NCSU.
Please, please, please, don't put Silent Sam back up. But it in a museum. I would rather a monument to a
champion of civil rights go up. As a UNC fan, please do not tarnish the reputation of this university by ignoring
the folk you represent. Remember that many of those that were most affected by slavery, Jim Crow Laws,
sharecropping, etc. are still very much affected to this very day, and have considerably less room to voice their
opinions and feelings.
Although it would have been much more dignifying to have it taken down in a more legal manner, I suspect it
would have never been done and the university was hoping it would slip into obscurity, like it did during the
'70s. I am glad it was taken down.
Thanks,
Chris Nobblitt
Message
From: Fiordalisi, James J [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=a6feda39899e4a6f81a0414bc8e9feab-James J Fio]
Sent: 9/27/2018 8:32:46 AM
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Subject: Teachable moment
Chancellor Falt,
I think that "Silent Sam" should be moved to a less prominent location on campus, stripped of its status as a celebration
of the Confederacy, reinvented as a tool to illustrate the abomination of institutional slavery/racism, and displayed by
UNC as both an acknowledgement of and a rejection of its historic role in supporting those institutions.
Anger about the long-overdue removal of this awful symbol is clearly justi fi ed, and I sympathize with those who tore it
down. But we should not miss an opportunity to subvert its original intent to serve a better purpose.
Jim Fiordalisi
James Fiordalisi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
UNC-Chapel Hill
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Subject: Comments about relocating the Silent Sam monument
chancellor Holt,
Thank you for the opportunity to comment about the future of the silent Sam monument. I live in Raleigh
and my daughter is a UNC student. My son graduated from NCSU last year, and my husband is an adjunct
professor there as well. Your policies, and those of Margaret Spellings, impact our family
significantly I frequently visit the UNC campus. For the first 16 years or so that we lived in North
Carolina, I simply ignored all of our confederate monuments scattered in front of our Capital bu
near our museums and in a prominent place on the campus of our flagship university. I simply tu
blind eye and didn't ask any questions. But I cannot in good conscience continue to ignore the
rebellion, and racism that they promote in our society, and the way these monuments erode our de
and unity as a nation. I would therefore request that you please find an alternative location w
appropriate historical context (such as a museum or battlefield) to place the Silent Sam monumen
strongly believe that silent Sam and all other monuments to the confederacy, which continue to g
slavery, white supremacy, racism, and a horrible, bloody rebellion against the United States of
should be removed from their places of prominence and placed in an alternative location, such as
War battlefield or museum.
Ever since the death and violence that occurred in Charlottesville while that community was tryi
move forward from the ugly history of the southern states, and southern states' efforts to rewri
War history, still perpetuated by supporters of the rebels who nearly destroyed our beloved, uni
nation, my eyes have been opened. I read the speech given at silent Sam's dedication ceremony a
disgusted. Utter disgust and shock filled my mind as I realized what nice, classy "Bless her so
southern women who live all around me were (I hope unknowingly) perpetuating by preserving their
"southern heritage". We must not lie to ourselves any longer, and a77 ow these daughters of the
confederacy and white supremacy supporters to rewrite history by glorifying the confederate rebe
lamenting their loss of the civil war and perpetuating racism and white supremacy.
My cousin and aunt from Michigan are involved in Civil War re-enactment and visited the 150th an
of the Battle of Bentonville a few years ago. I took my children to Johnston county to join in t
festivities, for a history lesson. on that day, two things surprised me. First, over half of t
watching the regiments from various states parade by cheered loudly for the confederacy. I was s
Did so many of my fellow North Carolinians really believe that the Union was "the bad side", and
this United States which our great president Abraham Lincoln fought so nobly to protect was a wo
mistake? Did they really believe we would be better off if the united States had broken into tw
perhaps many more) small countries, making North America look like the former colonies in South
or Africa? I find it hard to believe that we have so many in North Carolina who believe such ba
and undemocratic things about the United States of America. surely a great institution like UNC
be dedicated to educating North Carolinians across our state, not just in the big cities of Char
the Research Triangle and Triad areas, with a comprehensive and honest perspective of all of hum
history, and in particular of North Carolina history.
The second thing that surprised me during the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Bentonville, wa
there was not a single monument or statue on that entire historic property. Why did North Caroli
literally dozens of confederate statues in places like the capital building grounds in Raleigh,
of Durham courthouse, and on the UNC campus, when the one place you would specifically go to loo
such a monument (the Bentonville Battlefield) had no confederate monuments at all? This makes n
sense. Then again, neither does white supremacy, which is the real reason the leaders of North
during the Jim Crow era, chose to erect those confederate monuments (50-70 years after them conf
rebellion was suppressed and the Civil War ended). Why would UNC want to perpetuate that enviro
historical perspective? All of North Carolina's confederate monuments should never have been al
be erected after the Civil War ended in the first place. Germany, after World War II, was forbi
erecting any nazi monuments, because of the atrocities and the white supremacy perpetuated by th
regime. Likewise, America should have forbidden the building of any confederate monuments becau
atrocities of slavery and the white supremacy perpetuated by the confederate regime.
Please end the white supremacy that has been glorified by the UNC administrators and the silent
monument for a century by moving that statue to a civil war historical battlefield or museum, su
Battle of Bentonville or the NC Museum of History, or some other museum created to properly and
accurately preserve the history of our nation and the Civil war.
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Message
From: Clint Johnson
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:16:12 AM
Subject: Put sa lad Sam back up its attack on America not just the South there's nothing racial about that statue
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Message
From: Clint Johnson
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:18:36 AM
Subject: Put sa lad Sam back it's an attack on America nothing racial about that statue
Message
From: Clint Johnson
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:21:19 AM
Subject: Put put silent Sam back up attack on America nothing racial about that statue
Message
From: David Sharpe
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:23:29 AM
Subject: I Stand with Sam
As an undergraduate, I defended Silent Sam and I will do so again as an alumnus. The current situation is
regrettable. It seems as though the University is no longer a space of Light and Liberty, but simply a conduit
for political agendas, "progressive" and "conservative" alike.
First and foremost, Silent Sam was toppled illegally, be it by protesters or vandals. According to state law, Sam
should be restored. Also according to state law, Sam can be permanently relocated to a site of similar
prominence, availability, etc. As a proud Tar Heel and proud supporter of Silent Sam, state's rights, and
Southern heritage, I believe an area of compromise exists here. Surely Sam can be placed somewhere on
campus so that those who want to view can do so and those that want to avoid can do so. The politics however,
will push each side to an extreme, agendas will prevail, and we'll be left with discord instead of harmony.
Secondly, the vandals should be held accountable for their lawlessness. The law is the law, duly passed by
elected representatives of the people of North Carolina. It cannot be ignored, lest we slip into the dark squalor
brought about by mob rule. The politics however, will push each side to an extreme, agendas will prevail, and
the "progressive" actors will be held above the law due to their martyrdom as moral crusaders against white
supremacy, so goes the narrative.
Sam is not a monument to the Confederacy nor to white supremacy. As it is plainly inscribed on the pedestal,
Sam honors the sons of the University and of the State that answered the call of duty, students that sacrificed to
fight for their state's right of self-determination. The lack of reverence of the protesters is disgusting. The
notion that"/ don't like it, so you can't have it" is disgusting. It is inherently unAmerican, that the rights of my
neighbor are only good when I approve. Dissent is only patriotic when it buttresses our rights as free
Americans ... a speaker ban law should be challenged against our right of free speech; arbitrary
disenfranchisement should be challenged against our ideal of self-governance. But dissent for the sake of
censorship and thought suppression is fascism.
It would be shameful for the University of North Carolina, the first public university, the University of the
People, to lower itself to the gangster tactics of an irrational minority, one which is not interested in anything
but total annihilation of what they have judged to be deplorable. A decision against the law, and against the
wishes of Tar Heels, alumni and citizens, would be a departure from the creed of "Lux et Libertas" as well as
our State motto "To Be rather than to Seem". Bending to these political demands would surely place the
University in a position of seeming to be for light and liberty, instead of actually being a champion of the ideals.
This is an opportunity to demonstrate how the American process of self-governance and reasoned debate can
work, instead of allowing the process to be hijacked and dictated by extreme agendas of one cabal or
another. Stand against the forces of intimidation that only seek to divide for power and gain. Be a beacon of
reason and co-operation. Removing Silent Sam changes nothing about the past but it could change everything
about the future.
David Sharpe '12
"If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for
more wise men reading more good books in m.ore public libraries. These libraries should be open lo all- except the
censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome
c.ontrouersial books and c.ontrouersial authors [and controversial statues]. For the Bill of Rights is the
guardian of our security as well as our liberty." - Sen. John F. Kennedy
Message
From: John Williams
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:24:40 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Sir:
Channel 11 gave this address to comment on moving Silent Sam. I say Silent Sam and all monuments go back up where
they were at. These have stood for decades and now "leaders' cave to the demands of a few. I think the people who took
them down should be punished. If the Durham DA had done the right thing , Silent Sam would be standing now.
I think Chancellor Folt, UNC police chief and half the faculty need to find an'alternative place"!!
Thank you,
John Williams
Message
From: Jill Hansen
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:24:44 AM
Subject: Statue Placement Suggestion
Dear Sirs/Madames:
With all the discord regarding Confederate statues, or monuments that stir bad feelings about "negative"
historical events, maybe it is time to update ALL statues/monuments with more current UNC recognized
leaders/alumni relating to positive achievements in industry(medical, law, business, engineering), or recent
history (like the space program). While monuments that are traditional like the fountain should stay, all others
should be replaced. I propose that the removed statues/monuments be housed at the back of the campus
(versus the entrance) in a present building's unused space, or in a newly funded mini museum that explains
NC/USA history both good and bad, that the public can view if they have interest. Funding could come from
historical societies/groups, alumni (should they choose), a one-time fundraising campaign, and interested
parties or individuals (DAR, War Veterans society, etc.). A marketing campaign and unveiling/opening event
could be put together by the Marketing/Business Department. This would make a viable experiential learning
program/project for present students and allow all students to feel empowered about making positive
advancements in our culture while preserving our history for all to learn from.
I have been impressed with your empathy, efforts to protect our First Amendment rights while ensuring the
safety of all students and staff, and your communication to parents and alumni. I wish you all success in the
handling of this challenge and feel confident that you will turn this into an opportunity and achievement.
Kind regards,
Jill Hansen
Message
From: Clint Johnson
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:26:06 AM
Subject: Put silent Sam back up attack on America noth ing racial about these statues please look at these four Images I sent
you you 'll see what I'm talking about
Message
From: Anna Hayes
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:27:50 AM
Subject: Silent Sam

I appreciate the opportunity to offer my view on the location of silent Sam. As others have suggested, I
think that creating a contextual setting in the old Playmakers Theater, Gerrard Hall, or other building
on campus could serve to honor the histories of all sides in our complicated history.
I do NOT think that Wilson Library is suitable. The image of scholars having to go throug h metal
detectors to enter the library is not one that the university needs. As a member of the UNC Friends of
the Library Board, I would be extremely disturbed and opposed to this idea.
Sincerely,
Anna Hayes
Message
From: Danny Enrique
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:31:25 AM
CC: Dean Kevin M . Guskiewicz [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =48ee 14640033453 7b6a 73f8b 1288ae 10-south _ asdea]; Di bbert, Douglas
Steven [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: UNC Alum c/o '15
Hello,
I graduated from UNC in 2015, and I would like to weigh in on the best place for Silent Sam on our campus.
Quite frankly, there is no place for Silent Sam on a campus that is supposed to foster diversity and positive
discourse. Silent Sam is not an immutable historical artifact. It is not a relic that deserves a place in a
museum. It's an unnecessary reminder to all students, alumni, faculty, and visitors that UNC has placed the
racist motivations of donors and trustees over the actual well-being of its black constituents.
I'm appalled by the way UNC has handled protestors against Silent Sam's presence. It is difficult to
simultaneously be a proud person of color and a proud UNC alum right now. As such, I will be donating any
money that would have gone to UNC to the legal fees for protestors instead.
I hope the administration handles this issue with more courage than they have showed so far.
Best,
Danny
Danny Enrique, LAT, ATC

They/Them
Message
From: Ric Felker
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:33:49 AM
Subject: Silent Sam

I appreciate the chance to weigh in on the silent Sam relocation. I believe it (and like monuments)
should be moved to a cemetery, a place which honors the dead and provides the opportunity to provide
context.
"The university of the people" is a Carolina association of which I have always been proud. I believe
such a relocation would reflect the will of the people as well as the enlightenment of our university.
Let us lead in discussion and action.
Thank you,
Richard R Felker Jr
BA, American Studies, 1977
Message
From: Maggie Dickson
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:41:17 AM
Subject: Keep Silent Sam Off UN C's campus
I am a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill undergrad and the UNC School of Information and Library Science. I
come from a long lineage of UNC alumni; in my immediate family, both of my parents, my sister and her
husband, and my husband attended UNC-Chapel Hill.
I am also an eighth generation North Carolinian, with ancestors that served in the Confederacy, and it is obvious
to me that Silent Sam was and is a monument to white supremacy. If it is to be displayed anywhere, it should
be in a museum off campus, like the North Carolina Museum of History, where it can be given the proper
context.
Thank you,
Margaret (Maggie) Dickson
University of North Carolina, Class of 2001
University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, Class of 2007
Message
From: Brewer-Jensen, Paul D [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=5702081ee24b4cd09cdd4c661a49028c-Paul D Brew]
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:53:30 AM
Subject: Wilson library
The statue should be put on display in Wilson Library with the full Julian Carr dedication speech attached to
it. I think that would be appropriate because Wilson Library is the home of the North Carolina Collection, the
Southern Folklife Collection, and the Southern Historical Collection.
It should be displayed with full historical context (Jim Crow, white supremacy, etc.).
Message
From: The Taylors I
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:55:27 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Board of Governors,
Here's wishing you the best of luck as you contemplate the future of "Silent Sam". If you
should decide that the statue has no place on campus, perhaps you should also consider
the demolition of other campus monuments to the culture of slavery and white supremacy.
I would include Old East, Old West, the South Building and, of course, the Old Well. All of
these were constructed with slave labor for the benefit of the sons of slave owners. I
suppose that the Morehead Planetarium and the Bell Tower would need to be removed as
well, having been funded by a descendent of slave owners. Indeed, it will take some serious
scrubbing to thoroughly cleanse our beloved university of the taint of slavery. Ultimately,
closing the doors of UNC Chapel Hill may be required to fully atone for the sins of the past.
After all, the system of higher education that began with the founding of Oxford University
in 1096 A.D. and acheived it's full floresence with the resplendent galaxy of American
universities we enjoy today has been the foundation of the priveleged position "whites"
occupy in our society.
Yours in true irony,

Matthew Taylor
Message
From: Donna Whitfield
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:57:10 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
After watching and reading about the protests on campus in regards to silent Sam, my op1n1on has changed.
Sam should not be placed back on his stand. Instead Sam should be placed in the silent Reading Room of
Wilson Library. In that room you must be silent. Entry is limited.
My second choice for this monument would be the N.C. History Museum in Raleigh. Then the protests on
campus will end. UNC is a great university and I hate to see this disruption continue to plague our
university
Thank you,
Donna Whitfield
Message
From: Michael Palmer
Sent: 9/27/2018 10:08:52 AM
Subject: Get rid of it
Put up a plaque celebrating the toppling of the statue instead. Celebrate history that's worth celebrating.
Message
From: Mary Baldwin
Sent: 9/27/2018 10:11:40 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear UNC,
As an Al um I see no need to move the location of the statue. Why would you? Move this one and which one
is next? It will give license for any and all people to tear down whatever they find offensive.
Instead, keep silent Sam where he is and erect a new adjacent statue in tribute to racial equality etc.
select someone of historical significance and have our State and our south's significance (Silent Sam) as
well as a tribute to the equality and support of the African American population stand in unity side by
side.
We have laws and must fo ll ow them or ana r chy will ensue. You allow and even encourage unhappy people to
throw tantrums and pull down others' blocks, or take their toys in the sand box- they will continue to do
it. Very very bad precedent. These peop l e destroyed public property, people who probably didn't wa lk
by that statue a tenth of the times that either I or even my children have. People who were in search of
protest- they should not be allowed to whine and remove a piece of history from a place of prominence.
chances are, those same people won't grace the campus again now that they've thrown their tantrum, smoke
cans and false accusations.
Don't give in to the loud voice of the few, listen to the voice of law, history and decency.
Regards,
Mary Franklin Baldwin
BSBA, MAC
'93
Sent from my iPhone

Message
From: Hannah McMillan
Sent: 9/27/2018 10:38:05 AM
Subject: A monument to white supremacy does not belong at UNC
When the Confederate monument "Silent Sam" came down, its removal was long overdue. It is now your task
to determine an appropriate place to show the statue safely in its full historical context. That place is not one of
prominence or honor on our campus.
I have taught high school in a public school in Durham, North Carolina for three years . Finally, my former
students of color who attend UNC will no longer have to walk around UNC's campus with a monument to white
supremacy looming over them.
As a history major at UNC, I was encouraged to deeply research and understand the complex racial history of
the United States. Anyone who has read the statue's dedication speech knows the true meaning of the
monument, but even those with a basic understanding of history should see that a monument to white
supremacy has no place on our campus. It is only through the removal of this symbol of hate from our campus
that we may affirm the University's mission and its motto: tux libertas.
Sincerely,
Hannah McMillan
BA in History, UNC Chapel Hill, 2014
Master of Arts in Teaching, UNC Chapel Hill, 2015
Message
From: Sue
Sent: 9/27/2018 10:57:10 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I do not believe that 70% on North Carolinians want SS back on campus.

Please put him in a more appropriate place like Bentonville.
The campus should be a welcoming place to all, not a spit in your face place.
Woman up, Ms. Falt! Show some backbone!
Sue Schwartz

Message
From: Julian Sereno
Sent: 9/27/2018 11:26:08 AM
Subject: idea about silent sam
A future for Silent Sam

UNC should start its own Museum of History, and tum the publicity and controversy over Silent Sam into something positive
and even enlightening.
One part of this museum would of course feature Silent Sam, including pedestal, along with an easily-legible copy of Julian S.
Carr's now-notorious speech at the statue's dedication. The story of Silent Sam, from it's dedication to its toppling, would be
shown with photos. An exhibit on Carr might also be included -- Confederate Colonel, textile magnate, philanthropist, Jim
Crow racist. That same part would feature the portraits of Confederate Officers that once lined the wall of a circular executive
conference room adjoining Morehead Planetarium: who they were, how did they serve the Confederacy, how did they serve
UNC? Past UNC bigwigs, from the Civil War through Jim Crow, would have their stories told, truthfully and unsparingly.
Another part could feature the African-Americans of that epoch, and their perseverance despite their suffering at the hands of
Jim Crow. Exhibits would include stories of local lynchings, including memorials for those so murdered. While there is no
record of any lynchings in Orange County, there were some in Chatham County. It would celebrate African American creativity
and cultural contributions, including Carrboro's Libba Cotton and her song "Freight Train", still beloved after 100 years. She
was a contemporary of Julian S. Carr, for whom Carrboro is named.
The museum would also feature exhibits from the Civil Rights era, the integration ofUNC as well as Chapel Hill and
surrounding counties. Local leaders, among them true visionaries, would have their stories told too: Pauli Murray, Julius
Chambers, Teny Sanford, Floyd McKissick, Dean Smith.
The museum would host lectures, discussions, conferences and symposia. It could be a forum to pursue our elusive national
conversation about race.
Julian Sereno
MA '88
Carrboro
Julian Sereno
editor and publisher
Chatham County Line
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Message
From: Mackey Fair
Sent: 9/27/2018 11:44:42 AM
Chancellor Falt,
I refer you to the Cultural History Artifact Management and Patriotism Act of 2015, General
Assembly of North Carolina, Session Law 2015-170, Article 1, Section 3, § 1002.1:
(a) Approval Required. - Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, a monument,
memorial, or work of art owned by the State may not be removed, relocated, or altered in any way
without the approval of the North Carolina Historical Commission.
(b) Limitations on Removal. - An object of remembrance located on public property may not be
permanently removed and may only be relocated, whether temporarily or permanently, under the
circumstances listed in this subsection and subject to the limitations in this subsection. An object of
remembrance that is temporarily relocated shall be returned to its original location within 90 days of
completion of the project that required its temporary removal. An object of remembrance that is
permanently relocated shall be relocated to a site of similar prominence, honor, visibility, availability,
and access that are within the boundaries of the jurisdiction from which it was relocated . An object of
remembrance may not be relocated to a museum, cemetery, or mausoleum unless it was originally
placed at such a location. As used in this section, the term "object of remembrance" means a
monument, memorial, plaque, statue, marker, or display of a permanent character that
commemorates an event, a person, or military service that is part of North Carolina's history. The
circumstances under which an object of remembrance may be relocated are either of the following:
(2) When necessary for construction, renovation, or reconfiguration of buildings, open spaces,
parking, or transportation projects .
Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Cultural Resources as provided by
Chapter 197 of the Public Laws of 1935.
(2) An object of remembrance owned by a private party that is located on public property and that is
the subject of a legal agreement between the private party and the State or a political subdivision of
the State governing the removal or relocation of the object.
(3) An object of remembrance for which a building inspector or similar official has determined poses a
threat to public safety because of an unsafe or dangerous condition.
Does this not mean, Ma'am, that those responsible for the destruction and desecration of
Confederate monuments are in violation of North Carolina State Law, and as such, should be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law? According to Session Law 2015-170, the circumstances of
the "removal" of Silent Sam and other Confederate monuments does not fall under the guidelines of
said law.
As a direct descendant of a Arkansas confederate soldier and linear descendant of two North
Carolina Cavalrymen , Ma'am, I must insist that your office perform its prescribed duties and enforce
State Law on this matter. Hold ALL those responsible for this accountable.
Respectfully
Mackey Fair
Son's of Confederate Veterans Camp 502
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Thanks for asking for input regarding the statue's future. I think it should go back to its original location, with a plaque
that says something like:
"This statue of Silent Sam was erected in 1913 to honor and remember the UNC students who fought and died in the
civil war. During that era, over 4 million primarily African Americans worked in fields, on plantations; in homes, in
industry, and in all aspects of society. They were bought, sold, and treated as property by many Southern whites. Many
were chained and beaten. Slavery had become an integral part of life, and an essential part of the economy in the
South. Retaining the right to continue this practice was one of the main drives behind the Confederate Army.
Silent Sam has been the subject of protests and controversy since the civil rights movement. He has been torn down
and resurrected many times, as his presence is a painful reminder of this era.
He still stands here today; however, but his meaning has changed. May he remind us of the wrongs to humanity. "
Loretta Fearrington
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From: Vail-Smith, Karen [VAILSMITH K@ecu.edu]
Sent: 9/27/2018 11:53:03 AM
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CC: Felts, Mike [FELTSW@ECU.EDU]
Subject: Compromise Suggestion for Silent Sam Issue
Flag: Follow up

A colleague here at ECU, Dr. Mike Felts, shared with me the Chronicle article about Silent Sam. As we were talking, I
suggested a compromise solution. He said "you should send that to Chancellor Falt." It is probably something you have
already thought of, but I sending it on anyway.
My reaction to the many Confederate monument controversies around the country is "Let's not just take away; let's
relocate and add." True to that line of thinking, I suggest moving Silent Sam to the UNC cemetery. He does after all
commemorate UNC dead. In his place, erect a statue of Charlie Scott (the first African American player at UNC) and Dean
Smith (the first ACC coach to integrate a basketball team). Carolina basketball is loved by all UNC students and alumni
it is a place where we all converge in support. I consider alumni and students to be the stakeholders here. And I think
such a statue would be supported by the overwhelming majority of the stakeholders. (And I'll bet Michael Jordan would
fund it!)
Good luck with this important decision. With kindest regards, I am
Sincerely,
Karen Vail-Smith
UNC '77
Department of Health Education and Promotion

3208 Belk Building
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
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Message
From: Jeremiah Hartsock
Sent: 9/27/2018 12:00:45 PM
Subject: Possible place of sam?
Flag: Follow up
Hi Chancellor Folt,
My name is Jeremiah Hartsock, and I just recently graduated from UNC this past May, and I'm currently
working as a research assistant for a lab at Duke in their department of psychiatry.
I know the fairly recent demolition of Silent Sam has been stressful, and with such tricky subjects to discuss I
completely understand if you have had enough of hearing about (especially now when nearly a month has gone
by).
However, I wanted to share a possible place where the university could put Sam on the off chance no one has
floated this idea by you. I think Sam could be at home in the courtyard of the Ackland. This way, you could turn
it into a historical exhibit as well. People could read about the history of its erection, and it's eventual take-
down. It could be a place for discussion about the historical and sociological context surrounding the statue.
Like I said, I'm sure that this idea may have already been discussed, but I wanted to share this idea in case it
hasn't.
I vehemently disagree with the idea that the statue should go back where it was, so hopefully an alternative
solution can be found.
Best of luck
Message
From: Henry Gerrits
Sent: 9/27/2018 12:30:55 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Proposal
Hello,
At this time the best solution to the Silent Sam issue is to put Silent Sam in the corner of a museum and erect a statue of
former UNC alumni, Christine Blasey Ford, on the Silent Sam pedestal.
This would serve to commemorate a key point in our history when a preponderance of our society accepted that legal
process no longer needs to assume an accused person is innocent until proven guilty and that we no longer require any
facts or actual witnesses to prosecute alleged crimes. She will be remembered for her part in creating a new standard that
if the political agenda is sufficiently critical it is justifiable to destroy the character an reputation of anyone in the way at
any cost.
Certainly this proposal is worthy of serious consideration as I am certain UNC would also benefit from untold donations
well beyond the cost of the statue from many supporters across the country eagar to promote such a cause.
Thanks
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From: Warner, Stacey Harris [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Sent: 9/27/2018 12:43:21 PM
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Subject: FW: University Day - Distinguished Alumni Awards Breakfast
From: Pinto, Gabby

Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 9:28 AM
To: Warner, Stacey Harris <staceywarner@unc.edu>
Subject: FW: University Day - Distinguished Alumni Awards Breakfast
Should I pass this along to that email?
From:
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 8:15 PM
To: Pinto, Gabby
Subject: Re: University Day - Distinguished Alumni Awards Breakfast
Dear Gabby,
Thanks for the kind note. unfortunately, I won't be able to attend the University Day Celebrations because of schedule
conflicts.
I have always been a loyal and grateful alumnus of UNC Chapel Hill., But I am probably not the only one who has been
reevaluating those feelings after the incident with Silent Sam. The brave young men honored by Silent Sam, were not
defending slavery, an evil institution. Many of those honored were from families with few or no slaves. They were
defending the land of their birth. Those that survived, and their families, suffered mightily during reconstruction.
North Carolina Negroes also suffered terribly, both physically and from being dehumanized by slavery and discrimination.
I am deeply sorry for that. But the way to try to make amends for that is not by pulling down Silent Sam, but by putting up
an equally inspiring statue to a black North Carolinian, either a real, distinguished person, and there are many to choose
from, or a symbolic figure like Silent Sam.
One of my great grandfathers defended North Carolina during the Civil War. Another fought for Pennsylvania. Though
they were on opposing sides, I am proud of both, since they did their duty and paid a heavy price. This is more than one
can say for the virtue-signalling vandals who were permitted to desecrate Silent Sam, and those in the current UNC
community who let them get away with it.
If you think any of the organizers of the University Day Celebration or of UNC leadership would be interested in this note
from an alumnus, you are welcome to share it.
Sincerely,
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From: Pinto, Gabby <gpinto@email.unc.edu>
To: Pinto, Gabby <gpinto@email.unc.edu>
Sent: Wed, Sep 26, 2018 3:20 pm
Subject: University Day - Distinguished Alumni Awards Breakfast
Hello-
I hope you are having a wonderful day so far! I am following up on an invitation that you should have received to the
Distinguished Alumni Award Breakfast on Friday, October 12 at 8a at the Carolina Inn as part of the University Day
Celebrations. Please see attached for the invitation and let me know if you are able to attend.
Thank you and I hope you have a great week!
Gabby Pinto

Office of University Events
207 Wilson Street , Campus Box 2050
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Message
From: Russ Dean
Sent: 9/27/2018 1:06:30 PM
Subject: monument
I don't think that poll is very accurate.
I am an NC resident and I certainly don't want it back up.
THANI(S
Message
From:
Sent: 9/27/2018 1:19:59 PM
Subject: Solution
It is sad to me that everyone does not look at monuments or the American Flag with the same feelings that
I have. I wish for all Americans to be proud of their country.
My solution is to have silent Sam returned to its original place and REDEDICATED in a way that thrives to
make everyone full of pride for their country, their University and this statue. It is a difficult task
to rededicate it in a way to please all, but I trust that UNC is up to the task. The nation is watching.
UNC has an opportunity to act in a sincere way that can help advance the dialogue. It is sad that all
don't agree with or are prideful of what a statue may symbolize. we all have different experiences that
shape our views. I feel that there is pressure on everyone to change because a few are upset with how the
Flag or a statue makes them feel. With freedom and rights comes responsibility. we have a
responsibility to all.
The unsung Founders Memorial is a good step. It is well done.
You can't make everyone happy, but you can act sincerely and not be swayed because some may feel a
certain way. My path is to work to have everyone in my country/community as proud of their country as I
am.
THE SOLUTION IS TO REDEDICATE SILENT SAM IN A WAY THAT MAKES EVERYONE PROUD. Impossible? Maybe. But UNC
is up to the task.
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Message
From: Stuart Sherk
Sent: 9/27/2018 1:35:03 PM
I appreciate three problematic issues concerning the statue.
1. A non-student, most likely paid, group is predominately responsible for this. It's a criminal act and I
would sincerely appreciate UNC's efforts to support the prosecution. If needed, I would appreciate the
university's influence to push the prosecution to treat this as a crime and not drop charges and run.
2. The statue has been a problem for the university for a number of years.
3. The statue is a part of history during a different time. Things have changed.
Can the statue be placed on a building where it could be protected? Is there an indoor area, perhaps with
cameras?
Whatever you do I hope the results do not help perpetuate continued actions like the felling of Silent
Sam. You have an excellent opportunity show your leadership. Expression is valued but criminal behavior is
not.
Regards,
Stuart Sherk
Message
From: Reifsnider, Cindy [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=E9B081CC33D94EF6ABBF9616F2FD6DF5-CINDY REIFS]
Sent: 9/27/2018 1:48:46 PM
Subject: no, do not return to Mccorkle
I do not feel that Silent Sam's place is back where it was.
I read the Daily Tar Heel article quoting that 70% of North Carolinians want it back where it was, but in reading the
Civitas press release on their poll, questions, and answers, I don't think that is what was said. North Carolinians may not
have approved of how the statue was removed, at least temporarily, but they are not saying they want it back there.
History has a place, with context. Context is needed for Silent Sam so that it becomes wisdom and learning, not just a
reminder of information in the past.
Silent Sam needs a place in the University that offers it historical context.
Cindy Reifsnider
UNC staff
Message
From: Dennis Stanley
Sent: 9/27/2018 1:54:02 PM
Subject: Historical preservation
North Carolina!!!!
Chancellor folt,
He needs to be put back up where he previously stood. No question. If he is moved to a "alternate location" he
will be pushed into teaching a false history that he does NOT represent. Silent Sam is to remember the sons of
UNC that fought honorably. The lives lost and the sacrifices made. He is UNC history, He is North Carolina
history, He is Southern history, He is our history. Moving Silent Sam is unlawful and does not represent the
speech of one man, but the lives of over 1000. Every poll ever done in our state has proven that 2/3 of the state
and nation does not approve of removal of any monument. The socialist views in Chapel Hill do not reflect the
views of our state or our nation, as a whole. Silent Sam is our monument and history, not a 4 year student from
another state. Silent Sam must be put back where he was. These few liberal grps need to grow up and stop with
the destruction.
You and UNC security FAILED the univ and all of the south by not protecting him.
Your resignation is in order.
Message
From: Janine McPeters.Murphy
Sent: 9/27/2018 2:22:57 PM
Subject: The statue
As a two time alumni of UNC (B.A. 1970 and J.D. 1985) I am writing to strongly urge UNC-CH NOT to put
"Sam" back into McCorkle Place. Our university should not "honor" the "way of life" that enslaved thousands
of North Carolina citizens. It is our history, but it is not a part of our history that we should celebrate. In fact,
we should lament and be ashamed of the role that our university played in slavery and in the Jim Crow era that
followed the war.
If this statue is to be displayed anywhere it should be in a site that shows the full history of the university from
1789 through the present featuring the many good things the university has done, but also with due attention
paid to the enslaved individuals who built many of the early buildings for the university. The history should
also show that Aftrican-Americans were not allowed to enroll in UNC until the 1951.
With regards,
Janine McPeters Murphy
Message
From: Dehart, Gary C [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=96D28A77D1BE4107965243FF23AC252E-GARY C DEHA]
Sent: 9/27/2018 2:25:02 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thanks for providing an avenue to hear everyone's opinion. Mine is simple and straight to the point from a NC
taxpayers point of view. Place Silent Sam back on the same pedestal where he has been for the last 80 years or
more. The next time vandals decide to destroy or bring harm to the statue have campus police stop the
activity proactively. If McCracken and others decide to sit on their hands in the future fire them and save the
taxpayers even more money. There is no excuse. Most of us know that cameras are focused on the monument
24/7 which can be monitored in the campus 911 call center.
Thanks for your consideration, Gary C. DeHart

Message
From: Marian Abernathy
Sent: 9/27/2018 2:38:05 PM
Dear UNC Monument Committee,

I moved to North Carolina almost 30 years ago and first lived in Chapel Hill, where I explored the
campus and found the statute of Silent Sam. I remember being surprised by the memorial at the
time.
While I wish that the state and the University had removed the statue in a safe and or dignified
manner (such as has happened in other cities and campuses around the US and other communities,
as close as Durham), now that the statue of Silent Sam is no longer standing, it should NOT be
replaced in an open space on campus.
If it is re-erected anywhere, I strongly believe there should be educational context around it. What led
to the war, why people fought to preserve slavery and the southern economy, when the statue was
erected and why -- clearly articulating the hateful statements by KKK Supporter Julian Carr crediting
Confederate soldiers with saving "the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South," adding, "to-day,
as a consequence the purest strain of the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States -
Praise God." As well as his reveling in having whipped an African American woman who fled to
campus for safety.
Maybe it could be melted down and a new statue, commemorating the brave people working for equal rights for
all, could be made from it.
Sincerely,
Marian Abernathy
Marian Abernathy
Message
From: Carlyle Poteat
Sent: 9/27/2018 2:48:27 PM
Subject: To Whom It May Concern re Silent Sam
I'm curious what poll said that 70% of NC residents want the statue to return to Mccorkle Place.
However, I think the more important question is how people who live in and around chapel Hill, UNC
students, and UNC faculty feel about it. They are the ones who are exposed to whatever decision is made
about where the statue should go.
My person~l preference would be for it to be moved to an indoor location, preferably off campus, but in
any case 1t should be displayed along with all relevant historical information about the context in which
it came to be erected in the first place, and what the message was to the black population during the
terrible period of Jim Crow.
In no way do I think it should be returned to Mccorkle place. I think many who might support returning it
there simply don't have all the information about the history and would not support it if they did.
I think this issue is of great importance and should not be taken lightly by the administration, the BOG,
or the state legislature. There will be trouble if silent Sam is returned to Mccorkle Place.
Carlyle Poteat
Resident, from birth, of chapel Hill, with multiple ties to UNC
Message
From: Virginia Palumbo
Sent: 9/27/2018 3:12:52 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a graduate of the UNC School of Nursing, the daughter of a UNC Professor of Biochemistry in the Med
School, and the sister and aunt of UNC graduates. I am writing to express my deepest feelings for the need to
NOT resurrect Silent Sam. That statue was a monument to the Jim Crow era, and represented control and
dominance of white people over people of color. The shame of having the monument still standing in the 21st
century is now gone, and with good riddance. Students and townspeople of color should not have to live with a
strong visual reminder of racism and violence, and those ofus who are white stand in solidarity with them. Do
what is right, and move on to an era of greater understanding, respect, and celebration of our racial and cultural
diversity.
Thank you,
Virginia Wagner Palumbo '83
Message
From: Susan Boyette
Sent: 9/27/2018 4:08:31 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
It is our opinion that the Confederate statue know as Silent Sam should not be returned to the place from where it was
taken down. It is also our opinion that if the University leadership had been proactive in moving it or putting up
informational signs about its sorted history, it would not have been toppled by the disgruntled group. While we do not
agree with the actions of the group, we believe the inaction of the UNC leadership contributed to the event. It is now
incumbent on the leadership to do the right thing and move the statue to a place where it is not given undue status but
is available for anyone who wants to see it can and that it also have informational signage as to its complete history. The
leadership should not be pressured by political groups but take into consideration the statue's history, what it stands
for, and the message it sends in today's world. Thank you for asking for and considering the opinions of North
Carolinians (who were born and raised in North Carolina).
Susan G. Boyette and David M. Boyette
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From: "Clement H. Matthews,jr" ·
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:06:22 -0400
Subject: Silent Sam
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l . Put it back up.

2. Move to the Dean Dome.
Clement Matthews, Jr
Message
From: Sondra Willis [Sondra.Willis@DavidsonCountyNC.gov]
Sent: 9/27/2018 4:41:40 PM
Good afternoon,
Please do not put the confederate monument back up. We as a society have so much hatred and anger towards
each other. Anytime we can remove tension or a monument that reminds us of injustice, mistreatment, hatred,
and unfairness, let's do it. Carolina is a place where students take pride in their education, it is a place of
advancement and innovativeness. It is a waste of time and money to put the monument back up, only to remind
us of the pain from our past. I urge you to be a college that cares for all of the students, and not the folks who
want the monument up for their own prejudice reasons, claiming it is all about heritage. Let's look past the
blinders and move towards greatness.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak on this matter.
Sondra Willis
Davidson County Government
"Equal Opportunity Employer"
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Message
From: Shannon Fontaine
Sent: 9/27/2018 4:44:42 PM
Subject: Silent sam
Put him back where he was.Then, tum in your resignation since you obviously colluded with antifa professor
Dixon and the stand down police to allow it to happen.then Fire the hatefilled Dixon who brandished weapons
in Charlottesville and caused the death of the young lady there. He has used his position at UNC to spew hate.
Message
From:
Sent: 9/27/2018 5:19:54 PM
Subject: Opinion
As a parent of a current student, I would like to see the monument moved somewhere where it could be kept and
viewed as an historical item by the public. I personally would like to see this because of the attention it has been
receiving the past few years. I feel that some of the people that come to protest from off campus bring an element of
danger and disruption with them to the campus. Unfortunately, it is our students that have to avoid this area of campus
and become vulnerable to this danger. I understand that the campus is a public place and these individuals have a right
to protest there. However, I do not necessarily agree with that policy myself. I feel that it is a university for the students
first and foremost and should be kept safe for them. I feel that they should have the right to protest on their own
campus anytime they wish. I personally do not agree or approve of how the monument was taken down recently. A mob
mentality is not what the university needs on its campus and is dangerous. Therefore, I do not wish to see it placed on
the pedestal again. It will attract more attention and create more protests and problems.
Thank you so much for letting us voice our opinions to you. I know you have hard decisions ahead to make. I understand
how both sides of the issue have legitimate reasons for what they want. I am not giving my personal opinion on that
issue. I am only concerned for the safety of the students. Please take your students and their safety into consideration
first.
Thank you,

Message
From: mark kellam
Sent: 9/27/2018 5:21:36 PM
Subject: Silent sam
Silent Sam was a quiet horror ..just melt it down and sell the metal. Wrong is wrong.
Mark kellam
Message
From: Doug Brower
Sent: 9/27/2018 6:04:10 PM
Subject: Monument Proposal
I propose building a full-size replica of the Parthenon of Athens and installing Silent Sam reverently inside.
Sam will replace the winged figure of Victory that Athena historically held in her hand. The placement will
symbolize the success the South achieved in its war against the Union and celebrate the justice of slave-holding,
a core civic virtue practiced by the ancient Greeks and our esteemed University fathers alike.
Pedestrian trench
I propose surfacing the area around the monument in slabs of polished white marble. No grass, soil, flowers,
trees or shrubbery should impede the vision of whiteness for at least 100 yards in any direction. In full sun, with
summer daytime temperatures in the vicinity of the monument approaching an estimated 110 degrees, I expect
the effect on visitors to be truly stunning.
To offset the cost of construction, which may be rather high, I propose establishing a pig farm adjacent to the
monument. To integrate the commercial and commemorative halves of the site, pedestrians will reach the
monument by walking or wading through the piggery's waste trenches and holding pond.
Note: In the figure, I used photographs of the replica of the Parthenon in Nashville. The pictures got me
wondering. Do you think Nashville is really doing anything with their Parthenon? If not, they might consider
parting with it. The University would no doubt save money by buying Nashville's copy and bringing it to UNC
instead of building their own. Or the other way around: the University could ship Silent Sam to Nashville and
ask those folks to look after him for a while. A long while. Like, forever. Either way works for me.
Message
From: Kathy Hall
Sent: 9/27/2018 6:15:43 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put statue back and in a prominent place ... do not try to erase history!
Kathy Hall
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Message
From: George Entenman
Sent: 9/27/2018 6:20:35 PM
Subject: Letter to the UNC Board of Governors regarding the statue of Si lent Sam
Dear BOG,
People who look at Silent Sam without knowing much about its history
see a statue honoring the UNC students who went to war against the US
(that's why his canteen has CSA on it). They do not see the world at the
time the statue was erected.
I'm sure the Board is aware of the statue's historical context, that it was
erected during a time of terrible repression of our fellow African
American citizens, many of whom had been born into slavery. It takes
time to study this history and understand it, and most of our citizenry -
myself included - tend to lack much knowledge of it.
It would normally be hard to prove to people like me that Silent Sam was
intended as a monument to white supremacy. After all, it appears to be a
statue in honor of soldiers, even if they were rebelling against the US, the
country that we all claim to love.
Fortunately, Julian Carr's dedication speech for Silent Sam clarifies its
racist intent when it praises a vicious, physically violent attack on an
African American woman.
Let me describe how I first heard Carr's speech and came to better
understand the origins of Silent Sam.
I moved to Chapel Hill in 1980 and attended UNC as a graduate student

for three years. I walked by Silent Sam several times a week without
thinking much of it.
As the years went by, there were various protests demanding that Silent
Sam be torn down. I heard and read their statements that the statue was
racist, but that felt like an opinion to me. I was very happy that the
Confederacy had lost the Civil War but saw no great need to remove a
statue celebrating it.
Then, on the first day of my retirement on Sept 1, 2011, I went to a Silent

Sam protest hoping to meet a friend.
I expected to find a bunch of angry students and activists calling for the
removal of the statue. That's what usually happened at such events.
I wasn't able to hear much of the first speaker, but I did hear the second.
He read a passage written by James Carr - as in Carrboro - as he dedicated
the statue. Carr described a chilling scene where he whipped an African
American woman near the site of Silent Sam, in the presence of about 40
Union soldiers, who did nothing. This young man simply introduced the
passage, read it and stopped, leaving us in stunned silence.
Then CJ Suitt and Will Mcinerney, of Sacrificial Poets, performed a poem

about growing up in Chapel Hill. The most riveting passage was when
Suitt named the Africian American enclaves in Chapel Hill - suddenly I
felt for the first time how our local geography is experienced by different
people and how confining it can be for some.
Tim Tyson, another local preacher and prophet, recounted a story he had
been told as a child by a relative. It described how his family's slaves had
buried the family's silver when the Union soldiers came to their house.
The problem, as Tyson discovered later, was that the story was pure
fiction - intended to convey to him that his family wasn't terribly racist.
I had come prepared to hear calls to tear down Silent Sam.
But that is precisely what I did not hear. CJ Suitt unveiled a proposed
plaque to be added to the base of the stature. This plaque describes the era
when African Americans lost the rights and powers that they had gained
during Reconstruction, an era when statues, campus buildings and other
monuments to the Confederacy were erected to create a mythology that
would help perpetuate white privilege and white history.
Inspiration and hope welled up within me as I realized what this group of

young people were doing. They were not seeking to recreate the protests
of the past. They were not seeking to erase the past by tearing down
statues and renaming buildings. They were seeking to teach us our own
history.
That was in 2011. Since then the University has done nothing to
implement the suggestions made by this inspiring group of people. In
other words, the University made no effort to teach us our history.
The only people trying to teach us our history were the protesters who
sporadically gathered near Silent Sam and tried to convince the University
to take it down.
These protesters were UNC's finest history teachers, and I wanted them to
continue teaching. For this reason, (1) I did not want Silent Sam to be
removed and (2) I occasionally joined the protesters in order to to my part
to explain to people what Silent Sam actually stood for.
Shortly before Silent Sam was actually toppled and removed, I realized
that we didn't need the statue and its protesters to arouse people's curiosity
and get them to ask about and learn about our history.
I finally realized that an empty pedestal would attract as much or more

curiosity as the protesters did. With some plaques explaining the absence
of a statue, people could learn about our racist past and perhaps become a
bit more open about our present.
So that is my suggestion: put the Silent Sam statue someplace else, in a

museum, in front of the History Department, etc.
But leave the pedestal standing and statue-less. Fulfill your mission to
teach.
Sincerely,
George Entenman
Chapel Hill
Message
From: Marian
Sent: 9/27/2018 6:26:39 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

silent Sam means different things to people - both positive and negative. I think everyone agrees with
that.
But what would society look like if anyone who didn't like a statue or other physical object because they
disagreed with what it stood for had the freedom to destroy that object? Where would society be?
Disagreement does not give anyone the power to destroy because they don't like it - not in our country.
There are other more civil ways to try to change opinions and to shine light on what needs to be changed.
I do not know where silent Sam needs to be. To put him back now will, I fear, cause much unrest. Perhaps
in a special place in the chapel Hill cemetery even tho the boys who died were from many areas.
Sincerely and supporting you however you decide,
Marian Castellow Perry
UNC class of 1945
Sent from my iPad

Message
From: Cecilia Payne
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:20:28 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As a North Carolinian and registered voter, I am not in favor and find deeply offensive the Jim Crow
statue of Silent Sam. Though removed in a manner not legislatively approved, ( what is that process
anyway), it should not be restored to the position that it held in the past. UNC Chapel Hill is a NC
public college, open to all that qualify and are granted admission: North Carolinian, nationally, and
many foreign nations. NC history is robust and more than what can be related in a small plaque on
silent Sam. Do not put silent Sam back up on campus.
Not one of Folk's 70%,
Cecilia
Message
From: Debi Pavlou
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:24:09 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The statue should be placed where it has been for many years. It should not be a race issue since it was
black traders selling black villagers who were conquered to whites. so the blame game has to stop and Sam
should stand proud for fallen soldiers.
Message
From: Aaron Green
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:30:52 PM
Silent Sam belongs outside and in public

Message
From: William Bacon
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:32:32 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Place silent Sam near Senlac, President Kemp Plummer Battle's home and my great-great-great uncle. He had
two brothers die in the civil War. Junius Cullen
Battle died at Smith Mountain and Wesley Lewis Battle died at Gettysburg.
Thanks
Bill Bacon
Bolivia
class of 81
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Debra Bailey
Sent: 9/27/2018 7:43:29 PM
Subject: Feedback Si lent Sam
Please do not put silent Sam back up.

These types of monuments should be in a museum where they can be
displayed and properly interpreted and given their historical context.
No one is saying "obliterate" history.
But a statue on public display sends of message that it is something

to be aspired to in our present day .... and that statue, as well as
many Confederate statues, serve t he opposite, to perpetuate the
reasons for the Confederacy, white supremacy, and frankly, treason.
Give it its proper historical place, with other items that no longer
are agreed with in our current day but still relevant for the whole
story, and put it and those others, in a museum.
Debra Bailey
Message
From: Suzanne Gould
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:02:58 PM
Subject: Removal of Silent Sam
I am a graduate of UNC, class of 75. I walked by this statue every day and never thought much about it.
However, in the recent conflict over its remaining in a prominent place on campus, I have come to realize an
important Truth.
While we cannot rewrite history, we can address injustices rather than allowing them to be memorialized. These
types of sculptures are incendiary to some people of color, and others. There is no reason to post this statue in
such a prominent location on campus. The campus belongs to the state of NC. This sculpture and others could
be moved to a park especially for historical art. That is what is done in Europe. If someone wants to see it, they
could visit the park and see it in a setting with other historical statues which reference times gone by when the
world was not the world it is today. That honors both the art and the people who have been feeling disrespected
by its placement in a prominent location on campus.
Respectfully submitted by Suzanne Thompson Gould.
Message
From: Alex Cameron
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:37:17 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please do not attempt to hide or change history, regardless of how you feel about this heated matter. Additional
plaques or signage that would clearly show how much has been accomplished since those early times would be
the best way to move forward. I would like to see Silent Sam placed back where the statue has been for 105
years.
Message
From: Sue King
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:38:11 PM
Subject: what to do with Si lent Sam
Instead of honoring students who died in the war, why not show how many human beings were enslaved for
each student who lost his life defending slavery? The image of a lone Silent Sam surrounded by a sea of statues
representing every man, woman, and child that was enslaved would send a powerful message of truth and
recognition.
Message
From: Robert Medred
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:39:17 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Keep the statue where it's been for several generations. Too many people nowadays are mentally ill-that is, practically
all democrats; they're taking out their personal childhood-created mental anguish on others. Don't let the inmates run
your university asylum.
Bob Medred
Hillsborough
Message
From: Joe Aaron
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:50:43 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put the statue back up. It is never ok to erase history. In the past few yea rs we have seen ISIS erase
historical monuments from the Middle East. I think we can all agree that the res ult of that will be felt
far into the future. Let's not allow the same type of extremism, and at the base level it is the same, to
find a foothold in this State. silent Sam is not a monument of hate. It's just a monument to the many men
who died in this states fight for independence. We all know that history is written by the winner. I'm
pretty sure that the vast majority of North Carolina's dead i n the civil war were not crazy extremists,
but patriots in a time when state identity superseded national identity.
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Clara Neyhart
Sent: 9/27/2018 9:55:01 PM
Subject: silent sam location
My suggestion for Silent Sam is either off campus at Bennett Place or, if it must be on campus, perhaps in an
outdoor walking museum of UNC history. This would include artwork of all sorts that can withstand the
outdoors, portraying a timeline ofUNC history. This would involve commissioning new art work as well to
complete the timeline. A possible location would be in the grassy area below Alderman-McKiver-Kenan dorms
(next to the 3 way Y intersection); or within the arboretum; or within the wooded area around Kenan stadium or
between North and South campus. Plaques would be needed to place art in accurate historical and cultural
context. I suggest turning the old Silent Sam spot into an attractive garden area.
Clara Danziger Neyhart

Class of 1983 (nursing), retired nurse from UNC Kidney Center, and life long Chapel Hillian
Message
From: Ray Williamson
Sent: 9/27/2018 10:01:28 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello. I understand you are asking for public opinion of what to do about the downed statue of Silent Sam.
'and I say' ... read Bob Marley
Put the Statue back ..... for no other reason than to show people - Mob Rule Can Not Exist -
Thank you,
The Prophet
PS - Fire Fairy Fedummy

Message
From: Doug Long
Sent: 9/27/2018 10:19:29 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put him back and prosecute law breaking thugs.

Message
From: Joanne
Sent: 9/27/2018 10:27:20 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As a UNC alumni, I am embarrassed by the saga surrounding silent Sam. I beg the Board of Governors and
the University leaders to restore silent Sam back to its original pedestal. I agree that the monument
evokes mixed feelings but you cannot erase or change history. Everyone needs to learn from history and
move forward together. Moving the monument encourages racial divide. Many of the people waging this
unnecessary fight do not even know what the monument stood for. Those who toppled the statue should be
prosecuted to the fullest extent. People can disagree and protest but they cannot destroy public
property.
Thank you
Joanne Rich
class of '95
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Kathy Putnam
Sent: 9/27/2018 10:56:34 PM
Subject: Confederate monuments: Ole Miss is teaching the South a valuable lesson on history
Flag: Follow up
Dear chancellor Holt - please read this article. If Ole Miss can teach about the history surrounding
confederate monuments and place them at appropriate locations, I would hope that UNC could take a similar
leadership role. Thank you for reading this.
Kathleen Putnam, MSW
1977 graduate of UNC school of Social Work
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/09/20/confederate-monuments-ole-miss-
teaching-south-valuable-lesson-history/1367188002/
Sent from my iPhone

Kathy Putnam
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens/individuals can change the world. Indeed, it is the
only thing that ever has.
Message
From: Frankie Alexander
Sent: 9/27/2018 11:01:50 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As a black 1975 graduate from UNC-CH, I wanted to cast my vote in favor of the permanent removal
of Silent Sam. After all these years, it is time for such painful symbols to be in a museum. The
divisiveness such symbols generates in this climate does not bode well of an institution of learning.
Regards,
Frankie Alexander
Durham, NC
Message
From: Randall West
Sent: 9/27/2018 11:26:04 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
My family has lived in North Carolina for over 300 years. My ancestor fought in the Revolutionary War. A
copy of his orders exists in the History Museum in Raleigh. History matters.
NC provided most of the Confederate troops and suffered more than any of the other southern states.
We can accept that slavery was wrong and still honor all the North Carolinians who served including the ones
who fought for the South or North.
I attended UNC as a 16 year old in a NSF program in 1967 with students from around the nation. It was a life
changing experience for me a NC farm boy. We all got along and due to my heavy accent I was nicknamed
Reb. All of us stopped by Silent Sam from time to time. We discussed history in a civil manner unlike today.
Summary: That statue honors the UNC students and faculty who left to fight for what they considered their
country. Whenever it is placed and whatever historical explanation of the times might be added, it should be
a place of honor and not hidden from view.
Randy West
Message
From: Traci Thompson
Sent: 9/27/2018 11:33:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Folt:
Please put Silent Sam back exactly as he was . The reasons given for moving and/or destroying him are
presentist and agenda-driven fallacies which simply cannot be backed up by correctly-interpreted evidence,
and there is plenty of solid evidence against these fallacies. Sam is a unique work of art; moving him would
dishonor the artist, his work, and his intended purpose for his work. Sam is a memorial to the dead; moving
him would not only dishonor those who were willing to give their lives in war but also their families and
descendants, and the culture and heritage of those families.
First, to address the charges that Silent Sam was erected for racist purposes. The charge that Sam is racist
because men who fought for the Confederacy fought for slavery is an obviously overly simplistic and presentist
idea. Wars are fought for many complex reasons, men fight for many complex reasons, and the past was by
definition racist. It is ridiculous to imagine that we can hide everything connected with the past; doing so would
mean the destruction of everything we see, as everything has a connection with the past. The entire country
and much of the world has been complicit in slavery at one time or another. Therefore, attempting to remove
anything connected with slavery is impossible. In addition, the Confederacy had many noble ideologies
overlooked in the modern quest to completely villify the South, such as advocating for a state's right of
secession, defense against invasion, tyranny, and regional inequality, and a return to the Constitutional
principles of the country's founding. As Sam represents North Carolina soldiers, it is more logical to say that he
represents fighting in self-defense, as North Carolina was a pro-Union state and did not separate from the
United States until acts of war were declared against her. The naval blockade, which seems to be generally
understood as an act of war, went into effect 19 April 1861; the blockade was extended to the coast of North
Carolina on 27 April 1861; North Carolina did not secede from the Union until 20 May 1861. Lincoln's call for
troops was regarded by North Carolina Governor Ellis as a "wicked violation of the laws of the country" and
"war upon the liberties of a free people." "On May 1 the General Assembly put in motion the machinery to take
North Carolina out of the Union ... contrary to what has often been said, they did not secede because of any real
sense of Southern nationalism or because their leaders, with slave property and a privileged life-style to
protect, misled or dragooned them into secession. North Carolinians left the Union after a long period of
conflict culminating in Lincoln's decision, as they perceived it, to make war upon the South." [William C. Harris,
North Carolina and the Coming of the Civil War (Raleigh, NC: Department of Archives & History, North
Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 1988), Chapter 9, "Secession."] Therefore, to try to insinuate that
Sam represents only people who fought for slavery is completely illogical.
Another aspect of racism that is frequently cited is the Julian Carr dedication speech. This argument is also
illogical, for several reasons. For one, Julian Carr was not the entire entity responsible for the monument, and
he does not represent everyone involved with the monument; for another, his offensive comments were not
even a part of the actual speech, but rather a personal aside, which he himself clearly stated. His personal
anecdotes and opinions cannot represent anyone but himself, and do not have anything to do with the purpose
of the monument. His comments are also often quoted independently and taken out of their proper context; if
taken in their proper historical context without modern presentist ignorance, his "offensive" statements may not
be so offensive. Julian Carr himself is often taken out of context, with no acknowledgement made of his many
positive contributions to our state, nor of other aspects of his life and character, such as the fact that he
financially supported black colleges and schools. The dedication speech, taken in context and as a whole, is a
beautiful tribute to the UNC student soldiers.
What is the evidence for why Silent Sam was actually erected? It is abundantly clear, and comes from the
entity responsible: "CHAPEL HILL MONUMENT REPORT - In April, the committee appointed for this work, met
in Chapel Hill. Mrs. F.M. Williams, State President, a member ex-officio of this committee, was present.
President Venable presided over the meeting, and showed many beautiful designs that had been sent for our
inspection by different firms of marble works and sculptors. Most of these were too expensive for us to even
consider. Plans for raising money for the erection of this monument were discussed. One of these designs
from Mr. John Wilson, sculptor, was beautiful, but cost more than we could afford. This design was presented
at last Convention, and was much admired. We decided to write to Mr. Wilson for further estimates for a less
expensive monument, and to decide on it at our next meeting in June. Before adjourning, we selected the site
for the monument. It is to be north of the Caldwell monument, and about fifteen feet on the north side of the
main walk that runs across the campus from east to west. This is a fine position for it. The committee met
again in June, during commencement week. This time it was augmented by the auxiliary or advisory committee
of Veterans which had been selected at the former meeting in April. This 'advisory committee' consisted of
General Carr, Colonel Kenan, Maj. H.A. London, Maj. E.J. Hale and Dr. Venable. After examining the beautiful
designs, (some of them slightly changed), and discussing the minutest details of each, the joint committee
decided on the one sent by Mr. John Wilson, a Canadian sculptor, now living in Boston. He had changed it
somewhat at the suggestion of the committee, and considerably reduced its price for us. Its cost will be $7500.
It is thought that the alumni will give a great part of it, if the Daughters will give $1500. We can easily do this,
but we must hurry; for the Veterans of the State earnestly desire that it shall be unveiled in June 1911, when
the 'Boys of 61 and '65' hold their Reunion at the University during commencement week. It will be the fiftieth
anniversary of 1861. I quote from President Venable's interesting speech at last Convention: Dr. Venable said
that he was an adopted son of North Carolina, but one who loves the State as a native son . He had been
thrilled with the historic story of the University and knew of no story in history that would compare with it. The
placing of the monument on the campus is not a local matter, for North Carolina and the University are
inseparable. The pages of the civil history of the State are filled with the deeds of University men ... There were
all told more than 1,000 University men in the struggle between the States, enlisting from various States of the
South and out of this number one-third were killed. At least 40 per cent of the students entered the military
service which is a record not equaled by any other institution. From some of the big Northern institutions there
were 23 per cent; from University of Virginia, the speaker's alma mater, 25 per cent. Of those who volunteered
from Virginia 225 were killed while of the North Carolinians between 340 and 350 never returned home. They
laid down their lives in the most important battles of the war. Dr. Venable said he would like to see the
monument at the University because it would tell eloquently of the story of the sacrifice made by the students
prior to the civil war. Their record should ever be before the eyes of present-day students. Tablets have been
erected in memory of those who lost their lives, and those who enlisted are worthy of a monument. Let us all
come forward, and give the money now, or as soon as possible ... Mr. Wilson told me on his visit to North
Carolina in July, that he had always required a guaranty of 1-3 of the money in advance, but, that feeling sure
the Daughters would pay him before the unveiling of the monument, he would not require it of us ... l would
suggest that each chapter appoint a member to collect contributions in her town and county ... These names will
be enrolled in a book at Chapel Hill. For Dr. Venable keeps the names of every person who gives a cent to the
University. I beg of you to attend to this immediately .... Respectfully, Mrs. Henry A. London, Chrm. Chapel Hill
Monument Committee" - Minutes of the Fourteenth Annual Convention, United Daughters of the Confederacy,
p. 66-68.
This primary source provides indisputable direct evidence that the monument was erected solely for the
purpose of 1.) honoring UNC men who enlisted for war, including those still living, and 2.) to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the war.
Secondly, Sam is a work of art and moving him violates the intention of the artist. John Albert Wilson (1877-
1954) was a Nova Scotian sculptor who produced public art throughout North America. He was a professor in
the School of Architecture at Harvard University for 32 years, he is most famous for his American Civil War
monuments, the Confederacy Statue (Silent Sam) in North Carolina and his Washington Grays Monument (the
'Pennsylvania Volunteer') in Philadelphia. Silent Sam was the first major work Wilson created in his new
"Waban Studio." Other sculptures by Wilson include:
Monument on the American Civil War Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland
Major Henry Gustavus Dorr, made at Grundmann Studios (1915)
William Crowninshield Endicott at the Harvard University Law School (1932)
Death mask of Admiral William Sims
Soldier's monument Dudley, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Monument, Baton Rouge National Cemetery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Marble Bust, Faculty Room, University Hall (Harvard University) (1930)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Bronze Bust, Lowell House, Harvard University
"Dancing Figure", Algonquin Club, Boston
Symbolic Panels, Brookline High School, Boston (1923)
"Panther"
"Stalking Panther", Boston Art Club Exhibition (1905)
"The Chase"
"Goat", Sandy, Poland Spring, Maine
Alexander Forrester tablet, Nova Scotia Community College, Truro, Nova Scotia (c. 1923)
Wilson had spelled out his intentions for Silent Sam in a letter to one of the sponsors:
"The ideal commemorated by this monument is one of service and the noble answer to the call of duty. It is not
intended as merely a monument to the dead but a lesson to the living." Therefore, clearly the artist intended
Sam to 1.) be interpreted as a positive memorial and 2.) to be highly visible to the UNC students for
educational purposes.
Third, Silent Sam is a memorial to the dead and to veterans, and as such, is personal to many. Monuments
erected in the South after the Civil War were bought almost exclusively by women's groups and for the express
purpose of honoring their dead. With 40,000 brothers, fathers, husbands, and sons dead in North Carolina,
personal grief pervaded the state and left a lasting legacy. As such, these monuments are still important to
North Carolina's families, many who have roots stretching back to the beginning of America. Civil War history
is American history; these veterans were sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers,
and they and their descendants deserve the same cultural respect as any other group. Consider the chairman
of the monument committee: "The chairman of this monument committee was Mrs. Henry A. London, of
Pittsboro, whose husband was one of the boys to leave the Hill at the age of seventeen years . Mr. London
carried the last message sent at Appomattox." [North Carolina's Confederate Monuments and Memorials,
compiled by Mrs. S.L. Smith, Historian (1932-1933), N.C. Division, U.D.C. (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina
Division United Daughters of the Confederacy, Edwards & Broughton, 1941), p. 120-121.] "Henry Armand
London descended from Col. Samuel Spencer of Connecticut, b. 1734, who relocated to North Carolina and
served in all the Revolutionary Congresses in Anson County, NC. [Application of Henry Mauger London, son of
Henry A. London, for membership in the Sons of the American Revolution, 1928, citing Wheeler's History of
NC Volume 1, p. 64; digital image, "U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-
1970," Ancestry Library Edition (www.ancestrylibrary.com: accessed 2018) .]
Honoring men who are willing to make such a sacrifice is always right, regardless of changing opinions. Their
stories are important, just as all the history and all the stories of all people are important; and if only one person
felt a lessening of grief or closure by the erection of Silent Sam, then his presence is justified. We must respect
everyone's history, the real history of the real people, the history we like and the history we don't like, without
presentism and stereotyping, if we are to ever have an equitable society. Attempting to single out a group and
tear down its history and cultural icons is discrimination and it hurts us all; there can never be understanding
and equality as long as we judge and label the people of the present and the past. We must educate about,
and not villify nor censor, ALL the history and ALL the stories of ALL of our people, and this includes
Southerners and Confederates, past and present. To do anything less is to perpetuate the discrimination and
hate so many claim to be against, and to engage in the height of hypocrisy.
Thank you for your consideration .
Sincerely,
Traci Thompson, M.L.I.S. , CG,m
Message
From: Harold Heatwole [halfh@ncsu.edu]
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:07:58 AM
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[frogtownhol ler@gmail .com]
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam should not be kept in a public place as a revered monument, where it serves as a source of hurt to the
African Americans whose ancestors suffered the brutality of slavery.
I recently visited the Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. I saw people, including white
people, leaving the building with tears in their eyes at being sensitively reminded of the inhumanity with which
we treated native Americans in that shameful epoch in American history.
Sam is an important monument, if it can be placed in an appropriate location as representing a never-to-be-
repeated chapter in our history, rather than on a public street as a glorification of racial cruelty.
Harold Heatwole
Message
From: Amanda Staten
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:10:27 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Thank you for taking public input as to what we should do with Silent Sam. I personally think it represents
racism from our state's past and we should not erect it anywhere public ... with the exception of a museum. We
can add a freedom memorial (maybe a fountain?) where Sam used to stand on UNC campus. Let's be in the
right side of history. Thank you again for your consideration.
-Amanda
*NC born & raised

Message
From: Tom Pace
Sent: 9/28/2018 1:22:54 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up

I graduated from the University in 1973. I came to chapel Hill from New Jersey. As someone from the
"North", the northward facing, defensive stance of silent Sam reminded me that my presence was not
necessarily appreciated by everyone associated with the University and by extension the State of North
Carolina-at least in the past if not to some degree in the then present.
But, I also felt a pride in having been accepted as an out of state student in a competitive environment
that made me want to show that I deserved to be at the University by making contributions for its and my
benefit to justify that acceptance. so, I set about making such contributions as a varsity soccer player,
a member of student government, as creator of a faculty/course evaluation booklet, as president of my
fraternity, and as an honors student. As a result, I was inducted into the order of the Grail and named
a recipient of the IFC outstanding Student Award upon graduation along with an honors certificate in
American Studies.
My point is this. silent Sam was for me a challenge to succeed. For others he is a reminder of family
and friends lost in the civil War. Still for others he is a symbol of bigotry and hatred resurrected in
troubling post war times.
In effect, silent Sam is like Janus facing forward and backward at the same time in history with multiple
interpretations as to his meaning and effect. That strikes me as an incredible teaching and learning
moment for which the University is the perfect vehicle to allow, if not encourage, thought and discussion
about those different meanings and effects. Rather than bury or deny or restore his old presence, I
would suggest placing him where an ongoing discussion can be had about relevant history, effects,
meanings, and import surrounded by other physical, written, or visual expressions leading up to, around,
and after his presence on the University campus.
Rotating art, writings, sculpture, etc "surrounding" him and representing differing views would allow
everyone to express their deeply held feelings and beliefs while humanizing contrasting views in an
environment intended for the effective and safe expression of those views.
At first blush, the Ackland Art Museum would seem both a logical and welcoming environment for this
"living" history opportunity. It would not be fixed in time with permanent works, but rather made alive
through regularly updated works, writings, etc. that would keep the discussion alive in a civil manner.
As part of Orientation, freshman could be exposed to previous and current thought and expression on the
subject and provide their own input and contributions to the discussions through their own writings and
works as part of the rotating collection.
There may be better options and ideas based on the above, but I think the basic premise is solid-don't
back away from the issue, use it as a center point for the very purpose that the University exists.
Sorry to take up so much of your time, but I hope in some way this helps you and others wrestling with
this issue.
For those of us who love the University and all it has meant and stood for in our lives, it would thus be
best served in its goal "To Be, Rather than to Seem".
Respectfully,
Thomas Pace
class of 1973
(And still resident of New Jersey)
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Message
From: John Lewis
Sent: 9/28/2018 4:46:55 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
With regards to the future of silent Sam. In my humble opinion, it should be melted down. This sad bit
of history has no place in our state's future. Thank you.
John Lewis
Holly Springs, NC
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Message
From: Lee Brock
Sent: 9/28/2018 5:55:53 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put Sam back up and lock up the ones responsible. You cannot erase history. Lee Brock
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Steve Powers
Sent: 9/28/2018 6:00:44 AM
chancellor Folt,
History is what it is. One can't change it by hiding it. We can't allow some immature individuals to
attempt to disguise what had been done. Removing a mon ument like silent Sam disgraces those who he
represents & those who meant to honor him, in the first place. People who are offended by an object are
not ones to be accommodated. They need our sympathy & their "safe space". You need to show leadership for
support of our history rather than empowering those who choose to hide it.
Regards,
Steve Powers
Sent from iPhone

Message
From: Forrest Dawson
Sent: 9/28/2018 6:40:06 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put Sam back up on make sure he stays there! Uphold ALL laws on your tax supported campus. UNC is
supposed to be a school of the people, ALL people not just liberals!!
Forrest Dawson
Message
From: Rachel Winters -
Sent: 9/28/2018 6:48:01 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am writing this letter both as a concerned citizen and an employee at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
My deepest wish is that university leaders take a principled stand and say that the statue has no business being
put back up on campus. I work a few minutes walk from the site of the statue at several times in August and
September, my sense of safety was compromised by events at the statue. In addition, black colleagues and
friends where I work shared with me how uncomfortable this statue makes them. (I am white.) One person told
me that they realized that they never walk through that part of campus because it is too upsetting to go past that
statue. That remark saddened and angered me, and it alone is reason enough to not put this statue back up in any
really public space on campus. And there are other conversations that i won't take the time to share here, but it's
clear that this is hard on African American people in our campus community.
I am also concerned that unrest will continue if the statue is put back up. It's stressful to go to work and have
parking lots and sometimes streets roped off because the university is afraid of violence. I thought the concerns
were legitimate, and I didn't like the impact it had on people in my building, myself included.
I also think that a statue erected to celebrate and hold up white supremacy is something that should not be
celebrated. I think we all know Julian Carr's speech at this point. That is something else that should be sufficient
as grounds to not return this statue. I'm pretty sure a lot of people across the state do not know this history and
that this point should also be taken into consideration.
If it must return, I would want to see a dedicated space that houses a museum or place of learning about the
history of racism on the UNC-Ch campus.
I think the University should also consider giving the statue back to the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Respectfully yours,
Rachel Winters
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From:
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Subject:
I am a North Carolina citizen, parent of a UNC Chapel Hill first-year student, and an employee of another NC
higher education institution (Wake Forest University).
I believe it would be appropriate to place Silent Sam in a museum, much in the way the University of Texas at
Austin handled their statue of Jefferson Davis.
Ben Wright, Univ of Texas' associate director for communications at the Briscoe Center summarized the
situation well: "These statues ... carry a deeply disturbing message ... They are at the same time historically
important artifacts that contain information about American history that would be lost if they were
destroyed."
Placement of the statue in a museum, therefore, would be the appropriate solution.
Sincerely,
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Message
From: Lori D
Sent: 9/28/2018 7:37:02 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
My husband and I would like to see the monument placed in a museum-like setting along with an explanation
of when and why this monument was first erected. Thank you
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Message
From: Candace Sperati
Sent: 9/28/2018 7:38:41 AM
Subject: History and Art
Two subjects that study and define an era of time. The Son of Sam statue is a study of NC and UNC
history and it is also a piece of art. I'm not sure what is going on socially in our country and state
but feel preserving history and art are always necessary. I would place the Son of Sam in an area that
is for preserving art and history. The history should include what has happened to the statue in recent
years. It is history even in my view point that it was morally wrong to do. There is no need to deface
public property or use bu l lying tactics to make a view point or statement in support of a cause.
Thank you for considering everyone's ideas. Looking forward to see how history will play out.
Candace Sperati
(native North Carolinian)
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Message
From: Flinn, Stephen
Sent: 9/28/2018 7:41:55 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am writing to express my extreme disappointment in the destruction of the "Silent Sam" statue. I am a 1982 graduate
and one of my first memories of UNC was on my freshman orientation tour of campus and our guide stopped at Silent
Sam and told us the lore of this statue. That was 40 years ago.
Now as an alum and father of two recent UNC grads I am angry and disappointed in how this was ALLOWED to
happen. The leadership, namely Chancellor Falt, stood by and let a rogue group of thugs tear this statue down. What is
truly sad is that Silent Sam is not a monument to hate, but rather a sober remembrance of young men who died in
America's bloodiest war.
Given the events, I am dropping my UNC-GAA membership. I will no longer contribute to Kenan-Flagler. I will continue
my membership with the Rams Club since I was a scholarship athlete (track and field) and UNC athletics helped me get
to where I am today.
Now, I haven't given large sums of money to the university, mainly due to that fact that I just finished sending two kids
there. However I, like many other UNC grads in my age group, am now in a position to give far greater dollar amounts to
the university. I realize that UNC must appease its large donors. However, it's the large number of alumni, who give
moderately, that you must worry about.
We now live in a society where free exchange of opposing views is not tolerated. Public discourse has now turned into
violent protest and it's sad that the university stood by and allowed radicals from leftist funded organizations take
control of OUR campus. To that I say - shame on you!
If the university returns Silent Sam to his original resting place, I will reconsider giving again to UNC-Chapel Hill
Respectfully,
Stephen J. Flinn - UNC Class of 1982

Message
From: Breivogel, Christopher [breivogel@campbell.edu]
Sent: 9/28/2018 7:59:31 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Being an alum of UNC Chapel Hill, I do have fond memories of Silent Sam. However, in today's era of
heightened awareness of the meaning of that monument I believe it is inappropriate for to be in such a public
place on campus. It seems pretty clear now that its original intention of those who erected that monument was
not as noble as I once believed. While the inscription is about honor and duty, it appears that some of the
intention was really to glorify the fight two retain the right to own slaves, or even to intimidate.
Therefore, my recommendation would be that if he moved to a museum and if it is exhibited at all, did it be
exhibited with an explanation of its somewhat sordid history.
Dr. Chris Breivogel

BS, Chemistry, UNC-CH 1992
Currently:
Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Campbell University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
Buies Creek, NC 27506
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Message
From:
Sent: 9/28/2018 8:06:08 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think it would be a mistake to reinstall the statue in its former locati on. If it remains on campus, it
should be moved to a location where people can view it by choi ce, but are not confronted with it as
they walk to class, etc. Maybe in Ackland? Probably the best option is to donate it to nearby
Bennett Place Historic Site in Durham.
I am a native and lifelong resident of North Caroli na. My roots here go back to the 18th century.
Thank you for the opportunity to offer my opinion,

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Message
From:
Sent: 9/28/2018 8:12:05 AM
Subject: Suggestion for Confederacy museum
I think the silent Sam monument should be put in a closed Confederacy museum which would historically
document the Confederacy and it's affect on us society (salvery and segregation).
Ajb
Sent from my Samsung smmiµhone.

Message
From: Paul Caldwell [paul_ca ldwell@alumni.unc.edu]
Sent: 9/28/2018 8:12:14 AM
The simplest solution is to put Silent Sam in a museum, maybe the basement of Wilson Library. It should NOT
be in any kind of place of prominence. It should be with other relics of an embarrassing past. The Confederacy
is not something to be celebrated.
If you need further justification, please consider the monuments that have been erected to UNC students who
have died in other wars. We do not have huge bronze statues of infantrymen on plinths in places of prominence
for those who died defending our country in WWI or WWII. We have more subdued and humble memorials for
people who died for more noble causes. This is wrong. I do not believe the solution is more memorials to
war. The solution is fewer memorials to people who defended slavery.
Ifwe must have a war memorial at Silent Sam's former position, please melt Silent Sam down and replace him
with a WWII-era infantryman, holding a flag of the United States of America, surrounded by a memorial wall
listing the names of all our former students who have died in all our wars, including the Civil War. Use as
much of Silent Sam's slag in the new statue as reflects the number ofUNC students who died in the Civil War
relative to those who died in all of our other wars. Let it be a reminder that none of us are perfect, and that once
upon a time members of our university fought and died to fight racism, genocide, and fascism.
Sincerely,
Paul Caldwell
Class of '03 and '05
Message
From: Marshall Hester
Sent: 9/28/2018 8:33:43 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Immediately restore the historic memorial statue in its original condition to its original location sans
any "explanatory" PC additions.
North Carolina Taxpayer J. Marshall Hester

Cornelius NC
Message
From: Guarda, Sonia [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/en=Recip ients/en=c94cba92fb0f4643ab36655bf8eed5b6-Sonia Guard]
Sent: 9/28/2018 8:40:11 AM
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Subject: relocation of Silent Sam
I believe Silent Sam belongs in the NC Histo ry Museum in Raleigh. Everyone can see it when they want to learn about
their history, without it being offensive to anyone.
Thanks for considering my opinion.
Sonia
Sonia Guaida
GRADE Study Coordinator
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UNC Diabetes and Endocnnology Clinic
Message
From: Jill Wood
Sent: 9/28/2018 8:41:48 AM
Subject: suggestions for Si lent Sam monument
The Silent Sam monument is about heritage, not hate. Most people, whether north or south,
have ancestors that were involved in some way in the civil war. The monument was put at
UNC to honor those students that left the campus to fight for what they considered their home
land. It was not there to honor slavery or any other wrongs some people think it honors. Please
put Sam back up in a safe place on the UNC campus and add a plaque that states: HERITAGE,
NOT HATE.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wood

Lexington, NC
Message
From: Philip Adkins
Sent: 9/28/2018 8:47:37 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor, I am an alumnus ofUNC both undergraduate and law school. I respectfully request that you
place Silent Sam back in it's place of honor on the campus. To move it any where else would be to reward the
mob that tore it down. There is growing anarchy di played by crowds that tear down or deface monuments,
harass politicians in their private life and shout those with whom they disagree. Sincerely, Philip Adkins
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Subject: permanent home for Silent Sam
Dear Sir or Madam,

I feel the best home for the Silent Sam statue is the Orange County Historical Museum. It is compatible with the
museum's mission "to enlighten and engage our community and visitors from around the world by preserving and
interpreting the history of Hillsborough and Orange County" and will not continue to cause division, distraction, and
rancor if reinstated on the UNC campus.
Regards,
Bridgit Adamou
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Message
From: STEVEN ALMOND I
Sent: 9/28/2018 9:15:45 AM
Subject: Preference for Silent Sam Location
1. Return the "Silent Sam" monument to its century-old position at Mccorkle Place.
[2. Relocate the destructive, law-breaking, vandalizing liberals to a different location.]

Message
From: Mcguire, Kevin T [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: Suggestion for disposition of the Confederate Monument
Attachments: Letter regarding Confederate Monument.pdf
Attached please find a letter, which I have previously sent to Leslie Parise, Chair of the Faculty, regarding the
disposition of the Confederate Monument. I appreciate your consideration.
KTM
Kevin T. McGuire
Professor
Department of Political Science
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Email: Web: http://www.unc.edu/"'kmcguire
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NOR11I CAROLINA
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CHAPEL HILL
Kevin T. McGuire CB 3265 Hamilton Hall
Professor Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265
September 5, 2018
Professor Leslie V. Parise

Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
3016 Genetic 1\1edicine
120 1\1ason Farm Rd., CB # 7260
UNC-CH School of i'vfedicine
Dear Professor Parise:
I would like to offer a modest suggestion for how best to handle the
"disposition and preservation" of the Confederate monument. IVIy proposed solution
is a simple one: commission a companion statue to commemorate the North
Carolinians who fought on behalf of the Union.
Although the reported numbers vary, it is clear that thousands of North

Carolinians --- manv of whom were African Americans --- enlisted in the Union
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forces. Most of them were less affluent, living in the western mountains and on the
coast, and disdained the wealthy planters who relied upon slave labor. Like their
fellow North Carolinians who supported the Confederacy, they fought with
commitment and bravery for ideas to which they were deeply committed. So, despite
the state's official decision to join the Confederacy, North Carolina was, in a very real
sense, a state divided. This history seems to have been largely forgotten.
By placing two statues of the state's native sons --- one Union and one
Confederate --- side bv side, Silent Sam would be transformed from a symbol of
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support for the state's unhappy racial past into a historical testament of North
Carolina's sacrifice in a war that tore not simply the nation but the state itself.
As a practical matter, this would probably require private financial support, but
I would suspect (perhaps naively) that a good many constituents of the University
would be eager to contribute to the creation of a statue that would respect the
memory of those honorable men of the state who supported the Union cause. (And
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to ensure the protection of both statues, I would house them somewhere inside a
University building. J'vfemorial Hall is the most logical location.)
If you are interested in exploring some of the relevant history, you might
consult Barton J'v1yers' Rebels Against the Cof!federary: North Carolina's Unionists (2014,
Cambridge University Press), Judkin Browning's Shifting Lqyalties: The Union Occupation
f!fEastern North Carolina (2014, UNC Press), or Richard J'v1. Reid's Freedom/or
Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era (2008, UNC Press). I'm
not a historian, and doubtless a more knowledgeable scholar could offer a more
informed and detailed bibliography on this topic.
Thank you in advance for considering my suggestion.
Sincerely yours,
I .,,
Kevin T. J'v1cGuire
Professor of Political Science
Message
From: Sarah Geer
Sent: 9/28/2018 9:56:43 AM
Subject: Confederate memorial
I was born and raised in Chapel Hill, I am a UNC alumna, and I remain a strong supporter of the UNC-Chapel
Hill campus.
The Confederate memorial statue should NOT be replaced on McCorkle Place, or given any location that
suggests that the University endorses the racism, white supremacy, and bigotry that it stands for. It could be
placed in a Confederate cemetery to memorialize fallen soldiers, or displayed in a setting with historical context
which explains the full and shameful history it represents. I urge you to prevent the statute being erected or
displayed in any way which suggests that the modem University honors the aims of the Confederacy, a system
based on a depraved system of human slavery.
Sarah Geer
Message
From: Ainslie Rodrigues
Sent: 9/28/2018 9:58:29 AM
CC: Jarrett Rodrigues uarrett.rodrigues@gmail.com]
Subject: Silent Sam Has No Place on UN C's Campus
Chancellor Falt,
My husband and I are both alumni of UNC Chapel Hill, although in recent weeks that isn't something we claim so
proudly. That feeling of embarrassment and shame around our alma mater is a definite change of heart from the
passion and love we've held for UNC for so long. Both of us feel as though the University not only transformed, educated
and shaped the person each of us is today, but that it gave us the greatest thing we both have - our relationship and
marriage, which started with a conversation by the Old Well, not too far from where Silent Sam once stood.
As students, the Silent Sam statue always bothered us, with what it represented and the folklore that developed around
it. We wish our classmates and both of us could have been so brave as to do what the students at UNC have done in the
past year in protesting the statue, calling for its removal, and eventually doing what you as a Chancellor too were afraid
to - take it down. Although we may not be proud of the recent actions of the University leadership, we are proud of its
student body for refusing to accept a symbol of hatred any longer and for standing up for the integrity of the University.
The greatest thing about UNC Chapel Hill isn't its legacy, history, academics or athletics. It is that it is a University of the
people. UNC Chapel Hill is a place that has embraced diversity not only in race and gender but also in socioeconomic
status, background, and beliefs, and this diversity enhances the experience of every student on campus. We had that
feeling as students on campus, and we felt proud of that as alumni. But if you put Silent Sam back up - anywhere on
campus -you are sending a clear message to the students, faculty, staff and alumni that UNC is not a place that
embraces all people. To put that statue back on campus would be to give up UNC's most priceless gem, its commitment
to the people and its philosophy of servant leadership. We stand wholeheartedly with the letter of the UNC Black
Faculty, and urge you to take a courageous stand to defend the permanent removal of this hateful statue.
Sincerely,
Ainslie Rodrigues '11

Jarrett Rodrigues '11
Message
From: Lucinda Thrall
Sent: 9/28/2018 10:08:37 AM
Subject: Monument placement
I suggest placing the Monument known as silent Sam at the Museum of Natural History in downtown Raleigh.
Lucinda Thrall
Message
From: Barry Taylor
Sent: 9/28/2018 10:17:12 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put silent Sam back exactly where he was.

Message
From: Allison Saito
Sent: 9/28/2018 10:24:19 AM
Subject: Copy Budapest's Memento Park
Hi,
Let's copy an Hungarian idea.
Confederate statues should be put in a park dedicated to their history and storage. Budapest has done this with
their Communist era statues, and it seems to work. The statues are no longer on pedestals in the middle of
town. They are instead presented with historical context. The park is on the outskirts of town, accessible by
public transit, has terrible parking, and charges admission. It is a great balance of "it happened" and "not
everyone is happy about it."
Here is a link to the Memento Park's Wikipedia page:
https ://en. wiki pedia. org/wiki/Memento Park
I'd be happy to discuss this idea. Email is the best way to contact me.
Best,
Allison Saito
Raleigh Resident and Proud UNC-System Alumna (Go Pack!)
Message
From: sdcreth@aol.com
Sent: 9/28/2018 10:54:43 AM
Subject: Location of Silent Sam Statue
Chancellor Folt
Consider having the Ackland Art Museum devote space to the Civil War history at UNC -
place the Silent Sam statue there along with materials that tell the story of this statue, and the
men/women (slaves & free) from Chapel Hill who contributed to the war effort, and their association
with the UNC.
There is much valuable information about the UNC during the Civil War that could & should be
included in such a permanent exhibition. This would provide a historical setting with broad
perspective and information (accurate, honest) about the Civil War & the UNC without glorifying an
ideology.
This history around the erection of the Silent Sam statue is so toxic that having it as a 'stand alone'
statue neither honors the UNC students who fought nor represent a balanced and honest portrayal of
the reasons for the war.
Nor does it represent the tragedy of those enslaved by the UNC and/or its founders and
supporters. For many people, because of the circumstances around the erection of the statue, the
statue is a constant remainder that into the 20th century, leaders at UNC and the community of
Chapel Hill believed in the supremacy of whites.
As someone whose great great grandfather from western NC fought for the Confederacy, I do not
find that these war monuments honor his memory - instead they glorify a tragic period in our
history.
An honest representation & telling of history is important and worthwhile. A celebration of white
supremacy - which the statue was intended to do - is inappropriate in the 21st century at a
university.
Sheila Creth
Sheila D. Creth
Message
From: A Bland
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:04:08 AM
Subject: Don't Replace Silent Sam
Chancellor Folt,
I am writing to add my voice to those saying please do not replace Silent Sam. I for one do not want anything
on UNC's campus to glorify and honor anyone who fought against the United States and killed American
soldiers.
Perhaps leave the existing pedestal upon which he once stood as a reminder of the issues that were faced in
these times, but don't allow our school to suggest - however passively - that enemies of the US state are people
who deserve reverence.
Thank you,
Aaron Bland
Class of 2008 & 20 I 0
Aaron N. Bland
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Subject: "Silent Sam" opinion from one of the majority
Chancellor Folt and UNC Board.

I too am one of the 70% of Carolinian s that want the monument "Silent Sam" to remain visible to the public. If not directly
on campus maybe on the UNC Cemetery grounds where a number (I've heard) of fallen Confederate soldiers
rest. "Silent Sam" represents our past...our state's history...and it must not be destroyed or erased from public view.
First, I am a 3 time graduate of the UNC system. I went to Ohio for my doctorate degree and returned to NC to
teach. After 35 years of teaching, I retired two years ago and now enjoy daily the Carolina blue sky and wonders of NC's
parks. I followed closely the Civil Rights Movement of the 50's and 60's. I watched on TV the bombings and wrote letters
of encouragement to the families involved if I could locate their addresses. I was even friends with some of the movement
leaders in NC. In later years I helped as a founding member of the building of the national movement honoring Martin
Luther King, Jr. Now what if a group of protesters pulled down just one of his monuments in NC. How would they feel.
King represents history, his statues represents the times, his sacrifice for a cause he believed in. The soldiers sacrificed
their lives in battle for various reason, a cause, known to them (not just for the slavery issue only, some for the defense of
their homes, family and state.) and their ultimate sacrifices should be honored. I see no issues connected with any of the
two statues. they are both part of my history. If there is an issue the problem lies within individual. This is a democracy
and a few individuals can not be allowed to dictate what is to be for everyone.
Please vote to keep "Silent Sam" on or near campus.

Vote with the majority of NC citizens.
Sincerely,
REDACTED
Message
From: Tom O'Keefe
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:12:16 AM
Subject: Equal Justice Initiative
Dear chancellor Folt and UNC Monument Team,

Hope this finds you well and the campus and North Carolina communities recovering from Florence.
chuck Lovelace suggested that I reach out. I graduated from Carolina in '06, and have continued to donate
to and maintain close relationships at UNC in the years since.
Friends and I have been discussing the unfolding situation regarding the long-overdue toppling of silent
Sam, and while we also plan to donate jointly to a legal defense fund to support people facing charges,
we have started thinking in the following direction:
"In April of this year, the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened a Museum and Memorial in Montgomery,
Alabama to honor victims of slavery, lynching, and racial terror in the United States (respectively named
the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice). As part of its immense
memorialization effort, EJI is pursuing a Community Remembrance Project, through which it is inviting
counties around the United States in which lynchings took place to claim and install Memorial monuments.
According to EJI's map, there was one documented lynching in orange county, one of the more than 4,400
lynchings documented in EJI's seminal (and gut-wrenching) report Lynching in America.
As chancellor Folt has rightly pointed out, Carolina has a unique opportunity now that silent Sam has
come down. An opportunity to make a statement, to atone and seek to make amends, to embrace truth and
reconciliation, and to look towards a just and equitable future as we move forward in the 21st century
and Carolina's third century as a leading institution of public higher education.
what better way for Carolina to lead in this challenging moment - in chapel Hill, in North Carolina, and
in the country at large - than for us to claim and install the EJI Memorial monument for orange county on
the site where silent Sam once stood?"
It is a remarkably challenging political situation with which you are confronted, and we recognize the
manifold complexities you are attempting to navigate; however, should there be opportunities, we would
love to find ways to support ongoing efforts to find a just and realizable resolution.
Warmly,
Tom
Message
From: Sonja Estes
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:18:50 AM
CC: Sonja Perry Estes [sonja .estes@gmail.com]
Subject: Silent Sam
Good morning,
This message in intended for Chancellor Folt and all administrators of the UNC Chapel Hill campus and the
Board of Governors of the UNC Systems
It is nothing short of appalling that you and your so called administration are considering any course of action
other than returning Silent Sam to any location other than the original. You prefer to pander to the few numbers
of individuals (most of whom are not now nor have they ever been students at UNC CH) who claim some kind
of social injustice because the statue is on our beloved campus. Your administration elects to ignore the
hundreds of thousands of UNC CH graduates who genuinely love our school, our campus, but especially the
history associated with our school. Do you really believe that the majority of former and present students (and,
yes, even future students) really want Silent Sam relocated? You know better, And, do you believe that your
attempts to change history will actually change history? You know better. No, you really just don't have the
guts to say to protestors that they do not control our university. You proved that when you made the choice to
change the names on buildings which have been on our campus forever. You have proven so many times
during your tenure that you really don't care about the history of our school. If individuals choose to try and
eliminate the history of our university and even that of this great country, you have proven over and over again
that you wish to be complicit in those efforts. I hope that you all fail miserably in your efforts to relocate Silent
Sam and that karma works overtime to give each of you what you truly deserve. I guarantee that donations to
the school will decline and that all of your liberal efforts will not be left unnoticed. Most of all, I really hope
that those of you who vote to move Silent Sam will also be removed from our administration and barred from
our campus.
For the first time in my life, I can say that I am ashamed to be a graduate of University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Sonja Perry Estes

Class of 1974
UNC School of Pharmacy
Message
From: Josh Bowser
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:20:57 AM
Subject: Silent Sam needs to return to his pedestal, & Lauren Aucoin, Josh Mascharka, & Maya Little banned from UNC
70% of North Carolinians support Silent Sam returning to his pedestal. Stop listening to Anti fa terrorists like
Maya Little, & start listening to the people! I was the man who got Lauren Aucoin arrested for the statue
toppling. Josh Mascharka was right next to her, pulling on the rope, with a mask on his face. I have proof of
this. Mascharka was arrested on 9/8 & also threatened police officers. Why has he not been charged for his role
in toppling the Silent Sam statue? Ban Josh Mascharka, Lauren Aucoin, & Maya Little from UNC Chapel Hill
Campus. Restore Silent Sam!
Message
From: Bree Kalb [
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:26:18 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I've lived in the area for 37 years and am a graduate ofUNC-CH.
I currently live and work in Carrboro. I was surprised and appalled to learn a few years ago some history of
Julian Carr. History that I think we all know about now.
This is not a monument to the young men who did what they considered their duty; it is a monument to white
supremacy. It doesn't belong on the campus. However, it does mean something to a certain segment of
southerners and I don't want to completely ignore their attachment to it.
So I propose an affordable plan to place the statue in a museum setting. I don't know exactly where; I assume
that idea is already being discussed and possible locations have been identified.
I don't have a firm idea of what should take the place of the statue, but I think Barbara Rimer, in her open letter,
http://mondaymorning.web.unc.edu/toppling-of-the-silent-sam-statue/ provides a good starting place for further
discussion.
Thank you for soliciting our input,
Bree Kalb
Message
From: Tiffany Allen
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:28:10 AM
Subject: Disposition and preservation of Silent Sam
As an two-degree alumni and former 20+year employee of the University, I am ashamed that I need to write this
email. I also understand that all emails will be subject to the public records law, which may be intimidating to
some, so I hope my email will provide a voice for those afraid to write.
Let me begin by saying that I think it is sad that the University administration seems to need political coverage
via an abundance of email support to do the right thing. Nonetheless, here are my thoughts, plainly, simply, and
directly.
Silent Sam should NOT return to campus. As history shows from it's installation, it was intended to be a
symbol of oppression and white supremacy, neither of which should be represented on the campus of the
"University of the People" or a university "For All Kind".
If it must go somewhere, the monument should go to a museum in Raleigh where it can be secured and studied
in historical context.
Tiffany Eatman Allen

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From: Canady, Joseph R [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Subject: FW: Silent Sam -- input from Dept of Nutrition
From: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth Jane

Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2018 4:09 PM
To: Blouin, Bob <Bob Blouin(JJuncedu>; Chancellor <chancellor(iilunc,edu>
Subject: Silent Sam -- input from Dept of Nutrition
Dear Carol and Bob,
At the Department of Nutrition faculty meeting yesterday (including student reps), we spent some time discussing Silent
Sam, including the impact of this issue on our faculty, staff and students, and views regarding the disposition of the
monument. Recalling your comments at the recent FEC meeting that input would emerge both formally and informally,
I am writing today to briefly summarize the consensus that emerged from our faculty meeting.
1. Students have appreciated time to talk about Silent Sam and surrounding events in class, and along with our
Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence, we are planning 2 open forums this semester, and likely again next
semester, to ensure there is a time and place for respectful discussion (apart from taking more class time).
2. Safety continues to be a concern among students of color, as well as faculty of color. This is playing out through
occasional (but apparently fairly regular) alerts on social media regarding the potential for white supremacists
who may be on, or coming to, campus. This includes informational messaging regarding how to identify these
individuals, via tattoos etc.
a. Personally I will tell you that, previous to this discussion, I had not fully appreciated what does seem to
be an ongoing undercurrent of concern about safety, apart from specific protests.
3. The student rep for our masters degree program (a woman of color, Yale undergrad and Harvard Law grad who
is now getting training in nutrition) noted that women of color are also dealing with the impact of the Julian Carr
speech, with the brutal, racist comments made specific to black women. This is an important, additional layer
of psychological impact to consider.
4. Students in particular are concerned that the Silent Sam phenomenon will hurt (and has already hurt) the
reputation of UNC Chapel Hill. They hear from their peers at other institutions on this point.
5. Regarding the disposition of Silent Sam, the clear consensus was that there was no place on the Chapel Hill
campus that would not have the same impact as the Mccorkle Place location. All very much appreciated your
comments, Carol, stating your position against the "front door" of our campus. The concern is that, due partly
to the physical size of the monument, the same argument could and would be made anywhere on our campus.
I'd be happy to discuss or expand by email any of these points if that would be useful. I can't imagine how much time
this is taking for both of you; thank you.
Beth
Elizabeth J Mayer-Davis, PhD

Cary C Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Nutrition and Medicine
Chair, Department of Nutrition
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7461
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From: Canady, Joseph R [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:30:27 AM
Subject: FW: Boulton statement.docx
Attachments: Boulton statement.docx; ATT0000l.htm
From: Dibbert, Debbie

Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 2:18 PM
To: Canady, Joseph R <jcanady@unc.edu>
Subject: Fwd: Boulton statement.docx
Don was dean of students many years ago. This is a proposal they developed many years ago!
Sent from my iPhone
From: "Moore, Cecelia" <cecelia moore@unc.edu>

Date: September 25, 2018 at 12:14:22 PM EDT
To: "Dibbert, Debbie" <debbie dibbe1i(a)unc.edu>
Cc: "Leloudis, James L." <leloudis@unc.edu>
Subject: Boulton statement.docx
Debbie,
Here's a general overview of what Don described to me. I'd like to go back to him to have him
edit it, but I think the gist of it is here.
Don Boulton
9.20.2018
Note: These ideas were developed by Don and other administrators over the time he was in
administration. They grew out of their collective understanding that the Confederate monument
especially represented people in the past who, while they might have done much to build the university,
were not people to be blindly honored.
Primary:
An educational institution is for teaching, research, and service.
There is a difference between "honoring" and "remembering" the university's past.
Our goal should be to remember the past in order to educate people in the present to build a better
future.
Steps to take to be future-focused:

Mccorkle Place: relocate all monuments. Contextualize the physical space defined by Old East, South,
Old West, Davie Poplar and the Old Well as the physical "monument" to the founding. This space is
where the university began and the space itself is the monument to that founding moment.
Arboretum: The first department at UNC was botany. That's because North Carolina has one of the most
diverse ecosystems in the world - the study of our state began with this discipline and the Arboretum is
our "monument" for remembering that part of our past.
Memorial Hall & Cemetery: These spaces are where UNC remembers the people who founded, built,
supported, and shaped the university we have inherited. They did that for the betterment of North
Carolina and its people. In these spaces are where we remember their contributions.
New site: In Battle Park near the Forest Theatre create an outdoor space for the relocated monuments.
Use it to teach and to remember the past.
Above all: we honor learning, we remember everything else.

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Message
From: Mike Patetta I
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:35:20 AM
I recommend putting the confederate monument in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery off South Road. Thanks.
Mike Patetta
Class of 1983
Message
From: Lyla Kolman
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:41:26 AM
To Whom it May Concern:

First, I would like to thank the chancellors office for setting up a way for citizens to share their
opinions about this monument.
My opinion is that the statue should be removed from any communal campus area and displayed in a museum.
I understand that this statue is a piece of history and is meant to respect the many soldiers who gave up
their lives in battle. I do not wish to disregard either of these things. However, I believe that the
UNC/Chapel Hill community has made it clear that this statue makes them uncomfortable and also represents
a minimization of the horror and impact of slavery in our state. Keeping the statue up in any public
place sends a message to people
of color that their safety and experience is not a priority to UNC, which I do not think is actually the
case.
To me, placing the statue in a museum is a good compromise. That way, those who wish to appreciate its
history and meaning can still do so, but the statue will not need to be in any public space in a way that
may feel threatening or insensitive to many in the UNC community.
Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts.
Respectfully,
Lyla Kolman
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From: Ray, Marsha Lynn [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=3D5DA58DEEF34365971F42F976ED755F-MARSHA LYNN]
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:42:33 AM
I am a resident of Orange County, North Carolina my entire life. I am proud of my heritage since I have dated my family
back to the 1700's. I am have worked for the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill for the past 42 years. I have
many times walked by this statue and have not been aware of all the controversy it has invoked until now. I always
thought it was to remember all the soldier's that came from the University of North Carolina that fought and died during
the civil war. I guess that it was na·1ve of me to think that it was a simple monument that depicted history not an
intentional slander against different races. We can not go back and change what is in the past but we must move
forward. I do not condone violence and think that it was wrong of people to take the law into their own hands to make
a point. They are no different than the people who they protest against in which the laws should be for all people and
not just a select number. The Bennett Place located in Durham was were the south and the north came together to put
an end to the war in North Carolina. I think that it would be appropriate for the monument to be moved to the land
were the Bennett Place is located. I believe that this space represents both sides and can be used to commemorate the
loss of life and the re-emergence of our state back into one nation. The wounds were still raw when this statue was put
here in Chapel Hill shows in speeches made by certain leaders at UNC that have no place in a world that if they believe in
the words of the US constitution that all people are created equal and that we strive to be that people and nation.
Message
From: Chuck Benfield
Sent: 9/28/2018 11:56:11 AM
Subject: Put the monument back
what was allowed to happen is disgraceful. Those who tore down the monument should be punished and the
restored monument should be put back in it's traditional location.
When will the leadership of the University act responsibly and honor the history which is a powerful part
of the University past?
Do it now, and please stop coddling to the immature.
Charles D. Benfield
class of 1983
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Message
From: Nathaniel Royer I
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:01:34 PM
An acceptable location for the statue could be in the exact same spot except buried underground so that you
can't see any of it. With only a plaque on the ground that people can walk on. The plaque might say "Here lies a
memorial to North Carolina's State Sanctioned Violence against African-Americans. May we remember our
dark history with a heart of Repentance instead of pride."
Nate from Durham

Message
From: Phaedra Boinodiris
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:07:26 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
My vote is to place silent Sam in the North Carolina Museum of American history.
Phaedra Boinodiris
Message
From: Kevin Egelston
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:11:06 PM
Subject: Disposition of Si lent Sam
Let's put Silent Sam in an appropriate historical museum the way we put Nazi history in the holocaust museum
in Washington, DC.
Message
From: Tom Lane
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:20:33 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
My name is Thomas Lane. I am a Life Member of the GAA and received an MSW from UNC in 1991. I will make this brief
and refrain from commenting on the anarchy I witnessed to Silent Sam. I am also a Combat Disabled Veteran of the
Vietnam War. Someday, if something isn't done to stop this kind of thing, they'll be coming after Vietnam Monuments
because they will say we fought in a racist war. If you can do it to one, you can make excuses to do it to all.
I'm sensitive to the reason some are "offended" or "scared" by Silent Sam, but I am also sensitive to monuments of all
our veterans. The vast majority of Confederate Veterans were not slave holders as slaves cost what a Mercedes Benz
would cost today.
The monument is to the men from UNC that fought and died in a war they didn't start. Politicians start wars, not
soldiers. My family fought on both sides of that war and none were politicians just poor guys that were either forced to
fight or believed they were fighting for their country.
Please put Silent Sam back where he belongs. It is a monument to veterans, not to slavery. Reasonable people would
agree.
Thank you for giving me at least a small voice.
Tom

Message
From: Neal Stultz
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:24:34 PM
Subject: Silent Sam placed in Wilson Library
My name is Neal Stultz and I am an alumni ofUNC (class of2012). Prior to the "Unite the Right" rally in
Charlottesville, VA, I saw all of the confederate statues and monuments as memorials to those southern soldiers
that fought and died for their homeland. My own ancestors fought and died in that conflict on both sides. I am
not one to advocate for placing our modern-day cultural lense on past figures or historical events. I do not see it
as fair to them. White supremacy, while wrong, at that time was seen as a natural phenomenon and a natural
order of the world. I am confident that in any historical figures, if you dig hard enough, you can find something
that would be repulsive to us today. Who knows? In 100 years, society may view us as inhumane for
slaughtering and consuming meat. Should we go ahead and purge ourselves now?
This brings me to my main point. While I did previously see the statue as a memorial, it is evident to me after
the Unite the Right rally, that to others, it is a symbol of a "preferred order of things." That some individuals
look at this statue as representative of a natural order of things that should still exist. This is what has changed
my mind. For a public university, that is meant to represent all the people of North Carolina, I can see how
someone of African American descent would be uncomfortable and feel not welcomed by the presence of such
a monument in so prominent a place on campus.
I believe the statue itself should be relocated, as is, to within Wilson Library as an exhibit (not a memorial).
Historical context should be placed around the statue so that people can come and understand why these statues
were placed, and about the glorification of the "Lost Cause" mythos. The pedestal should be removed and
placed along with the statue in the same exhibit. The library already houses the southern society historical
collection, and I believe it would have a good home there.
As far as a memorial to those students that did die during the conflict. We already have Memorial Hall, which is
dedicated to their memory. It does so in a correct manner that allows everyone to come in and see the
individuals names that were killed. It does not glorify the concept or ideal that they were fighting for, but
instead glorifies those students.
I hope you will consider this idea, and I optimistically look forward to a solution that will be supported by all
members of our community.
Best Regards,
Neal Stultz
Message
From: maya rosman
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:44:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam's Future
Thank you for allowing public comment.
As a 2002 graduate ofUNC with a degree in Communication Studies, I care deeply about how UNC fosters
communities and welcomes diversity and the messages the University sends with it's actions. Silent Sam's
presence on the main quad was in stark contrast to creating a welcoming environment to all students. It is
impossible to interpret the statue as anything other than a declaration that UNC does not welcome or value
diversity if you've read the remarks given at the statue's dedication.
I do not believe that we should shy away from our University's troubled history, but we need to be very careful
about the messages we send as we try to embrace a different future. My class attempted to do this with our class
gift, the monument to the unsung founders of the university.
I believe that Silent Sam should never return to a prominent location on UNC campus. It should be moved to a
location where it's history can be fully contextualized and visitors can learn the details of when the statue was
erected, how it was controversial throughout the years, and how and when and why it was removed. I believe
that it should be removed to a location like the Center for the Study of the American South where it can be used
as a way to learn from our past so that we might see how far we've come.
I truly believe that the future of UNC is one that rejects bigotry and racism and does not place a symbol of
slavery to welcome visitors and students. Symbols matter. We cannot be an institution that rejects racism while
at the same time keeping a symbol of a racist past in a position of prominence without context.
Silent Sam should never be replaced on his pedestal.
Maya Rosman
Class of 2002
fortune favors the brave

Message
From: Gayle Gayton
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:46:04 PM
Subject: Monument
Move it to a dedicated site for such monuments, far away.

G Gayton
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Message
From: Bob Radcliffe [bob@lynchcreek.com]
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:49:09 PM
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Subject: MY IDEA FOR THE SILENT SAM ISSUE - BOB RADCLIFFE
I suggest that the Silent Sam Statue be smelted down and recast into small (2-3" high) limited edition replicas.
Then either priced for sale or auctioned off to those who would cherish having a "piece" of Confederate History.
U.S. jobs would be created; a market established to buy/trade/ and sell the castings; all costs could be recovered;
the statue would be removed from public space and rightfully held privately. Those who revere the Statue are
respected; those that do not, are accomodated. This approach could become a model remedy for other such
monuments nationwide. I have more details, but believe I have conveyed the essence of my idea.
Bob Radcliffe
BEN FRANKLIN SOCIETY
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Kittrell, NC 27544
Bob@lynchcreek.com
Message
From: Jeff Greer
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:54:18 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As the head of this states flagship university, we hold you responsible for ensuring that your faculty teach subjects based
on facts and not their opinions or feelings. By letting your teachers go off unhinged with false propaganda, you invited
mob rule in the destruction of the Memorial known as "Silent Sam". This is a memorial to the brave young men from UNC
who defended their state from invaders . As a state employee you are responsible for protecting state property and by
allowing this destruction you violated NC State Law. Whether you agree with this law or not, it is your DUTY to enforce it.
Your lack of action in replacing this memorial is shameful and should be enough to have you removed from your current
position and possibly facing criminal charges.
Just because our supporters do not resort to vile attacks, rioting, and violence, do not underestimate our resolve in this
matter. As you should be fully aware, you cannot erase history nor change it. You can only preserve it by teaching true
history.
Thank you
Jeff Greer
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Message
From: Barb/Mike Cotten
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:55:11 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

I wish you would give Silent Sam to the state of NC and maybe one day when money is available
NC can have a war museum where it can be placed.
Barbara Cotten
Message
From: Barb/Mike Cotten I
Sent: 9/28/2018 12:56:49 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

Put Silent Sam "BACK" where he belongs. History is history and should be viewed as such!
Michael Cotten
Message
From: Leon Grimes
Sent: 9/28/2018 1:02:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Good Afternoon!
It (the monument) should be put right back where it has always been .
Sincerely,
Leon Grimes
Message
From: Trianna Kirkland
Sent: 9/28/2018 1:11:23 PM
Instead of removing the Silent Sam Monument why not ADD to it. Since you are an institute of higher learning
this makes me think of the phrase,"when we know better we do better!!!" This statue was erected doing the
times when our ancestors for what ever reason thought that slavery was ok it was acceptable. Our
ancestors thought that because of the color of a mans skin or intellect that the African men/women were not
human or maybe could possibly be sub-humans. Ok, so lets build a bridge from the Silent Sam Monument into
the institute of higher learning (UNC Chapel Hill). As we walk along this bridge we see children, young people
and adults, learning, teaching, and reading, preparing or equipping ourselves with information to help us
better understand each other. Along this bridge I see people of every ethnicity, every occupational
background, every religion going into institutes of higher learning getting the knowledge, skills and abilities to
reproduce like minds!!! I don't believe we should remove monuments of our past history here in the United
States of America. I think they should remain intact to remind us of our growth and to teach our young
people the history of this great country. We should not be willing to admit to our young people that YES our
ancestors made some mistakes, that cannot be erased. We must admit to the mistakes, have open dialogue
and move on together as a UNITED NATION UNDER GOD!!! I am reminded of Joshua 4, where the Lord God
told Joshua to have the Israelites set up stones as reminders of their plight through the wilderness. Sincerely,
Mrs. Trianna W. Kirkland

Message
From: Bob
Sent: 9/28/2018 1:41:40 PM
Subject: North Carolina veterans
Put silent Sam by up and explain to these students WHY it's there! The truth! That hundreds of UNC
students left school to fight in the civil war and DEFEND the state of North Carolina. Period. Bob
Robertson
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Message
From: Richard Moore
Sent: 9/28/2018 1:50:57 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please put Silent Sam back where he was located . Please ensure violent mobs do not desecrate memorials erected to
North Carolinians soldiers. Please teach respect and tolerance especially for those who have lived prior to us and respect
their history.
Kind regards
Richard Moore
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From: Bickford, Susan [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Sent: 9/28/2018 1:53:29 PM
Subject: We memorialize UNC war dead in other ways on campus
Dear Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees:
As a professor at this university, I would like to make two points:
-- The statue of silent Sam and its base should be removed from campus. It was intended as a symbol of white supremacy, and is regarded that way
by many, and has no place on our campus.
--Although some North Carolinians regarded the statue as commemoration of their fallen ancestors, we should remind them at every opportunity that
our campus does memorialize UNC war dead, including those who died in the Civil War. To quote from a letter to the editor by my colleague Prof.
Sherryl Kleinman:
UNC Chapel Hill already has

two memorials to alumni who died
during wars, including Confederate
soldiers. The bronze Book of
Names, which stands between
Memorial Hall and Phillips Hall,
honors the war dead, including
287 soldiers who fought in the Civil
War.
In addition, four tablets in
Memorial Hall, hanging on the
walls of both sides of the stage, provide
the names of "260 alumni and
students who died fighting for the
Confederate States of America."
Sincerely,
Susan Bickford
Susan Bickford
Associate Professor of Political Science
Hamilton Hall, CB #3265
Chapel H ill, NC 27599
Message
From: Tommy Marshall
Sent: 9/28/2018 2:10:13 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Monument!
To the Committee,
As a Native of and Life-Time Resident of North Carolina, it is our fervent opinion that The
Silent Sam Monument needs to STAY right where it has always been and the outside
Leftists that Damaged this North Carolina Icon need to be forever Run Out of the
Sovereign State of North Carolina!!
Best regards,
Tommy E. & Donna J. Marshall
Brunswick Co., North Carolina
Message
From: Mark Maloy
Sent: 9/28/2018 2:11:47 PM
Subject: Location of the Silent Sam Memorial
Hello,
I would urge the University of North Carolina to return the memorial to those students and alumni who
sacrificed between 1861 and 1865 (known as Silent Sam) to its original location.
This statue is a cenotaph, an empty tomb commemorating the deaths of hundreds of young men, who died for
their state. As with any vandalism or defacement of public property, the statue should be returned to its proper
place, this time with measures in place to prevent it from being disturbed in the future.
Thank you,
Mark Maloy
Message
From:
Sent: 9/28/2018 2:15:10 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam is a memorial to the 287 Tar Heel students and faculty members that gave their lives fighting for their State
and should be re-erected in Mccorkle Place.
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Message
From: Tony Roof Jr.
Sent: 9/28/2018 2:21:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
First, thank you for accepting opinions from "true" Tar Heels that strive to care for all people, places and
historical items that were left behind for next generations to protect. I had the privilege of working for the Town
of Chapel Hill from 2001-2006 and I adored the town and its historical value to our state. I recall beautiful and
historical buildings such as Old East Dormitory, Playmakers Theatre and Ackland Art Museum that stores,
displays, and protects priceless art treasures for everyone to enjoy. There are also great reminders in the form of
plaques, pictures, medals, trophies, movies, documentaries, laws and writings from past US presidents, athletes,
actors, sports coaches, journalists and political figures that contributed to UNC. Silent Sam should not be
treated any different than those protected reminders for future generations to enjoy and learn from the past.
Silent Sam is a memento of our past whether good or bad, it should not be allowed to be destroyed by those
seeking to express their own individual beliefs and not taking the beliefs of others into consideration. This
monument as well as others should be seen by those that are willing to accept, share and respect the ideas,
faiths, passions, and beliefs of all others. It is the privilege of our country and state to to have these rights ... how
dare others to want onlv their ideas and beliefs to be heard without due regard for others. This disrespect is also
caITied out with malicious damage to existing statures and monuments also without due regard to others.
The state of North Carolina, cities, towns and all universities should enact tougher guidelines, policies and laws
that would punish students, citizens or trespassers that damage these precious past artifacts.
Respectfully,
Suzanne & Tony Roof Jr.

Message
From: WD Jackson
Sent: 9/28/2018 2:40:01 PM
Please replace this glorification of slavery and rebellion with a

statue of our f ounder, Gen. Davie. silent Sam and base cou l d be
moved to the NC historical collection if fascists want it retained on
campus.
Dr. Wil li am D Jackson, 1974.
Message
From: nancyjean
Sent: 9/28/2018 2:53:05 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am not sure what to do with the Silent Sam statue, but I believe strongly that it should not be returned to its
previous location on campus. These statues fuel the already stewing hatred simmering the country. One
thought (which is likely to outrage some) is to melt it down and turn it into a different monument or plaque
honoring Black Americans.
I wish I could come up with more suggestions. I will continue to think about this, but I wanted to get this email
out before it was too late.
I thank you for your consideration on this issue and also for reaching out to the public.
NancyW
Message
From: Felix Collier
Sent: 9/28/2018 3:00:00 PM
Return the statue to its normal display place.
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Message
From: Dixie Vixen
Sent: 9/28/2018 3:03:31 PM
It's beyond reprehensible to allow the students and professor who participated in the felonious acts resulting in
the destruction of public property to remain free to terrorize the tax paying law abiding citizens not only of this
state but also of this nation!
Inaction in the eyes of society at large makes it appear that these violent individuals acts are being condoned by
the powers that be.
This is not acceptable.
These individuals are not grade school children who pulled a harmless prank. They are adults who believe
themselves to be on some sort of pedestal.
The acts are beyond what they actually literally did. There are much greater implications beyond their physical
acts.
This was an assault upon American values, our civil society as a whole and even upon our constitution as they
impeded my rights as a Confederate Descendant to be able to honor my father's and mother's lineage and to be
able to gaze upon this MEMORIAL TO THE DEAD!
I pray you realize the levity and look beyond the false narrative of this "monument"being a reminder of
slavery .....
It's ludicrous and it's more than offensive to me that these entitled brats were allowed to destroy a culturally
significant artifact that is not only irreplaceable but no way could you begin to equate a dollar amount to the
memory of my kinsman this memorial represents.
It's coming to a boiling point sirs.

Justice shall be served either through the courts or if this idiocy continues vigilantes I fear shall take matters
into their own hands.
Uphold the law and prosecute all involved or know when things digress that you played a pivotal role in the
destruction of America as we know it.
Deo Vindice
Kristi Long Wheatley

Message
From: Jason Bertera
Sent: 9/28/2018 3:04:51 PM
Subject: Silent sam
As per Law. Silent Sam needs be restored back to his Former Glory. Anarchists n Criminals cannot
Win. What happend to him is a Tragedy with Police n University juat as guilty as the Criminals that pulled him
down. Shame 155 years later after rhese Heroes marched off to War that this University wiahes to.wash their
hands of this. Rather be Correct than Politically Correct. Thx Jason Bertera

Message
From: Jonathan Hatcher
Sent: 9/28/2018 3:05:06 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

According to NC law 100-2.1, your only option is to return silent Sam to his rightful place. The
Historical Commission has not voted for it to be moved so your "public poll" is of littl e relevance.
silent Sam stands as a memorial to the young men of UNC who paid the ultimate sacrifice at the call of
their home state, North Carolina. The statue, which was in place for 105 years, is itself a historical
monument, not just in regards to what it represents but due to its age. The statue was funded by UNC
Alumni and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
It is not the place of the current administration, or spoiled, poorly educated liberal students, to
decide whether or not the statue should be moved or even stand. Everyone who was responsible for it
coming down, including the known staff of the University, should be punished to the fullest extent of the
law and expelled permanently (staff included) from the UNC campus as well as bei ng placed on trespass
notice.
The memory of the young men who lost their lives, for which the University chose to place the stat ue in
memoriam, needs to continue to be respected. Those boys did what they and many others felt was needed at
the time. None of those boys owned slaves and none of them fought the War for the right to own slaves.
The War was fought over many things, the least of which being slavery. Even President Lincoln
acknowledged he fought the War to preserve the Union and said, in regards to slavery, that he wou ld do it
to preserve the union with or without freeing any slaves. Also, prior to the start of the War, a copy of
the Corbin Amendment was given to Gov. John Ellis, just as it had been every other southern governor,
encouraging them to rema i n in the Union and making allowance for slavery to remain i ntact if they did so
under what would have become the 13th Amendment.
Put silent Sam back. Protect silent Sam. Leave silent Sam alone. Do your job and follow the law of North
Carolina.
Respectfully,
Jonathan Hatcher
Member and surgeon, 2nd Regiment SC Rifles
Descendant of 14 Confederate soldiers and officers
Message
From: Johnny Mariakakis _
Sent: 9/28/2018 3:10:10 PM
Subject: Suggestion for relocating Silent Sam
Dear Commission regarding the possible relocating

Of Silent Sam.
I believe this statue should be removed from

The campus of UNC.
Please give thought to relocating this statue to the Bennet

Place Memorial in Durham, which was the site of the last
surrender of Southern forces.
Yes, this statue represents the southern cause to

Defend slavery which was an abhorrent part of our
History, but thank God the South lost this war,
Our Union was preserved, and slavery was abolished.
It would be fitting to move this statue to the site

Of the surrender and defeat of this mistaken cause.
Thank you,
Johnny Mariakakis
UNC Class of '74
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Message
From: James Whitehead [
Sent: 9/28/2018 3:38:09 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please reinstate Silent Sam to his original spot for he stands for honor and respect. Thank You
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Message
From: almond
Sent: 9/28/2018 3:43:20 PM
Subject: Fw: Preference for Silent Sam Location
1. Return the "Silent Sam" monument to its century-old position at McCorkle Place.
[2. Relocate the destructive, law-breaking, vandalizing liberals to a different location.]

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Thanks Jack -- a very thoughtful and reasonable alternative. Look forward to speaking with you soon!
Regards
Joseph
From: Jack PenaSoto

Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 2:14:56 PM
To: UNC Monument
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Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Chancellor Fort,
My name is Julio PenaSoto class of 1989 of UNC. My recommendation for handling Silent Sam is for the University to
create a military memorial on campus behind the ROTC Armory. Silent Sam should be apart of an overall military
memorial to celebrate UNC alumnus who have served in the Military. Within in the military memorial the university
could have a small area for Sam and Confederate soldiers. This would allow individuals who want to celebrate that fact
the south lost the civil war to still do it. The broader purpose of the Military memorial would allow families of military
members to celebrate their service on campus. I believe this will allow closure of this issue and help the University
recognize the interest of all stakeholders.
The UNC community grows stronger and broader each year. As the UNC family grows it is important to evaluate how
UNC is serving the needs of all stakeholders. Social norms have changed since Silent Sam was placed on his pedestal. It is
now time for UNC to consider the needs of all students, faculty, alumni, law makers, and the greater UNC family when
making the decision about Silent Sam's future. UNC must show leadership, compassion, and foresight when making this
decision.
I appreciate the opportunity to provide a recommendation on this important issue.
Regards,
Julio PenaSoto (Jack)

Class of 1989
Board Member of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center
Message
From: Its Me I
Sent: 9/28/2018 3:52:46 PM
Subject: Silent sam
Put him back where the fuck he was.

Message
From:
Sent: 9/28/2018 4:30:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please restore the monument to its original location, that it may continue to honor the brave UNC students who
answered their country's call
Scn1 from my Sprint Samsung S7

Message
From: Benajah Eure
Sent: 9/28/2018 4:36:31 PM
Subject: War memorial
I wish that a mailing address had been provided. I do not own a computer and their drawbacks to
electronic mail as opposed to a well articulated letter. I wish to see UNC as a truly inclusive,
multicultural, diverse educational institution of higher learning. A place where even a war memorial can
be returned to its original place tolerated by all even those whom do not care for it. Some take it for
what it is, a war memorial students that gave that last full measure of devotion to defend the State from
an invading army nothing more never less. Razed by money collected from their families, not tax dollars.
Please let individuals interpret the war memorial as they see fit and/or by the words on the memorial
that already are on it that honor the students that gave the ultimate sacrifice for duty honor country
(State). Please do not reward/embolden those whom use violence, intimidation and destroying/vandalizing
property. In effect denying others the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, such as Freedom of
Speech and to Peacefully assemble. only one word is defined in the Constitution and that is Treason. In
short it is defined as wagging war and/or adding and abetting enemies of the States not the federal
government (Article 3 Section 3).
Respectfully
Benajah Eure
Captain us Army (Abn) Ret.
BA History UNC-W
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Message
From: Ryan Griffin [ryan.griffin@alumni.unc.edu]
Sent: 9/28/2018 4:48:07 PM
Subject: Comment on Future of Silent Sam
As a UNC alumnus and person of mixed-race (black and white), I think it best to re-home Silent Sam from
McCorkle Place to a museum that those responsible for it feel appropriate. While the purpose of Silent Sam is
nobler on its face than many other Confederate statues, its public display honors a movement that was about
nothing more than the ability to own and treat human beings as property.
I am sure UNC does not mean harm or malice in its decisions regarding the statue and its care, only to make the
safe choice for all. The act of moving the statue to a museum does not erase the history that some are so willing
to protect (and in some extreme cases, continue) nor does it cause non-white students and members of the
public to be reminded on a daily basis that many persons, past and present, view them as sub-human.
I urge UNC to make this choice to move Silent Sam to a museum. It is true that we gain nothing by erasing our
history and destroying the statue. However, as a government-funded and state-run institution, it causes further
pain every day to the people you choose this statue over. The living, breathing people who may trace their
ancestry back to the humans in shackles that the boys that Silent Sam represents marched into battle to keep,
willing or not. Please, be the University I know that you are, and stand on the right side of history. Choose to
place the statue in a museum, where it can be studied with context and remembered for what it is, a monument
to students past, instead of proudly displayed to the detriment of the students today.
Ryan Griffin '16

Message
From: Deb Levin
Sent: 9/28/2018 4:49:51 PM
Subject: Relocation of Silent Sam
chancellor Folt,
I believe the silent Sam statue should be moved to the NC Museum of History.
Along with the statue, text describing the history behind it can be displayed.
It would then be accessible to many citizens of North Carolina.
Thank you for providing this opportunity for input.
Deb Levin
relevant expertise to help determine an appropriate location and mode of display (historians, art historians,
curators). Such a display would be entirely in keeping with the educational mission of the University. To
endorse, or even appear to endorse, the morally reprehensible cause that the monument was intended to uphold,
however, is completely at odds with that mission and with our values of lux et libertas.
Yours sincerely,
James B. Rives
Kenan Eminent Professor, Department of Classics
James B. Rives
Kenan Eminent Professor and Chair

212 Murphey Hall
Campus Box 3145
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jbrives@email.unc.edu
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Elizabeth A Williams
Assistant to the Chancellor
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From: Rose, Tracy

Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2018 1:57 PM
To: Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>
Subject: Silent Sam feedback
Hi Dr. Falt,
It seems from your university-wide announcements that the administration has received a lot of negative feedback re:
the Silent Sam event. The second announcement that promised to never condone"mob actions" seemed to imply that
most of the feedback has been critical of police and university for not protecting the statue. Just wanted to send my
support to the way the police did not use force against the protestors to protect the statue, as I would much rather see a
statue memorializing intolerant policies get hurt than the protestors. I look forward to a more inclusive and unifying
memorial at the site in the future.
Thank you,
Tracy Rose
Tracy L. Rose, MD MPH

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Division of Hematology/Oncology
tracy rose@med.uncedu
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Subject: FW: the Confederate statue
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From: Versenyi, Adam Nathaniel

Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 12:12 PM
To: haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com; Duckett, Chuck <duckettc@email.unc.edu>; juliagrumbles@gmail.com;
jeffbrown@mvalaw.com; Caudill, Walter Lowry <wlcaud@email.unc.edu>; Hopkins, Kelly Matthews
<hopkinsk@email.unc.edu>; Keyes, Bill <wkeyes@email.unc.edu>; Mccullen, Allie Ray <allieray@email.unc.edu>;
emcmahan@littleonline.com; Hnath45@yahoo.com; Stevens, Richard <richardstevens@unc.edu>; Stone, Dwight David
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Cc: Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>
Subject: the Confederate statue
Dear Board of Trustees,
I urge you not to return the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam to its former pedestal on Mccorkle Place. For the
thirty years that I have taught and created theatre on the Chapel Hill campus its presence has violated all we hold dear
as an institution by celebrating white supremacy and creating a threatening environment for wide swathes of the
University population amidst students, faculty, and staff.
We in the theatre know the power of gesture and symbol. Julian Carr's speech at the statue's dedication makes clear the
gesture and symbol it was meant to present. We need to preserve that history as well by placing the statue in a
museum-like setting where it can be contextualized, explained, and the hateful ideology it represents be countered. We
already have an excellent model for this in the display created on the first floor of Carolina Hall. I urge you to follow that
model.
Sincerely,
Adam Versenyi
Professor and Chair
Department of Dramatic Art
Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art
Senior Dramaturg
PlayMakers Repertory Company
Editor, The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review
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Subject: FW: Future for Silent Sam
Elizabeth A. Williams
Assistant to the chancellor
919-962-1586
-----original Message----
From: Wiley, R Haven
Sent: Friday, September 7, 2018 1:05 AM
To: chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>; Haywood Cochrane <haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com>; Board of Trustees
<bot@unc.edu>
subject: Future for silent Sam
7 September 2018
Dear chancellor Folt, chair of the Board of Trustees Haywood Cochrane, and All Trustees,
I urge you to plan a future for a modified silent Sam in a new context that has a broadened significance
for the University.
The University should present a prominent message, without rationalization or equivocation, that our
University is welcoming, inclusive, and instructive for all people -- all students, faculty, and staff,
from North Carolina and beyond, in the past, now, and in the future.
This statue should thus not be returned to its previous position and to its previous context, where it
explicitly represented an overtly racist program to enslave and to terrorize many North Carolinians.
An alternative, one I would find hopeful, is to find a new context for this statue or a variant, one that
can provide an opportunity to reflect on the lives of so many individuals sacrificed in such an
inexcusable effort.
If the University moves forward with enthusiasm, yet without neglecting the toll on so many diverse
individuals behind us, then the University can look forward to celebrating a final victory over attitudes
so narrow and inexcusable as those represented until recently by silent Sam.
I trust that the University will promptly advertise, simply and clearly, with neither rationalization nor
equivocation, its purpose to serve all individuals who now, and always, compose our University.
R. Haven Wiley
Professor Emeritus of Biology and of Environment, Energy, and Ecology
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Department of Biology (email) haven_wiley@unc.edu
University of North Carolina (www) http://rhwiley.bio.unc.edu/
chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA
(amazon author page) http://www.amazon.com/author/havenwiley/

presence on the campus. Unless this situation is finally resolved-with Silent Sam's conclusive removal-, I'm
afraid that UNC's national rankingwill suffer irreparable damage and that out-of-state applicants (as Iwas
myself)will be discouraged from applying for admission. The continued presence of Silent Samwill no doubt
discourage promising students of color from enrolling.
I hope to see Silent Sam removed from the campus once and for all.
Sincerely,
Dr. Yael Rice
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Subject: FW: Vile monuments at UNC-CH
Passing along message sent to me as chair of Chancellor's Buildings and Grounds Committee.
From:
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 4:07 PM
To: Owens, David W. <owens@sog.unc.edu>
Subject: Vile monuments at UNC-CH
To David Owens, Ph.D.

Gladys Hall Coates Professor of Public Law and Government
Dear Professor Owens,
v\Then I was a UNC-CH student long ago, we still thought of Silent Sam as an innocuous feature of our
academic environment. Little did we know that he was vile to the core and that he was undermining
all that our enlightened University stood for. Especially nowadays, we are seeing an upsurge of a
dangerous Neo-Nazism that worships such symbols and celebrates a triumph with each one that is
protected. My alma mater's physical environment teaches its lessons just as the professors in the
classroom do. I hope your committee will understand that all of the successfully educated alumni of
UNC-CH are intent on seeing that this and all of the other racist artifacts that still abound there are
effectively disposed of. Thanks giving me your ear, and for the important service your committee is
rendering.
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Subject: FW: Psychology and Neuroscience Departmental Statement on "Silent Sam"
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From: Ne ble tt, Enrique W
Sent: We dne sday, October 17, 2018 1:20 PM
Cc: Ne ble tt, Enrique W <e ne ble tt@e mail.unc.e du>; Lysle , Donald T <dlysle@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Psychology and Neuroscience Departmental Statement on "Silent Sam"
I hope this email finds you well. As plans are made for the Silent Sam monument, I wanted to share our
Psychology & Neuroscience Departmental Statement on Silent Sam, which was recently drafted and approved
by our faculty. We appreciate your efforts to consider various points of view and hope that it is not too late for
our statement, and the supporting science, to be considered in ongoing planning efforts.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Our statement and supporting references and links can b e found at:
https://psychology.unc.edu/2018/10/16/departmental-statement-on-silent-sam/
Sincerely,
Professor Neblett
Director of Diversity Initiatives
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Enrique W. Neblett, Jr., PhD

Associate Professor I Director of Diversity Initiatives
250 Davie Hall I University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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From: Tammy Dunn Editor [tdunn@montgomeryherald.com]
Sent: 10/17/2018 5:53:57 PM
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Subject: do not restore
Please do not restore Silent Sam...it evokes racism..it is the simple.
tammy
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From: Jimbo Richeson
Sent: 10/19/2018 12:04:07 PM
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Subject: Please restore Silent Sam to its original location!
Dear Madam Folt,
Thank you, most kindly, for your invitation to give you my own sense of the monument removal.
Not teaching the actual history relating to the placement of that memorial commemorating the UNC students
who volunteered to leave school and stand up for self government, and constitutional liberties, is a real travesty,
and directly causative to outsiders, rabble rousers, and malcontents driven by a false narrative.
Confederate history has been proscribed, blacklisted, and falsified by refusing to teach authentic history, and
tolerating or even encouraging the false narrative, a revised interpretation, based on, and derived from a marxist
paradigm.
State law says the statue ought not to have been removed. Thus, it ought to be replaced right there from which
place it was removed.
Todays students ought to be taught what UNC students meant by standing up for NC state sovereignty. They
ought to be taught exactly what US President Buchanan meant, whilst still in office, during the seven Gulf
States secession, when he warned that to coerce those states back into the union would be unconstitutional,
before Lincoln ever assumed office.
Those UNC students who volunteered to defend NC state sovereignty, knew that Buchanan was right. Some of
those UNC students (that the Silent Sam statue represents) never made it back to UNC, never went home again,
but forfeited their lives for what they believed. And it most emphatically was not to keep people enslaved!
Madam Folt, please do the only proper thing by restoring that statue to where it stood, and mandate that our
history be faithfully taught, so folks will know what Silent Sam really means, and why he matters.
Thank you!
Jimbo Richeson
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Amy Locklear Hertel

Chief of Staff to Chancellor Carol Falt
From: Michael John <michael.john@unc.edu>

Date: Friday, August 31, 2018 at 8:58 AfvI
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Subject: FW: Silent Sam: Clergy Response Letter
From: Paige Hanks

Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 8:53 AM
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Subject: Silent Sam: Clergy Response Letter
Please find attached a letter signed by a group of Interfaith Clergy from Chapel Hill in response to the issues
surrounding Silent Sam. We respectfully request your consideration of our intentions.
The Reverend Paige Hanks

Deacon for Vocational Discernment
The Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church
304 E. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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I've been following with interest developments related to Silent Sam and his future. I am an alum and
as of this semester, a Carolina parent (with a very happy first year student:-).
I also had the privilege to participate as a community member in UNC's Leading for Racial Equity
mini-course a few years a go. I learned so much in that experience and also how much I need to
learn about my white privilege, policy and "gate keepers," with relation to racial equity. Since taking
that course I have tried to listen and read about the history of racism I never knew. Of course the
situation with Sam brings out all sorts of perspectives. I hope that in planning Sam's future you will be
bold and stand up to white privilege, which I believe is at the heart of much of the clamor to return him
to the UNC campus.
I also wanted to offer a suggestion for relocating the statue of Sam and perhaps other similar
sta tues/memoria ls. Have you heard about the NC Civil War and Reconstruction History Center
underway in Fa yetteville? It's envisioned as telling North Carolina's full story during the Civil War,
and for the first time Reconstruction. The advisors and board members include a distinguished group
of people, including some with UNC ties, such as retired history professor James
Leutze, for exa mple. Here is a full list: http://nccivilwarcenter.org/about/advisors-directors/
I propose that your commission consider approaching the history center about becoming a home for
significant artifacts such as Silent Sam along with full context of their commissioning, a rt, funding,
history, etc.
Thank you for consideration.
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'87, '89
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Dear Chancellor:
Please accept the attached statement in response to the call for ideas about the disposition of the Confederate
fv1onument_
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Message
From: Jerri Kallam i
Sent: 10/27/2018 1:26:42 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Feedback & Suggestions
As a white student attending UNC from 1996-2000 I never had to question whether it was a place where I could
belong. Walking among the old trees, monuments and buildings I had a great connection to my home state and
the people who came before me and an instant love for the campus. Listening to the famous Charles Kuralt
quote about the University of the People would bring a tear to my eye both then and now.
Unfortunately, one thing I also learned while on campus is that not all students have the privilege to see the
University through such a carefree lens. Over time I became more aware of the issues affecting students of
color on campus - a place that was not always welcoming to all students the way it was to me. Where rates of
representation among students and faculty remain low versus the overall population and where those students
are forced to fit in where they can while operating in buildings and being overlooked by monuments that honor
those who would dispute their very right to be there.
These monuments and statues have no place in a space that has a motto of Lux Libertas and claims to be a
University of the People. It is time that we ensure that our actions follow through with the meaning of those
words.
I believe that the University should work with state government leaders to amend or repeal the law restricting
the options of movement of the statue, and if successful, move the statue to a cemetery where confederate
veterans are interred and where the original intent of the memorial would be more appropriate. Context relating
to the statue and it's true history should be included so that it can respect the lives of those it was meant to
honor without being seen to honor the misguided ideals of the Confederacy.
Thank you,
Jerri Kallam
Class of 2000
Message
From: Art Faint
Sent: 10/28/2018 2:52:38 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Statue Proposal
"Silent Sam" Proposal
Our University was going through a deliberate, peaceful, and thoughtful process to decide what to do with our
Confederate statue. That process was to take into account input from both sides of the issue. Unfortunately, that
peaceful and democratic process was negated by protestors who turned violent and damaged University
property and even threated the personal safety of the members of our University community. Fortunately, very
few of those arrested were members of our community. It appears that the instigators of this violence were from
outside special interest groups whose sole purpose was to cause destruction and violence at the expense of
public safety.
BACKGROUND:
Chancellor Carol L. Folt noted: "Silent Sam has a place in our history and on our campus where its history can
be taught, but not at the front door of a safe, welcoming, proudly public research university. We want to provide
opportunities for our students and the broader community to reflect upon and learn from that history."
The statue of the Confederate soldier was commissioned by the Daughters of the Confederacy and finished in
1913. It was erected, as the Alumni Review reported at the time, "in memory of all University students, living
and dead, who served in the Confederacy." According to research conducted by the Carolina Alumni Review,
287 university students died during the war._Since it commemorates University students, the statue should
remain a part of the University environment and not sequestered in a museum in Raleigh.
PROPOSAL
Since the University Student - Confederate Soldier statue (aka Silent Sam) memorializes a part of our
University's history - the students who served in the Confederacy, the statue should remain on our campus as
noted by Chancellor Folt. It is proposed that the University's history department be tasked to convene a
committee to determine how and where the statue is to be displayed and to determine a funding strategy for
such a display. Possibly, this could be in or near the department or in a special room within the University
library. This tasking should encourage the exhibition of the statue in a proper context so that the statue cannot
be singled out as a beacon of hatred, but as a way for students and visitors to learn about the history of the Old
South and the University's role in that history. It is envisioned that this context would describe the cultural and
regional development of the South, to include the reason for its growing dependence on slavery. As part of this
Old South exhibit, there should be a presentation, possibly by a timeline, of the major factors that led up to the
formation of the Confederacy, to include the growing moral opposition to slavery, the oppressive tariffs levied
by the Northern-led Congress on Southern imports of foreign goods exchanged for cotton exports, and the
Congress's use of federal funds to improve the national infrastructure primarily in the North. The baseline for
this exhibit should highlight the growing hostile conflict of interests between the industrial North and the
agricultural South. It would be very meaningful if the exhibit would also personalize some of the University
students who served. After all, they were why the statue was commissioned. What was their background, where
were they from, what happened to them during the war, and what did they do after the war? Some photographs
or pictures would help link them to the students and visitors seeing the exhibit.
The funding strategy should focus on the donation of funds and artifacts to support the History of the Old South
exhibit. Part of that strategy could be to request assistance from organizations such as the North Carolina
division of Sons of Confederate Veterans and other State and regional historical groups.
The Silent Sam statue should not be relegated to some dark space out of the public eye where the lessons of the
history it represents cannot be learned. To quote Jorge Santayana, the Spanish Philosopher (1863-1952): "Those
who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Arthur J. Faint (LTC, USA-Ret)
BS Mathematics 1964, UNC
MBA 1980, Monmouth University
Message
From: Kimberly Hill
Sent: 10/29/2018 1:09:43 AM
Subject: Museum Placement Suggestion
To Chancellor Carol Folt and the Monument Committee:

Thank you for taking public suggestions regarding the future placement of the Silent Sam statue. I recommend
that its podium should be removed from the original location so that the entire statue can be displayed in either
the North Carolina Museum of History or the Ackland Art Museum. For inspiration, I draw on recent events at
the University of Cape Town (my UNC study abroad destination). Students there protested against the statue of
colonial leader Cecil Rhodes in the center of campus and the more recent statue of Saartjie Baartman inside the
library. The Rhodes statue was removed on short notice, but I find the plan for the second statue of greater
educational value. It has been relocated to a dedicated exhibit on a separate campus dedicated to fine arts.
Students had been complaining for years that the statue of a nude African woman continued the tradition of
dehumanization that had led to Baartman being exhibited as a nude attraction during her lifetime. At first,
administration removed the drapes and clothing that students used to cover the nude statue. This year, the
protest debate shifted as students, local aitists, and faculty worked together to plan an exhibit that includes the
statue and large images of the ways students decorated it: https://www.news.uctac.za/article/-2018-09-21-
dignifying-sarah-baartman
I imagine a similar strategy working well to quell discord in the current Silent Sam controversy. A museum
would be the best space to show the various steps in the debate, preserve the statue, and place the Southern
Heritage protests of the past two months in historical perspective. The Center for the Study of the American
South, the Wilson Library special collections, and the History Department will be valuable resources in making
this exhibit thorough and innovative. And such an exhibit would place UNC at the forefront of planning
peaceful, academic responses to one of our most significant current events issues. Thank you for your
consideration.
Sincerely,
Kimberly Hill, Ph.D.
"Umuntu akalahlwa"/ 'no human being is a throw-away'

-- Zulu proverb
Kimberly D. Hill, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of History
School of Arts and Humanities
T he University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Rd. JO31
Richardson, TX 75080
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Message
From: Leslie Kreizman
Sent: 10/29/2018 8:51:18 AM
Subject: What to do
Do not, under any circumstances, put SS back up on the pedestal.
Instead ..
1. Leave him half buried (in concrete) at the base to show his ultimate fate
2. If the BOG really wants to put him back .. them give him back ..to them .. he can be put up on their grounds.
3. If the President of the system wants him back, put him up in the front yard of President's house
4. If the people in Alamance county want him, give him to them
5. Put him up in an appropriate museum type place, such as Bennett Place
Stand up for what is right.
Regards,
Leslie Kreizman, Class of 1982

Message
From: Wesley Egan
Sent: 10/29/2018 3:29:58 PM
Subject: Rededicate Confederate Monuments
David Brown's account of the debate and recent violence over Silent Sam (September/October Carolina Alumni
Review, Where There is No Silence) is a reminder of how far we are from consensus on how to deal with such
monuments in Chapel Hill and elsewhere. One solution might be to rededicate them by formally disavowing
the motivations that caused them to be erected at the time and which we find so offensive today.
When as students we stood in protest on Franklin Street in the 1960s in support of desegregation and civil rights
legislation, I don't remember being especially troubled by "Sam," thinking of him as a memorial to Confederate
war dead, not so blatantly to a Lost Cause. But the history of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and
Julian Carr's speech at the 1913 dedication of the statue leave no doubt now as to the white supremacist tone
and significance of the statue despite the characterization of it as" ... a suitable monument ... in memory of the
Chapel Hill boys who left college ... and joined our Southern Army in defense of our State."
I make a distinction between war graves and memorials to Confederate dead and memorials to an offensive and
discredited cause. The German and Italian memorials at El-Alamein honor their dead but do not memorialize or
promote Nazism or Fascism. Even the brutal monumentalism of these structures does not promote the glory of
their lost causes.
So, I propose that "Sam" and other memorials like him in public spaces be officially, formally, and publicly
rededicated by our governors and mayors to disavow whatever offensive inspiration or cause those who erected
them had in mind at the time. Where that can't be done, they should be removed. Minds and attitudes change
with time. The tragedy of young men killed in war, however, is something we all recognize. We ought to be
able to find a way to honor them without perpetuating causes or creeds that most of us now find offensive.
Racism is our great curse, but if South Africans can find their way through a non-retributive process of national
reconciliation, we ought to be up to it as well. Rededicating and clarifying what these monuments mean to us
today might be a helpful part of that process. It won't change our history, but it might help us shape a better
future.
Wesley W. Egan '68

Ambassador (Ret)
Washington, D. C.
Message
From: Jim Guinn
Sent: 10/29/2018 9:32:15 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put it right back where it was ... What would you do if they tore down the library- rebuild it ...
'Jim
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Message
From: Barbara Perkins
Sent: 10/30/2018 9:07:03 AM
Subject: Silent Sam and other historical items
I hope that UNC will distinguish itself from other contemporary campuses by being a diversified university. Not just in
enrollment but in political information, faculty balance, and course instruction. I personally know a student who
dropped a history class because the (full) professor told the class to write a paper on anything they wanted except
wealthy Christians. The student dropped the class because he felt the professor would penalize him since he was a
Christian. How sad.
As a freshman, I was required to take history over 2 semesters in a very inclusive and boring manner. The university
should be able to teach history which includes sensitive topics in a way that presents it as a part of history (and current
day politics) without being threatening. I did not expect to enjoy a destination on a river cruise which ended in
Nuremberg, Germany. However, the site of Hitler's speeches and the adjacent museum was intentionally presented
because it was part of history and in a way as not to attract neo-Nazis. The trial history was presented in the actual
courtroom as part of the tour. The tour guides couldn't change history but they could present it in an appropriate
manner.
Silent Sam is a memorial. We can't rewrite history. We can learn about it and from it and protect those relics that tell a
story in a more realistic way that reading about it in a chronologic accounting like Mod Civ 101. We can't vilify all our
early American leaders because they were desensitized to individual rights by their need to survive. Stand up and be
educators. Find a better way.
Barbara D Perkins
Class of '71
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Subject: FW: Si lent Sam Options, 2nd Edition
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Subject: Silent Sam Options, 2nd Edition
I would like to encourage a compromise in the Silent Sam controversy which addresses the UNC
Board of Governors (BOG) criteria and offers concessions to differing points of view.
As you know, the university community, both town and gown, oppose returning the statue to
campus orfrankly any location because the monument reiterates and celebrates the civil war cause
aligned with deep south states as articulated by Julian Carr at the 1913 dedication ceremony.
Others, such as the organization from Alamance County, have stated publicly that Silent Sam is a
memorial to confederate dead, qf whom they have ancestors. They want the statue returned to its
pedestal in lvfcCorkle Place to honor those dead.
However, a plan which accommodates either qf these positions will not meet the objectives qf the
BOG:
1. A location on campus including former Chancellor Afoeser's suggestion qf Playmakers
Theatre
will not ensure public safety. It will only change the site qf escalating conflict and risk a tragic
event. To think otherwise ignores human nature.
2. We already know the monument and its histmy can be preserved on campus without
significant
security expense even as a museum piece. Keeping it in storage will not satisfy this
requirement
either.
3. UNC's core mission of education, research, economic stimulation and creating the next
generation
o(leaders will only be hindered by returning the monument to a campus with a diverse faculty
and student body who were/are understandably qffended by its presence/return. Losing
prestigious
faculty and prized scholars, both existing and future, to a continuing controver5y will not aid
the
University's core mission nor will it sustain the excellence which is required of a public ivy.
The UNC General Alumni Association has a tribute to all alumni war dead between A1emorial and
Phillips Hall. Of those enshrined on that wall, 287 died in the Civil War with 23 at Gettysburg, 7 at
Antietam, approaching half in Virginia, 71 across the south including 29 in North Carolina and 47
of the total undetermined. This would argue that a monument to UNC Civil War veterans should be
located where they primarily fought and died. Given that we would not likely find agreement to
move Silent Sam to Gettysburg, I suggest two alternative locations in North Carolina.
The Battle ofBentonville, fought from J..4arch 19th to 21st, 1865 for control of a supply line railroad
hub in Goldsboro, was the last major battle of the Civil War. Fourteen North Carolina regiments
were involved and three UNC alums are known to have died there:
Lt. Col. EdwardJ..4allett, Class of 1849, 61st Regiment
Sgt. John Holmes Dobbins, Class qfl861, 36th Regiment
William Henry Austin, Class of 1861, 17th Regiment
While there are three monuments at Bentonville including one which honors Texas troops who
fought there, none are statues. This historic site is about 70 minutes from Chapel Hill.
Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh was started in 1865 as a confederate cemetery and has
some 1400 dead buried in that section, some moved hurriedly from local sites in advance of union
forces and others from Gettysburg and Arlington to be reinterred in their home state. The Oakwood
staff offers a tour qf UNC Alumni buried there with a focus on Civil War dead, among whom are:
Brig. Gen. George BurgwynAnderson, Class of 1852, Antietam
William Adams, Class qfl 858, Antietam
Junius Cullen Battle, Class of 1860, lvfaryland
Wesley Lewis Battle, Class of 1863, Gettysburg
George Pettigrew Bryan, Class of 1860, Virginia
Col. Henry King Burgwyn, Class of 1859, Gettysburg
Lt. Col. John Thomas Jones, Class of 1860, wounded Gettysburg,
died wilderness Virginia
Iowa A1ichigan Royster, Class qfl 860, Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg
Other notables buried throughout Historic Oakwood include seven North Carolina governors, four
homegrown United States senators and three additional Civil War generals, one a union army
A1edal qfHonor recipient.
I visited Oakwood on October 22nd to compare their confederate burial records with the UNC
Alumni Civil War dead and to tour the ground,;;. The executive director, Robin Simonton, expressed
an interest in Silent Sam to join the Gettysburg, Anderson and Burgwyn lvfemorials in the
cot1;/ederate cemetery, noting the restricted visiting hours, gated security and extensive police
surveillance of the entire cemetery. As was the case at the Bentonville Battlefield, none of the
current memorials are statues.
lvfy apologies for the expansive presentation of my argument. This is a complex situation which can
not be properly addressed without due consideration for context. Part qf that context is that unlike
deep south states which formed a confederacy when Lincoln was elected, North Carolina did not
join until the confederate attack on Fort Sumter prompted Lincoln to call for 75,000 troops to be
conscripted. North Carolinians did not want to be drafted to fight theirfellow southerners. Afar
different cause than the one presented by Julian Carr and the Daughters of the Confederacy at the
dedication ceremony. Further proof of this sentiment is North Carolina regiments ir!J/king at
continuing to.fight qfter the Emancipation Proclamation was announced and the passage of the
13th Amendment. Placing this 1913 monument back on campus anywhere to honor a cause, both
misrepresented and long gone, which is in total conflict with the 2018 inclusive campus sentiment
"for all kind" defies rational thought. Placing the monument at a battlefield where UNC Alums
fought and died or a cemetery where they are buried is the reasonable, appropriate tribute. Honor
the men, not the pretense ofa cause.
Charles Hughes, Class ofl969

Message
From: Kim Bradley
Sent: 10/30/2018 11:00:25 PM
Subject: UNC monument(s)
As a class of '82 graduate, I have ALWAYS loved Carolina and everything

about it! The beauty of the campus is one of the many, many things I love
about UNC. ALL monuments, older buildings, trees, walkways, etc are a part
of this lovely, historical campus. A finer campus does not exist in my
opinion.
I have al so loved the "Carolina way", which reflected the cl ass, pride,
and honor Carolina students hold. To have seen the destruction of silent
Sam was, quite frankly, way below the Caro l ina way standards and extremely
disappointing. Breaking the law/taking matters into mob mentality actions,
is way beneath what this grand University has always resisted. Many fe l low
Carolina grads that I spoke with felt the same way. Quite honestly, my
opinion, which was shared by many grads, was expell any student that was
found to be involved in this destruction/breaking of the law, as well as
fire any staff/faculty who encouraged or engaged in this destruction.
Extreme feelings?? Yes, but it was a very un - carolina act and this
University that many of us love CANNOT fall victim to the unlawfulness of a
few. We have a standard to uphold.
As to what should happen now with silent Sam, unfortunately to put "him"
back up would likely only lead to further vandalism and possibly serious
injury of some person at any future unlawful remova l . Not putting Sam back
is sad and gives in to the protesters demands. At this point, I would
recommend consideration of placing this historical monument inside a museum
on the UNC campus/grounds, where better safe-guarding and protection co uld
occur.
Sincerely,
Kimberly A. Brad l ey
class of '82
Message
From: Steve Coombs [coombs@duke.edu]
Sent: 10/31/2018 9:50:32 AM
Subject: Silent Sam should not have a place of honor
I do not believe that silent Sam deserves a place of honor on the UNC
campus. It was erected as a symbol of oppression and is a sign that any
African American that walks past is not truly welcome on campus. A more
suitable place would be on a battlefield or the Bennett Place in Durham.
I have visited many civil War battlefields and have found the
Confederate monuments in that context to be very appropriate. on a
college campus a monument like silent Sam is divisive and unwelcoming.
Where ever silent Sam is moved, there needs to be strong interpretation
of the racist intent of those who erected it and how the victory of the
Union meant the freedom of a large percentage of our country that had
been denied by the Confederates.
Thank you,
Stephen Coombs
Durham, NC 27707
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From:
Sent: 10/31/2018 2:23:35 PM
Subject: Monument
A few random thoughts that should be taken into consideration. The monument should be put back up immediately. We
cannot change history only learn from it. As a institution of higher education that should be the focus, to learn the history
not change it. You cannot let mob rule do what they want when they want with no consequences, what's next the
Washington Monument? According to the Veterans Benefits Act of 1957 Confederate Veterans are American Veterans
and I believe their memorials and monuments are just as important as any other ex. WWII or Vietnam Wall. Thank you for
this opportunity.
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Subject: FW: [plcy-phd] PLCY Letter - Silent Sam
Attachments: UNC Pub lic Policy Silent Sam Letter-Final.pdf; ATT0000l.htm
Amy Locklear Hertel

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From: "Gitterman, Daniel P" <danielg@email.unc.edu>

Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 at 11:49 AM
To: Kevin Guskiewicz <gus@email.unc.edu>, "Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudolf J" <collored@email.unc.edu>
Cc: Amy Locklear Hertel <Amy_Hertel@unc.edu>
Subject: Fwd: [plcy-phd] PLCY Letter - Silent Sam
FYI
Daniel P. Gitterman
Chair and MacRae Professor of Public Policy
UNC Public Policy
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From: "Snipes, Quatia Mallard" <qmallard(illemail.unc.edu>

Date: October 31, 2018 at 11:43:35 AM EDT
To: The Public Policy PhD List <plcy-phd@listserv.unc.edu>
Subject: [plcy-phd] PLCV Letter - Silent Sam
Reply-To: "Snipes, Quatia Mallard" <qrnallan:J(@emaiLunc.edu>
To the UNC Public Policy Community:
We write this letter (also attached) to affirm UNC Public Policy faculty and staff support for Chancellor
Carol Folt's statement about the future of Silent Sam released on August 31, 2018_[1J We agree that the
statue should not be restored to its pedestal for two main reasons.
First, while the statue may be a significant and revealing part of UN C's history, it is not a history that
elicits pride for many of us. We believe that symbols of white supremacy and oppression have no place
on a campus of higher learning, and certainly not in a place of such prominence. Second, with one of the
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most diverse populations of undergraduate majors in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), we believe
that Carolina should maintain an educational environment that promotes safety, racial and ethnic equality,
and social inclusion. The return of Silent Sam to its pedestal would undoubtedly further erode our
commitment to these important values.
Universities play a key role in empowering students with the knowledge and skills to succeed. They also
shape the moral sentiments of future generations. We must look forward with this goal in mind.
Sincerely,
Christine P. Durrance
Maryann P. Feldman
Daniel P. Gitterman
Cam1en Gutierrez
Sudhanshu Handa
Steven W. Hemelt
Ellen Jackson
Rebecca Kreitzer
Anna Krome-Lukens
Douglas Lee Lauen
Jeff Summerlin-Long
Douglas MacKay
Benjamin Mason Meier
Jeremy Moulton
Joaquin Rubalcaba
Brigitte Seim
Candis W. Smith
Quatia Mallard Snipes
Patricia L. Sullivan
Brian Williams
QuatUv Jv/. Snipe,Jl '10, MBA

Business and Administrative Officer
UNC Public Policy
Abernethy Hall #115 1 CB# 3435
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guatia(rounc.edu (e)
October 31, 2018
To the UNC Public Policy Community:
We write this letter to affirm UN C Public Policy faculty and staff support for Chancellor Carol Folt' s
statement about the future of Silent Sam released on August 31, 2018. 1 We agree that the statue should
not be restored to its pedestal for two main reasons.
First, w-hile the statue may be a significant and revealing part of UNC's history, it is not a history that
elicits pride for many of us. We believe that symbols of white supremacy and oppression have no place
on a campus of higher learning, and certainly not in a place of such prominence. Second, with one of the
most diverse populations of undergraduate majors in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), we believe
that Carolina should maintain an educational environment that promotes safety, racial and ethnic equality,
and social inclusion. The return of Silent Sam to its pedestal would undoubtedly further erode our
commitment to these important values.
Universities play a key role in empowering students with the knowledge and skills to succeed. They also
shape the moral sentiments of future generations. We must look fonvard with this goal in mind.
Sincerely,
Christine P. Durrance
Maryann P. Feldman
Daniel P. Gitterman
Carmen Gutierrez
Sudhanshu Handa
Steven W. Remelt
Ellen Jackson
Rebecca Kreitzer
Anna Krome-Lukens
Douglas Lee Lauen
Jeff Summerlin-Long
Douglas MacKay
Benjamin Mason Meier
Jeremy Moulton
Joaquin Rubalcaba
Brigitte Seim
Candis W. Smith
Quatia Mallard Snipes
Patricia L. Sullivan
Brian Williams
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Subject: FW: Black Faculty Statement on Silent Sam
Amy Locklear Hertel

Cell 919-448-8949
From: Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>

Date: Monday, September 10, 2018 at 4:27 PM
To: Carol Falt <carol.folt@unc.edu>, Amy Locklear Hertel <Amy_Hertel@unc.edu>
Subject: FW: Black Faculty Statement on Silent Sam
T: 9J9-962-1SB6
From: Caldwell, Kia L

Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 4:07 PM
To: public@bog.northcarolina.edu, <public@bog.northcarolina.edu>; haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com,
<haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com>; Duckett, Chuck <duckettc@email.unc.edu>; juliagrumbles@gmail.com ,
<juliagrumbles@gmail.com>; jeffbrown@mvalaw.com, <jeffbrown@mvalaw.com>; Caudill, Walter Lowry
<wlcaud@email.unc.edu>; Hopkins, Kelly Matthews <hopkinsk@email.unc.edu>; Keyes, Bill <wkeyes@email.unc.edu>;
mccullenre@aol.com , <mccullenre@aol.com>; emcmahan@littleonline.com, <emcmahan@littleonline.com>;
Hnath45@yahoo.com, <Hnath45@yahoo.com>; Stevens, Richard <richardstevens@unc.edu>; Stone, Dwight David
<ddstone@email.unc.edu>; Putnam, Savannah Kate <sakate@live.unc.edu>; president@northcarolina.edu,
<president@northcarolina.edu>; Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>; Blouin, Bob <Bob_Blouin@unc.edu>; Parise, Leslie
V <leslie_parise@med.unc.edu>; Scott, Tj <tj_scott@unc.edu>
Cc: Fisher, Edwin B <fishere@email.unc.edu>; Adams, Liz <adamsliz@live.unc.edu>; Agbe-Davies, Anna Sophia <agbe-
davies@unc.edu>; Berger, Michele T <mtberger@email.unc.edu>; Berry, Maya <maya.berry@unc.edu>; Bright, Cedric
Marc <cedric_bright@med.unc.edu>; Bush, Antonio A. <antonio_bush@unc.edu>; Clegg, Claude Andrew
<cclegg@email.unc.edu>; Cooper, Shauna M <scooperl@live.unc.edu>; Freelon, Deen G <freelon@email.unc.edu>;
Freeman, Livis James <lfreeman@email.unc.edu>; Gates, Samuel Ray <raysam@email.unc.edu>; Gibson, Keisha
<keisha_gibson@med.unc.edu>; Gibson, Amelia <angibson@email.unc.edu>; Goode, Rachel Woodson
<rwgoode@email.unc.edu>; Hargrove, Taylor <thargrov@email.unc.edu>; Hughes, Sherick Andre
<shughes@email.unc.edu>; Jackson, Jerma A <jaj@email.unc.edu>; Jordan, Joseph F <jfjordan@email.unc.edu>;
Lawton, Jacqueline E.<jlawton@unc.edu>; Matthews, Derrick <derrick.matthews@unc.edu>; Maxwell, Rahsaan Daniel
<rahsaan@email.unc.edu>; Mclean, Sean E <sean_mclean@med.unc.edu>; Mcdonald, Trevy A <trevy@email.unc.edu>;
McIntosh, Terence <terence_mcintosh@unc.edu>; McNeil, Genna Rae <mcneilgr@unc.edu>; Fabian Monrose
<fabian@cs.unc.edu>; Moore, Carlton Reid <carlton_moore@med.unc.edu>; Neblett, Enrique W
<eneblett@email.unc.edu>; Oliver, Terence <olivert@email.unc.edu>; Parker, Patricia S <psparker@email.unc.edu>;
Kathy Perkins Regester, Charlene <regester@email.unc.edu>; Rice, Dana
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Robinson, Michelle <mmrobins@email.unc.edu>; Slocum, Karla <kslocum@unc.edu>; Stroman, Deborah L
<dstro@unc.edu>; Sturkey, William <wsturkey@live.unc.edu>; Terry, Jules M <jmterry@unc.edu>; Truesdale, Kimberly
Parker <Kim_Truesdale@unc.edu>; Thornton, Brendan Jamal <bjthornt@email.unc.edu>; Tyson, Karolyn D
<kdtyson@email.unc.edu>; Vines, Anissa Irvin <avines@email.unc.edu>; Smith, Candis Watts
<candisws@email.unc.edu>; Watts, Eric King <ekwatts@email.unc.edu>; White, Becky L <bls@med.unc.edu>; Wilson,
Erika K.<wilsonek@email.unc.edu>; Alexander Craft, Renee Jacqueline <renee.alexander.craft@unc.edu>; Meta Du Ewa
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<klwill6@email.unc.edu>; Holland, Sharon Patricia <pasharon@email.unc.edu>; Robinson, Whitney
<whitney_robinson@unc.edu>; Woods, Courtney G <cgwoods@email.unc.edu>; Cene, Crystal Wiley
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Subject: Black Faculty Statement on Silent Sam
To the UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC System Administration:
Below you will find a Black Faculty Statement on Silent Sam that has been signed by 62 Black faculty from across the
UNC campus. This Statement has been published in the Daily Tar Heel, Washington Post and Diverse Issues in Higher
Education.
We would appreciate the opportunity to meet and share our perspectives with the Chancellor, Provost, members of the
Board of Trustees, members of the Board of Governors and the President of the UNC System.
September 6, 2018
As UNC Black faculty, we occupy a unique position relative to the Confederate monument known as "Silent
Sam ." When the Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the monument for the University, when
University donors offered resources to support its completion, when the University paid the remaining balance,
and UNC Board of Trustees member Julian Carr delivered his racist remarks at its dedication, we doubt any
envisioned Black faculty as vibrant and necessary members of the University's intellectual, cultural, and social
community. In 1913, the Confederate monument did not stand in opposition to the stated values and mission of
the University. In 2018, it most certainly does. It has done so since the University chose to admit the first Black
student or offer the first Black faculty member a contract for employment. We have witnessed a monument that
represents white supremacy in both the past and present be venerated and protected at the same time that we
have been asked to serve as examples of diversity and inclusion. That is a demoralizing burden.
A monument to white supremacy, steeped in a history of violence against Black people, and that continues to
attract white supremacists, creates a racially hostile work environment and diminishes the University's
reputation worldwide. For us, arguments of moral equivalency are extremely problematic; there are not two
morally valid sides to the history the monument represents nor to its current significance. Without brave acts of
civil disobedience that changed the moral character of the nation and advanced the cause of justice, Black
faculty, staff, and students would not be here. To reinstall the Confederate monument to any location on UNC's
campus is to herald for the nation and for the world that UNC is not a welcoming place for Black people.
We, the undersigned faculty, urge the Chancellor, Provost, Board of Trustees, and Board of Governors to
permanently remove the Confederate statue and its pedestal from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. There is no way to re-erect the statue without valorizing an incomplete version of history. A symbol of
racism, violence, and white supremacy has no place on our 21st century campus often called the "University of
the People."
1. Elizabeth A. Adams, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and

Neuroscience
2. Anna Agbe-Davies, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
3. Michele Tracy Berger, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
4. Maya Berry, Assistant Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
5. Cedric Bright, Associate Professor of Medicine, School of Medicine
6. Antonio A. Bush, Assistant Professor, Eshelman School of Pharmacy
7. Kia Lilly Caldwell, Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
8. Eileen R. Carlton Parsons, Professor, School of Education
9. Claude A. Clegg Ill, Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor, African, African American, and
Diaspora Studies
10. Shauna M. Cooper, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
11. Renee Alexander Craft, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
12. Crystal Wiley Cene, Associate Professor, School of Medicine
13. Deen Freelon, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
14. Livis James Freeman Jr., Teaching Assistant Professor, School of Media and Journalism
15. Samuel Ray Gates, Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
16. Amelia Gibson, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Library Science
17. Keisha Gibson, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
18. Rachel W. Goode, Assistant Professor School of Social Work
19. Taylor W. Hargrove, Assistant Professor, Sociology
20. Sharon P. Holland, Professor, American Studies
21. Sherick Hughes, Professor, School of Education
22. Jerma A. Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of History
23. Meta DuEwa Jones, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
24. Joseph Jordan, Stone Center
25. Jacqueline Lawton, Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
26. Derrick D. Matthews, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
27. Rahsaan Maxwell, Associate Professor, Political Science
28. Sean McLean, Associate Professor, School of Medicine
29. Trevy A. McDonald, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
30. Kenya McNeal-Trice, Professor, Department of Pediatrics
31. Terence McIntosh, Associate Professor, Department of History
32. Genna Rae McNeil, Professor, Department of History
33. Fabian Monrose, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science
34. Carlton Moore, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
35. Enrique Neblett, Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
36. Donna L. Nixon, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Law
37. Terence Oliver, Reese Felts Distinguished Associate Professor, School of Media and
Journalism
38. Patricia Parker, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
39. Kathy Perkins, Professor Emerita, Dramatic Art
40. Charlene Regester, Associate Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
41. Dana Rice, Assistant Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health
42. Liana Richardson, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
43. Michelle Robinson, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
44. Whitney R. Robinson, Associate Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health
45. Lillie Searles, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
46. Theodore M. Shaw, Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the
Center for Civil Rights
47. Tanya L. Shields, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
48. Karla Slocum, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair, Associate Professor, Anthropology
49. Deborah Stroman, Clinical Associate Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health
50. William Sturkey, Assistant Professor, Department of History
51. J. Michael Terry, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
52. Brendan J. Thornton, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies
53. Kimberly P. Truesdale, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition
54. Karolyn Tyson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Sociology
55. Anissa Vines, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
56. Candis Watts Smith, Assistant Professor, Public Policy
57. Eric King Watts, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
58. Becky L. White, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
59. Kathryn Williams, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
60. Lyneise Williams, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History
61. Erika K. Wilson, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair, Associate Professor, School of
Law
62. Courtney G. Woods, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and
Engineering
Message
From: Jonathan Proctor
Sent: 11/1/2018 12:01:53 AM
Attachments: Monument Flow Chart.pdf
10/31/2018
Opportunity Regarding the Silent Sam Monument
Dear Honored Trustees,
Today I write to you in regards to the important issue of Silent Sam. I support the continued existence
of Silent Sam upon his pedestal at the University of North Carolina. The reason is simple and summarized in
one word, opportunity. The monument should be viewed and approached as a tool of learning, that is the true
meaning and nature this and many other monuments. When approaching the issue, it is important to think of
the future, instead of trying to right any wrongs of the past. This discussion and the decision before you can and
will have a ripple effect far beyond the boundaries of the university, the issue and hand effects education within
the country as a whole.
To quote Oliver Stone's documentary Untold History of the United States" ... when I heard from my
children what they were learning at school I was perturbed to hear that they were not really getting a more
honest view of the world than I did. We live much of our lives in a fog, all ofus. But I would rather my
children to have access to something that looks beyond what I call the Tyranny of Now ... ". The key portion of
this quote is the portion relating to that of children receiving an honest view of the world. Students now
received edited, truncated and limited study time to properly examine the most important event in our nation's
history outside of the Revolutionary War. To be able to understand the United States of today one must have a
firm grasp and understanding of the period of the mid-nineteenth century. Silent Sam serves at as a catalyst for
such an opportunity to provide just that to the university.
If the university chooses the path of honesty, the question then becomes what to do with the
opportunity presented? The University of North Carolina, state of North Carolina and the south-land of
America as a whole have a world of resources at their fingertips. The resources available to your institution are
beyond that of other universities as The American Civil War or War Between the States was fought in its and
your own backyards. The resources contained at battlefields, state archives and additional the large amount of
living historians within the state bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to this area. I call upon the trustees
and the university to expand on the programs offering as they relate to the pre-war, war years and reconstruction
years. Offer further classes that expand on the issues of that time period, to create a further understand of what
made the students withdraw from classes and enroll in the Confederate Army, what issues weighed the heaviest
on their mind? What part did the issue of slavery lead to their actions? How did the notion of the federal
government and other states using armed forces to invade and coerce North Carolina effect the students and
population? What does the argument of States Rights really mean? How did nineteenth century North
Carolinian's view of the Constitution, of the United States as a nation and the world differ from today's
understanding? By studying these questions, we can better understand the world we live in today. It has been
said, "those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it, while those who do study history are doomed to
watch others repeat it".
Unfortunately, in today's society the vast majority of students who do not pursue a course of higher
education in American History are relegated to just a few weeks of study on the American Civil War. This is a
grave injustice to not only students of today's time, but also to those people who lived during the darkest time in
our nation's history. I remember the history courses of high school and freshman year of college quite
well. They were less than inspiring, extremely unmotivated, limited in challenging thought and remarkably
biased. There was not an honest view of our nation's past, there were not detailed discussions and the overall
feeling was that there is only one reason or answer as to why events occurred the way they did. Again, to
reference the "fog" of Mr. Stone's quote. The end result is that we have a society is taught what to think and
believe verses how to think for themselves. The critical thinking that should accompany any education a
student receives is then lost as no actual learning has taken place, rather memorization of names and dates takes
its place.
Since the monument removal discussion has been thrown to the forefront, I have personally been
inspired to do my own research to answer many questions that I have. This has included the purchase and
reading of numerous books, watching and listening to countless lectures and visiting numerous battlefields and
interpretive centers as well as attending reenactments. I have been inspired to seek answers for myself, to do
my own research and formulate my own interpretations. In short, I have been inspired and seized the
opportunity in front of me which has given way to a new passion and understanding of our great nation. It is
my sincere hope that both your children and grandchildren as well as mine will have the same resources
available to them for higher learning and to be able to learn to think and reason for themselves.
I call upon the trustees and the university to expand their view of the Silent Sam Monument as an
opportunity to educate, not as a symbol of hatred. Symbols can mean a great deal of things to a great many
people evoking numerous reactions and feelings. However, I call upon you to embrace the resource and
opportunity in front of them which is at risk of disappearing in the wake of political correctness and
appeasement. Challenge not only the students of the University of North Carolina but students and institutions
everywhere to expand their views of our history, to use monuments as inspiration to have a further
understanding of key events and people. Before you stood and should continue to stand of Silent Sam. His
presence links the past to the present and can inspire expanded thought, consideration and behavior of the future
generations to come.
Respectfully yours,
Jonathan Proctor
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**Asa reference I have attached a copy of a chart from the Winter 2017 Civil War Monitor Article Entitled, 'Of
Monuments and Men', the chart contains a suggested approach to the confederate monument decision
How to Make Monumental Decisions
A proposed framework to help navigate a complex issue
Does the statue commemorate

' an individual who inflicted harms
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actionable in a federal court?
Did that individual order the com-

mission of treason, capital crimes,
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incur direct responsibility for them?
Did the individual have a

specific connection to the
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Is the statue used as an active

venue for promoting treason,
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or terrorism?
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only, after this question, with this caveat: Itemize evaluation. Just as a plaque noting mitigating cir-
those mitigations on a plaque on the statue's base, cumstances might be affixed to a monument, a
/
and do it clearly. plaque noting the historical malfeasances of trou-
Even with this, we are not quite at the end of bling men like Robert E. Lee might be bolted to the
decision-making, since the removal of a monu- side of the pedestal their memory calls home. Per-
ment is not the end of an action, but the begin- haps new monuments, visual counterpoints on the
ning. Next comes the hard work of deciding what landscape, could be erected next to the originals to
deserves to replace it, and where the removed help address the trouble in situ. Sometimes simple
monument should go. In some cases, it might be ignorance is the best solution: Hitler's refuge in the
more powerful to leave a monument in place while Obersalzberg today functions as a tearoom, the SS-
reinventing it as an opportunity for judgment and Schule Haus in Wewelsburg .-} coNT. ON P. 74
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WINTER 2017 THE CIVIL WAR MONITOR
Message
From: Chancellor [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=34BE32522A4549BCB309FDDAD4DE781A-SOUTH_CHANC]
Sent: 11/1/2018 11:04:15 AM
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Subject: FW: Letter of support
Attachments: SupportletterChancellor. pdf
From: "Mclaughlin, Richard M" <rmm@email.unc.edu>

Date: F riday, September 7, 2018 at 12:47 PM
To: Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>, Bob Blouin <Bob_Blouin@unc.edu>, Amy Locklear Hertel
<Amy_Hertel@unc.edu>
Cc: "Mclaughlin, Richard M" <rmm@email.unc.edu>, "Christianson, Hans" <hans@unc.edu>
Subject: Letter of support
Attached, please find a letter of support for your August 31, 2018 statement regarding Silent Sam, from assembled
mathematics faculty.
Best wishes,
Rich McLaughlin (Math Chair) and Hans Christianson (Math Diversity Liaison)
Richard M. McLaughlin
Professor and Chair, Department of Mathematics
Carolina Center for
Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics
Chapel Hill, NC, 27599
office: REDACTED
rmm@email.unc.edu
http://mclaughlin.web.unc.edu
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College of Arts and Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
329 PHILLIPS HALL P 919-962-1294

CAMPUS BOX 3250 F 919-962-2568
CHAPEL HILL, NC 27599-3250 www.rnath.unc.ec1u
Friday, September 7, 2018
By an anonymous vote of 19 out of 20 (with one abstention) of our assembled faculty taken on Wednesday,
September 5, 2018, the Department of Mathematics stands in strong opposition to the re-installation of the
Confederate monument known as "Silent Sam" at McCorkle place, in that placing it in a position of
prominence re-affirms a message of discrimination which is contrary to the goals of our university.
We strongly support your August 31, 2018 statement that the Confederate monument does not belong "at the
front door of a safe, welcoming, proudly public research university."
The Department of Mathematics asks for your continued leadership and guidance towards seeking a rational
solution to this complex issue.
Sincerely,
Hans Christianson, Mathematics Diversity Liaison
Rich McLaughlin, Mathematics Chair
and on behalf of the assembled math faculty

Message
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Sent: 11/1/2018 11:05:56 AM
Subject: FW: Statement of 450 UNC-CH Faculty Re: Confederate Monument
From: "Fisher, Edwin B" <fishere@email.unc.edu>

Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 12:10 PM
To: "public@bog.northcarolina.edu" <public@bog.northcarolina.edu>, Haywood Cochrane
<haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com>, "Duckett, Chuck" <duckettc@email.unc.edu>, "juliagrumbles@gmail.com"
<juliagrumbles@gmail.com>, Jeff Brown <jeffbrown@mvalaw.com>, Walter Caudill <wlcaud@email.unc.edu>,
"Hopkins, Kelly Matthews" <hopkinsk@email.unc.edu>, Bill Keyes <wkeyes@email.unc.edu>,
"mccullenre@aol.com" <mccullenre@aol.com>, Ed McMahan <emcmahan@littleonline.com>, Hari Nath
<Hnath45@yahoo.com>, "Stevens, Richard" <richardstevens@unc.edu>, "Stone, Dwight David"
<ddstone@email.unc.edu>, "Putnam, Savannah Kate" <sakate@live.unc.edu>, "president@northcarolina.edu"
<president@northcarolina.edu>, Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>, Bob Blouin <Bob_Blouin@unc.edu>,
"Parise, Leslie V" <leslie_parise@med.unc.edu>, Tj Scott <tj_scott@unc.edu>
Subject: Statement of 450 UNC-CH Faculty Re: Confederate Monument
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
To: UNC Board of Governors, UNC-Chapel Hill Board ofTrustees, President Margaret Spellings, Chancellor Carol Falt,
Provost Robert Blouin, and Leslie Parise, Chair of the UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty
Dear Colleagues,
The 450 faculty of UNC-Chapel Hill listed below have signed the following statement:
We, the undersigned faculty, commend as an important first step Chancellor Folt's August 31, 2018 statement
that the Confederate monument does not belong "at the front door of a safe, welcoming, proudly public research
university." We are determined to have a strong voice in the decision about the disposition of the
monument. We are also encouraged by recent statements by clergy and business leaders in Chapel Hill that
make clear their unequivocal opposition to the reinstallation of the statue in its former location. The civic,
economic, emotional, and cultural well-being of our community, as well as the university's educational mission,
will suffer continued damage by the presence of the monument on Mccorkle Place.
Signed by the following 450 members of the Faculty of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, listed alphabetically
Elizabeth A. Adams, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Adaora A. Adimora, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor, Departments of Medicine and Ep idemiology
Anna Agbe-Davies, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropo logy
Deb Aikat, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Barbara Ambros, Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Allen Anderson, Professor, Department of Music
Kenneth Andrews, Mason Distingu ished Professor, Department of Sociology
Matthew Andrews, Associate Professor, Department of History
William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Javier A. Arce-Nazario, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Jennifer E. Arnold, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
GerShun Avilez, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Florence E. Babb, Harrington Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology
Robert G. Babcock, Alumni Distinguished Professor, Department of Classics
David J. Baker, Peter G. Phialas Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Emily Baragwanath, Associate Professor, Department of Classics
Fadi A. Bardawil, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Anna Bardone-Cone, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Jan Bardsley, Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Deborah Barrett, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Clare L. Barrington, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Daniel Bauer, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Frank R. Baumgartner, Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science
Victoria L Bautch, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology
Misha Becker, Professor, Department of Linguistics
Sylvia Becker-Dreps, Associate Professor, Departments of Family Medicine and Epidemiology
Arthur Benavie, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics
Antonia V. Bennett, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Trude Bennett, Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Maternal and Child Health
Peggy Bentley, Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition
Tamara Berg, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Tracy Bersley, Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Susan Bickford, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Stephen Birdsall, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography
Sarah A. Birken, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Kaci Bishop, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Law
Carole Blair, Professor, Department of Communication
Charlotte Boettiger, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Tara Bohley, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Andrea Bohlman, Assistant Professor, Department of Music
Cheryl Mason Bolick, Associate Professor, School of Education
Jessica A. Boon, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Karen M Booth, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
John P. Bowles, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History
Natalie Bowman, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Lydia Boyd, Associate Professor, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Lois Boynton, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Marcella H. Boynton, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Jane Brown, James L. Knight Professor Emeritus, School of Media and Journalism
Kathleen M. Brown, Professor, School of Education,
William Brown, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Patricia Bryan, Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Melissa Bullard, Professor, Department of History
Kathryn Burns, Professor, Department of History
Emily Burrill, Associate Professor, Departments of of History and Women's and Gender Studies
Justin Byron, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Kia Caldwell, Professor, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Laurie Selz Campbell, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work.
Neal Caren, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Martha Carlough, Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Flora Cassen, Associate Professor, Department of History
Crystal Wiley Cene, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Jan Chambers, Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Mimi Chapman, Professor, School of Social Work.
Selena Childs, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work.
Andrew Chin, Professor, School of Law
Hans Christianson, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Jocelyn Chua, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Daniel M. Cobb, Professor, Department of American Studies
Dana Coen, Professor, Department of Communication
Jessica Cohen, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Lora Cohen-Vogel, Distinguished Professor, School of Education
Stephen R. Cole, Professor, Department of Epidemiology
James Coleman, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Marsha S. Collins, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Pamela Johnston Conover, Burton Craige Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science
Patrick Conway, Professor, Department of Economics
Pamela Cooper, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Shauna M. Cooper, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Gail Corrado, Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Public Policy
Michael Louis Corrado, Arch Allen Professor Emeritus, School of Law
Taylor Cowdery, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Renee Alexander Craft, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Communication
Altha J. Cravey, Associate Professo, Geography Department,
Carole Crumley, Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropo logy
Carolyn E. Crump, Associate Professor, Department of Health Be havior
Elyse Crystal I, Teaching Associate ProfessorDepartment of English and Comparative Literature
Andrew Paul Curley, Assistant Professor, Department of Geograp hy
Tyler Curtain, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Helen Cushman, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Jane Danielewicz, Professor, Department of Eng lish and Comparative Literature
Jean Ann Davison, Clin ical Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Steven Day, Research Associate Professor, School of Socia l Work
Maria DeGuzman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Tonia Deese, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Paul Delamater, Assistant Professor, Department of Geograp hy
Sarah E. Dempsey, Associate Professor, Department of Comm unication
Denise Dews, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Jennifer A. Diliberto, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Education
Dwayne Dixon, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Stud ies
Thad Domina, Associate Professor, Schoo l of Education
Marisa Elena Domino, Professor, Department of Health Po licy and Management
Eduardo de J. Douglas, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History
Janet Downie, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Classics
Eric Downing, Weinberg Distinguished Professor, Departments of German and of English and Comparative Literature
Mark Driscoll, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Al Duncan, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics
Deborah Eaker-Rich, Clinical Professor, School of Education
Connie Eble, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Lori Edmonds, Clinical Assistant Professor, Schoo l of Education
Maxine Eichner, Graham Kenan Professor, School of Law
Geni Eng, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Lawrence S. Engel, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology.
Stepha nie M. Engel, Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Susan Ennett, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Adrienne Erickcek, Ass istant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Em ilio del Va ll e Escalante, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Arturo Escobar, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology
Oswaldo Estrada, Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Sue E. Estroff, Professor, Department of Social Medicine
Michael R. Falvo, Research Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Barbara Fedders, Assistant Professor, School of Law
Marcie Cohen Ferris, Professor Emeritus, Department of America n Studies
William Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Center for Study of the America n South
Laurel A Files, Professor Emeritus, Department of Health Policy and Ma nagement
Jeanne Fischer, Teaching Professor. Department of Music
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Associate Professor, Department of Engl ish and Comparative Literature
Edwin B. Fisher, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Emma Flatt, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Gregory Flaxman, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative
Joseph Fletcher, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
W. Miles Fletcher, Professor Emeritus, Department of History
Mary Floyd-Wilson, Professor, Depa rtm ent of Engl ish and Compa ra tive Literature
Barbara L. Fredrickson, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Thomas Freeman, Teac hing Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Leah Frerichs, Assistant Professor, Department of Heal th Policy and Management
Bruce Fried, Associate Professor, Department of Hea lth Policy and Management
Natalie Fritz, Lecturer, Department of Music
Maggie Fritz-M arkin, Ass istant Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Les lie Frost, Teac hing Associate Professo r, Depa rtment of Engl ish and Comparative Literature
Henry Fuchs, Federico Gil Distinguished Professor, Departme nts of Comp uter Science and Biomedical Engineering
Michele Jonsso n Funk, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Kathleen Gates, Assistant Professo r, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
David F. Garcia, Associate Professor, Depa rtment of Music
Samuel Ray Gates, Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Erik Gellman, Associate Professor, Department of History
Mari lyn Ghezzi, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Brian Gibbs, Assistant Professor, School of Education
S. Elizabeth Gibson, Burton Craige Professor Emerita, School of Law
Rhon da Gibson, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journal ism
Annamae Giles, Clinical Instructor, School of Social Wo rk
Joseph T. Glatthaar, Stephenson Distinguished Professor, Depa rtment of History
Melissa L. Godwin, Clin ica l Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Banu Gokariksel, The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography and Global Studies
Shelley Go lden, Ass istant Professor, De partment of Health Behavior
Carol E. Ga lin, Professor, Department s of Medicine and Health Behavior
Oscar Gonza lez, Ass istant Professor, Depa rt ment of Psych ol ogy and Neuroscience
Pen ny Gordon-Larse n, Professor, Department of Nutrition
Nisha C. Gottfredson, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Melissa B. Gil key, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavio r
Marianne Gingher, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Litera ture
Rachel W. Goode, Assist ant Professor, School of Socia l Work
Sue Goodman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics
Clark Gray, Associate Professo r, Department of Geography
Linda Green, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Jeffrey A. Greene, Assoc iate Professor, Sc hool of Education
Stepha nie Elizondo Griest , Associate Professor and Marga ret Shuping Fellow of Creative Nonfiction, Department of English and
Comparative Literature
M ichael Guti errez, Teaching Ass istant Professor, Department of English and Compa rative Literatu re
Carmen M . Gutierrez, Ass istant Professor, Department of Public Policy
M inrose Gwin, Kena n Em inent Professo r Emerita, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Jacqueline Hagan, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Socio logy
Donald C. Haggis, Professor, Department of Classics
Rob Hami lton, Lecturer, Department of Comm unication
Kathleen Mullan Harris, James Haar Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
Russe ll Harris, Professor Emeritus, Department of Interna l Med icine
Elizabeth Havice, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Geography
Gerardo Heiss, Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Dorothea Heitsch, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Melissa A. Herman, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Gail E. Henderson, Professor, Departments of Social Medicine and Soc iology
Jim Herringt on, Professor, Department of Heal th Behavior
Glenn Hinso n, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and American Studies
Josh Hinson, Clinical Assist ant Professor, School of Social Work
Jo hn Hipps, Clinical Associate Professor, Depa rtment of Pediatrics
Jenni fer Ho, Professor, Department of Eng lish and Compa rative Literature
Fred Ho bson, Li neberger Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Sharon P. Ho lland, Townsend Ludington Term Distinguished Endowed Professor, Department of American Studies
Kristin Ho ndros, Assistant Professor, Depa rtment of Communication
Eric A. Houck, Associate Professor, School of Ed ucation
Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumn i Distinguished Professor, Department of Politica l Science
Daniel M. Huff, Cli nical Associa t e Professor, School of Education and Depa rt ment of Music
Sherick Hughes, Professor, School of Education
Malco lm Ray Hunter, Jr., Adj unct Professor, School of Law
Andrea Hussong, Professor, Department of Psychology an d Neuroscience
Jerma A. Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of History
Melissa Jacoby, Graham Kenan Professor, School of Law
Sharon L. James, Professor, Department of Classics
Kenneth R. Jan ken, Professor, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Robert V.F. Janssens, Edward G. Bilpuch Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Kevin Jeffay, Gillian Cell Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science
Ji-Yeon 0. Jo, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Erica Johnson, Associate Professor, Curriculum in Global Studies
Jeffrey Johnson, A. Ronald Gallant Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry
Trevor A. Jolly, Assistant Professork, Department of Medicine
Anne Jones, Clinical Professor, School of Social Work
Christopher Jones, Guthridge Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics
Deborah J. Jones, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Kris Jordan, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
Kirsten Kainz, Research Professor, School of Social Work
Sheila Kannappan, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Mark Katz, Ruel W. Tyson, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Music
Alexander Keil, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Thomas Kelley, Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Joseph E. Kennedy, Martha Brandis Professor, Department of Law
Jim Ketch, Professor, Department of Music
I. Jonathan Kief, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Kristina Ki llgrove, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Heidi Kim, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Michelle King, Associate Professor, Department of History
Scott Kirsch, Professor, Department of Geography
Sherryl Kleinman, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology,
Shawn M. Kneipp, Associate Professor, School of Nursing
O'Rese J. Knight, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology
Seth Kotch, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies
Lloyd Kramer, Professor, Department of History
Rebecca J. Kreitzer, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
Dr. Beth Kurtz-Castes, Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Lisa Lackmann, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Valerie Lambert, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Michael Lambert, Associate Professor, Departments of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies and of Anthropology
Megan D. E. Landfried, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Marc Lange, Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy
Jennifer Larson, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Miguel La Serna, Associate Professor, Department of History
Jacqueline Lawton, Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Priscilla Layne, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Christian C. Lentz, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Lauren Leve, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Cary Levine, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
Alexandra F. Lightfoot, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Lisa Lindsay, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Department of History
Laura A. Linnan, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Jeannie Loeb, Teaching Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Pamela Lothspeich, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Jennifer Lund, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Carol Magee, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History
Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Associate Professor, Department of History, Director, Center for the Study of the American South
Leslie A. Lytle, Professor, Departments of Health Behavior and Nutrition
Sara Mack, Professor Emerita, Department of Classics
Douglas Maclean, Professor, Department of Philosophy
M. Ben Major, Associate Professor, Departments of Pharmacology and of Computer Science
Ben Major, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
Suzanne Ma man, Professor, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Evyatar Marien berg, Associate Professor, Depart ment of Religious Studies
Timothy Marr, Associate Professor, Depart ment of American Studies
Alejandra Marquez, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Cecil ia Martfnez-Gallardo, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Political Scie nce
Alice E. Marwick, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Jeremy Marzuola, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Megan Matchinske, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature,
Derrick Matthews, Ass istant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Rahsaan Maxwell, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Steve May, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Ketan Mayer-Patel, Associate Professor, Depa rtment of Computer Science
Noreen McDonald, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor, Department of City and Reg ional Planning
Michael McFee, Professor, Department of English and Compa rative Literature
John McGowan. Hanes Distinguished Professor of Eng lish
Aimee M. McHa le, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Leadership Program
Tere nce McIntosh, Associate Professor, Department of History
Louise McReynolds, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Department of History
China Medel, Assistant Professor, Department of Commun ication
Joseph Megel, Artist in Residence, Department of Communication
Benjamin Mason Meier, Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Professor, Depart ment of Public Policy
Hassan Melehy, Professor, Departments of French and Francophone Studies and of English and Comparative Literature
M. Kathryn Menard, UpJohn Distinguished Professor, Depart ment of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ca rla Me rino-Rajme, Assistant Professor, Department: Philosophy
Townsend Middleton, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropo logy.
Cha rles Mitchell, Professor, Department of Bio logy
Jonas Monast, Assistant Professor, School of Law
Beth Moracco, Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior
James Moeser, Chancellor Emeritus
Aaron Moody, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Layna Mosley, Professor, Department of Po litical Science
Jeanne Moska l, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Robert P. Mosteller, Professor, Schoo l of Law
Cheryl Moy, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Kate Muessig, Assistant Professor, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay, Professor of the Practice, Department of Art & Art History
Eric Mul ler, Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Dennis Mumby, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Department of Communication
Andrea Murray-Lichtma n, Assistant Clinical Professor, School of Social Work
Enrique Neblett, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Christopher T. Nelson, Professor, Department of Anthropo logy
Ram Neta, Professor, Department of Ph ilosophy
Rebecca New, Associate Professor, Sc hool of Education
Shu Wen Ng, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition.
Lilly U. Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Gene R. Nichol, Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor, Schoo l of Law
Donna Nixon, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Law
Seth M. Noar, Professor, School of Media and Journalism
George W. Noblit, Joseph R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor, School of Education
Don Nonini, Professor, Department of Anthropology
Tamara H. Norris, Clin ica l Associate Professor, School of Socia l Work
Kari E. North, Professor, Department of Epidemio logy.
Todd Ramon Ochoa, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Donald L. Oehler, Professor, Department of Music
James J. O'Hara, George L. Paddison Professor, Department of Classics
Terence Oliver, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journa lism
Elizabeth Olson, Professor, Department of Geography.
Micha l Osterweil Associate Professor, Curriculum in Global Studies
Susan Harbage Page, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Michael Palm, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Commun ication
Mary Pardo, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History
Patricia Pa rker, Associate Professo r, Department of Comm unication
Eileen R. Carlton Parsons, Professor, School of Education
Lisa Pearce, Professor, Department of Sociology
Louis A. Perez, Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor, Department of History
Kathy A. Perkins, Professor Emerita, Department of Dramatic Art
Krista M. Perreira, Professor, Department of Social Medicine
Andrew J. Perrin, Professor, Department of Sociology
Tony Perucci, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Audrey Pettifor, Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Erica Pettigrew, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
David Pier, Associate Professor, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
John Pickles, Patterson Distinguished Professor, Departments of Geography and of International Studies
Morgan Pitelka, Professor, Department of Asian Studies and Department of History
Inga Pollmann, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature
Don Porter, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Barry M. Popkin, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutrition
Beth S. Posner, Clinical Associate Professor, Schoo l of Law
Adam Price, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Patricia Pukkila, Professor Emerita, Department of Biology
William H. Race, George L. Paddison Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics
Donald J. Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor, Department of History
Shabbar Ranapurwala, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Edward V. Rankus, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Peter Redfield, Professor, Department of Anthropology
Daniel E. Reichart, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Donald Reid, Professor, Department of History
Tom Reinert, Associate Professor, Dept of English and Comparative Literature
Dana K. Rice, Assistant Professor, Public Health Leadership Program
Eliza Richards, Associate Professor,
David Richardson, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
James Rives, Kenan Eminent Professor, Department of Classics
Michele Rivkin-Fish, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology.
Xue Lan Rong, Professor, School of Education
Chris Roush, Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Victoria Ravine, Professor, Department of Art and Art History
Gillian Russell, Professor, Department of Philosophy
John Pickles, Patterson Distinguished Professor of Geography and International Studies
Graeme Robertson, Professor, Department of Political Science
Michelle Robinson, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
Nora Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Carolina Sa Carvalho, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Eunice Sa hie, Associate Professor, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Ruth Salvaggio, Professor Emerita, Departments of English and Comparative Literature and American Studies
Patricia Sawin, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
Justin Sawon, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
C. Margaret Scarry, Professor, Department of Anthropology
Cynthia Schauer, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry
Brigitte Seim, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
Jeff Sekelsky, Professor, Departments of Biology and Genetics
Theodore M. Shaw, Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Paschal Sheeran, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Margaret Sheridan, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Daniel J. Sherman, Lineberger Distinguished Professor, Departments of Art History and History
Tanya L. Shields, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Pam Silberman, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Kumarini Silva, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Bland Simpson, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature
Elin O'Hara Slavick, Professor, Department of Art
Becky Slifkin, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Karla Slocum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Jason B. Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Jay M. Smith, Professor, Department of History
Sara Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Conghe Song, Professor, Department of Geography.
Jeffrey Son is, Associate Professor, Departments of Social Medicine and Family Medicine
Sally Stearns, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Julea Steiner, Assistant Professor, Public Health Leadership Program
John D Stephens, Lenski Professor, Departments of Political Science and Sociology
Chad A Stevens, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Lynda Stone, Samuel M. Holton Distinguished Professor, School of Education
Deborah Stroman, Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Alison Stuebe, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Randall Styers, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Mathew R. Swiatlowski, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies
Lindsey Smith Taillie, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition
Deborah Tate, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Beverly Taylor, Professor Department of English and Comparative Literature
Matthew Taylor, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Todd Taylor, Norman and Dorothy Eliason Distinguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Eva H. Telzer, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
J. Michael Terry, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
Meenu Tewari, Associate Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
James Thompson, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of America Honors Distinguished Term Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Silvia Tomaskova, Professor, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and Anthropology
Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
Kimberly P. Truesdale, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition
Lien Truong, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History
Michael Tsin, Associate Professor, Department of History
Katherine Turk, Associate Professor, Department of History
Karolyn Tyson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Sociology.
Vaughn Mamlin Upshaw, Professor of the Practice, Public Health Leadership Program
Gabriela Valdivia, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Tonya B. Van Deinse, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Sarah Verbiest, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work.
Adam Versenyi, Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Ariana Vigil, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Anissa Vines, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Joseph Viscomi, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Robin Visser, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Lisa Vizer, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Neeta Vora, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Lynne Walter, Adjunct Instructor, School of Social Work
Colin S. Wallace, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Daniel Wallace, Distinguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Benjamin C. Waterhouse, Associate Professor, Department of History
Harry L. Watson, Atlanta Distinguished Professor in Southern Culture, Department of History
Eric King Watts, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Marty Weems, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Tin Wegel, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Jonathan Weiler, Teaching Associate Professor, Global Studies
Jennifer Weinberg-Wolf, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Sam Weir, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Sharon S Weir, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Deborah M. Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Ellen R. Welch, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Brett Whalen, Associate Professor, Department of History
Kathryn Williams, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Rachel Willis, Professor, Department of American Studies
Erika K. Wilson, Reef C. Ivey II Term Professor, School of Law
Erica H. Wise, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
F. Charles Wiss, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Brent Wissick, Professor, Department of Music
Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy
Jessica Wolfe, Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Classics, and Romance Studies
Richard Wolfenden, Alumni Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Courtney G. Woods, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Cecil W. Wooten, Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics
Alex Worsnip, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Gesche Wurfel, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History
Nadia Yaqub, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Claudia Yaghoobi, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Karin Yeatts, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Edwin B. Fisher, Ph.D.

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Date: Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 8:54 AM
Subject: Invitation to faculty discussion series on disposition of Confederate statue
September 30, 2018
Dear Facully Colleagues
Chancellor Fo1t and the Board of Trustees have been asked to explore options for the disposition of
lhe Confederate slatue known as Silenl Sam. They are seeking input from a variety of constituenls,
including faculty. To assist in this process, the Office of Faculty G-ovemanee is offering a series of
brainstorming sessions to give faculty across campus the opportunity to provide constructive input
about possible next steps. Members of the Facully Executive Committee (FEC) have volunteered lo
lead these sessions. l invite as many of you as possible to participate sinee we are looking for a w--ide
range of idea,_-:.
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From: Phillip Burnette <phillip@burnettefinancial.com>

Date: Friday, October 12, 2018 at 12:12 PM
Subject: stop apologizing
I saw a headline this morning where you were apologizing for UNC at Chapel Hill for the past links to slavery. Were you
or anyone currently on the faculty a part of something that was history over 100 plus years ago? History is both good
and bad in all countries. The fact that today we view slavery as an abomination, does not change the fact that at one
time slavery was a normal course of life for all parties involved. I am thankful we as a country and as a people have
evolved from those attitudes and have made more strides to correct those wrongs than any other country in the
world. How much longer do we need to apologize for what was normal at the time?
Universities would be much better served to teach history from the viewpoint of the historical times in which they
happened, and not from today's modern view of morality. Maybe then you wouldn't have statues being torn down, and
protest to re-name buildings, and your own professors being arrested for leading those events. We simply cannot erase
history. We must learn from history and if we erase events which we now view as wrong, are we not likely to repeat
them?
Do not think this opinion here is just small majority. Outside the walls of university academia, there is a large majority
who feel as I that to continue to apologize and tear down history does not serve the best interest of anyone.
I am deeply sadden by the recent events at UNC but I hope you take these comments as constructive criticism in the
manner in which they are intended.
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From: Carol Folt <carol.folt@unc.edu>

Date: Thursday, November l, 2018 at 2: 10 PM
To: Amy Locklear Hertel <Amy_Hertel@unc.edu>
Subject: FW: Faculty Welfare Committee support of Faculty Council Resolution 2018-5
FYI - Please add to information. Thank you.
From: Gibson, Rhonda

Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 12:01 PM
To: Falt, Carol Lynn <carol.folt@unc.edu>; Leslie Parise, Chair of the Faculty <facultychair@unc.edu>
Cc: Tanner, Jessica L. <jltanner@email.unc.edu>; Sevea, Iqbal Singh <isevea@email.unc.edu>; Regester, Charlene
<regester@email.unc.edu>; Ochoa, Todd Ramon <tochoa@email.unc.edu>; Mohanty, Suchi
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Subject: Faculty Welfare Committee support of Faculty Council Resolution 2018-5
Dear Chancellor Folt and Faculty Chair Parise: As chair of the Faculty Welfare Committee, I am writing to let
you know that all voting members of this committee wholeheartedly support Faculty Council Resolution 2018-5
in support ofUNC Black faculty on the permanent removal of Silent Sam from campus. We hope you will take
this information into consideration when making a decision about the future of the statue and its base.
Sincerely,
Rhonda Gibson
Faculty Welfare Committee Members: Muge Calikoglu, Rhonda Gibson, Timothy Ives, Suchi Mohanty, Todd
Ochoa, Charlene Regester, Iqbal Sevea, and Jessica Tanner
Dr. Rhonda Gibson
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Associate Professor
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Subject: Silent Sam
My concern is not for the final resting place of Sil ent Sam but for the way this debacle has been hand led. Silent Sam is an alleged hot
button because of the Civil War and the issue of slavery. It has been a known hot but ton for many years and protests have been
mounted for many years. Not until a mob pulled the statue down, did the fo lk in charge initiat e a process that wou ld recommend a
fina l disposition. That mob was not reacting t o any new information but was simply filling the vo id left by the inaction of UNC
leaders.
There is a process for handling things of this nat ure but that process was preempted by mob action. That is quite offensive to
me. No one in cha rge dealt with the issue. No process was fo ll owed. No open debate, which would have allowed a defense of
Silent Sam, was conducted. Nothing but the unruly mob.
That should have been embarrassing to the Administration, which has ignored the issue for forever. That was embarrassing to me as
a graduate. That was embarrassing to me as a long-ti me donor. That was embarrassing t o me as a parent who sent all four ch il dren
to UNC. That was embarrassing to me as a grandparent who has t aken pride tha t t wo grandchildren have att ended UNC. That was
embarrassing to me as a citizen in Charlotte who is a proud Tar Heel .
As you may have gathered by now I am not a fan of mobs. I am a big fan of due process. I am not a fan of ad ministrators who are
paid generously to ant icipate and mit igate (as opposed to react) . Th is was handled poo rly from the beginning, through t he middle,
and we ll into the, hopeful ly, end phase.
For incompetence of t his magn itude many head coaches have been terminated .
W hy have process if mob action is allowed to tru mp process? W hy have process if that process is ignored?
Go Heels!
John W. C. Entwistle, Jr
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From: Gina Young
Sent: 11/1/2018 10:56:30 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

I am strongly in favor of returning silent Sam to his previous location. This is an historic statue
erected in memory of the NC civil war dead. Confederate soldiers have been declared to be legal us
veterans and we should not be disturbing these places of honor. I sincerely wish we would take our cues
from Gettysburg, which has publicly declared that they will not remove any memorials to the civil war
dead, including the ones erected in honor of southern soldiers. The civil War is a fact of history.
The University, by virtue of its age, inexplicably has ties to the civil War that should and can not be
ignored. Respectfully, only citizens of NC and UNC alum should have anything to say about this decision.
Certainly, members of Antifa from out of state should have NO opinion in this matter.
Besides being of immense historical value, silent Sam is a beautiful work of art and an iconic feature of
the campus. It should be returned immediately to its pedestal. I would suggest we encase it in plexiglass
like they have done quite successfully in Mecklenburg county in order to fulfill the "public safety"
requirement of your plan (I would like to add that there wou l d be no concerns for public safety if not
for the mob violence and protests) and I suggest we add a plaque to contextualize the statue. But it
needs to go back where it belongs as the law requires. Thank you,
Gina Young
'78 '93
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From: bern kosek
Sent: 11/2/2018 11:16:59 AM
Subject: statue(s)
Hello,
I have some ideas regarding the statue at UNC. I am new to North
Carolina and interested in the idea of Confederate statues.
I hear comments that these statues are patriotic, that the south is
honoring the death of their comrades. I find the idea of celebrating
death and murder important although the idea of celebrating
seditionists (that lost) unusual.
Defined
confederacy lkan'fedarasel
noun ( pl. -cies)
a league or alliance, esp. of confederate states.
( the Confederacy) another term for Confederate States of America
an alliance formed for an unlawful purpose; a conspiracy.
It seems that since the Confederates were against the us, they were
more like terrorists. so why would there be permanent images of this
insurrection?
I can understand that many folks are uncomfortable with this reminder
of that war. I think we do need to remember but finding another
recollection might be healthier. The statue celebrates one soldier
(who attended the University) in a troop of soldiers. Where is the
celebration of the lives that were lost, damaged and the peace that
was lost?
There is a thing they do in Germany where they replace pavement
cobbles with bronzed cobbles with names and dates of people who
perished at the hands of the Nazis.
How healing wou l d it be if the south of the U.S. put up plaques of
people that died in that war, soldiers from both sides and those that
were lynched?
The plaques could be different colors to recognize the place(s) as
having been the site of battle loss or murder of slaves. For example,
a bronze plaque shows a military death and a silver plaque for
civilian death. so when folks are walking down the street in Durham or
Raleigh they could notice a plaque that mentions the name of the
person that was lynched there.
Moreover, silent Sam is labeled "Memorial to civil War soldiers of the
University." Where is the statue of the University students .
- who through all the wars stood for peace and understanding?
- saved lives?
- contributed in other significant ways to society?
There are many other Confederate statues around the state. If they
should remain, what about creating a park that commemorates this?
Residents from Alamance county seems to have a high interest in this
subject, a Memorial Park could be created there. It could have a
walking path passing the statues, have text explaining them and talk
about the original locations from around the state. The other statues
around the state could be collected and placed in this park.
Appropriate signage could be placed indicating the relocation. There
could also be a meadow with markers representing those that were
killed, North and south. They would be permanent and display the
magnitude of loss. Manassas Battlefield Park in Virginia has walking
tour like this.
There is writing that suggests the south attempt at secession was due
to taxation rather than s l avery. I have difficulty resolving that idea
as the slave owners still kept, pursued escapees and killed slaves.
The idea that a bunch of pseudo political businessmen and rich land
owners riled up their neighbors to fight for the right to enslave
other human beings. Many of the rich landowners and their sons did
not even fight and were able to hi re subst itutes to serve and
exemptions for rich and influential is reminiscing of Vietnam War and
conscription of that time .
so overall it does not seem that the American civil War was a war of al l peop l e.
Bern Kosek
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From: Ronnie Hamlin
Sent: 11/3/2018 1:52:23 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

I have thought about the controversy concerning Silent Sam for several months now. While to some degree I feel the
statue could be construed as honoring a negative time in our countries history there is NO doubt that what was done to
tear the monument down was illegal. First off I was highly disappointed in the response of the Chapel Hill police and the
UNC police while they observed an obvious crime being committed. A university is SUPPOSED to be a learning institute,
Why weren't these people taught about laws and how to go about changing the laws. Instead they were taught that if they
don't like something it is OK to break the law if they feel what they are doing is morally just. Shame on the university, the
Chapel Hill police, and the UNC police. Rest assured, unless Silent Sam is put back on its pedestal I will NEVER spend
another penny of my hard earned money in Chapel Hill or any UNC events . Remember, those that don't learn from
history are destined to repeat it. Thank you for taking the time to read my views on this matter.
Sincerely,
RJ Hamlin
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Subject: Silent Sam
I believe you should put Silent Sam in a Civil War museum somewhere. To do otherwise would be wrong for the soldiers
who fought
and the current attitude towards the civil war.
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Subject: Let's Lead Society Forward - Remove the statue & pedestal and start hosting difficult conversations
Led By Excellence
Leading With Humanity
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was built on the promise of education for all; committed to
leading the change for greater good. For more than 200 years, we've been defining and redefining what it
means to discover, to create and to educate . We are poised to lead society forward, closer to a world of
opportunity and prosperity for all kind.
Dear Chancellor Folt & UN C's Board of Trustees,
Wow. I'm so proud to work for a University that not only values all members of its community but has
made the forefront of its latest campaign to value the humanity of all kind.
This is a crucial moment in honoring that campaign with action.
Silent Sam was a constant physical reminder of North Carolina's historic blatant disregard for the
humanity of Black people. The statue that glorified those who died fighting for slavery runs afoul of our
shared mission Carolina for All Kind.
We have come such a long way since 1913, but we still have a long ways to go. I hope Carolina will lead us
forward at this crucial moment. My interpretation of that sentiment includes removing the entire base of
the statue (in addition to what was already remoed) and not returning it to UNC's campus.
I also think there are many many layers of difficult and important conversations related to race, white
privilege, implicit bias, and poverty that need to be happening. I know that Carolina could be a leader in
that realm. I highly recommend the facilitators at Open Source Leadership Strategies as a partner in
thinking about how to structure, advertise, and create safe spaces for these conversations.
Thank you,
Katie Stoudemire
UNC Employee since 2011
Katie Stoudemire
Wonder Connection Program Manager
North Carolina Botanical Garden
sciencekatie@unc.edu
www.wonderconnection.org
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Subject: Silent Sam Confederate statue on UNC campus: Ideas sought
Dear Ms. Folt / UNC Trustees:
First of all, thank you for soliciting ideas from the public on how best to consider the future of this statue on the
UNC Chapel Hill campus. Too often, it seems increasingly that emotional decisions are made without
thoughtful process - so in this case I thank you for taking some time to gather feedback and think through
different ideas.
Next, not being a person of color I readily admit that I cannot fully grasp the feelings that Silent Sam (and
similar statues) may cause. While I am a student of history (and believe that history is vitally important for
successful societies to build successful futures), I also agree that all society should be considerate of how one
"view" may impact others in our community.
My suggestion for Silent Sam - and other statues around the country - is to complement the information to help
those who view the statue understand more fully the slavery, civil war, and North Carolina history. Along
with the statue of Silent Sam statue, add additional information and resources that could help people learn more
and drive dialogue. The statue could be complemented with materials that describe the context - Why did
North Carolinians fight? What role did African-Americans play in the war? Who were key influencers in the
antebellum African-American South? How did African-Americans - and all North Carolinians - work to
reconcile society after the war, and what challenges did they face? Perhaps Silent Sam is even joined with
another statue or marker commemorating the significant contributions made by notable African-Americans in
North Carolina.
The important on how to address our history is an important one. However, as you consider this important
decision, I hope that you will find ways to embrace our history - and enhance it - rather than remove it
altogether.
Thank you again for asking for public input.
Best regards,
Jim Thompson

From: Jim Thompson <
Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 3:49 PM

Subject: Silent Sam Confederate statue on UNC campus: Ideas sought I News & Observer
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Silent Sam Confederate statue on UNC campus: Ideas sought I News & Observer
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From: Schneider, Joel (NC H&V) [Joel.Schneider2@unchealth .unc.edu]
Sent: 11/4/2018 4:03:24 PM
Subject: Fwd: Silent Sam and Medical Alumni Council
Here is the letter I proposed and discussed at the medical alumni council meeting. I believe it represents many of our
medical alumni and speaks to the health consequences of the upcoming decision regarding the disposition of Silent Sam
a
I have copied the letter below.
Joel E. Schneider, MD
Class of 1981 and 1985
October 12, 2018
Dear Chancellor Falt and the Board of Trustees:
UNC medical alumni across the country have long fought against any form of racial animus or discrimination on our alma
mater's campus. With this in mind, we write to oppose the return of Silent Sam to UNC's campus.
The medical community and UNC Medical Center is not immune to racism. One of our first black medical students, Dr.
James Slade, recalls being told to work on the black patient wards and not to examine white female patients on his
obstetrics rotation. [ll Black doctors in this state have been denied hospital privileges and suffered through a long, slow,
integration into the medical school. Black patients in this state have fared even worse, treated in separate hospitals and
2
wards, experimented on without consent, and subjected to the absurdities of eugenics. [ l Even today, institutional
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Celelski, David (2001) "Listening to History," News and Observer. Published 2/11/2001
121
Kaelber, Lutz, (2014) "Eugenics/Sexual Sterilization in North Carolina," University of Vermont and students in HCOL195,
racism limits African-Americans' access of care, excludes them from Medicaid expansion, and denies them equitable
treatment for minority populations. More subtly, but just as tragically, racism, often swiftly followed by social rejection
and blocked economic opportunities, causes psychosocial stress and limits access to healthy life-styles, preventive care,
3
and treatment. [ l These untoward health effects can span generations causing behavioral and possibly biological
processes.
This is not our opinion; it is a scientific fact. Currently in North Carolina, African Americans have a lower life-expectancy,
as well as reduced live births and increased infant mortality, than their Caucasian counterparts. Serious diseases like
hypertension, diabetes and coronary heart disease are less adequately treated in the African-American community.
4
[ l African -American men, statistically the most likely to suffer from heart disease (and at a younger age), are also more
likely to die from it. [sJ Quite simply, the medical community has long understood that racial disparities in healthcare
exist, and at least some of these disparities can be traced to institutional racism. As physicians, we have a responsibility
to address these racial health disparities both for individuals as well as the community.
This brings us back to Silent Sam. The presence of a confederate statue on UNC's campus implicitly pays homage to
those who promoted slavery, which shamefully minimizes the suffering of black people in this country. Displaying a
cultural marker of one of the darkest times of US history without actively condemning the injustice of slavery, let alone
celebrating it, is unacceptable. No argument of nostalgia, cultural preservation, or supposed neutrality outweighs the
pain and exclusion that such a statue perpetuates. Those who argue that Silent Sam's presence on campus is not racism
are simply wrong. Racism can occur on multiple levels, explicitly or indirectly. Statues like Silent Sam are cultural
communications of racism, conveying a message that African-Americans are not deserving of equal opportunity or
protections against unfair treatment. Recall that in the first Article of the Confederate Constitution includes this
provision: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in Negro slaves shall
5
be passed." [ l In other words, the document foresees the continuation of slavery forever. We do not wish to undermine
the genuine feelings of those who wish for the statue's return, but those feelings are rooted in a misguided nostalgia for
an era only some could ever hope to appreciate, and even then, for all the wrong reasons.
In short, we stand strongly with the faculty and students who have petitioned the University to make the correct
decision. Respectfully, we urge the university not to return Silent Sam to his pedestal and, in fact question whether he
should be placed on any pedestal at all.
Signed:
Joel E. Schneider, MD FACC
Class of 1985
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Wil liams, D.R. and Mohammed, S.A. (2009) "Discrimination and racial disparities in health: Evidence and needed research,"
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 32
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North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics NCDHHS.ggy 2015
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Redberg, Rita "Gender, Race, and Cardiac Care: Why the Difference?" JACC Vol 46, Issue 10, November 2005 .
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To: Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>, Amy Locklear Hertel <Amy_Hertel@unc.edu>, Joe Canady
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Subject: Student Safety in wake of monument toppling
Dear Chancellor/Staff,
Let me first say I appreciate the words offered to the Carolina community by your office. My wife is a UNC graduate and
our son is currently attending UNC this year, so it is a joyful and yet sad time for our family. With our son being a young
African-American male, we were very concerned regarding his safety during these latest protests. It is our sincere hope
that the campus does not decide to hide behind the fact that although the Silent Sam statue/monument represents a
piece of North Carolina history, it is not a history to be proud of. I don't want to take up too much of your time, however
I felt it necessary to make this appeal to your office for this university to send a message to all those that would use
symbols of hatred and injustice that UNC Chapel Hill is first and foremost an institution of higher learning and does not
strive to be a reminder of a painful past. We will be praying for the faculty and students that tensions will ease and that
love and reason will prevail. Please consider our plea and take every measure not to replace the Silent Sam statue.
Sincerely
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From: Ron Scales
Sent: 11/5/2018 5:29:16 PM
CC: Dr. Coleman I
Subject: Silent Sam
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Benjamin Ronald Scales

UNC-CH 1986
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From: Jay L
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:13:02 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am in favor of the monument being erected where it has always been. I am in favor of the resignation of Dr.
Folts.
Jay Lester
Lifetime GAA member
Currently a former library donor.
Message
From: Clement Schrader
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:17:38 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
In my opinion one can not and should not try to e rase history unpleasant as i t may be . It would seem to
make sense to place the statue in perhaps a less prominent location .
Along the same lines it seems on the verge of being absurd to question any structure named for someone
who owned slaves . There would be a very long list going back to the founders of our country . It is part
of our history . Like anything else the zealo us reactions can get out of hand and are al ready do i ng do .
Message
From: Emma Sherrill
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:18:07 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put silent Sam back in his original place and have 24 hour guard.
Gary and Emma Sherrill
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From: Barb Smith [
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:18:36 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As an alumni and Rams Club member, I am sickened that the university allowed a mob of people to damage Silent Sam in
the first place. The statue was placed there in memory of past students and North Carolinians who died in a war. This is
a part of our history and should not be erased. The history behind it should be ACCURATELY taught! Not the watered
down revisionist history the media and my past TA provided. Part of a developing nation is the history and evolution of
that is goes through. Teach it accurately!
Keep Silent Sam where it is and prosecute the idiots that vandalized it to the broadest extent of the law. If they are
students, they should be expelled. And perhaps take more action in dispelling these stupid mob actions in the first place.
As an alumni, I'm tired of constantly seeing my university made a mockery of in the news.
Thanks,
Barb Smith, '86

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Sent: 11/6/2018 1:20:37 PM
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From: Mike Austin
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:22:30 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I a saddened to read of the ongoing efforts by some current and former students as well as faculty and
administration officials to rewrite the history of our country by removing "Silent Sam' from the University of
North Carolina campus. Racial injustice is just that. It is injustice directed upon individuals based upon who
they are and what they believe. Removing a statue will never rewrite the history or correct the injustice leveled
against blacks in this country. If history could be rewritten the injustice would not be known after a few
generations have passed.
I am disappointed.
Message
From: Ken Smith [ksmith@parkstreetcapital.com]
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:26:16 PM
Subject: please, please do not return Silent Sam to Mccorkle Place
• Memorial Hall more than does justice to the duty of and sacrifices made by soldiers .
• It will continue to be a lightning rod and magnet for attracting bad elements - most not affiliated with the
University.
• The undeniably racists speeches associated with its installment.

Message
From: Tracy Thomason
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:26:30 PM
Subject: Keep Silent Sam Oncampus
Removing history - no matter how disturbing it may be in hindsight - opens the door to denial it
happened. History should be complete, both good and bad, lest we forget or repeat past mistakes.
Tracy E. Thomason, Pharm.D.

Class of 1992
Class of 1994
Message
From: Erica C Spencer I
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:26:48 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a 2006 graduate of UNC and a practicing lawyer in DC. I think the University should have taken Silent
Sam down themselves, and I applaud the students for doing what the University was unwilling to do. The
statue is a racist symbol and a rallying point for white supremacists. That was its purpose when it was erected,
and that is how it functioned on campus until it was removed. The University must not put it back on its
pedestal on campus.
If there must be another home for it, it should go into a museum, where it can be contextualized as one part of
our nation's nasty history of slavery, racism, and white supremacy.
Best,
Erica Spencer
Message
From: bob thomas
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:37:35 PM
Subject: Silent Sam should be returned to his original spot.
Perhaps there could be an explanation of why the statue was erected and why it still stands.
James Thomas '71

Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:40:36 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I believe Silent Sam should have a new home and not the one it occupied in the heart of the campus for almost one
hundred years. This is because I can now better understand the intent of the original construction during the Jim Crow
period, what it stood for then by many, not all, and why it came down in an abrupt, perhaps long overdue, fall from
grace in 2018. While I do not approve of violence or mayhem in addressing political/historical problems, I know that
truth and morality must prevail at all times, that often it takes young, clear-eyed youth to see what their elders cannot
or will not see. Thus having learned of the (perhaps benign) motivation behind and symbolism of Silent Sam in its
originality, it is now not a statue that I will miss ... although I enjoyed its virginal mythology in the late S0's when I was a
student at UNC.
I urge the University to look for a museum type setting to preserve the statue but with a fuller explanation of why it was
built and why it was finally relocated.REDACTED
Message
From: Ira Miller [
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:59:09 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a graduate of UNC, Class of 1966, and a life member of the GAA.
I feel very strongly that Silent Sam should be returned to its original site, and be protected as any UNC property
should be protected. The criminals who defaced the statue should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,
and dealt with by the University as any criminal or vandal would be. A political view is not justification to
destroy university property, whether from the left or the right.
Furthermore, Chancellor Folt's "apology" for the university's "participation" in slavery was totally unnecessary
and simply pandering to a political ideology. Slavery was the legal and was a generally accepted social
condition at the time of the founding of the university. The fact that it is now considered unacceptable under
21st century scrutiny does not alter that fact, and any apology is superfluous. As an example, if vegetarians one
day in the future become the prevalent force in this country, will the future chancellor be obligated to apologize
for serving hamburgers in the cafeterias?
History is history. Teach it, without trying to alter or reject what it reveals. Horrible things have occurred. The
history of the Christian church is replete with atrocities against those who disagreed with them. Should the
university be required to apologize for their acts, as surely the university has supported churches on campus in
the past? The same could be said about the "colonizing" of America. The treatment of indigenous Indians was
horrific, worse than slavery, as white settlers, including UNC participants, essentially destroyed the culture and
civilization of those who were here before us as our "eminent domain." There are numerous other examples in
history. Carolina was named after Charles I, who was tried, convicted and executed for treason. Is that a fitting
role model for the university to be named after? Will Ms. Folt advocate changing the name of the University?
When will this nonsense end?
I had left a reasonably sizeable bequest to Carolina in my will, as I truly love the place. There were injustices
during my years (1962-66) at UNC, and probably at any other four year period, but that is history. Leave it
alone. Ms. Holt's actions and others materially affect my feelings toward my alma mater, and I am not
alone. A young UNC student called the other day to encourage me to continue my annual contributions to the
College of Arts & Sciences. I expressed my concerns above, and she told be that it was not an uncommon
response. Consider the cost of alienation of some of our alumni compared to whatever you think you may
benefit from groveling at the altar of "political correctness." Your choices will certainly impact my actions in
the future.
Ira Miller
Columbia, SC
Class of 1966
GAA Life Member #66
Message
From: Ande H
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:04:10 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I totally concur with the words of rVhitney Skeen '92. l)NC-Clf is qfter all an instate of higher education and
Silent Sam should be used as a teaching tool. Definitely there should be another statute depicting a slave or
slavery or maybe an AJrican American soldier who fought for the Union, but above all there rnust be plaques
with accurate historical explanation and, just as iinportantly a rededication, to erase the racist dedication that
occurred originally,
Tearing down the statue was an act of violence and hooliganism. Understandable, but not something that should
be allowed to occur at a university dedicated to free speech and peaceful protests.
Anderson D. Harkov '82
Anderson D. Harkov, Esq.

*Certified English Tutor for Bagrut, Meitsav, and Reading Fluency
*Qualified Guide at Yad Vashem
*U.S. Notary
*Legal Practice Emphasizes Appellate Briefs and Legal Research in Criminal Law & Procedure
Message
From: Dick & Jean Lynch
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:04:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The monument should be returned to its original place and remain there. It is a disservice to those
who originally erected the monument. It is a travesty to do anything else with it or place it somewhere
else. The current student population needs to understand what we alumni have long understood -
you cannot change history nor erase it from your mind by moving a statue.
C. H. Lynch, Jr.
Class of 1969
~
Message
From: Peter Spies
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:07:21 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Slavery was a wretched episode in American History and celebrating the fighting men who supported slavery is
reprehensible. However, as a student at Chapel Hill 10 decades ago and as a white student, I didn't see Silent
Sam as anything but a stupid joke. At orientation we were told that Silent Sam would fire his rifle whenever a
virgin coed walked across his path. It was a bit of frivolous tradition; something to giggle at. My father
graduated from UNC in 1937 and he told me the same silly legend when he came to visit the campus with me. I
would vote to keep it; if some people are offended, I would say the world isn't perfect and we all have to learn
to live with its imperfections. I loved my four years at UNC, but many things offended me when I was there. I
chose to focus my time and energy on the advantages that UNC offered. If Silent Sam is removed, what will be
the next complaint? Will South building be razed because it housed Confederate soldiers (I think)? Where will
all of this stop?
Message
From: Ronald Rusnak
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:09:56 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put him back where he belongs and prosecute anyone who tries to move him.
He is part of our history.
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Mike Menius l
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:12:13 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
It isn't just about the statue. We need full input from all parts of
the community, to help us choose an overall plan for moving forward.
There are many ways to commemorate, not just a statue. whatever we do
should reflect our vision for UNC's future, while embracing all aspects
of our past.
suggestion: call for proposals for an appropriate and inspiring use of
the space where the statue once stood.
Mike Menius class of 1968
Message
From: clehmannl
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:18:25 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
As an undergraduate at Chapel Hill, I had no understanding of what "Silent Sam" represented or any appreciation for its
impact on those who viewed it. I did not connect Silent Sam with racism. Today however is different and in my view, we
must act differently.
I do not think we should try to erase the past but should put it in context. I would support placing "Silent Sam" in a setting
that provides an historically accurate view of race and racism in North Carolina . The good and the bad . This would
include the sit-ins in Greensboro that helped trigger the civil rights movement, the conviction of an innocent black boy in
Oxford, NC (Blood Done Sign My Name), Soul City, and the much more recent protests, "Moral Mondays," led by the
Rev. William Barber.
Thank you for your consideration .
Charlie Lehmann
Message
From: Higdon, Penny
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:23:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I wonder if there would be a place for Silent Sam in one of the libraries on campus?
Message
From: Sara Ryan
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:24:30 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think silent Sam could be placed in the Wilson Library. It's inappropriate to keep him as a monument
on campus, especially since he is likely to continue to be controversial for years to come in his current
location. Place him in a museum where he can be regarded as a relic of the past, honoring our school's
history while underlining the fact that we have moved forward.
Sara Scheller Ryan
MBA 2017
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Ann Dorsett -
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:26:22 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Like any old, decrepit building that has fallen to the hammering ball at Chapel Hill, it is time for Silent Sam to
go. As a university that likes to call itself a "University of the people, for the people", it's time to walk the talk.
Esse quam videri.
The history related to Silent Sam, including the horrifying unveiling speech, make it imperative that Silent Sam
be melted down and used as a commemorative coin to sell to alumni (a la the bricks from Old East) who think
keeping Silent Sam is a good or necessary idea .
I came to Chapel Hill in the fall of '78 and found, as a woman, the "humorous myth" about Sam only being able
to fire his gun when a virgin walked by to be offensive. That myth remained intact and remains offensive
today.
Silent Sam is a positive image for the few, and a negative reminder of how long the road to freedom and
equality is for people of color and for women.
As a descent of Matthew McCauley, my family has a long history of involvement with UNC-Chapel Hill. My
great grandfather, Joseph Jenkins, graduated in 1886, years after the Civil War ended and years before Silent
Sam was commissioned. Silent Sam is not a war memorial erected shortly after a war to honor those who
fought and lost their lives. Instead, it is a vestige of Jim Crow and the refusal of some to recognize that the goal
of the Confederacy was wrong in 1861 and remains wrong more than 100 years after the Confederacy lost the
war.
Best regards,
Ann Dorsett (AB. 1982, J.D. 1989)

Message
From: Andrea Brinn
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:26:26 PM
Subject: grow a sp ine
Why is this so hard? Stop the handwringing and get rid of Silent Sam. I don't care what you do with it. Toss it in
a dumpster, sell it for scrap, bury it, whatever. Stop listening to strident racist alumni who might have donated
a little money to the school and have bigger mouths than brains.
Andrea Brinn, '04, '14

Message
From: Molly Bourne [mbourne@bourne-partners.com]
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:27:35 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a 1993 alumnus. I believe that Silent Sam should be moved and put in an area with other monuments that
recognize other parts of the history of the university. I suggest you ask your historians. There are many different people
who represent the history of the college. To have 1 is not representative. The history of the University is not all white
and all male. We can do better. This is an opportunity to lead the way ...
Mary Whitehurst Bourne

Charlotte
Message
From: Tom Stevens i
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:32:08 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Put i t back!
Sent from my iPhone

Message
From: Megan Bishop
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:32:48 PM
Subject: Do not replace Silent Sam
I'm an alum of UNC School of Law.
Silent Sam has no place on our campus. We do not need the statue to remember the 246 years of chattel slavery
in the British colonies and U.S. republic. As a premier academic institution, I'm confident that students can gain
a thorough understanding of the Civil War and Jim Crow era segregation and white supremacy through classes
and programs. This statue was erected expressly to commemorate a rebellion against the United States centered
primarily on keeping black and brown people in bondage; that symbolism cannot be erased by claims of
"heritage." Any presence of this statue on our campus ignores the deep and unhealed scars of slavery and white
supremacy.
The statute should be destroyed or disposed of and the pedestal still on our campus removed. If the University
feels strongly about keeping this statue that has alienated so many, it should be kept in a place without honor
and contextualized for the hatred it represents. Another option is to donate the statue to the North Carolina
Museum of History where it can be held away from the daily lives of students and similarly contextualized for
the rift it has both symbolized and created.
Megan Bishop
Message
From: Mike O'Neill l
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:42:17 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please return him to where he belongs. People need to grow a spine and quit acting like victims. If you
continue to allow move rule, our entire University will eventually come down.
Basma Thompson O'Neill (Class of '84)
Sent from my iPad
Message
From: Bill Trott [bi ll.trott@youngmoorelaw.com]
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:43:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
When I was in college decades ago, I don't recall even pausing to look at SS or the inscription on the base. I did not
know whether the statue represented a specific person, a generic person or in what war such person fought. When the
controversy over SS began to be publicized, I like many others, was conflicted. It is a slippery slope for one generation to
remove a statue that was lawfully erected over a hundred years ago by a different generation. When I read more, I was
shocked to hear about the racist speech by one of the proponents of the statute. On the other hand, I was aware that
my own 19 year old great grandfather was in the class that was disbanded when the war began. I am obviously glad that
the south lost the war, but he was a good man and I have some idea how difficult a war and its aftermath are on those
who were in it.
Before the statue was taken down, I concluded that it would be best to act proactively to erect another statue of the
same prominence in a nearby location to commemorate freed slaves. As an alternative, I would have favored erecting a
statute of a prominent person with UNC ties who is descendant of freed slaves. (Julius Chambers who did so much for
the civil rights movement, would have been my choice.) I did not want to take SS down because it was part of history-
taking it down would have been like burning old books that are disfavored by a later generation. Given that SS was
taken down in an unlawful manner, it would now send the wrong message not to put it back up somewhere. I don't
have a recommendation where, but it should be some location far out of the way where it would create the least
controversy. I still think it is a good idea that it be balanced with another statue as mentioned above. In matters like
these, there is no need to rush to make a decision.
Message
From: Lara Landgraf Murphrey
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:43:17 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam has no place on our beautiful campus. Its intentions were divisive at the outset, and it continues to
cause conflict to this day. It infringes on the individual liberties of students and visitors to campus and its
continued presence encourages violence and unrest. It is an offensive reminder of a time that we should not
celebrate or be proud of; in order to fully heal the wounds of the past, it must be removed.
Sincerely,
Lara Landgraf Murphrey

Class of 2004
Message
From: Ra lph Cauthen
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:43:53 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Well, I thought I was logging onto a survey questionaire, but I find a blank page, so here
goes.
Though not particularly offensive to me when on the campus for graduate school in 64-66,
and I thought of Sam as a tribute to the past. In more recent years I have recognized the
monument as an expression of the white supremacy movement of 1898 and later years,
and have recognized how offensive it is to some of our brothers and sisters.
Though I was not supportive of its removal, especially by violence, I ABSOLUTELY

BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD BE WRONG TO PUT IT BACK. The campus must be an
open and welcoming place for all students, and we need to serve all the people of the
state.
Ralph Cauthen
Greensboro, NC
Message
From:
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:45:40 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
My suggestion for the statue:
Keep the statue on campus, but inside as part of an historical presentation. A story line with the statue needs a great deal
of context so people of different opinions can understand what Silent Sam means to people of today and what it meant to
people when it was first put on campus.
Thanks,
REDACTED
UNC '63, Journalism
Message
From: Sully Lineberger I
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:49:00 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

Please do not restore silent Sam to a place of prominence on campus. The statue is a symbol of
divisiveness and a reminder to the oppressed that their experiences are secondary to those who would try
to hold power over them.
As a History major at UNC, I agree that the statue has a place in teaching the lessons of the past, but a
location on the quad is a slap in the face to all peoples of color.
Thank you,
sully Lineberger '90
Message
From: T. Harrison Sm ith, Jr.
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:53:43 PM
Subject: Comment on Future of Silent Sam Statue

I'm Thomas Harrison Smith, Jr., and a 1984 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I'm
also a retired USAF Colonel, senior leader, commander, and military pilot. I currently teach high school
students in New Hanover County, NC.
I read in the Carolina Alumni Review that UNC Chancellor Carol L. Folt invited public comment on the fate of
Silent Sam as she and the Board of Trustees work toward a November deadline to develop a plan for the
statue.
I'm a native North Carolinian, and both of my great grandfathers fought for the CSA during the War Between
the States. The Silent Sam statue is one of heritage and history to me, and not a representation of hate, racism,
or in-your-face Jim Crow-era object.
At least six of my UNC-CH fraternity brother predecessors died fighting in the War Between the States. Silent
Sam is intended as a remembrance of their ultimate sacrifice in a time of natural democratic evolution, a civil
war.
I was aghast when I witnessed video and audio evidence of the violent manner in which protesters tore the
statue down in August 2018. I was also saddened to witness police officers allow protesters to affix banners to
cloak the statue, which in turn, allowed the same or other protesters to place ropes around the statue to use to
tear it to the ground. Afterward, the protesters spit, threw dirt on, and made disparaging remarks to Silent Sam,
all in an effort to disgrace and dishonor it.
I'm not sure if re-erecting the statue on it's original marble mount is the wisest thing to do, but I do believe it is
the right thing to do given the violent manner in which it was torn down. This said, I recommend that it be re-
erected. If this is not to be done in its original location, I recommend it be relocated to a place of prestige inside
of an appropriate building that is located near the center of university activities. I also recommend Silent Sam
be recognized for its intent to memorialize and honor the universities men and women who died or were
mortally or critically wounded during the fighting between brothers from different states in America.
The violence in which the statue was torn down should be condemned in the strongest terms, as well as a
pronouncement that future acts of violence are inappropriate and will not be tolerated.
Thank you for taking the time to read and consider my comments. Please contact me anytime if you have
questions or would like more information.
Sincerely,
T. Harrison Smith, Jr.
Colonel, USAF, Retired
Message
From: Smith, Gary W [gary.w.smith@aecom.com]
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:54:49 PM
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Dear Sirs:
I suggest we get rid of all references to the former Confederacy including monuments, plaques, flags and other reminders
of the abominable era of human slavery.
Also, I suggest the Congress impeach Trump at the earliest opportunity, as the latest "president of the Confederacy" !!!
Sincerely,
Gary
UNC SPH/ ESE MSEE '75
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Message
From: Antonia Hartley
Sent: 11/6/2018 2:57:21 PM
I would like to submit the following idea to the University on the fate of the Silent Sam monument.
I have read the ideas on the Carolina Alumni Review website and elsewhere about what to do with the site and
the monument. Of course it is difficult to tell who these respondents are and what race they are. As a white alum
ofUNC (Gillings '09) and as someone who has been galvanized by the recent election and the horrendous
upswing of racist rhetoric and violence in the U.S., it occurs to me that I am not who should be asked.
As a white woman, I do not approve of the racist past and present that the monument represents. However, I am
not a part of the black and brown community that feels so threatened and unsafe in its presence. THEY are the
ones who should be asked what to do. We didn't ask German Nazis to curate the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum. We didn't appoint white folks to design the new African American History Museum. Carolina should
abide by the wishes of the black and brown students for whom this monument stands as a middle finger, defiant
and proud in the face of their horror and inherited trauma.
My vote is that the future of the memorial should be up to those who are most wounded by it.
Thank you,
Antonia Hartley, MPH, RD, LDN
Gillings, '09
Message
From: semelton@ [semelton@,
Sent: 11/6/2018 3:00:18 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Deserves a prominent place on campus
As a life-long North Carolinian, graduate, and supporter of the university, I was appalled to see a mob, led by organizers
outside our state and university, being allowed to tear down a monument that they have no true understanding of or
vested interest in. Unlike the Soviet Union or modern Russia, we in America, do not operate by mob rule, anarchy, or by
destroying or distorting history by trying to remove whatever someone finds objectionable or offensive! Like many North
Carolinians, my great-great grandfather fought in the Civil War, not for slavery, but for his family, his neighbors, his
regiment, and for his state. The Silent Sam monument is not a specific war leader that can be demonized or
vilified. What has been done is comparable to tearing down my grandfather's headstone and the headstones of many
other honorable soldiers who this monument honored for doing their duty. The monument represents men all over the
state from thousands of families who fought FOR their families and suffered unbelievable hardships, loss, and
deprivations. We cannot rewrite history by tearing down every statue in the state or in this nation . The monument
represents the" Silent Sams" from all over the state that had no voice in what happened, only a duty and a calling to be
faithful and responsible to those that they loved and to the land and community that they cherished. We cannot "bury our
heads in the sand" and ever hope to achieve understanding and learning from the past to improve the future. I hope
Silent Sam will receive a permanent home somewhere on campus or in a building on campus where all North Carolinians
and others can learn from the past, but be EQUALLY respectful to individuals on both sides of the issue. Historical
monuments should not be removed, but should be preserved, protected, and understood in their historical context.
Message
From: Doug Cole I
Sent: 11/6/2018 3:06:36 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Erect Silent Sam right back where he was. We should never give in to anarchists, communists, and those that
would break the law of the land on our once-proud University. Even though I hold two degrees from UNC and
have been a life-long supporter of the school, not any more. Those disgusting scumbags who pulled down
Silent Sam should have been beaten with nightsticks until they obeyed the law and dispersed. From what I can
see, the Administration and Carol Falt did nothing to stop it, and have recently signed onto the Barak Obama
apology tour for being an American. She makes me sick, just like Obama did. She's spent $14.8 million in legal
fees for the right to discriminate against white people applying to UNC. I hope the University loses, and I also
hope that she is fired sooner than later.
I will never give another dime to UNC. And if Duke wins the ACC title next year, Coach K will have enough
decency to visit President Trump in the White House. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Duke at all. But Coach K
is a far better American than Liberal Roy. Roy should have gone to the White House when he had the chance.
By the time President Trump leaves office in 2025, Roy will be history.
Message
From: Richard Zollinger
Sent: 11/6/2018 3:08:38 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Revisionism is not the answer. History is to be learned not forgotten.

Sent from my iPhone Rick Zollinger MD,FACS,ABPM/UHM
Message
From: Peter Heller l.
Sent: 11/6/2018 3:11:25 PM
CC: Williams, Andre LaMont [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =8b 7b356cld0d4365801c4c06aff0009f-And re La Mon]
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
I am a 1981 graduate of Carolina (BS Math) and am very proud to be a part of Carolina's tradition, and have
enormous respect for its mission. I would like to share my thoughts about Silent Sam.
When I attended Carolina, Silent Sam was mostly talked about because of the myth that he shot his rifle
whenever a virgin walked by. We were not particularly attuned to him as a symbol of white supremacy and
racist heritage. Fortunately for all of us, those deeper and more social and political dimensions of Silent Sam's
central presence on campus have become part of regular discussion. For many years now. So in fact, given the
awareness we have as a nation today, it is way past time for Silent Sam to be gone. Yes it is regrettable that a
crowd of protesters toppled him recently, but that occurred only because official action had been so absent. The
statue should not be restored to its former position. To do so would be a step backwards, and a slap in the face
of the many Americans working to strengthen our multicultural democracy and true equality of opportunity in
our vibrant and contentious society.
I have traveled extensively around the world, and once I visited the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in
Nuremberg, Germany, which are now German "national historic site." I was blown away by the depth of
honesty and critical self-examination of the exhibits at Nuremberg. Developed by and representing the German
government, they showed a willingness to confront ugly truths from the national past. Any effort on the part of
Carolina to preserve Silent Sam in any way should include a similar unflinching look at what he
represents. Yes there were persons of integrity fighting for the Confederacy, but the enterprise as a whole was
fundamentally racist, and dedicated to continuing the violent oppression of an entire group of people, for the
privilege and economic well-being of another subgroup. We cannot lapse into the moral relativism of "there
were good people on both sides." There were "good Germans" during the Nazi era, too. Do we look up to them
today?
Best Wishes,
Peter Heller
Message
From: Stephen Perry [
Sent: 11/6/2018 3:11:38 PM
Subject: Silent Sam Proposal
I am a proud 1990 graduate ofUNC. Silent Sam was conceived and erected during the period 1890-1920 when
the South had a Lost Cause view of the Civil War. The statue commemorates UNC students who died while
fighting in the Civil War. It does not celebrate Confederate military or political leaders or celebrate
Confederate values. The statue deserves to stand to remind past, present, and future students of that period of
history.
That being said, I think UNC can and should present memorials to slaves who built the buildings on campus,
and/or other UNC students who died while serving in other wars in defense of our country. Those memorials
could also include narrative that would invite a constructive dialogue to understand our changing relationship to
our past. The divisive and rigid ideological positions on both extremes of the Silent Sam issue hurt the UNC
community and its values of promoting and defending the free exchange of ideas and mutual respect and civility
to those who agree and disagree with our positions.
Stephen Perry
-
Greensboro, NC 27410
Message
From: Grace Tatter
Sent: 11/6/2018 3:18:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
My name is Grace Tatter, and I graduated from the University in 2014 with a degree in History.
Like many, if not most, alumni of the University of North Carolina, I am White, and descended from people
who fought for slavery in the Civil War. That is a part of my history, of our history, and I have no wish to erase
it. Instead, I try to grapple with history and its effects on the world we live in today.
My history -- our history -- did not stop at the Civil War. It is the violent aftermath of Reconstruction, a period
my professor at Harvard University, David K. Cohen, referred to as "neoslavery," because the violence African-
Americans faced was nearly as severe as the period preceding civil war. (This, of course, is when Silent Sam
was erected.) Our history is the classical Civil Rights Movement. It is the expansion of the University as our
state grew in the 1980s and '90s. Some of our history is much more recent, like the toppling of Silent Sam this
August. We must, to the best of our abilities, remember, and learn from, it all.
Remembering, of course, is different than celebrating. Statues have historically been used to symbolize
honor. Silent Sam was no different; because of historical records, we know this statue was erected specifically
to venerate and honor the Confederate cause. His toppling was just as symbolic. What occurred on August 20 --
whether you believe it was right or wrong -- is as significant a historical event his installation, telling us and
future generations as much about the time we live in, and our own political turmoil, as Silent Sam told us about
the period of neoslavery, when white Southerners were actively trying to return to the antebellum status quo.
Accordingly, it would be appropriate for Silent Sam to be in a museum exhibit, explaining his history from
start to finish. He has no place on our beloved campus, where he will rightly be seen as a symbol for the
Confederacy and the slavery and racial violence the Confederacy stood for. To restore the statue would be to
erase the history that happened on August 20, 2018, and to suggest that we the people of North Carolina and
UNC have not learned how to contextualize the Civil War.
In Silent Sam's place, I suggest a statue symbolizing racial reconciliation, and a plaque explaining the
history of the historical cite and Sam's significance. While this is my preference, I would hope that our
African-American alumni and community members be consulted extensively, in recognition of our state and
university's troubled racial history.
Please let me know if I can provide any further information.
Grace Tatter
UNC '14, B.A.
Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 11/6/2018 3:18:54 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Since the base of the statue known as "Silent Sam" is still standing, the words praising the 'Lost Cause"
are still visible. I recommend that the statue be returned to its place, but with a new base with a new
dedication. It should be an historical monument to brave young men who died for a cause not truly
worthy of their sacrifice. Another plaque near Silent Sam should also praise the North Carolinians who
stayed loyal to the Union and the slaves who risked their lives for freedom. We can not erase all mention
of the Civil War.
Sincerely,
REDACTED
Class of '73
Message
From: Allison Kearns
Sent: 11/6/2018 3:32:18 PM
Subject: Put it back
such a shame people tore it down. I graduated in 1988 and enjoyed the story of silent Sam. Never once
did I walk by and think "I sure am glad that monument to slavery is here." Frankly I never thought about
it at all. I think it's bull that everyone gets upset over every little thing. And if they can make it
about race, a 17 the better. It is a travesty that it is broken just like the people. Get over it put it
back!!
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Sent: 11/6/2018 3:59:57 PM
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Subject: Retire Silent Sam to a museum
As an 8th generation North Carolinian and a proud UNC graduate (Class of 2014), I implore the University to
officially remove the Silent Sam pedestal and statue from McCorkle Place. I ask that the University place it
instead in a museum where ample context of its white supremacist history and message can be fully recognized.
The University's responsibility in both systematic and psychological white supremacy must be recognized, as I
recognize my family's own history of participation in slavery and racism. While generations of discrimination
will not be undone by removing a single statue, taking it down is a small step in the right direction.
Sincerely,
Alison Blair Evarts
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From: Steve E. Mason P.G. [sem@geotec.com]
Sent: 11/6/2018 4:02:52 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
To Whom it may concern:

I think the wanton destruction of historical monuments is deplorable and ignorant. silent Sam does not
celebrate slavery-or even the civil War; it commemorates the fallen. I think the statue should be placed
in a museum. I think Mr. Ackland would welcome the company.
Sincerely,
Steve Mason '78
Message
From: Ann Whitford I
Sent: 11/6/2018 4:37:52 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam needs to be relocated to a civil War Cemetery.
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Message
From: Bob Stout
Sent: 11/6/2018 4:37:58 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Please restore the statue to it's original l ocation. Also ho l d those in the campus Police Department
accountable and/or administration leaders who provided "stand down" direction for allowing it to be torn
down by outside agitators in the first place.
There are many things in life that I neither condone nor support in the public arena but I do not break
the law and have it my way. The chancellor above all should not be condoning this type of law-breaking
behavior but allowing those responsible to ultimately get their way. If they are so offended by this
statue then there are plenty of others col l eges and universities they can attend.
Let's make UNC-CH great again !
Robert M. Stout, '74

Message
From: Archie Stuart
Sent: 11/6/2018 4:46:50 PM
Subject: Silent sam
Put him back where he was, just like he was. And try to do a better job of guarding him.
A Stuart
Class of 1962
Message
From: Betty Cordell f
Sent: 11/6/2018 4:54:11 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
out of respect for all the people over the decades who graduated from Carolina, including those young men
who fought in the Confederacy, I think silent Sam should be restored to his place on campus with
protection from those who want to wipe out history.
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Message
From: Chris BI
Sent: 11/6/2018 4:54:32 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Carolina is a proud university with students (men & women) dating back to the early days of our country.
Part of America's rich history includes the civil War; an era where the university was directly involved
in shaping the future of our country. Displaying silent Sam as a reminder of our history (good & bad)
helps younger generations take interest and learn about our country's history.
As the saying goes, "You learn more from your mistakes than your successes." understanding what we as a
country did well and what we did that was wrong, is the foundation of our learnings. As another saying
goes, "It is wise to understand history so you don't repeat the mistakes of the past." Hiding silent Sam
denies us the conversation and learnings as to what we as a country need to do better.
silent Sam should remain as a symbol of our beloved university's part in shaping America and as a
reminder to all that we each play a role in shaping humanity.
Chris Brecher
MBA '86
Message
From: Margie I
Sent: 11/6/2018 4:58:35 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Never should have moved it.
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Message
From: Clifton W Pannel l
Sent: 11/6/2018 5:18:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam:
Dear UNC:
silent Sam, as a monument for student sacrifice during a period of cr1s1s in our nation's
history, deserves a decent and honorable place on the UNC campus. It is regrettable that in this time of
political correctness we cannot agree in a reasonable manner on how to represent and narrate our history,
both good and bad, in an honest way.
I urge that we come to some agreement on a solution that portrays our history honestly and
does not allow hecklers to take over the debate in ways that dishonor both the University and its
history.
Clifton w. Pannell, class of 1961
Message
From: Karen I
Sent: 11/6/2018 5:18:57 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am so disappointed that mob theatrics seem to rule the day at UNC. The University is supposed to be a place
where students learn, not only academic subjects but also how to properly comport themselves in the public
square. The administration seems to be more concerned with coddling than educating. Our nation was founded
in part on freedom of speech. This includes speech with which one disagrees. UNC students and faculty were
allowed to tear down Silent Sam in an act of violence because they were offended.
Well, I am offended by their actions. It was criminal. It is not the way we are supposed to resolve differences in
this country.
Return Silent Sam.
Educate the students by teaching History so they understand the States Rights issue. Compare the South's
agrarian position against the North's sweatshops. Point out that the Southern states were overly taxed by the
Northern states, much like England did to the Colonies. Allowing students to totally focus on the issue of
slavery is sloppy history. We learn from mistakes, we learn from history, and to erase history leads to a repeat
of history. Slavery was abolished; it is in the past. It should be recognized as a dark stain on our past but not
allowed to "offend" people now.
Place a marker at the site explaining it's a statue commemorating the bravery ofUNC students (almost half of
the student body at the time) who fought and died taking a stand, believing in their ideals, and reminding people
to discuss issues without violence and name calling.
Most named colleges, buildings, and our everyday surroundings are named for people who in some part of their
life failed to live up to their ideal, or took positions they later changed. To move Silent Sam is the start of a
slippery slope of opening North Carolina up into changing all of history that current groups who yell the loudest
don't agree with - i.e. 'mob rule'.
Karen Brinton, Class of '76
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From: norwood pratt
Sent: 11/6/2018 5:20:59 PM
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Subject: Truth & Reconciliation Commission
Fellow Carolinians-
Determining the fate of "silent Sam" is a rare and perfect issue we can use to unite all of us who share
the history he symbolizes. our University and indeed most of our inherited southland was built by black
and Native American people held in bondage by (mostly) white owners. This is one historical fact beyond
dispute and this is one history both blacks and whites share today-not two, but one history. It cannot
and should not be wiped out or cancelled and it must be acknowledged in its full shamefulness and
complexity. But painful as our past history is, it is also what unites us today, we who are the
varicolored products of that history. Let us find a way to join hands around it, claim it as our own, and
move ahead from here where we find ourselves as people forgiven, renewed and restored to our true
heritage.
under somewhat similar circumstances, post-aparteid south Africa was led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to
create its Truth and Reconciliation Commission for this purpose. We need something like this now so that
as the children of former slaves and of former slave owners we ay face ourselves and one another in light
of our true histories, which are in truth not one but not two-two sides of one history we all share in
this place and this land.
James Norwood Pratt, UNC '64
San Francisco, California
Message
From: Bryan Salter
Sent: 11/6/2018 5:43:46 PM
Subject: silent Sam
It should be put back , with IO foot fence around it if need and those
hoodlums should be prosecuted and if students expelled.
Message
From: Danielle Rogers
Sent: 11/6/2018 5:57:08 PM
Subject: Silent Sam opinion
My name is Danielle and I am a Carolina alum (class of 2014), but I also grew up in Chapel Hill,
attending Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
I think it would be an enormous oversight if UNC decided to keep Silent Sam in it's original location
on Mccorkle Place. Though it is a historical statue that deserves to be preserved, it does not need to
stand at the entrance of our campus and on the doorstep of the Chapel Hill community.
In addition, Chancellor Folt said on Carolina's 225th birthday this year: "I reaffirm our University's
commitment to facing squarely and working to right the wrongs of history so they are never again
inflicted." Placing Silent Sam back in it's original location seems like a move in the wrong
direction. The African-American community still faces social injustice and discrimination to this day,
and preserving statues used to commemorate the Confederate cause in such a prominent location
does not reflect our desire to "right the wrongs of history".
By moving Silent Sam to another, less prominent location, I believe that UNC can prove that they are
committed to diversity and promoting unity within our community.
I hope that when I return to Chapel Hill, a more meaningful statue will be in Silent Sam's place.
Best regards,
Danielle Rogers
Class of 2014
Message
From: Donna Conner
Sent: 11/6/2018 5:58:32 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
My husband and I are graduates of the class of 1972. While silent Sam may not be quite as offensive as
some confederate monuments that celebrate generals who are truly responsible for the death of fellow
Americans, we still think he should go. Vestiges of slavery on our campus is not consistent with our
progressive voices on so many issues, particularly the fight for racial equality. He can be relegated to
a museum location or an actual confederate graveyard if there is such a place in chapel Hill. My distant
uncle was a decorated confederate officer but I feel no allegiance to the racist past of our state.
Thanks, Donna and Michael Conner
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Message
From: Ann and Craig Barta I
Sent: 11/6/2018 6:09:57 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I believe it is time to move Sam off campus to a museum or elsewhere. There it can be labelled with an
appropriate epitaph such as, "This statue reminds us of a past we never wish to repeat."
Sincerely,
Dr. Ann Y adusky Barta
UNC School of Medicine class of 1989
Message
From: Haley Barefoot
Sent: 11/6/2018 6:59:19 PM
Subject: Silent Sam should be moved to a museum

I am a 2016 Carolina graduate and I wanted to provide my op1n1on regarding the silent Sam statue. I
believe that it is seen as a symbol of oppression for many people of color. Whether or not the statue was
intended in that way, the feelings of my peers should be recognized. I believe that as an important part
of our state history, the statue should be moved to a museum or other similar venue where it can be
appreciated in it's historical context rather than standing in isolation on a campus that I like to think
of as being quite diverse and progressive.
I hope my input, along with that of many others, can help guide your decision making process.
Sincerely,
Haley Barefoot
Message
From: Tim Walters i
Sent: 11/6/2018 7:09:52 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
The statue represents soldiers, not a cause or political belief. My hope is the statue remains a tribute
to UNC alumni who serve and served as soldiers regardless of the cause.
Sam served as an emotional support to me as an undergraduate and veteran while the majority opinion
opposed another unpopular war. Sam should remain accessible to future veterans as UNC students.
Tim Walters
UNC BA 1977, USMC 1965-71
Lake Geneva WI
Message
From: andi bartczak
Sent: 11/6/2018 7:34:30 PM
Subject: Confederate so ldier
I never paid much attention to that soldier monument in my years in graduate school at UNC Chapel Hill. But
now we are closely looking at statues that celebrate the defenders of slavery. The Civil War is widely
acknowledged to have been fought by the Confederacy to preserve its way of life, which included slavery and
oppression of both black and white farmers.
Put that statue in some museum with a detailed explanation of the causes of the Civil War and the conditions
of all the economic classes at the time. Only the plantation owners had it good then, despite the depiction in
"Gone with the Wind".
And remove the plaque on the stone between the lanes in the middle of campus near the medical library. I
had to fight the urge to vandalize a road named for a traitor to our country.
Andi Weiss Bartczak

Ph.D. in environmental toxicology
Message
From: William Stokely I
Sent: 11/6/2018 7:57:36 PM
Subject: Please restore the statue of the Confederate soldier to the former location it occupied on campus
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Message
From: James Carter I
Sent: 11/6/2018 8:56:18 PM
Subject: I say put it back up to honor those it stood for. Heritage, not hate. Rewarding people who break the law sends the
wrong message, don't u think.
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Message
From: Colin Burns [
Sent: 11/6/2018 11:23:20 PM
Subject: Monument
Dear Chancellor Falt and Board of Trustees Members,
It is my hope that the Silent Sam statue be removed from any place of prominence on the campus given it's
inextricable link to white supremacy. Mounuments such as this have no place at public institutions as they
contradict the principles of a pluralistic society in general and the University policy of non-discrimination
specifically. If the statue is to remain on campus, it should be used or displayed in a manner to educate the
public about the history of the insitution and state without glossing over any unpleasant historical facts.
Sincerely,
Colin Burns
PhD in Chemistry, 1993
Message
From: Richard Mack I
Sent: 11/7/2018 2:01:33 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
silent Sam should be returned to his long time home on campus.

silent Sam has been a fixture on campus for a hundred years and has never caused any problems. He has
been a loyal historical tribute to alumni of the university who lost their lives in the brutal war
between the states. He has not enslaved a single person but now we have people who want to change
history, what will be next removing the American flag and the Naval gun from in front of ROTC armory, or
will they insist that the University stop teaching about the holocaust because it might offend someone of
German origin. It is not the duty of the university to change history to placate these whining children.
Thank you,
Richard Mack '71
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Message
From: Alex Frew McMillan [alexmcmillan@dragonflymedia.com.hk]
Sent: 11/7/2018 2:33:04 AM
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Subject: silent sam plan
Hi there,
I'm a 1994 graduate with a bachelor's in English and journalism, and was lucky to get a Morehead Scholarship
(now Morehead-Cain) as a British student.
I support Silent Sam staying on campus as a memorial of the war dead from the Civil War.
If the memorial is repurposed as a general memorial to "all war dead," I wonder if this should be North
Carolinian war dead, U.S. war dead or war dead from around the world.
It makes sense to have a Civil War/North Carolinian war dead statue, given the nature of this statue.
Rather than a U.S. war dead memorial, I would suggest a memorial without international boundaries, given the
global nature of the university.
All the best,
Alex McMillan
Co-Chairman
Hong Kong Alumni Club
Alex Frew McMillan
Dragonfly Media
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Message
From: Dorcas
Sent: 11/7/2018 3:12:12 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think the statue should not be put back. If the law/regulations require something to be placed there,
it should acknowledge the tragedies of the past and perhaps explain the history of why Sam was taken
down.
Sent from my iPhone
Dorcas Grigg-Saito, class of '69
Message
From: Betsy Baten i
Sent: 11/7/2018 8:19:06 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
You have to be pretty thick-headed not to appreciate that there is good reason for some people to be
offended by a statue that honors those who fought to defend slavery. However, Silent Sam is a war
memorial that was erected to honor UNC students and faculty who fought in what is arguably our
nation's most unfortunate war, and for many years it has stood among the trees in McCorkle
Place mostly out of mind, unobtrusive, and invisible in plain sight. Now it and other Confederate
memorials have become flash points for those who for the purposes of their own agendas seize upon
the moment to say that the white or back race is under attack. We have serious issues apart from statues
that require attention.
\Vhen viewed another way, Silent Sam is a part of UNC's heritage and cultural landscape. Ask
yourselves whether its removal will somehow magically heal the wounds of the past and soothe the
present problems, or whether its absence will just open other wounds? And if Silent Sam goes, what
monument will become the next target? Who will ultimately decide where monument removal stops?
A far better idea would be to abide by the law and let Silent Sam remain, but add panels presenting
more complete information about its history and the times during which it was erected. And perhaps
most importantly, commission a memorial to be placed beside it that stands as tall and gives equal
impmtance to the men from UNC who served in the Union Armed forces and the men associated with
UNC who served in the United States Colored troops units!
Betsy Baten, Grad school classes of '72 and '96

Message
From: Jim Ligon I
Sent: 11/7/2018 8:24:33 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
As a student at UNC over 45 years ago I walked many times under the steady stare of silent Sam. I never
gave his presence much thought as it hadn't been raised as an issue at that time. However, in recent
years it has become clear that he was raised in the spirit of the Jim Crow era as a symbol of the
dominance of the white race and the suppression of blacks in our society. It is now clear that his
presence has become discomforting for many members of the Carolina community, especially those of
African-American descent. I do not support the spirit under which silent Sam was installed and I believe
that any such symbol that makes even a small portion of the Carolina community uncomfortable on the
Carolina campus should be removed. I support Governor Roy Cooper's proposal to move silent Sam to a
place such as a battlefield of the civil War that commemorates those who fell in that struggle. I
strongly believe that he should not be returned to the Carolina campus.
James Ligon, '72
Message
From: H Foust -
Sent: 11/7/2018 10:42:24 AM
Subject: opinion
I really don't have a particular opinion about what should happen with the monument. But I have no doubt
about what should NOT happen. It should not be placed back on the pedestal in McCorkle Place. Why not?
l. It symbolizes a betrayal of the republic. Where else in the world will you find a symbol of an attempt to
overthrow a government in place as a prominent memorial in that republic? Why would we so honor such a
rebellion?
2. The intent of the placement of the statue is a direct rebuke to the federal government that won the
conflict. All such monuments that I know of face north when they could have been placed in any
direction. Also, they are all in prominent locations, such as at the entrance of the university or in front of a
courthouse.
3. The memorial reflects a philosophy and a time in history that symbolizes the subjugation of enslaved peoples
in our country. Why would the university want to honor that?
Thank you for the opportunity to express my opinion.
Henry Foust
Henry 0. Foust, NBCT

Spanish Instructor
Student Council Co-Advisor
Northwood High
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Sent: 11/7/2018 11:16:45 AM
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Subject: FW: Faculty Welfare Committ ee support of Faculty Counci l Resolution 2018-5
Amy Locklear Hertel

Cell 919-448-8949
From: Carol Folt <carol.folt@unc.edu>

Date: Thursday, November 1, 2018 at2:ll PM
To: "Gibson, Rhonda" <gibsonr@email.unc.edu>, "Leslie Parise, Chair of the Faculty"
<facul tychair@unc.edu>
Cc: "Tanner, Jessica L."<jltanner@email.unc.edu>, "Sevea, Iqbal Singh" <isevea@email.unc.edu>, "Regester,
Charlene" <regester@email.unc.edu>, "Ochoa, Todd Ramon" <tochoa@email.unc.edu>, "Mohanty, Suchi"
<smohanty@email.unc.edu>, "Ives, Timothy J."<Timothy_Ives@med.unc.edu>, "Calikoglu, Muge Gucsavas"
<muge _ calikoglu@med.unc.edu>, Carol Folt <carol.folt@unc.edu>
Subject: RE: Faculty Welfare Committee support of Faculty Council Resolution 2018-5
Thank you for shar1ng your opinions. I sincerely appredate everyone taking the time to fully consider this issue.
Best; Carol
From: Gibson, Rhonda

To: Falt, Carol Lynn <carol.folt@unc.edu>; Leslie Parise, Chair of the Faculty <facultychair@unc.edu>
Cc: Tanner, Jessica L <jltanner@email.unc.edu>; Sevea, Iqbal Singh <isevea@email.unc.edu>; Regester, Charlene
<regester@email.unc.edu>; Ochoa, Todd Ramon <tochoa@email.unc.edu>; Mohanty, Suchi
<smohanty@email.unc.edu>; Ives, Timothy J.<Timothy_lves@med.unc.edu>; Gibson, Rhonda
<gibsonr@email.unc.edu>; Calikoglu, Muge Gucsavas <muge_calikoglu@med.unc.edu>
Subject: Faculty Welfare Committee support of Faculty Council Resolution 2018-5
Dear Chancellor Folt and Faculty Chair Parise: As chair of the Faculty Welfare Committee, I am writing to let
you know that all voting members of this committee wholeheartedly support Faculty Council Resolution 2018-5
in support ofUNC Black faculty on the permanent removal of Silent Sam from campus. We hope you will take
this information into consideration when making a decision about the future of the statue and its base.
Sincerely,
Rhonda Gibson
Faculty Welfare Committee Members: Muge Calikoglu, Rhonda Gibson, Timothy Ives, Suchi Mohanty, Todd
Ochoa, Charlene Regester, Iqbal Sevea, and Jessica Tanner
Dr. Rhonda Gibson

Director, Master of Arts in Digital Communication
Associate Professor
School of Media and Journalism
gibsom(ri;ernaiI.unc.edu
Message
From: Stuart Sumner I
Sent: 11/7/2018 12:39:50 PM
Subject: Monuments to Civil War soldiers in Retrospect
There was a time when military service in support of Confederacy was considered honorable. Black
Slavery was accepted as normal. Taking up arms against the United States was not considered
treasonous. White supremacy was justified. Monuments were built to revere those who fought for
these beliefs.
That time is no more. Would anyone today propose building a monument to honor such values? I
hope not. Likewise, restoring the Confederate monument on the grounds of our University, All the
Peoples University, is not supportable. It cannot be condoned.
The men who fought for the Confederacy may well have had nobler motives than those included
here, but motives aside, the reality of what they would have achieved if the South had succeeded is
clear - Black Enslavement and the nation destroyed.
Rebel Sumner '71

Message
From: Jim McCormick
Sent: 11/7/2018 2:41:55 PM
Subject: Sam
Keep the statue exactly where is please.

James Mccormick
BS 67 MPH 72
Message
From: Bill Perkins [BPerkins@fsrfoodservice .com]
Sent: 11/7/2018 2:46:46 PM
Subject: FW: Silent Sam
As a graduate of UNC in 1970, a United States Naval veteran, and the

owner of a successful business in Flowery Branch, Georgia, I wanted to
take a moment to express my concern about how individuals wearing
masks and hiding under a cloak could be allowed to desecrate University
property without intervention. Has anyone been charged with this crime?
Furthermore, did a 100 year old statue psychologically intimidate these
and other supporters of this violence? I think not!
I appreciate your efforts and those that work to make UNC even greater.
Best regards,
Bill Perkins
President
Food Service Resources
800-367-4421
www.fsrfoodservice.com
Food Service Resources is a veteran owned small business

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From: Kenneth Hudson [ckhudson@southalabama.edu]
Sent: 11/7/2018 6:34:58 PM
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I believe the statue is a physical expression of racial oppression and slavery, and should have been removed
long ago. We should not afford honor or valor to anyone who defended or fought for the Confederate States of
America. The statue should be not be publicly displayed anywhere, especially on the campus ofUNC.
I received my PhD in Sociology from UNC Chapel Hill in 2000.
Sincerely,
Charles Kenneth Hudson
Kenneth Hudson
Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Work
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
HUMB 34
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688-0002
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From: Elaine Kennedy I
Sent: 11/8/2018 12:14:55 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think Silent Sam should be placed in a museum.
Elaine Kennedy
Class of 1982
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Subject: RE SILENT SAM FROM EMPLOYEE FORUM
Attachments: 11_08_18 SHAYNA HILL_ EMPLOYEE FORUM_ RE SILENT SAM.pdf
919-962-1586
November 7, 2018
Chancellor Carol Foh

105 South Building
Campus Box 9100
Carolina Campus
Dear Chancellor:
Please find enclosed resolution 18-04 concerning the Confederate .Monument

("Silent Sam"), approved at the November 7, 2018 meeting of the Employee
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Yours truly,
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Chair, Employee Forum
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Resolution 18-04 Regarding the Confederate Monument ("Silent Sam")
RESOLUTION OF THE EMPLOYEE FORUM

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
November 7, 2013
WHEREAS, on October 2nd , 2018, officers of the Employee Forum met with the Past Chair of the
University Board of Trustees W. Lowry CaudH!; Dr. Caudill asked the Employee Forum to collect "raw
data" from UNC staff employees regarding the disposition of the Confederate Monument ("Silent Sam")
and,
WHEREAS, Dr. Caudlll explained that he had asked University administrators to adopt Dr. Robert
Reinheimer's "The Collaborative Process" to frame the difficult process of evaluating obstacles,
principles and ideas towards finding a solution for this controversy; he noted that the Board of
Governors had set forth the overriding goal for the University's actions in this area, as follows:
"provide a plan for a lawful and lasting path that protects public safety, preserves the
rnonument and its history, and aHows the Unlversity to focus on its core mission of education,
research, economic stimulation, and creatlng the next generation of leaders" (UNC Board of
Governors Resolution, August 28., 2018.), and
WHEREAS, Dr. Caudill asked that the Employee Forum work to obtain "raw data" from staff employees
parallel to efforts by Unlversity faculty and students; he emphasized that adherence to Dr. Reinhetmer's
framework in this search for data would allow Unlversity administrators the best chance to arrlve at an
effective, acceptable solution that can be smoothly and successfully executed, and
WHEREAS, Dr, Caudill asked that the Forum submit its data by October 23"\ 2018, towards allowing
University administrators final cut at the data towards proposing a solution that meets the Board of
Governors' November 15th, 2018 deadline, and
WHEREAS, given the short tlmeframe to obtaln data and the large number of University staff employees,
Forum leaders decided to commission an electronic survey of campus thoughts on the issue. Forum
leaders elected to follow Dr. Caudili's recommendation to seek "raw data" from University employees in
Dr. Reinheimer's framework ., .. ,, ..,.....,..,.....,, .. ,.,.,... ,. .,,.,., and,
WHEREAS, the Forum's Qua!trics survey relied on individualized links sent out to employee email
addresses to prevent "ballot stuffing" and dilution of responses by parties outside the campus. (The
source of these e-mail addresses is a monthly roster produced by the Office of Human Resources and
Information Technology Services.); the survey went out to 8,812 University employees on October 5th
w\th a reminder sent to 8,661 employees on October 16th ; the final deadllne was October 22" d and,
WHEREAS, in addition, Forum Chair Shayna Hill conducted in-person meetlngs with campus employees
at the Schoo! of Medicine; written responses to the survey were submitted by employees at these
meetings; finally, the Forum invited employees to submit written responses at the Employee
Appreciation Fair on Friday, October 19th ; a few employees used the written optlon to alleviate
confidentlaHty concerns, and
WHEREAS, in all, the Forum received 405 partial and complete electronic survey responses and another
13 wdtten responses, and
WHEREAS, the Cha ir asked that the Forum Executive Committee revlew survey feedback at the October
23, 2018 meeting towards the possibility of immediate action, and
WHEREAS, the survey revealed an overwhelming support for removal of the Monument as weH as an
overwhelming desire to heal the Carolina community among respondents,
THEREFORE, the Employee Forum hereby affirms the position of the UNC-Chapei Hill Faculty Council's
stance (Resolution 2018-5) in favor of permanent removal of the Confederate Monument ("Silent Sarn"}
and lts base from campus, and urges the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees to create a relocation
plan with strong input from employees and the broader Carolina community, and to pu rsue ongoing
forums for hea ling the community that this issue has revealed.
[As amended and passed, November 7, 2018]
Signed on behalf of the Employee Forum,
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Shayna Hill
Chair
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From: Jerry Dyer
Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 1:55 PM
To: chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>
subject: silent Sam
chance ll or Folt
I am Jerry Dyer, a graduate of the class of 1969. It really saddened me to see the statue of si l ent Sam
torn down by people who probably did not know for what the statue stood.
Please put the statue in a prominent place for people to see and understand that it stands for the UNC
participants who died in the civil War. I doubt many Confederate infantrymen owned slaves or were
fighting for slavery's existence.
I would like to suggest the statue be placed in the southern Historical collection in Wilson Library.
There it could be part of the collection and be right at home with the wealth of southern scholarship
contained there.
Thank you so much for any consideration and thank you for the wonderful job you are doing for our beloved
University.
Jerry Dyer
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ubi caritas et amor
Deus i bi est
Message
From: llorwalters302 I
Sent: 11/8/2018 10:32:53 AM
Subject: Leave it down
I do not suggest replacing the statue outdoors or on the campus. It is a historical artifact that belongs, if
anywhere, in a museum with a descriptive and educational plaque on the university's role in the Civil War and
the history of race relations in Chapel Hill and the south during and after the war. I would expect an
acknowledgement of the dedication speech's remarks about violence toward blacks as well.
Silent Sam is a part of history. His place is there, not in the present.
Sincerely,
Llogan Walters
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Message
From: Judith Gardiner
Sent: 11/8/2018 11:55:59 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
UNC administration:
Thank you for the opportunity to express our opinions about the Silent Sam controversy. I am sure
you have read through some heated debates by now!
I am a 1971 graduate ofUNC-CH from the School of Nursing. My husband received his BA, MS,
and PhD from the Zoology Dept at UNC. We love the beautiful campus.
We look at the original statement of the DAR for the statue. I have read of their intent on
"changing the landscape of the war and denying the issue of slavery." We feel the dedication as
presented -in memory of Chapel Hill students who left and and joined the Army in defense of the
State-
makes the statue an honorable one. It is sad that today's students are offended. We cannot change
history but we can honor people and make it a better place.
A speech by trustee Julian Carr at the statue's unveiling is contemptible by today's

standards. Should we rid our county of all reference to people whose views are biased or with
whom we do not agree? Maybe remove the Carr building? His speech & attitudes reflect his bias
and the opinoins of many people in that period of time.
We feel that Silent Sam is a statue beloved by many and serves to remember that the country was
divided and should never be so again.
We feel the statue deserves a place in a building on the Chapel Hill campus. Hopefully the
administration can find a place where it will be safe and honored.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Judith Barnes Gardiner BSN 1971

Stephen L Gardiner PhD 1979
Message
From: Jasper Phillips [J
Sent: 11/8/2018 12:41:45 PM
Subject: From: Jasper L. Phillips Jr. MD FACS
Undergraduate' 58 Medical School' 64

I wish to express my opinion that "Silent Sam" should be returned to his traditional place and that the
perpetrators of his unlawful removal should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Apparently the opinions
of thousands of alumni are not being considered here. Only the loud Marxist elements of the students, non-
students, and radical faculty. I am personally prepared to withhold any current or future contributions to the
university as long as this monument remains off-campus,
Respectfully yours,
Jasper L. Phillips Jr.MD F ACS
Message
From: Karen Dacons-Brock I
Sent: 11/8/2018 12:47:24 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I like the idea of silent Sam being housed in a museum that recognizes Carolina's history.
Karen Dacons-Brock, '74, '77
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Message
From: Gina Young
Sent: 11/8/2018 5:42:34 PM
Subject: Silent Sam

Certainly, members of Antifa from out of state should have NO opinion in this matter.
requirement of your plan (I would like to add that there wou l d be no concerns for public safety if not
Gina Young
'78 '93
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Message
From: Nina Versenyi -
Sent: 11/8/2018 6:14:55 PM
CC: Elena V. l
Subject: Proposal for Silent Sam
As alumni of UNC and sisters who grew up in a multiracial family in Chapel Hill we are submitting a joint, two
part proposal: What to do with the statue of Silent Sam in conjunction with a long term, community designed
exhibition exploring UNC's racial history.
We disagree wholeheartedly with the racism and bigotry that Silent Sam represents. We believe UNC, and other
educational institutions that grew out of and/or benefited from racism, have an obligation to acknowledge the
past. Acknowledgement of the past is not synonymous with the glorification of it. How do we expect to move
forward if there is no open acknowledgement that even the best institutions at one point accepted and promoted
racist values? How do we move forward if there is no acknowledgement of the forced or coerced or willing
participation of African Americans in the creation, growth, and betterment of UNC?
The problem of what to do with Silent Sam and its legacy of racism is an opportunity to confront the history of
racism and its present day manifestations on a public university campus. As the nation's first public university,
it is our obligation to provide a path in the hopes that other institutions will follow suit. Silent Sam is part of a
larger national conversation about remembrance versus erasure. In the United States we learn about race as
though we are a post racial society. We are not. We have never truly confronted and dealt with the insidious
racism that has infected our country since its inception. We have spent far too long hiding from the shame and
embarrassment of our country's racist history. We have spent far too long refusing to adequately teach the
history of Americans of Color to our children.
Due to the 2015 NC statute protecting "objects ofremembrance," Silent Sam's return has become highly
politicized as an issue of legality, when meaning should be at the heart of the conversation. What does it mean
for students and visitors to be greeted by a confederate monument, that was paid for by the Daughters of the
Confederacy, and erected in 1913 during the Jim Crow era? The timing of this law is no coincidence following
the precedent of other southern states attempting to preserve their history in the wake of increased pressure to
confront and remove confederate monuments. Defining these monuments as "objects of remembrance" is
illustrative of what is at stake; whose history is remembered.
UNC has gained nationwide attention with the activism surrounding Silent Sam. As such, we have a platform to
suggest how the past is to be remembered and refuse to be cowed by threats, intimidation, or violence. This is
an opportunity to face the pain that racism has caused and continues to cause in our nation. It is an opportunity
to bring to light the entwined history of racism and education and what we plan to do about it. Lux Libertas,
Light and Liberty! Let us shine a Light on the racist history of our university, and in doing so let us Liberate
ourselves from the racism in our past so that it may wither from our future.
Our proposal for the Silent Sam statue is as follows:

1) Let us put a transparent replica of Silent Sam back on its pedestal, every detail of the statue replicated in a
transparent material. Let us put him back so that the history of our racism as a country and university is
acknowledged. Let us put him back transparent so we may look through him at every angle. Let him be
transparent so we may acknowledge the ghost we hope racism will become in our future. Then let us ask an
artist to melt down the original statue of Silent Sam and make something new out of the material.
2) Silent Sam should be part of a larger conversation on racism in this country. The conversation should not end
with what to do with Silent Sam. Let us continue this dialogue by developing an exhibition based around Silent
Sam which examines racial history and activism at UNC. This exhibition should be designed by a community
generated task force ofUNC professors, students, and activists. Again, as the nation's first public university,
UNC should set a precedent encouraging other institutions to acknowledge and engage with their own racially
charged monuments.
Thank you for your consideration of our proposal.
Sincerely,
Elena and Nina Versenyi
Message
From: jackie bay
Sent: 11/8/2018 8:06:45 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello
I don't know where the right place to put this statue is, however, I feel very strongly that it should
not be replaced in its previous location. That location is the center of the university and is passed
each day by too many people that object to this statue and what it stood for. I urge you to adapt this
fine university with the times and to respect the students that don't want silent Sam. I don't remember
seeing any students protesting it's removal, only older, whiter males from outside the community.
Thank you
Jacquelyn Burchfield Bay
UNC class of 1984
Message
From: Rufus Lefler
Sent: 11/8/2018 10:02:16 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am a 1970 graduate of UNC. THE MONUMENT SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO BE TORN DOWN AS THE UNC AND
CHAPEL HILL POLICE ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN! It should be replaced where it was removed by anarchists who
were not UNC students.Most of the faculty who want it moved are not alumni nor residents of the state.It
is part of North Carolina history and not racist. If removed then every memorial on the campus should be
removed to the same spot.You are letting a few outside activists transform our proud university. I hope
and pray you will listen to the alumni and have not already made your mind up.
Sincerely,
Rufus s. Lefler, iii, M.D. 70' chemistry
Albemarle, N. C. 28001
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Subject: Silent Sam - Look to the Future and the Past, including Julian Carr's Speech
Dear Chancellor Falt and UNC Community,
I am a graduate of the Law School at UNC, and perhaps more importantly the father of who chose to
attend UNC as undergraduates from our home in Arlington, Virginia. I also have ancestors who attended UNC in every
decade from the 1920s onward.
I was happy for to attend UNC because I saw the University as a forward-thinking institution that was
focused on intellectual truth, as well as a place that would give them the skills to adapt to the future and the courage to
be unafraid to change when circumstances require them to do that. Tradition is a wonderful thing and the University
celebrates it well, but tradition can be a suffocating straightjacket when it prevents engagement with reality.
The hard reality of Silent Sam is that the statue was erected in the Jim Crow era to celebrate the myth of the purely
noble Lost Cause of the South and to perpetuate a racist culture. Julian Carr's 1913 speech at the dedication of the
statue leaves no doubt about that -- there is no serious dispute regarding the context in which the statue came to
be. My perspective about Silent Sam changed immediately and forever when I read that speech by Carr, in which he
gloated about how he "horse-whipped a negro wench" on the grounds of the University after the war.
As a symbol of racist beliefs, and as an unquestioning memorial to a cause that sought to defend human slavery, Silent
Sam should not be returned to its former location. This is a moment for the University to show that it is strong enough
to act boldly when required, even in the face of political opposition. Find another place on campus to display the statue
in an exhibit with a full explanation of the historic context.
To return Silent Sam to Mccorkle Place would be an abdication of the University's moral duty to teach, a surrender to
misguided and hollow tradition. It would be an insult to all who suffered at the hands of the culture Julian Carr
celebrated, and at Carr's own hands. Do not surrender to the easy answer.
I'm saddened that Dean Smith is no longer with us, but I think we all know what he would have advised here. Prepare
the best you can and fight for what is right.
Sincerely,
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Message
From: Skyler Golann
Sent: 11/9/2018 12:09:25 AM
Subject: Silent Sam has no place on our campus In box x
Hello,
I am writing as a recent graduate ofUNC to share my belief that the Confederate Monument Silent Sam should
not be reinstalled anywhere on the UNC campus. It represents North Carolina's ugly history of white
supremacy, and it serves both to terrorize and marginalize students of color and embolden white supremacists.
Silent Sam belongs in a museum where it can be properly contextualized within the story of American white
supremacy. It is possible that this kind of setting could be created on the UNC campus, and it is undeniable that
this would be a far better outcome than reinstalling it without context. However, this outcome would be
exceedingly challenging to do correctly and would continue the controversy surrounding the monument for
years to come. It is long past time for Sam to be removed once and for all from the UNC campus. With this kind
of action, UNC might truly be able to claim the mantle of "for all kind." I look forward to bold action from my
University on behalf of students of color and the citizens of North Carolina, past, present, and future.
Best,
Skyler Golann
UNC Class of 2018
Message
From: Clay Harless l
Sent: 11/9/2018 11:10:58 AM
CC: Clay Harless I
Subject: Proposal for the future disposition of confederate monuments
This proposal is intended for all organizations engaged in resolving conflict associated with the display of confederate
monuments .
In the case of 'Silent Sam', and the UNC system, this provides an opportunity for a first implementation and direction
setting for others to follow.
This proposal is an attempt to provide a meaningful and aesthetic balance in the future disposition of these monuments .
The choice of location would be outdoors in a visible, traveled area.

A pit would be dug in the ground and the statue/monument placed in it (something like the hole for an in-ground
residential swimming pool).
The edge of the pit would have mounds of the excavated dirt placed in such a way that the dirt would slowly fill back in
over time (years of eroding with the weather).
The depth of the pit would be measured such that a portion of the statue/monument would still be visible even after it fills
back in (from the waist up, for example).
This treatment provides a literal and figurative burying of the past (over time).
This treatment allows the monument/art to still be viewed in public.
This treatment provides for a gradual transition of the prominence of the statue/monument.
Additional options/considerations to the general concept:

1. The pit could be constructed to allow people access into it.
2. The dirt eroding back in could be handled in some artistic/engineered fashion (i.e . an open topped silo/chimney
structure that funnels dirt in a specific way - and protects the public).
3. The perimeter of the pit could include plaques describing the competing mindsets that instigated the civil war, and/or
achievements of freed slaves and their ancestors, and/or .... (other creative ideas).
4. A pit could be constructed to contain multiple statues/monuments in a single collection .
I believe this proposal provides for a reasonable, and educational, balance point for all stakeholders and the general
public.
I sincerely hope this proposal receives due consideration and I believe the elegance and simplicity of the solution grows
with continuing consideration.
Best Regards,
Clay Harless (son of a UNC-CH graduate)
27615
Message
From: Margie
Sent: 11/9/2018 12:07:51 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
should be in chapel Hill
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Message
From: Doreen Frye
Sent: 11/9/2018 12:27:26 PM
Subject: Statue placement
I would first like to say, I am for what Silent Sam stands for. I feel at th is time th is statue and many others deserve respect. I th ink they
all will be perfect at the Bennett Place. I am sorry for how our nation thinks. Give our veterans respect they deserve no matter what war
they were drafted in.
Doreen Frye -- concerned citizen
Message
Sent: 11/9/2018 4:30:40 PM
Subject: FW: Best Alumnus Silent Sam Essay
Attachments: Cover Letter.pdf; Silent Sam Options, Final Edition .pdf; Bentonville.pdf; gr_visitor-map, Oakwood.jpg
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From: Charles Hughes ·

Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 4:18 PM
Subject: Best Alumnus Silent Sam Essay
Chancellor Folt,
I brought an essay to South Building yesterday and didn't leave contact information. So I'm emailing just in case
"Silent Sam Options, Final Edition" is judged Best Alumnus SS Essay. I've attached PDF's of the November
cover letter and four page essay in case you want to share. I wish you well in your deliberations in hopes that
the General Assembly and BOG members will give the latitude to make a sound decision.
Hark the Sound,
Charles Hughes, '69

November 8, 2018
Chancellor F olt,
I offer the following evaluation in hopes that it will be of some use in your
deliberations with the Board of Governors concerning Silent Sam. The piece is the
result of research done through the Wilson Library archives and accurately
reflects North Carolina's history during the Civil War. I'm sure that you are aware
of the UNC School of Law 's discussion of exceptions to the statutes concerning
disposition of the monument i.e. removal for restoration versus the method
employed in August. This presentation would be with consideration for their
argument.
Charles Hughes
Silent Sam Options, Final Edition
I would like to encourage a compromise in the Silent Sam controver~y which

addresses the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) criteria and offers concessions to
the differing points of view.
As you know, the university community, town and gown, opposes returning the
statue to campus because the monument reiterates and celebrates a civil war cause
aligned with deep south states as articulated by Julian Carr at the 1913 dedication
ceremony. Others, such as the organizationfrom Alamance County, have publicly
stated that they want Silent Sam returned to its pedestal to honor their ancestors
who are among the confederate dead.
However, a plan which accommodates either of these positions will not meet the
objectives of the BOG:
1. Any location on campus includingformer Chancellor Moeser's
suggestion ofPlaymakers Theatre will not ensure public safety.
It will merely change the site of escalating conflict and risk a
tragic event. To think otherwise ignores human nature.
2. We already know that the monument and its history can not be
preserved on campus without sign~ficant security expense even
as a museum piece. Nor will keeping it in storage preserve its
hist01y.
3. UNC 'score mission of education, research, economic stimulation
and creating the next generation o(leaders will only be hindered
by returning the monument to a campus with a diverse faculty and
student body who are understandably offended by its presence.
Losing prestigious faculty and prized scholars, in the short term
and beyond, to a continuing controversy will not aid the University's
core mission nor will it sustain the excellence required of a public ivy.
The UNC General Alumni Association has a tribute to all alumni war dead
standing between Memorial and Phillips Hall. Of those enshrined on the wall, 287
soldiers died in the Civil War with 23 at Gettysburg, 7 at Antietam, close to ha{l in
Virginia, 71 across the remaining south with 29 of those in North Carolina. It
could be argued that a monument to UNC Civil War veterans should be located
where they primarily fought and died. Since we would not likely find agreement to
move S'ilent Sam to Gettysburg, I suggest two alternative locations in North
Carolina.
The Battle of Bentonville, fought in March of 1865 for the control of a critical
supply line railroad hub in Gold-;boro, was the last major battle of the Civil War.
Fourteen North Carolina regiments were involved in the battle and three UNC
alums are known to have died there:
Lt. Col. Edward Mallett, Class of 1849, 6lstRegiment
Sgt. John Holmes Dobbins, Class of 1861, 36th Regiment
William Henry Austin, Class lf 1861, 17th Regiment
While there are three existing monuments at Bentonville including one which
honors Texas troops who fought there, none are statues. 1his historic site is a
seventy minute drive from Chapel Hill.
Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh was started in 1865 as a confederate

cemetery and has some 1400 dead buried in that section, some moved hurriedly
from local sites in advance of union forces and others from Gettysburg and
Arlington to be reinterred in their home state. The Oakwood staff offers a tour of
UNC alumni buried throughout the cemetery with afocus on Civil War dead.
Among those are:
Brig. Gen. George Burgwyn Anderson, Class of 1852, Antietam
William Adams, Class of 1858, Antietam
Junius Cullen Battle, Class of 1860, Maryland
died in Virginia
Iowa Michigan Royster, Class of 1860, Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg
Other notables buried at Historic Oakwood include seven North Carolina
governors, j(mr native US senators and three additional Civil War generals, one a
Medal of Honor recipient.
I visited Oakwood on October 22nd to compare their confederate burial records

with the UNC Alumni Civil War listings and to tour the grounds. There are
presently three memorials in the confederate section of the cemetery: the
Gettysburg, the Anderson and the Burgwyn with the later two honoring alums cited
earlier. As was the case at the Bentonville Battlefield, none of these three are
statues. Historic Oakwood Cemetery has restricted visiting hours, gated security
and extensive surveillance provided by the Raleigh Police Department.
My apologies for the expansiveness ofmy argument. However, it is important to

contextualize this complex situation with the real history lf our states' and its
people's involvement in this tragic war and not some romanticised version of
events as presented by Julian Carr and the Daughters of the Confederacy at Silent
Sam's dedication ceremony. North Carolina did not join a confederation of deep
south states in support o_,fslavery, presented as southern sovereignty, upon
Lincoln's election as President. Our entry was prompted by Lincoln calling for
conscription of 75,000 troops in response to a confederate attack on Fort Sumter.
It was, at most, regional identity and North Carolinians not wanting to be drafted
to fight theirfellow southerners that caused the state to leave the Union, albeit
grudgingly. Even then, citizens o_,f the coastal plains and mountains lf North
Carolina remained decidedly pro-Union after the state joined the Confederacy
with many from these regions entering the fight as union soldiers. In the
mountains, those who chose to remain at home conducted guerrilla assaults on
confederate forces.
Ultimately, more North Carolinians served and died.for the Confederacy than any
other state. Perhaps the immense sacrifice North Carolina made with the service
and loss of its sons and daughters to a war started by others is part of the rationale
to glorify a cause not of their making. But returning this 1913 monument to the
UNC campus to honor a cause , both misrepresented and long gone, which is in
total conflict with the 2018 inclusive campus sentiment ''.for all kind" defies
rational thought. Placing the monument at a battlefield where UNC alums.fought
and died or a cemetery where their remains rest is the reasonable, appropriate
tribute. Honor the men, not the pretense of a cause not our own.
Charles Hughes, Class of 1969

For more information, please contact:
Bentonville Battlefield
5466 Harper House Road
Four Oaks, North Carolina 27524
(910) 594-0789
Tour stops at several battlefield locations give visitors a close-up
Fax (910) 594-0070
look at where major actions took place. www. bentonvillebattlRjield. nchistoricsites. org
bentonville@ncmail.net
Visitor Center tour stop: Begin your driving tour here.
• Bentonville Driving Tour
Confederate High Tide tour stop: View the portions of the

battlefield where the Confederates had their greatest success
on the first day of the battle.
• Confederate High Tide
• Union Artillery at the Monis Fann
Morgan's Stand tour stop: This is where some of the fiercest

combat of the battle took place.
• Fighting at the Cole Plantation: the "Battle of Acorn Run" Admission is free.
• Fighting Soutl, of the Goldsboro Road: the "Bull Pen"
• Confederate Line Crossing the Goldsboro Road
Groups are requested to make advance reservations.
N.C. Junior Reserve tour stop: Young boys aged 17 and 18 saw
action against the Federals here.
• Confederate North Carolina Junior Reserve Line
Mower's Charge tour stop: At this location the Federals almost

captured the Confederate commander in the final hours of
the battle.
• Mower's Charge Reaches Johnston's Headquarters
• Hardee's Counterattack 40,000 of these lrrochwes were printed at a cost o/$.05 each.
• Village of Bentonville
ing day Sherman's left wing stumbled into Johnston's
trap. Initial Confederate attacks overran large sections of
Federal lines. One Union division managed to hold on
despite being surrounded by Confederate adversaries.
Failing to completely crush the Union lines,Johnston's
Confederates pulled back into positions held earlier in
the day. Sherman's right ;ving arrived on the battlefield
early on March 20, ending Johnston's hope of dealing
with a smaller Union force.
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pacesfmm us, the mder so anxiously awaited was and a
sheet offire blazed out fmm the hidden battb: line ... that was
den1oralizing andfatal lo the enerr~v. Tfuy batlled, reeled, and
stagp,;ered, while we poured volley 1ifter volley into them, and great
Above:Joseph E. Johnston, Right: William 1: Sherman gajJs were made in their as bmveFedemL~fe!l euerywhere.. ..
-A Confederate soldier's account of a
he Battle of Bentonville, which took place Union assault, March 19, 1865 were taken to the farm home ofJohn and Amy Harper,
during the three days of March 19-21, 1865, where a field hospital was established. Some wounded
was the last full-scale action of the Civil War For two days the opposing forces faced each other. Confederates were likewise treated at this facility.
in which the Confederate army was able to Cannon and rifle fire were constant. On March 21 a A. dozen surgeons arul attendants in their shirtsleeves stood
mount an offensive. This major battle, the largest ever Federal advance commanded by Gen. J. A. Mower at rude benches cutting off arms and legs and th:rmuing them
fought in North Carolina, was the only significant approached ,vithin two hundred yards of Mill Creek out of the windows. where they lay scattered on the grass.
attempt to defeat Gen. William T. Sherman after he left bridge,Johnston's only line of retreat, before being dri- -Remembrances of Bentonville bv
Georgia. Departing from Savannah in January 1865, ven back. That evening Johnston's weary troops aban- LL Col. William Hamilton, Ninth Ohio Cavalry
Sherman had met little resistance on his march north- doned their positions and withdrew toward Smithfield.
ward. Union forces advanced through South Carolina, The Harper House still stands at Bentonville
capturing Columbia and devastating the countryside. Battlefield and is furnished as a field hospital. A
Only Nortl1 Carolina lay between Sherman's army and Confederate cemete1y and a section of Union trench-
Gen. U. S. Grant's forces in Virginia, and Confederate es are also located on the site. Reminders of the battle
forces in the Carolinas were widely scattered. Gen.
Joseph E.Johnston was ordered to unite these troops
and attempt to prevent Sherman from combining his
army with that of Grant.
·with less than half as many men as Sherman's sixty
thousand,Johnston knew his only chance for success lay
in the possibility of finding Sherman's army divided.
Miserable road conditions forced Sherman to divide his Federal forces observed but did not pursue the
command into two wings, and on March 18 Johnston Confederates.Johnston failed to halt tl1e Union advance,
learned that the sections had become separated by a and Sherman's army marched on to Goldsboro, where
half-day's march. Sensing the opportunity to strike one supplies awaited the tired troops. On April 26, at the
of the wings with his force of about twenty thousand, Bennett Place near Durham,Johnston surrendered to
the Confederate general moved his troops into position Sherman, ending the Civil War in the Carolinas.
near the village of Bentonville. The Battle of Bentonville was fought over an area of six are on exhibit in the visitor center along with an
On the evening of March 18,Johnston organized his thousand acres. More tl1an four thousand men were audiovisual program about the battle. Roads in the
forces into a sickle-shaped line along the Goldsboro reported killed, wounded, or missing during the three-day area are marked with plaques highlighting events of
road and waited for the advancing Federals. The follow- battle. During the confrontation, wounded Union soldiers the Battle of Bentonville.
Cemetenry
Area Map
701 Oakwood Avenue R.aleigh, NC 27601 Phone: 111... 132 .. 1111 f 1114132,.51.11
www.,historicoakwoodcemet;ery~org
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From: Perrone, Lisa C. [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=01C57E72719E49D3A6BE6C88136A7COB-LISA C. PER]
Sent: 11/9/2018 10:00:37 PM
CC: Perrone, Lisa C. [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Monument ideas for consideration
Thank you for opening a forum for suggestions.
I'd like to see the statue preserved, in its full "glory," within a setting of tastefully and respectfully presented quotes.
would etch the quotes into large quartz/granite stones of varying hues and shapes. It would be easier to place quotes
onto a 2-dimensional art form, however I think the weight and heft of a large stone is a more appropriate answer to the
size and historical/emotional heaviness of the statue. It is also more suitable and durable for an outdoor setting.
Ideas as follows:
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." -George Santayana
"Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity." -
-Marie Curie
"We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out
arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future
promising." --Maya Angelou
"Memory is not a description of the objective past. Memory is a tool. Memory is the past's guide to the future. If you
remember that something bad happened, and you can figure out why, then you can try to avoid that bad thing from
happening again. That's the purpose of memory. It's not 'to remember the past.' It's to stop the same damn thing from
happening over and over." --Jordan Peterson, in his book 12 RULES FOR LIFE.
"United we stand. Divided we fall." -Aesop
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." --Mother Theresa
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." -Abraham Lincoln
"The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves." --Chinese proverb
"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." --the historical Jesus
Regardless of your feelings about the above suggestion, I'd like to submit a respectful request in regard to the final plan
for disposition and preservation of the monument: Please keep it simple. Please don't use the monument project as a
platform to address other issues within the broader contexts of tolerance and inequality. It may be tempting to do so
because there are many such issues out there, but please don't. Keep it simple. Honor the unique wounds of those who
have experienced racial oppression and discrimination. That act alone would go a long way toward healing.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Lisa Perrone
Message
From: Jim Garrison
Sent: 11/9/2018 10:11:12 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I think Silent Sam should be left in place but contextualized. Two of my great-grandfathers served in the
Confederate army in Stonewall Jackson's brigade, one wounded at Fredericksburg and the other following the
crazy SOB around Virginia even after he was a ghost.
My idea is to place a union soldier twenty yards or so in front of Sam with a long rifle and bayonet angled
across his chest, and between them a cowering slave family at the feet of Sam-man in chains, woman, and
child. To me this represents the War for Southern Independence as my North Carolina history text at UNC calls
it. ( I still have the text book.)
I'm a Carolina grad, a Vietnam Vet, and an American who grew up in small town North Carolina, and I have
never had any doubt what the war was about. And what lingering racism still exists in the old Confederate
States.
James D. Garrison
Class of 1968
Message
From: Allison Maiuri
Sent: 11/10/2018 7:58:09 PM
Subject: Please remove Silent Sam permanently
Please remove Silent Sam permanently. UNC is a place where people come together to learn and to
grow; UNC needs to grow as well and remove Silent Sam. Silent Sam doesn't reflect the values of
tolerance and pursuit of wisdom and knowledge that UNC represents.
-Allison Maiuri
Class of 2003
Message
From:
Sent: 11/11/2018 2:18:43 PM
Subject: Repair & restore
Please repair and restore the monument to its original site . If not, what is next? Mt Rushmore & the Washington
Monument.
Sincerely
John Ledbetter
Message
From:
Sent: 11/11/2018 5:14:45 PM
CC: Lee La Fevre
Subject: Silent Same
I thought on what to do with Silent Sam:
Lay down a long marble slab at the Dean Dome. Engrave on its front 'Tar Heels', Set Silent Sam on the Left side and a
stature of Michael Jordan on the right side. (assuming he would give permission for this)His statue by necessity would be
taller and he would have a basket ball in his hands. On a brass plaque placed on top and between the statues would be
engraved an explanation such as this. Robert E Lee bequeath the name Tar Heels to the NC soldiers fighting under his
command because of their valor, fighting spirit and tenacity, a trait shared by NC soldiers in every war since then and an
epitaph that the alumni of UNC can proudly claim as their own as they march forward into life.
Since this is a controversial subject, as an alternate you could melt down Silent Sam and cast hundreds of miniature
Silent Sam statues. These would be sold at auction to raise money for the university and at the same time the university
should strike all use of the term Tar Heels from any university related activity and call the athletic teams the Duck Heads
in deference to their rivals.
I am just saying ..... ! have know skin the game, I went to State.
Lee Lafevre
Message
From: Malone, Sara Mount [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=FDB1FD501423418AAE09A4A6B2F017BA-SARA M MALO]
Sent: 11/11/2018 6:58:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam and beyond
Attachments: 110918 OIRA Data Relevant to Sam.pdf
To the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and Chancellor Falt:
Once you have submitted your proposal to the UNC Board of Governors regarding the disposition of the Silent
Sam statue, I encourage all who have not yet done so to read the following books, perhaps over the upcoming
holiday, because the unhealthy and divisive cultures of 'safetyism' and 'victim hood' are still extant on our
campus and they need to be acknowledged and mitigated before more damage is done to our students.
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for
Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, 2018
https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-lntentions-
Generation/dp/0735224897 /ref=sr 1 1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541976323&sr=8-
1&keywords=codd Ii ng+of+the+a me rica n+m ind
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine our Culture,
by Heather Mac Donald, 2018
https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Delusion-Pandering-University-
Undermine/dp/1250200911/ref=sr 1 1 ?ie=UTF8&qid=1541976760&sr=8-
1&keywords=diversity+delusion+heather
In my opinion, the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the extra legal removal of the Silent Sam
Confederate Memorial statue last August is one of the darkest periods of the modern history of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. No matter what the ultimate resolution is regarding the disposition of the
statue, the wounds are deep and they will not heal quickly.
It is unfortunately the case that the framing of any issue-especially by a biased news media like the Daily Tar
Heel and other local 'news' groups-can be used to create false impressions of support for a particular
ideology or perspective which allows a strident, sometimes violent, minority to dominate the conversation
and essentially silence the voices of the more reasoned or skeptical, but threatened, majority.
I would argue that this is exactly what has occurred over the past year in the Silent Sam travesty. My concerns
(supported by the data I share in the attached file) are the result of a year-long period of frustration and
despair because I have watched in sadness and disbelief as the leadership team in South Building, by allowing
only a minority voice to be heard and privileging the violent actions of a tiny group of student protesters and
outside agitators, has totally destroyed the Carolina Way of collegiality and respect for multiple opinions
enjoyed by our diverse community of Tar Heels for many years. Dr. Bill Friday would be so disappointed. Our
beautiful campus once was a place where different ideas and opinions could be shared without fear of being
labeled or shouted down or violently accosted, but that ideal will likely never be realized again, I fear.
I've been employed at Carolina since 1996. I've taken classes from numerous faculty in Arts and Sciences,
many of whom I can no longer talk to comfortably because we disagree on the way the Silent Sam matter has
been handled and the iconoclasts will barely listen to alternative points of view before shutting down
conversations, apparently sure that only they are on the 'right' side of history. For many years I've been a
donor to programs that support students in Arts and Sciences and I still give funds each pay period but a
reduced amount after 8/20/2018. Why should I support faculty and administrators who allow and even
encourage young students to become vandals and criminals? The thought makes me cringe.
At a staff focus group I recently attended, which was held to discuss the Silent Sam issue, there were six of us
who pretty much covered the spectrum from avidly and stridently against to sincerely and passionately for
Silent Sam. We all only agreed completely on two ideas:
1. there should be no additional figurative statues added to Mccorkle Place; instead there should be
more trees added with benches on little brick patios-like those by Murphey Hall-under the trees so
people have places to sit and talk to each other while they eat lunch (this used to be the case back in
the 1960's and before, I've been told);
2. the only proper place on campus for Silent Sam to go is the lobby of Wilson Library, back by the
staircase, perhaps on a revolving pedestal and encased in bullet proof Plexiglas or surrounded by a
protective railing and maybe even with a curtain that could be closed to protect the ultra-sensitive.
This would, of course, require the 44 percent of the libraries' staff who, according to a recent article in
the Daily Tar Heel, are afraid of the statue to put away their fear and learn something about lost wax
bronze casting, but it would also be an excellent way to raise from alumni donations the funds
necessary to upgrade the sprinkler systems that protect the rare books as well as the entrance security
(I believe the Health Science Library has metal detectors at each outside entrance) .
I hope that the proposal you offer to the UNC Board of Governors will include a recommendation to keep the
statue in a protected space on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. It is the only right and legal thing to do.
Thank you.
Sara:Ma[one
General Internal Medicine Accounting
UNC-CH OIRA Data Relevant to Sam
Office of Institutional Research and Assessment Data

https:/ / olra.unc.gtjy/q;rzorts/
Permanent and Part-Time Faculty and Staff@ 10/31/2017
SHRA staff 6,520 51.5%
EHRA Non facuty 2,245 17.7%
Faculty 3,887 30.7%
Total Employees 12,652 100.0%
Faculty in Arts & Sci. 998

(part of Acad. Aff.)
Faculty in Acad. Aff. 1,417
Faculty in Health Aff. 2,470
Total Faculty 3,887
Students enrolled 10/31/2017 9/4/2018

Arts and Sciences 19,083 63.8% 19,067 63.5%
Other Schools 10,828 36.2% 10,944 36.5%
Total 29,911 100.0% 30,011 100.0%
Active, strident student protestors who harrassed campus and likely either witnessed
or participated in vandalism of Silent Sam statue 8/20/2018 (a tiny minority of students)
Approx. Highest No. reported 350 350
10/31/2017 9/4/2018
Percentage of A&S 19,083 1.8% 19,067 1.8%
Percentage of Total 29,911 1.2% 30,111 1.2%
Faculty who regulary have signed letters to chancellor, BOT and BOG asking or
demanding removal of Silent Sam (extra legally) = a very small minority including
Black faculty (ca. 60} plus their supporters:
Approx. Highest No. reported 500
10/31/2017
Percent. Of A&S 998 50.1%
Percent. Of Acad Aff. 1417 35.3%
Percent.of Total Fae. 3887 12.9%
Message
From:
Sent: 11/11/2018 7:04:08 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Silent Sam is a historical monument, standing for almost I 00 years, which remembers the Confederate army
soldiers
The Civil war took the most Americans in any war and we have Civil war monuments throughout the Eastern
part of our country
These monuments are special places where we remember the American lives that were lost, as Silent Sam
remembers American lives lost. I have frequently stood in front of Silent Sam on the UNC campus and
remembered the lives lost, some of my relatives, in the Civil War.
We are a country of courage, not succumbing to terrorist acts
Therefore, return Silent Sam to his historic place on the UNC campus
Protect Silent Sam from terrorist acts as we protect historical monuments throughout our country
Grace and Peace
Sandra Odham Myskowski

Message
From: Phyllis Hollowell I
Sent: 11/11/2018 7:41:14 PM
We cannot change our past history so let us embrace it and learn from our mistakes. If we try to erase
it we will forget and are in danger of repeating our mistakes. We must know who and what we were and
what we have and can become. Phyllis Ho l owe 77 '62
Message
From: Phyllis Hollowell I
Sent: 11/11/2018 7:48:41 PM
Subject: We cannot erase our past. We must embrace it with all the good, the bad, and the ugly. If we do not we are bound
to repeat. Let us learn so we can become the people and country we were meant to be. Phyllis Hol lowell '62
Message
From: Darryl Clark
Sent: 11/12/2018 11:24:16 AM
Subject: RE: Silent Sam
Please get rid of Silent Sam. Valorizing the Confederacy will be seen by many as the validation of White
superiority. The central issue in the Civil War was the legality and morality of slavery. The University of North
Carolina should not be a part of whitewashing history.
While I am at it, I find it absolutely shameful that UNC is participating in public relations for an ethically
bankrupt company like Wells Fargo. Every time I watch a home basketball game, I am disgusted that my alma
mater has sold it's integrity. I have donated to the school in the past, but I no longer contribute based on this
sponsorship. They tried to steal money from 2 million people.
Darryl Clark
Class of 1990
Darryl Clark
Associate Professor of Communication
Department Chair
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Message
From: Frederick Hawkins
Sent: 11/12/2018 12:47:11 PM
I think the monument should be placed in a building, on campus, out of public view.
The evils of slavery should be emphasized in a brief history of the monument while also paying tribute to sacrifices made
by the common soldier--most often from a rural background--who marched off to war from a sense of duty, long before
advancements made during the civil rights movement which we , fortunately, experienced .That movement had a
profound effect on millions of people in our country.
Frederick A. Hawkins
Class of '56
Message
Sent: 11/12/2018 3:48:48 PM
Subject: FW: Monument
On 11/12/18, 3:46 PM, "Dudley Bokoski" wrote:

It's probably a forlorn hope that the silent Same controversy will fade quietly away, but has any
thought been given to moving the silent Same monument to the Bentonvi l le Battlefield? It was the site of
the last major engagement of the civil War as Johnston's Army retreated north. If I'm remembering
correctly it is a North Carolina state historic site, so the state would just be moving the monument from
one state controlled location to another. The soldiers from UNC during the war fought on any number of
battlefields during the war and I think it would certainly be appropriate to honor them on a battlefield.
It certainly in 2018 makes much more sense than honoring them on a campus where their memorial is subject
to defacement. This would probably not make anyone happy as both sides seem bent on sticking fingers in
each other's eyes as opposed to finding common ground, but I think it would be worth considering.
Thanks
Message
Sent: 11/12/2018 3:52:25 PM
Subject: FW: Education Lottery Funds question
Attachments: 2013 Minority Business of the Year Award .docx
From: Ev Dove
Reply-To: Ev Dove·
Date: Monday, November 12, 2018 at 11:49 AM
To: "tim.moore@ncleg.net" <tim.moore@ncleg.net>, "phil.berger@ncleg.net" <phil.berger@ncleg.net>, NC
Senator Don Davis <don.davis@ncleg.net>, "dan.blue@ncleg.net" <dan.blue@ncleg.net>
Subject: Education Lottery Funds question
Would it be prudent to allot an exact amount of

Education Lottery Funds for a new museum in Raleigh
with 2 wings?
One wing to house confederate statues now and formerly occupying public grounds, to educate.
One wing to house statues of Soj oumer Truth, Martin Luther King, and others who fought for freedom, to
educate.
If it would be prudent, let that be the act of UNITY that our North Carolina General Assembly enacts.
Silent Sam has been so divisive. Lead to unity, sirs, with this jointly fashioned legislation to create a Unity
Museum to educate all.
Sincerely,
Evelyn
PathChoice Ministry
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Message
From: etmalonejr@; [etmalonejr@,
Sent: 11/12/2018 4:15:37 PM
CC: nedmalone21@
Subject: Historical perspective needed
Regarding the symbolism of the statue Silent Sam, many UNC alumni do NOT consider it a representative of white
supremacy. As an undergraduate and graduate student, I must have passed by it hundreds of times over the years. It
always made me think of the bravery and sacrifice of the young men who went out and fought to defend their state from
military invasion . They were shaped by the world in which they lived. Today, I am a liberal Democrat who voted twice for
President Obama, yet I am also a native North Carolinian who had several ancestors who served in the Confederate
Army. I am disturbed when I hear radicalized students and faculty refer to them as Nazis, racists, and monsters. There is
hardly anyone who lived during the middle 19th century whose ideas would not be offensive to one group or another living
today. The University ballyhoos its teaching of critical thinking, yet one would think that critical thinkers would look at the
totality of a person's life, influence, and contributions to society, rather than focus on his or her flaws.
The day after the statue was torn down, University spokespeople said that the University would not give in to mob rule.
But, of course, that is EXACTLY what they did. The claim that University police were not instructed to back off and allow
what happened is not credible. No one believes it. Had the police been ordered to protect the statue, they would have
done so, and it would not have been toppled.
Unfortunately, it would be too controversial to restore it to its pedestal. And so the mob has won. It is almost as if UNC has
a new "Speaker Ban Law," except now it is those with traditional views who are intimidated into silence.
The best solution would be to place the statue in a newly-created University Museum, along with all sorts of other
currently-homeless artifacts. It is, after all, a beautiful piece of commissioned bronze statuary, specifically honoring UNC
alumni.
E. T. Malone, Jr.
Class of 1965, M.A. 1975
Message
Sent: 11/13/2018 8:54:51 AM
Subject: FW: Veterans Day Appeal for Decency and the Rule of Law
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From: michaelgcox
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 10:56 PM
Subject: Veterans Day Appeal for Decency and the Rule of Law
Dear Chancellor Foll,
As we remember and honor our veterans this Veterans Day, I implore you please, do not dishonor them by removing and /or relocating the Boy Soldier Monument, commonly
known as "Silent Sam." The men who are memorialized by this monument were North Carolina State Troops. They are the original, true Tar Heels, from whom we take our
precious name.
They purchased that name with their blood. They fought, sacrificed and died for the State of North Carolina. They deserve our honor and respect.
1he State of North Carolina called them to service and they answered that call. In many cases, they laid dmvn their books to serve. Theirs was not a political decision. They simply
served and died doing what the State called them to do. They just did their duty.
TI,e soldiers for whom the monument stands are also United States veterans by act of the United States Congress. Shall we dishonor American veterans simply because of
changing political sentiments? \Nhere does it stop? Shall we take down the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial next? We must not ren10ve or desecrate U.S. veterans' memorials. It is
against North Carolina law and it is simply wrong.
The message you wonld be sending by removing or relocating this monument is that the Tar Heels' service and sacrifice are no longer honored and respected. Such an action
would say to those who serve or may be called to serve their country that their service and sacrifice may one day be called into question based on changing political sentiments. Is
that the message we want to send to those who serve and protect us?
Shall we tell them that they may suffer and die in service of country and subsequently be forgotten, disrespected, disdained and even scorned when the political winds shift? Have
we really sunk to such low depths of character that we no longer respect the men who served this great State? Unfortunately, it appears we have.
As an alumnus of the University and a native North Carolinian, I am ashamed that you have called for the removal of this precious monument. I implore you to reconsider and
stand up for the sacrifice and memory of the original Tar Heels who answered the State ofNotth Carolina's call! DO NOT ren10ve or relocate the monument to the Tar Heels!
The fact that you are entertaining alternatives to obeying the law is a sad sign that your administration has no intent to do as the law requires. Flagrantly flouting the law would be
an injustice and a grave mistake. Such an action would encourage others to break the law.
The people of North Carolina have already spoken! The law requires the Tar Heels' monument to be returned to its pedestal by Nov. 18, 2018. "Silent San1" must be restored to its
original place and position of prominence. It must be protected.
This is not up for debate. The law requires it! Just do it!
Respectfully,
Michael Cox

Class of 1976
Message
From: Rob Ferguson [
Sent: 11/13/2018 9:54:03 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Suggestion: UNC Museum of History of Race in the United States
Short term: Keep Silent Sam off campus. It offends people of color and anyone with a sensitivity to
oppression and our history of racism.
Here is a quote from the original dedication of Silent Sam by Julian Carr:
"One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I
horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she
had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings
where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence
of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel shot gun under my head."
Long term: Create an internationally renowned museum: UNC Museum of History of Race in the United
States.
UNC is one of the outstanding universities in the world. Its leaders can choose to step decisively into the 21st
century, and continue to educate North Carolina, the USA, and the world regarding race and oppression and
liberation, or it can step backwards with the short term value of pleasing a shrinking number of people who
want to deny the oppression of racism. Race is complex, yet we often have simple ideas about it. A major
museum would make a major contribution to American education. While it would be expensive in the short
term, it would be profitable in the long term as it would show UNC to be progressive, relevant, and courageous.
Message
From: michael g cox@ [michael g cox@
Sent: 11/13/2018 4:45:43 PM
To: Chancellor [/o Exchangelabs/ou Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/en Recipients/en 34be32522a4549bcb309fddad4de781a-south chanc]; UNC Monument
[/o Exchangelabs/ou Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: FW: Gallup survey invitation from Chancellor Carol L. Folt
chancellor Falt,
I remain hopeful that LJ NC will take the proper and lawful action to restore the mar Heels Boy Soldier Monument to its
rightful location and make plans to protectiit in the future; ltds my intentto withhbldsupport ofahy kind for UN€
pending resoh..ition ofthis shameful affair:That certainly includes participating in surveys or promotingtJNC in any way.
Also in severe peril are my support for UN€ athletics and futurernonetary support, includingposthumousbenefits. I
neveninrny wildestnightmares would have dreamed that my affection and loyalty to UN€ could ever be alienated, bot
you, Madam Chancellor, have managed to do just that.
Please do the tight thing to remember and honor those valiant mar Heels who gave all for their State by restoring the
monument to their heroism and sacrifice. Thatiis all the monument memorializes nothing more: The Tar Heels bear no
responsibility for the flaws and failures of theAtarious governments. That burden rests squarely on the shoulders of the
Whited Kihgdbm, the Whited States of America and the State of Nbtth Carolina.
The soldiers memorialized by that monument were the true, original Tar Heels. By the way, you need a history lesson.
They weretnot Confederate soldiers. They were North Carolina State Troopswho sim plyidid theit solemn dtlty fat the
State of North Carolina. I implore you to summon the courage to do yours and re-erect the monument as the law
requires.
Regards,
Michael Cox
class of 1976
From: Chancellor Carol L. Folt <noreply@lgive.unc.edu>

SentrnTuesday, November 13, 20:18 lli0:03IAM
To: cox;MICHAE[ G (A1 l..JSA,ex1)
SUbject: Gallup survey invitation from Chancellor Carol L. Falt
We heed your input as we work to make North @arblina's public universities even better.
Dear Carolina Alumni:
We need your input as we work to make North Carolina's public universities

even better. This month, the UNC System will conduct a survey of all
Carolina undergraduate degree recipients to learn how our alumni are doing
and how your time at Carolina has affected your life today. All 16 universities
in the UNC System are participating in this survey, conducted by the Gallup
Organization.
The survey will yield valuable data about your satisfaction with your
undergraduate experiences, your preparedness for the job market and your
overall well-being. Specifically, this survey focuses on your relationships with
different mentors during your time at Carolina and the helpfulness of that
guidance. It also will ask for your opinions about the rigor and value of your
Carolina education.
In the next few days, you will receive an email from Gallup inviting you to
participate online. We know your time is valuable, and we appreciate you
taking 15 minutes to complete this survey. For more information about the
survey visit: bJtp$://www'.DQJJ:h;:;::_irolio0'.?QP/2Ql&lJNC$y$tsmSwJYfY- If you
have questions, please contact Cameron Howell, UNC System Vice President
for Strategic Initiatives.
Thank you in advance for your participation.
Sincerely,
Carol L. Falt
Chancellor
Message
From: Kevin Walker i
Sent: 11/13/2018 4:55:34 PM
Subject: harming diversity
If UNC values the claims it makes to embrace diversity, then it needs to begin by taking a hard look at
the symbol it has allowed Silent Sam to become. Even as a white male attending UNC from 1982 to
1986, it marked me as an outsider, having been born north of the Mason-Dixon line. If the statue and
its history made me uncomfortable, I cannot imagine the obstacles that minorities and foreigners
experience, nor can I understand how the University has
allowed such to continue. Turning a blind eye to the rift has not succeeded in bridging it, nor in
healing it.
Kevin Walker '86

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Sent: 11/13/2018 9:31:16 PM
Subject: follow up
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Message
From: Una Kelley
Sent: 11/14/2018 1:14:23 AM
Subject: Silent Sam belongs in a museum with context
I appreciate the opportunity to comment with ideas on what to do with the Silent Sam monument. In short,
my hope is that it will remain taken down and instead placed in a museum to be viewed and learned about in
context - similar to how the holocaust museum functions.
I believe this monument should have been taken down officially long before it was by protesters. What it
represents is hateful, discriminatory and the dark side of humanity. It saddens me to think of the destructive
impact on people due to its presence anywhere, but much less on an educational campus.
My three children, ages 8, 10 and 13, are very confused on why a monument like this would exist - and I, as a
parent teaching my children how to become their best selves and contributing members of society, am
challenged to explain it. I'm frankly as confused on why the university is debating even keeping it. It's a bit
embarrassing when other states and strong educational institutions have chosen to take a more advanced,
humane stance. I highly encourage UNC to follow its peers and not allow a monument that represents the
dark side of humanity to be remain anywhere outside of a museum.
Thank you again for the opportunity for community members to provide feedback.
Kindly,
Una Kelley
Chapel Hill, NC
Message
Sent: 11/14/2018 9:29:24 AM
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From: Pisano, Patrick <patrick.pisano@almacgroup.com>

Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Falt,
My daughter graduated from UNC Chapel Hill this year, so first let me say thank you for taking care of her and preparing
her for the future.
Second, it may be too late for suggestions on what to do with Silent Sam, but I wanted to throw my suggestion in just in
case. Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh has a large section of graves of Confederate soldiers from various states, with a
memorial about them as you enter the area. Whether people agree with their cause or not, it is important to remember
that they did give their lives for a cause in which they deeply believed . I think it might be a good idea for Sam to be
given to Oakwood, to be made part of that memorial, so he can continue to guard over the fallen.
Thanks you,
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Raleigh, NC
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Message
From: Gina Young -
Sent: 11/14/2018 1:38:47 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
I am disturbed that so much attention is being given to the UNC faculty response as to what to do with
silent Sam. only 19% of them responded to the survey, and those are doubtless some of the most outspoken
liberals on campus. It is a very biased group. Many faculty have no ties to North Carolina whatsoever
other than their current job positions.
Certainly, members of Anti fa from out of state should have NO opinion in this matter.
requirement of your plan (I would like to add that there would be no concerns for public safety if not
Gina Young
'78 '93
Sent from my iPhone

Message
From: John Bell
Sent: 11/14/2018 3:25:12 PM
Thank you for the opportunity to weigh in on the subject of Silent Sam.
I am a white North Carolinian - born, raised and educated here. I have lived in NC for more than 50
ofmy 63 years. I am a 1979 graduate, former employee, and a financial supporter ofUNC-Chapel
Hill.
In addition, my father's family has been from the South for more than 225 years. My paternal
ancestors were cotton farmers and slave holders; served in the Confederacy; and fought at
Gettysburg.
Despite this, I do not understand nor share the sentiment that removing Silent Sam to another, more
appropriate location - such as the Bennett Place Historic Site or the NC Museum ofHistmy where
it could be put into historical context and used solely for educational purposes - diminishes or
offends my Southern heritage.
This heritage is longer, more complex, and much richer than the four years of the tragic, failed
Confederacy.
Because I am a student ofhistoiy, I'm convinced beyond doubt that Silent Sam was placed at the
University to reinforce a message of Jim Crow white supremacy, and that message, while an
historic fact, is shameful to the University and antithetical to what UNC and North Carolina
purports to stand for.
Lastly, as a resident of Chapel Hill, with . and other friends in attendance and employed at
Carolina, I am utterly convinced placing Sam back on the pedestal at McCorkle place would
needlessly endanger lives of students and non-students alike, while provoking and hurting in the
extreme many North Carolinians and others, and send an embarrassingly regressive message to the
entire world.
We are so much better than this. Can we not maintain a modicum of dignity and dispense of this
ugly symbol of the past?
John A. Bell
Message
From:
Sent: 11/14/2018 11:16:01 PM
Subject: African Americans at UNC and Silent Sam considerations
Greetings ... The attached letter offers suggestions on the telling of a more complete story on the
attitudes and involvement of Afri can Ame r icans at UNC, and incorporating a larger history in de t ermining
how to comsider the presence of silent Sam.
I Look forward to your response.
Fay Mitchell, 1976
Message
From: Renee
Sent: 11/15/2018 1:46:49 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
My suggestion is to place the statue and the plaques on it's base in Memorial Hall. The building is in memory
of students who died in war, as is Silent Sam, so it's a logical solution.
Thank you for giving us a chance to weigh in.
Renee Mikles Hoffman

Class of '81

Message
Sent: 11/15/2018 4:46:04 PM
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Elizabeth A. Wil li ams

T: 919-962-1586
From: Ashley Dixon _
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 8:16 AM
subject: silent Sam
Put the monument to the students who died back up. Ridiculous u allowed this to happen. Your political
correctness is killing this great university. A hundred year old monument to kids who DIED 150 years ago
isn' ta threat to anyone!!!!
If i were in charge I would run your ass all the way back to whatever New England state they found you.
Worry abo ut real issues like a football coach that can beat anyone.
Ashley Dixon
Wilmington
Sent from my iPhone
Message
Sent: 11/15/2018 5:00:06 PM
T: 919-962-1586
From: Lyric Kinard,
subject: silent Sam
Dear chancellor and Board of Trustees,
My Kinard ancestors settled and enslaved people in an area west of Columbia SC. After the civil war their
"livelihood" was gone. In other words, they couldn't figure out how to support themselves without holding
people in bondage and the town of Kinard is no longer even incorporated. As it should be.
I'm so sorry for the immeasurable pain my ancestors inflicted. I recognize that the comforts I enjoy,
that we as all white Americans throughout this country enjoy, were built on the pain and labor of those
who do not now have access to the generational benefits of the society that labor built.
If you honor and respect the men who fought to keep their way of life, one in which they raped women they
owned, sold people like cattle, and lived off the forced labor and lives and deaths of humans with darker
skin than them, then agree to post the statue in another place. It does not need to stand as an affront
to those who survived the brutality of enslavement and their progeny who have fought and died for every
human right we as whites simply assume is our natural right.
Here is an excerpt from the speech that dedicated silent Sam. 50 years after the end of the civil war the
Klan rose and crushed the meager freedoms the former enslaved men, women, and children had clawed from
their former captors. It was during this new era of rising terror that a wave of statues honoring
confederates were erected.
Read it out loud and you tell me whether silent Sam deserves to stand and represent the enslavement and
persecution of an people.
"The present generation, I am persuaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the
welfare of the Anglo Saxon race during the four years immediately succeeding the war, when the facts are,
that their courage and steadfastness saved the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the south - When "the
bottom rail was on top" all over the southern states, and to-day, as a consequence the purest strain of
the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 southern States - Praise God.
I trust I may be pardoned for one allusion, howbeit it is rather personal. One hundred yards
from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a
negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had
publicly insulted and maligned a southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University
buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the
immediate presence of the entire garrison, and for thirty nights afterwards slept with a double-barrel
shot gun under my head."
I urge you to make the right choice and move silent Sam to a historic site with appropriate educational
material, telling the truth of the entire story.
Take care,
-Lyric Kinard
Cary, NC
www.LyricKinard.com
Message
From: Chancellor [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Sent: 11/15/2018 5:01:28 PM
Subject: FW: Letter opposing relocation of Confederate statue on UNC campus
Attachments: Letter to Chancellor Folt re Confederate statue.docx
T: 919-962-1586
From: Lucy Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 7:07 PM
subject: Letter opposing relocation of Confederate statue on UNC campus
The Triangle branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is comprised of
women and men, including UNC-CH alumni, faculty, staff and other community members, for whom the safety
of and respect for all our citizens is paramount. We have been working for peace and justice in this
community for more than 80 years. For the 10 months prior to the toppling of the Confederate statue on
campus, our organization had a weekly presence at the site with educational materials about the statue's
history for passersby. We engaged in conversations multiple times each day with many listeners who were
respectfully attentive and made relevant comments. on several occasions we were present with students
when confrontations took place with proponents of the Confederacy who insulted and demeaned the
intelligence and intention of students who calmly explained the historical perspective which is commonly
held by most citizens. An exchange of ideas with these persons was not possible nor was temperate
conversation.
As we recently heard Dr. William Sturkey say, replacing the statue "would be the single most racially
hostile act that an American university has done in the 21st century". We completely concur.
Memorializing the war that subjected many of our less affluent citizens to battle for the foundation of
the wealthy landholders, slave labor, is morally wrong. It also contributes to a racially hostile
environment for students, faculty, staff and community members who are on campus.
Historian Eric Foner points out, "Public monuments are built by those with sufficient power to determine
which parts of history are worth commemorating and what vision of history ought to be conveyed." The
Confederate soldier statue was funded by the UDC, famed for its nearly 150-year mission to reframe the
war's objectives. It was dedicated by a wealthy industrialist who left no doubt about his reverence for
preserving the status of the Anglo-Saxon race. It has been protected by N.C. lawmakers eager to
circumvent any attempts by the public to relocate any of these monuments.
If you choose to replace the statue you and the trustees will have capitulated to the power of the
legislature's carefully constructed support of the white majority. You will have capitulated to the
threats of those who have peddled a false history for more than 130 years in order to maintain white
supremacy. You will subject this community bent on justice for all neighbors to confrontations and
violence which will have no satisfying end.
The statue should never have been erected on the UNC campus in the first place. It cannot be allowed to
stand on any UNC campus site.
Sincerely,
Lucy Wagner Lewis for Triangle WILPF
Dear Chancellor Folt: November 14, 2018
The Triangle branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is
comprised of women and men, including UNC-CH alumni, faculty, staff and other community
members, for whom the safety of and respect for all our citizens is paramount. We have been working
for peace and justice in this community for more than 80 years. For the 10 months prior to the toppling
of the Confederate statue on campus, our organization had a weekly presence at the site with
educational materials about the statue's history for passersby. We engaged in conversations multiple
times each day with many listeners who were respectfully attentive and made relevant comments. On
several occasions we were present with students when confrontations took place with proponents of the
Confederacy who insulted and demeaned the intelligence and intention of students who calmly
explained the historical perspective which is commonly held by most citizens. An exchange of ideas
with these persons was not possible nor was temperate conversation.
As we recently heard Dr. William Sturkey say, replacing the statue "would be the single most racially
hostile act that an American university has done in the 21st century". We completely concur.
Memorializing the war that subjected many of our less affluent citizens to battle for the foundation of
the wealthy landholders, slave labor, is morally wrong. It also contributes to a racially hostile
environment for students, faculty, staff and community members who are on campus.
Historian Eric Foner points out, "Public monuments are built by those with sufficient power to
determine which parts of history are worth commemorating and what vision of history ought to be
conveyed." The Confederate soldier statue was funded by the UDC, famed for its nearly 150-year
mission to reframe the war's objectives. It was dedicated by a wealthy industrialist who left no doubt
about his reverence for preserving the status of the Anglo-Saxon race. It has been protected by N.C.
lawmakers eager to circumvent any attempts by the public to relocate any of these monuments.
If you choose to replace the statue you and the trustees will have capitulated to the power of the
legislature's carefully constructed support of the white majority. You will have capitulated to the
threats of those who have peddled a false history for more than 130 years in order to maintain white
supremacy. You will subject this community bent on justice for all neighbors to confrontations and
violence which will have no satisfying end.
The statue should never have been erected on the UNC campus in the first place. It cannot be allowed
to stand on any UNC campus site.
Sincerely,
Lucy Wagner Lewis for Triangle WILPF

Message
Sent: 11/15/2018 5:05:35 PM
T: 919-962-1586
From: Gina Young•
To: Cooper Roy <roy.cooper@nc.gov>; NC Legislature <InternetE-mail@ncleg.net>; chancellor
<chancellor@unc.edu>
subject: silent Sam
> I am disturbed that so much attention is being given to the UNC faculty response as to what to do with
silent Sam. only 19% of them responded to the survey, and those are doubtless some of the most outspoken
liberals on campus. It is a very biased group. Many faculty have no ties to North Carolina whatsoever
other than their current job positions.
> I am strongly in favor of returning silent Sam to his previous location. This is an historic statue
Certainly, members of Anti fa from out of state should have NO opinion in this matter.
> Besides being of immense historical value, silent Sam is a beautiful
> work of art and an iconic feature of the campus. It should be returned
> immediately to its pedestal. I would suggest we encase it in
> plexiglass like they have done quite successfully in Mecklenburg
> county in order to fulfill the "public safety" requirement of your
> plan (I would like to add that there would be no concerns for public
> safety if not for the mob violence and protests) and I suggest we add
> a plaque to contextualize the statue. But it needs to go back where it
> belongs as the law requires. Thank you, Gina Young
> '78 '93
>
> Sent from my iPhone
Message
Sent: 11/15/2018 5:08:35 PM
Subject: FW: Si lent Sam
Assistant to the Chance!!or
T: 9.19--962-1586
From: Lyn Lowery

Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 11:25 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Hello,
I know you have a large decision coming up with Silent Sam. It's truly a shame that the students pick just one
aspect of it and choose to destroy. If they had looked back farther, they would have found the history of the
statue. It seems that we are teaching students that it's alright to destroy things. And if they are violent they can
get what they want.
UNC wasn't always that way. Anyway, I am offering my property to place him on. It's a beautiful statue. And
stands for many of your students that actually, went to war on both sides. And they went to defend the school
itself
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at or
Sincerely,
Lyn Lowery
Sentji·om my Verizon Motorola Smartphone

Message
From: Herbert, Lily [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =4019d09d5c8c4b3590b248d4d019e438-I herbert]
Sent: 11/15/2018 10:44:55 PM
Subject: Monument
Dear UNC Staff and Administrators,
I am writing to ask you to not restore the Confederate monument to McCorkle Place, and to not place it
anywhere else on UNC's campus. I have been on this campus for over five years, as an undergraduate student,
staff member, and graduate student. The presence of the monument makes me feel unsafe, as a visible member
of a minority, and unwelcome. I grew up in North Carolina, hearing a parent and my relatives refer to the Civil
War as "the war between the states." I witnessed a meeting of the Granddaughters of the Confederacy in my
grandfather's childhood home. And I saw the membership card to the Confederacy my other grandfather kept. I
possess a deep understanding of which heritage Silent Sam represents. Silent Sam represents a heritage that
does not include people of color, and is especially violent and toxic toward African Americans. This is evident
in the death threats that student activists have received from individuals who wish for the statue to remain. I
implore you to remove the statue and prevent a platform for hatred to further be expressed on our campus.
Sincerely,
Lily Herbert
Message
From: j snyc
Sent: 11/15/2018 11:56:41 PM
Subject: The Confederate Monument and its Base Should Be Removed From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's
Campus At OnceQ
The Confederate Monument and its Base Shou!ci Be Removed From the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hm's Campus At Once!
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill prides itself on fostering a diverse environment with the pillars of its
foundation being inclusiveness, respect, and integrity, However, the ostensible presence of a Confederate
monument on the upper quad of campus is in stark contrast to the University's mission statement and its com
values,
The Confederate monument Silent Sam was erected on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill over i 00 years ago_ The dedication speech, which was given by Julian Carr, a white supremacist, implored
those present during the dedication ceremony to commit themselves to the preservation of white supremacy with the
same ferocity that their Confederate ancestors had when they defended human slavery During his speech, Carr
went on to praise the Confederate soldiers during the war, as well as those after the war, who terrorized Blacks and
anyone else they felt was a threat to the 'Anglo Saxon race_' Carr also went so far as to boast about 'horse-
whipping' a Black woman, i 00 yards from where he gave his speech_
The core ideology for which Confederate soldiers fought was that of white supremacy and to subjugate an entire
race of people into human bondage_ The Confederacy was an act of treason against the United States of America
and the U,S, Constitution_ Confederate statues are nothing more than a xenophobic, segregationist and treasonous
movement to send a strong message of intimidation to people of color,
Upon noticing the Silent Sam statue for the first time over the summer of 2018, I felt immediate shock, utter
disbelief, and disappointment This is the university that our son longed to attend, and it was not until after he was
enrolled in the summer program that we became aware of the Silent Sam Confederate statue_
Not only does our son and his peers denounce the public display of the Confederate statue on campus, but others
(UNC alumni) I've spoken with also share the same sentiment I've had countless conversations about the
Confederate statue with several people of color, from all walks of life within the NC community (entrepreneurs; tv
personalities; judges; bus drivers; waiters; physicians; athletes; etc,) and the position is always the same, To people
of color, the sheer presence of a Confederate statue, in any public setting (especially a learning institution/college
campus) does not elicit feelings of belonging, diversity or respect To the contrary, these statues send a strong
message of white supremacy, human slavery, and terror. Confederate soldiers, statues and flags should be
renounced the same way Germany renounced Hitler and his flag,
It speaks volumes to note that on the very same day Silent Sam was toppled, Duke University covertly and
surreptitiously removed (in the middle of the night) the Confederate statue from its campus,
With that being said, how can the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in good conscience, restore such a
divisive monument? This goes completely against a University that prides itself as a diverse environment, 'marked
by integrity, inclusiveness, and respect'
The Confederacy was not only on the wrong side of Democracy but more importantly, the wrong side of mankind!
Message
From: John Wilson L
Sent: 11/16/2018 9:40:15 AM
Subject: Put it in a broom closet - eom

Message
From: Michael Irwin I
Sent: 11/16/2018 2:53:09 PM
Subject: if you read this ....
I want to thank you for your dedication to creating a safe campus. I am a '94 graduate and a public school
teacher at Chapel Hill high School.
My proposed relocation site is Bennet Memorial, which is 12 miles away and the site of the official end of the
Civil War for the south-is there any better place to remember the fallen than in the actual place of the end of
the war for the southern states?
Seriously, I'm not sure many people know about it, and it is right here! Move Sam to Bennett Place!
-michael irwin
All mail correspondence to and from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools is subject to the North
Carolina Public Records Law, which may result in monitoring and disclosure to third parties, including
law enforcement.
Message
From: Sarah Geer
Sent: 11/18/2018 9:50:36 AM
Subject: Confederate memorial statue should not be replaced
I am a Chapel Hill native, and a UNC-CH alumna. I grew up playing on the grass ofMcCorkle Place around
"Silent Sam," since my father's office was in Battle-Vance-Pettigrew. I walked by the monument almost daily
as an undergraduate and a law student. I found the monument distasteful, but ignored it as part of "history."
Now, as an adult and an active supporter ofUNC-CH programs, my understanding of this monument and its
meaning have matured. It should not be replaced on our campus.
The monument purports to memorialize young men who died in a war. But we cannot forget the purposes of
that war, or the clearly expressed intentions of those who erected the statue many years later. The students were
soldiers who voluntarily joined the Confederacy to preserve a depraved economic system based on human
slavery.
The folks who put up the statue were celebrating a depraved cultural and economic system based on racial
repression and white supremacy. It wasn't subtle. It isn't subtle. The statue's meaning is overt.
I remember when this university was segregated. It wasn't that long ago. The wounds of that time are still felt
today and cause pain and anger and suffering. This statue will always be a symbol of those times and that
mindset. It is a legacy of racial repression.
I strongly believe that the monument should not be replaced.
Sarah Geer (JD '77)
Member, UNC Board of Visitors

External Advisory Board, Carolina Public Humanities
Lifetime member, UNC General Alumni Association
Message
From: Jeff Morgan
Sent: 11/18/2018 5:03:11 PM
Subject: RE: Silent Sam
I see the deadline has been extended - I hope you make the right decision on this ..... the below solution is the best
decision you can make ...... - by enclosing the statue in a gated pavilion type structure, this will prevent vandalism -you
could also dedicate a memorial to the unmarked slave grades that are in the cemetery as well - this location will satisfy
and appease both sides of this controversy---- may Silent Sam rest in peace (where do you do this? ..... the cemetery) -
Thanks. Jeff Morgan
From: Jeff Morgan • ,

Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 12:14 PM
To: 'uncmonument@unc.edu' <uncmonument@unc.edu>
Subject: Silent Sam
people are for something and half the people are against. Unfortunately, we are living in divided country at this
time. Hopefully, this will change in the near future.
architect and went to Syracuse University. We moved to Charlotte in 1999. We have two sons who are recent
graduates of UNC Chapel Hill.
UNC campus is the ideal location for Silent Sam to be relocated to. A small pavilion should be created with brick
Thank You.
Jeff Morgan
Message
From: Michael May I
Sent: 11/18/2018 8:43:41 PM
To: Teri I, Liza M [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=33dld18cea6c4d9baa070c78a8104408-Liza M Teri]
Subject: Fwd: Re: Say Happy Birthday
Ms Westbrooks,
I would like to bum all the books in the UNC library that have a photo of the Confederate battle flag.
Maybe we could have a bonfire in front of old Wilson library!
Are you in agreement with this action?
Respectfully - Michael May
"Make a Commitment to Making a Difference"
From: Michael May _

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Subject: Re: Say Happy Birthday
To: lterll <lterll@email.unc.edu>
Ms Westbrooks,
We must burn and remove from the UNC campus all books that are sympathetic to the confederacy during the Civil
War. I want to mix my blood with ink to destroy all remembrances of slavery in America at UNC. UNC is a public
university for all the people including people of color.
What are your thoughts - should we burn the books that discuss slavery and have photos of slavery in them or move
them to a building off campus?
Please advise.
Respectfully,
Michael May
"Make A Commitment To Making A Difference"
From: UNC University Libraries <noreply@give.unc.edu>
To: D. M. May•
Sent: Thu, Nov 15, 2018 2:04 pm
Subject: Say Happy Birthday
Dear Friend,
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and helped them thrive - by
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of student success by celebrating the UL's birthday with a
gift.
This fall, we marked the UL's milestone birthday with a

week of student events and an open house night full of
special memories and new discoveries for returning
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spots and marveled at recent changes. The UL's
technologies and services were on full display-from
immersive virtual reality, to examples of student-
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Thank you for joining the Carolina community that is

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and University Librarian
Message
From: GlennT
Sent: 11/18/2018 9:03:48 PM
Subject: opinion regarding monument location
I recently learned of the University's solicitation to the UNC community for comments regarding the future placement of
the Silent Sam memorial statue.
I would like to state my opinion that the monument should be relocated off-campus to a site designated for historical
markers and monuments of its type. I believe this type of monument is not suited to locations such the University Campus
or on the premises of State and local government offices.
I hope I am not too late in sharing my opinion while the University deliberates potential plans for the monument.
Sincerely,
Glenn Thesing
Pittsboro, NC
MSEE, UNC-CH School of Public Health, 1993
Message
From: Terry Crayton CPA
Sent: 11/19/2018 6:08:09 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
RESTORE SILENT SA:M TO HIS ORIGINAL LOCATION as the RULE OF LAW requires.
CRIMINALS do not get to destroy our state property and then get what they want.
The out of state protestors who were bused in to Chapel Hill - they get no say as to what happens in our state.
FIRE CAROL FOLT and anyone else associated with this lawless attack on our state property and our state's
history and heritage.
EXPEL every student who participated in this criminal activity and the violation of our state.
PROSECUTE every person, student or otherwise, who participated in this criminal activity and the violation of
our state.
DISCOVER who told the police to stand down and allow the criminals to pull down Silent Sam. FIRE
THE:M & PROSECUTE THEM.
DEMAND that every person who participated in this outrage pay for the cost of restoring Silent Sam.
ALL UNIVERSITY ElVIPLOYEES who encourages this criminal activity should be fired immediately.
RESTORE SILENT SAM AS THEW LAW REQUIRES.
YOU UNIVERSITY ElVIPLOYEES ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW.
RESTORE SAM - REPLACE FOLT!
Terry Crayton
Concord, NC
Message
Sent: 11/20/2018 4:09:03 PM
Subject: FW: "Silent Sam"
From: Carolyn & Greg·

Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: "Silent Sam"
Chancellor Falt,
As no doubt intended, time allows events to recede from the greater public consciousness. Soon though, UNC must
make a decision to stand for all interests or only those preferred. I recently happened upon the following remarkable
primary source, and immediately thought that you and your colleagues might find it of interest. As a former UNC
student and writing within the context of the era, the Rev. A.O. Betts exemplifies the "Silent Sam's" noble
dedication. "Slavery" and "treason" have become the popular cultural definition of the Confederacy cause, yet that is
hardly the entirety of Truth given the facts. Such a vacuous societal comprehension of America's great epic poem, lies
squarely on public education's myopic hindsight and "soundbite" presentation of history. As a higher educational
institution with an historic role, the UNC has a select opportunity to truly educate new generations on the many
intricacies of such a seminal event and actually teach from opposing viewpoints. If, graduates imbued with critical
thinking skills are the goal; then use the ready "tools" to intellectually challenge students to evaluate differing
viewpoints that defied reconciliation by the greatest American minds that have come before us all. Only then, will "We"
as a "People", have actually learned anything from our shared American history.
https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/betts/betts.html?fbclid=lwAR0j-
QEfgvtPZThVQqqrZQpEtvV4bpZdrGZtsKlrmXEbuRgBwZt7CKgVkso
Given our Nation's uncivil political climate, and the ever more punitive alternation of dogmatic and intransigent political
parties wielding the levers of power. There is much still to be learned from the Jeffersonian America model.
"I can only say that while I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the General
Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe that the
maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only essential to the
adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance of a free government. I
consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the consolidation of the states into
one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin
which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it"
~ Robert E. Lee's letter to Lord Acton in 1866
Respectfully,
Russell Crawford
On Sep 9, 2018, at 11:49 AM, Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu> wrote:

Dear Mr. Crawford,
Thank you for your email and we apologize for the delayed response. We understand
that people feel strongly and deeply about the Confederate Monument and its
future. We regret the impersonal nature of this response, however due to the large
volume of emails we have received and the complexity of this issue, we are unable to
personalize each response. Please know that each email is being read.
On August 28, the UNC System Board of Governors passed a resolution directing the
UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and university administration to develop and
present a plan for the Confederate Monument's "disposition and preservation." In the
near future, Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees will announce a process to create
a "lawful and lasting path that protects public safety, preserves the monument and its
history, and allows the University to focus on its core mission of education, research,
economic stimulation and creating the next generation of leaders."
You can find the most recent statements about the Confederate Monument here. We
encourage you to read these statements and to check back for the most up-to-date
information.
Respectfully,
<image002.png>
From: Carolyn & Greg<

Chancellor Folt,
Thank you for making the time to listen. I was appalled this morning to read the news and
witness the video footage of the disgraceful and dangerous criminal activities that took place on
Chapel Hill's campus last evening. Regardless of one's views on controversial issues, violence
and destruction of property cannot be the means to resolution. While I have read statements of
condemnation from university officials, events in Durham and Charlottesville leave me skeptical
as to their sincerity. How is it that a known violent criminal group was allowed to assemble
under law enforcement view and execute such a crime? Why were there no arrests in the
immediate aftermath? Will the memorial be restored to its former respectful display? Time will
tell as the to the veracity ofUNC's official outrage. Until expulsion and/or criminal prosecution
are witnessed, I am intuitively compelled to view the state of events as a passive endorsement of
this criminal element's nefarious activities.
Confederate history and imagery may indeed be "offensive" to some, but that is insufficient
justification to destroy the cultural heritage of the approximately 60-80 million descendants of
the men such statues were erected to honor. As a descendant of a Gr Grandfather who served in
the famed NC 26th Infantry WIA/POW @ Gettysburg, and nephew to three Gr Uncles who
served in the NC 53rd Infantry KINWIA/POW@ Wilderness, my family has a direct lineage
interest in the perpetuity of Honor, Duty, and Sacrifice for which these monuments were
dedicated. If the very State which sent these men into harm's way will no longer defend their
legacy, then their descendants shall bear the honor unencumbered with the shame of
cowardice. Ask yourself Chancellor, if the cultural heritage in question were from any other
element of American society, wouldn't we all justly defend such a heritage's coexistence in the
public forum?
Admittedly, one parent's concerns are hardly noteworthy to such a well established institution;
but should this event be viewed more broadly as an accurate example of "The Carolina Way"? I
certainly hope not.
As a father to hopeful future college students though, I must ask myself if I would send my
priceless children and hard earned income to an institution that would accommodate such hate,
intolerance, violence, and criminality to thrive unchecked?
Lux libertas
Respectfully,
Russell Crawford
Message
Sent: 11/20/2018 4:25:18 PM
Subject: FW: "Silent Sam"
T: 9.19--962-1586
From: Carolyn & Greg

Subject: Re: "Silent Sam"
Chancellor Folt,
As no doubt intended, time allows events to recede from the greater public consciousness. Soon though, UNC
must make a decision to stand for all interests or only those preferred. I recently happened upon the following
remarkable primary source, and immediately thought that you and your colleagues might find it of interest. As
a former UNC student and writing within the context of the era, the Rev. A.D. Betts exemplifies the "Silent
Sam's" noble dedication. "Slavery" and "treason" have become the popular cultural definition of the
Confederacy cause, yet that is hardly the entirety of Truth given the facts. Such a vacuous societal
comprehension of America's great epic poem, lies squarely on public education's myopic hindsight and
"soundbite" presentation of history. As a higher educational institution with an historic role, the UNC has a
select opportunity to truly educate new generations on the many intricacies of such a seminal event and actually
teach from opposing viewpoints. If, graduates imbued with critical thinking skills are the goal; then use the
ready "tools" to intellectually challenge students to evaluate differing viewpoints that defied reconciliation by
the greatest American minds that have come before us all. Only then, will "We" as a "People", have actually
learned anything from our shared American history.
https :// docsouth. unc. edu/fpn/betts/betts.html ?tbclid=IwAROj-

QEfgvtPZTh VQqqrZQpEtv V4bpZdrCiZtsKirn1XEbuRgBwZt7CKgVkso
Given our Nation's uncivil political climate, and the ever more punitive alternation of dogmatic and intransigent
political parties wielding the levers of power. There is much still to be learned from the Jeffersonian America
model.
"! can only say that while I have considered the preservation of the constitutional power of the
General Government to be the foundation of our peace and safety at home and abroad, I yet believe
that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people, not only
essential to the adjustment and balance of the general system, but the safeguard to the continuance
of a free government. I consider it as the chief source of stability to our political system, whereas the
consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home,
will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it"
~ Robert E. Lee's letter to Lord Acton in 1866
Respectfully,
Russell Crawford
On Sep 9, 2018, at 11 :49 AM, Chancellor <chancellor(dlunc.edu> wrote:
Dear Mr. Crawford,

Thank you for your email and we apologize for the delayed response. We understand
that people feel strongly and deeply about the Confederate Monument and its
future. We regret the impersonal nature of this response, however due to the large
volume of emails we have received and the complexity of this issue, we are unable to
personalize each response. Please know that each email is being read.
On August 28, the UNC System Board of Governors passed a resolution directing the
UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and university administration to develop and
present a plan for the Confederate Monument's "disposition and preservation." In the
near future, Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees will announce a process to create
a "lawful and lasting path that protects public safety, preserves the monument and its
history, and allows the University to focus on its core mission of education, research,
economic stimulation and creating the next generation of leaders."
You can find the most recent statements about the Confederate Monument here. We
encourage you to read these statements and to check back for the most up-to-date
information.
Respectfully,
<image00Lpng>
From: Carolyn & Greg <

Chancellor Folt,
Thank you for making the time to listen. I was appalled this morning to read the news and
witness the video footage of the disgraceful and dangerous criminal activities that took place on
Chapel Hill's campus last evening. Regardless of one's views on controversial issues, violence
and destruction of property cannot be the means to resolution. While I have read statements of
condemnation from university officials, events in Durham and Charlottesville leave me skeptical
as to their sincerity. How is it that a known violent criminal group was allowed to assemble
under law enforcement view and execute such a crime? Why were there no arrests in the
immediate aftermath? Will the memorial be restored to its former respectful display? Time will
tell as the to the veracity ofUNC's official outrage. Until expulsion and/or criminal prosecution
are witnessed, I am intuitively compelled to view the state of events as a passive endorsement of
this criminal element's nefarious activities.
Confederate history and imagery may indeed be "offensive" to some, but that is insufficient
justification to destroy the cultural heritage of the approximately 60-80 million descendants of
the men such statues were erected to honor. As a descendant of a Gr Grandfather who served in
the famed NC 26th Infantry WIA/POW@ Gettysburg, and nephew to three Gr Uncles who
served in the NC 53rd Infantry KIA/WIA/POW@ Wilderness, my family has a direct lineage
interest in the perpetuity of Honor, Duty, and Sacrifice for which these monuments were
dedicated. If the very State which sent these men into harm's way will no longer defend their
legacy, then their descendants shall bear the honor unencumbered with the shame of
cowardice. Ask yourself Chancellor, if the cultural heritage in question were from any other
element of American society, wouldn't we all justly defend such a heritage's coexistence in the
public forum?
Admittedly, one parent's concerns are hardly noteworthy to such a well established institution;
but should this event be viewed more broadly as an accurate example of "The Carolina Way"? I
certainly hope not.
As a father to hopeful future college students though, I must ask myself if I would send my
priceless children and hard earned income to an institution that would accommodate such hate,
intolerance, violence, and criminality to thrive unchecked?
Lux libertas
Respectfully,
Russell Crawford
Message
Sent: 11/20/2018 4:28:04 PM
Subject: FW: Protect students, don't punish them.
Assistant to the chancel lo r
T: 919-962-1586
From: Martha Nathan
cc: 17 ewi s2001@E
subject: Protect students, don't punish them.
According to the Daily Tarheel, UNC students actively working to counter racism on campus, including
opposing the campus Confederate statue, are being harassed by right-wingers linked to the violent Robert
Bowers. They have reported the incidents, but campus police have not responded in a timely or effective
manner. Nor have you spoken out publicly in their defense. Instead, the university has chosen to punish
those participating in no nviolent civil disobedience against racism.
This is a time of burgeoning right wing violence encouraged by us federal leadership support and
unwillingness to oppose it. These brave students' lives are in your hands. You must 1. Condemn the right-
wing harassment publicly; 2. Commit campus security to protecting (not surveil l ing or harassing) the
targeted activists; 3. Fully investigate, coordinating with local and federal police, the violent racists
who are harassing and threatening your students.
This is the very least you should do.
Sincerely,
Martha A. Nathan MD
Northampton, MA 01060
Sent from my iPhone
Message
Sent: 11/20/2018 4:28:19 PM
Subject: FW: Nazi/National ists threats
T: 9.19--962-1586
From: Virginia Palumbo

Subject: Nazi/Nationalists threats
I am a UNC - CH graduate (Nursing '83; Sigma Theta Tau), sister and aunt to UNC graduates, and the daughter
of a UNC School of Medicine professor (Dr. Robert Wagner). I am aghast at the very real and violent threats
being made against and other activists wanting to address past and present racism on the UNC
Campus. We have seen all too often horrible deaths resulting from White Nationalist threats and hatred. I
expect immediate and thorough investigation from the UNC leadership into the threat of bodily harm to our
students, faculty, and administration. You, as Chancellor, should take the lead in keeping your campus safe.
UNC cannot follow Charlotttesville's recent bloody events.
Thank you.
Virginia Wagner Palumbo

Message
Sent: 11/20/2018 4:28:48 PM
T: 919-962-1586
From: Pisano, Patrick <patrick.pisano@almacgroup.com>

Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Falt,
My daughter graduated from UNC Chapel Hill this year, so first let me say thank you for taking care of her and preparing
her for the future.
Second, it may be too late for suggestions on what to do with Silent Sam, but I wanted to throw my suggestion in just in
case. Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh has a large section of graves of Confederate soldiers from various states, with a
memorial about them as you enter the area. Whether people agree with their cause or not, it is important to remember
that they did give their lives for a cause in which they deeply believed. I think it might be a good idea for Sam to be
given to Oakwood, to be made part of that memorial, so he can continue to guard over the fallen.
Thanks you,
Patrick Pisano
Raleigh, NC
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Message
Sent: 11/20/2018 4:29:42 PM
Subject: FW: On Silent Sam -- from a former faculty member and an alum
T: 9.19--962-1586
From: Bebe Smith

Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 10:50 AM
Cc: Hertel, Amy Locklear <Amy_Hertel@unc.edu>; Bowen, Gary L <glbowen@email.unc.edu>; Rubinow, David R.
<david_rubinow@med.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: On Silent Sam -- from a former faculty member and an alum
Chancellor Folt -
I received a reply to my previous email that was from the

Chancellor's Office. I know that you have received a lot of
correspondence on Silent Sam and what should be done with the
statue. I feel compelled to write you again and hope you will read
the articles that I've linked below.
My clinical work at UNC from 1995-2012 was focused on working

with people who lived with psychotic disorders. I was a
psychotherapist to people who lived in delusional worlds for many
years. I've read Wendell Williamson's memoir, Nightmare, which
described his descent into psychosis, and the paranoid delusion
that drove him to walk down Franklin St. with a rifle in 1995. In
his mind, he was saving the world.
The recent shooting at the synagogue in Squirrel Hill reminds me

of how delusion works, and how proponents of hate develop the
propaganda that propels some to act. Paranoid delusions do not
spring out of thin air. They are often rooted in the fears of the
times, and they can be fed and exacerbated.
Here's an article that includes information on how a UNC student

has been targeted by one of the people who spreads hate on
social media and who may have inspired Robert Bowers:
http:/ /www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-
courts/2018/11/10/Robert-Bowers-extremism-Tree-of-Life-
massacre-shooting-pittsburgh-Gab-
Warroom / stories/201811080165?fbclid= lwAR2 tfC3VXjcxtl j Hgl k_8
pst6eXGDz2KoKftlMFiuiMwzGz31 edplYcidA
This article by Andrew Delbanco describes the historic roots of the

dehumanization of African Americans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/ 11 /02/ opinion/the-long-

struggle-for-americas-soul. html
And finally this article provides the grim history of how we have
treated African American veterans in the US, particularly timely
since today is Veterans' Day.
https: / / eji.org/ reports/ on line/ lynching-in-america-targeting-

black-
veterans?fbclid=lwAR06Pq6Cg8ZNls6ulfnpxPMrTJJlMOOC wDnWnu-
whpf PgTnEv7Zfq aTKQ
As you forward with a plan for what to do with Silent Sam, I'll
leave you with my sense of the meaning of the statue: Silent Sam
was erected as a reminder of the power of white supremacy,
patriarchy and misogyny. These three structural systems were
clearly articulated in the dedication speech- whipping a black
woman for her disrespect of a white woman. A man in power
protecting the honor of a white woman by a brutal attack on a
black woman. We don't know what the white woman thought of
the situation- but we can recall what's happened to other white
women who stood up for racial justice- Viola Liuzza is one who
was murdered by the KKK in Alabama for her work with the civil
rights movement. Those public acts of violence served to silence
many others out of fear.
My sincere hope is that UNC can move forward with creating a

space in which all members of the community feel safe and
respected. I am a daughter of the Confederacy. I've been taught
my whole life to have pride in my Southern heritage. But I have
also learned to think critically, and it is time for truth and
reconciliation in the US. I hope that you will find a way for that to
start at UNC.
Respectfully,
Bebe Smith
(Barbara B. Smith, MSW '93, and former faculty member in
psychiatry and social work)
Bebe Smith, MS'W 1 LCSvV

Social Worker/Consultant
www.bebesmith.com
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 2:23 PM, Bebe Smith <bebe@4bebesmith.com> wrote:
Chancellor Folt -
I moved to North Carolina in 1991 to attend the UNC School of

Social Work. I intended to serve the people of North Carolina,
and that is what i have done for my entire career in mental
health. You presented a public service award to me in 2015 for
my work on the Critical Time Intervention project, for my work
with people experiencing homelessness and mental illness.
I worked at UNC for 21 years-- 17 in the Department of Psychiatry

and 4 in the School of Social Work. I lost funding in 2016, and
with it my faculty position.
But I remain interested in what happens at UNC. I want to share

with you some writing that I did after attending the Confederate
rally on campus in 2015. Silent Sam is a symbol of white
supremacy. I am a daughter of the South. We need to reconcile
this history; to change the narrative of this university. I implore
you not to replace the statue.
Here is what I wrote in 2015, updated in 2016:
Reflections on a Confederate Rally in Chapel Hill

Barbara B. Smith
11/21/16
As the daughter of an Episcopal priest, I went to church a lot. My
father was a good preacher, but I developed an ability to tune
him out. His sermons were a time for me to daydream and to let
my mind wander. So I am fortunate that my father wrote a
memoir before he died. Now, at a different stage of my life, I am
more open to hearing him.
I thought of my father on October 24th, 2015 when I was
attending a counter protest to a pro-confederate rally at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After many loud pick
up trucks flying large Confederate flags drove down Franklin St.,
the main street in this lovely Southern college town, the group
gathered in the parking lot of the Morehead Planetarium. They
stood beside the Chapel of the Cross, the Episcopal church with a
long connection to the university. I felt afraid, and angry.
I think my father's ghost visited me at that moment. Instead of
walking away, I walked toward the protesters, feeling the urge to
sing a hymn from my childhood that speaks of fighting the
dragons of anger.
In the brief conversation I had with the Confederate protesters,
we talked about Southern heritage. Like them, I have a proud
Southern heritage. My ancestors included signers of the
Declaration of Independence, a governor, an ambassador, an
architect, and a bishop. Some were rice planters and built their
great wealth using the technical skill and brutal labor of enslaved
African Americans. My father's namesake was the presiding
bishop of the Episcopal Church after the Civil War. I sang Dixie
when I was a child in Alabama, and I love these Southern lands.
But I understand the complexity of our history, and the power of
symbols that can be used to terrorize and intimidate. The
celebration of the Confederate flag and monuments like Silent
Sam, erected at a time when Jim Crow laws were being used to
deny equal rights, and organized groups like the Ku Klux Klan
terrorized people of color and their allies to keep them in their
place, elicits fear amongst many.
In the early 1960s, when I was a baby, my father helped organize
a church youth gathering that included youth from white and
black churches. in the aftermath of that church-sponsored
interracial youth get-together, some clergy lost their jobs. We
had threats of a cross burning. My dad kept his job, but we had
college students stay at our home when he was away to protect
us.
That Sunday in 2015, seeing so many Confederate flags waving
proudly on the UNC Chapel Hill campus, my heart ached. The
Confederate battle flag is strongly associated with an ideology of
hate, of denying a place in our country for those perceived to be
the other. I thought of the Charleston Nine, and Our Three
Winners, three Muslim students shot execution style a few miles
from my home ~ all deeply religious individuals, murdered by
individuals who were filled with hate. Where did they learn to
hate so terribly?
Most of the accounts written about the protest in 2015 focused
on the loud and profane response of some counter protesters.
Here is what I saw on campus: there were two groups of counter-
protestors, one well-organized by UNC students. This group stood
on the opposite side of Silent Sam from the pro-Confederate
rally. They were loud, and at times used profanity in their
chants. Not everyone in this group joined in the profanity. There
was also a smaller group of counter-protesters, not organized by
UNC students. They stood very close to the Confederate rally and
were verbally abusive and confrontational. There was a large and
calm police presence, with barricades set up around the statue of
Silent Sam, separating the two main groups.
After awhile, the student-organized group moved away from the
monument. We gathered on the steps of a nearby building. As
people stood to speak, I saw courage and powerful emotion. A
group of African American women led the speakers. We heard
from a Palestinian man, an Asian American woman, and a white
South African man. This group represented the university that I
love, an inclusive community that includes all in the human
f am Hy.
We all stood up against hate. It was important for me to be there
for two reasons-to support the students, and to be a witness to
the event. I didn't know then where we'd be in the Fall of 2016,
and what sleeping dragons we would wake. For all those
considered "other" and their allies who stand up against hate, I
will continue to stand with you.
Hlet faith be my shield and let joy be my steed
·Gainst the dragons of anger, the ogres of greed
And let me set free with the sword of my youth
From the castle of darkness, the power of truth"
Bebe (Barbara B.) Smith, MSW '93
Bebe SmithJ MSW 1 LCSW

Sodal Worker/Consultant
Message
Sent: 11/20/2018 4:30:52 PM
Subject: FW: The Confederate Monument
T: 919-962-1586
From: Williams, Kathy

Subject: The Confederate Monument

It has taken me quite some time to meditate on what I think the University should do with Silent Sam. I know by this
time you have heard from many faculty, students and alumni on their positions and their ideas.
I have had a wide range of feelings over the past five years. I started out with the opinion that it should not be moved. I
thought it should stay so the history would not be forgotten. I then moved to the point of view that it should be
removed and melted down.
The toppling of the monument has now shifted me to another consideration. As an African American faculty member
the re installation of the monument would have a significant impact on my ability to feel welcome on this campus. When
it was a relic of a past action- one that was not perpetuated by anyone of my generation - I had an objective distance
from the monument. It was still a testament to white supremacy. It was still a witness to the violence Julian Carr
described so proudly at the dedication. However those were acts of the past.
Now my Chancellor, my Board of Governors, and my state legislators are to take an action that will signal to me the
value they see in me.
I also acknowledge that there are colleagues, alumni and students who feel differently than I do. They can feel a
connection, a distance or see the value of the monument as a teaching tool. You are in a difficult position.
What if we imagine a world in which light and liberty could be the guiding principles? As stated in our mission statement
"With lux, libertas - light and liberty - as its founding principles, the University has charted a bold course of leading
change to improve society and to help solve the world's greatest problems." We should be the leaders in envisioning
the future.
UNC should place the pedestal, the monument and the Unsung Heroes monument in the NC Museum of History. Then
let all of us imagine a brand new installation that tells the story of how we arrived at this crossroads. The story of
enslavement, the story of the civil war, the story of the students who served and the story of the enslaved who suffered
for their cause. Continue to tell the story of the controversy over the monument, the toppling and finally a vision of the
future. We can be the leaders in inviting the community to imagine a world if we did not have these divisions. Can we
challenge each other to envision what we would like to see instead of what we don't want to see? Our amazing art
department, our historians, our writers, our designers and performers on this university are more than capable of
making this happen. It should come from us. Just as those Chapel Hill citizens in 1913 erected a monument that
reflected their values we could do the same. Times have changed, we need to change with them.
Respectfully,
Kathryn Williams
Company Artistic Associate
Teaching Associate Professor
Associate Director Hidden Voices
Message
Sent: 11/20/2018 4:33:44 PM
Subject: FW: Si lent Sam Options, 2nd Edition
T: 9.19--962-1586
From: Robin Simonton

Sent: Monday, October 29, 2018 10:42 PM
Subject: Re: Silent Sam Options, 2nd Edition
Good evening. I only briefly had a conversation with Mr. Hughes over this topic for 5 minutes last week.
While I did not encourage or discourage, I can not (and did not) speak on behalf of my Board of Trustees.
I just wanted to clarify Mr. Hughes' email in case he misunderstood.
Sincerely,
Robin Simonton
On Mon, Oct 29, 2018, 10:24 PM Charles Hughes wrote:

I would like to encourage a compromise in the Silent Sam controversy which addresses the UNC
Board o,f Governors (BOG) criteria and o,ffers concessions to d{ffering points o,f view.
campus or frankly any location because the monument reiterates and celebrates the civil war
cause aligned with deep south states as articulated by Julian Carr at the 1913 dedication
ceremony. Others, such as the organization from Alamance County, have stated publicly that
Silent Sam is a memorial to corifederate dead, o,fwhom they have ancestors. They want the statue
returned to its pedestal in lvfcCorkle Place to honor those dead.
However, a plan which accommodates either of these positions will not meet the objectives of the
BOG:
1. A location on campus including former Chancellor lvfoeser's suggestion ofPlaymakers
Theatre
will not ensure public safety. It will only change the site of escalating cor7:flict and risk a
tragic
event. To think otherwise ignores human nature.
2. We already know the monument and its history can be preserved on campus without
significant
security expense even as a museum piece. Keeping it in storage will not satisfy this
requirement
either.
3. UNC's core mission o(education, research, economic stimulation and creating the next
generation
o(leaders will only be hindered by returning the monument to a campus with a diverse
faculty
and student body who were/are understandably offended by its presence/return. Losing
prestigious
faculty and prized scholars, both existing andfuture, to a continuing controversy will not aid
the
University's core mission nor will it sustain the excellence which is required of a public ivy.
The UNC General Alumni Association has a tribute to all alumni war dead between Afemorial and
Phillips Hall. Qf those enshrined on that wall, 287 died in the Civil War with 23 at Gettysburg, 7
at Antietam, approaching ha(f in Virginia, 71 across the south including 29 in North Carolina and
47 of the total undetermined. This would argue that a monument to UNC Civil War veterans
should be located where they primarily fought and died. Given that we would not likely find
agreement to move Silent Sam to Gettysburg, I suggest two alternative locations in North
Carolina.
The Battle ofBentonville, fought from /1,/[arch 19th to 21st, 1865 for control of a supply line
railroad hub in Goldsboro, was the last major battle of the Civil War. Fourteen North Carolina
regiments were involved and three UNC alums are known to have died there:
Lt. Col. EdwardJ..4allett, Class of 1849, 61st Regiment
Sgt. John Holmes Dobbins, Class of 1861, 36th Regiment
While there are three monuments at Bentonville including one which honors Texas troops who
fought there, none are statues. This historic site is about 70 minutesfrom Chapel Hill.
Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh was started in 1865 as a confederate cemetery and has
some 1400 dead buried in that section, some moved hurriedly from local sites in advance of union
forces and others from Gettysburg and Arlington to be reinterred in their home state. The
Oakwood staff offers a tour of UNC Alumni buried there with a focus on Civil War dead, among
whom are:
Brig. Gen. George BurgwynAnderson, Class of 1852, Antietam
William Adams, Class ~f 1858, Antietam
Junius Cullen Battle, Class of 1860, lvfa,yland
died wilderness Virginia
Iowa lvfichigan Royster, Class of 1860, Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg
Other notables buried throughout Historic Oakwood include seven North Carolina governors,
four homegrown United States senators and three additional Civil War generals, one a union
army A1edal ofHonor recipient.
I visited Oakwood on October 22nd to compare their confederate burial records with the UNC
Alumni Civil War dead and to tour the ground,;;. The executive director, Robin Simonton,
expressed an interest in Silent Sam to.Join the Gettysburg, Anderson and BurgwynAfemorials in
the confederate cemetery, noting the restricted visiting hours, gated security and extensive police
surveillance of the entire cemetery. As was the case at the Bentonville Battlefield, none of the
current memorials are statues.
A1y apologies for the expansive presentation of my argument. This is a complex situation which
can not be properly addressed without due considerationfor context. Part of that context is that
unlike deep south states which formed a confederacy when Lincoln was elected, North Carolina
did not.Join until the confederate attack on Fort Sumter prompted Lincoln to call for 75,000 troops
to be conscripted. North Carolinians did not want to be drafted to fight their fellow southerners. A
far d(f/erent cause than the one presented by Julian Carr and the Daughters of the Confederacy at
the dedication ceremony. Further proof of this sentiment is North Carolina regiments ll!J/king at
continuing to fight after the Emancipation Proclamation was announced and the passage of the
13th Amendment. Placing this 1913 monument back on campus anywhere to honor a cause, both
misrepresented and long gone, which is in total conflict with the 2018 inclusive campus sentiment
'Yor all kind" defies rational thought. Placing the monument at a battlefield where UNC Alums
fought and died or a cemetery where they are buried is the reasonable, appropriate tribute. Honor
the men, not the pretense ~fa cause.

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Message
From: Breanne Forbes Hubbard
Sent: 8/21/2018 12:02:16 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
chancellor Folt,
As a proud UNC graduate, I am wr1t1ng to you about the student protesters who removed silent Sam tonight.
Yes, someone could have been injured, but the University has been negligent for far too long in allowing
this monument to slavery to remain on campus. While I was a student, a monument was erected to recognize
the contributions of African Americans to the University, and to pacify the cries for silent Sam to be
removed. People thought it was a table and stools and sat on it. often. I'm sure they still do.
Please consider wisely the University's response to this. History has its eyes on you.
Sincerely,
Breanne Forbes Hubbard
class of 2007
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Ke lly Buchanan [buchka17@wfu .edu]
Sent: 8/21/2018 8:18:17 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
chancellor Folt,
As a UNC alum, I want to express how disappointed I am to your response to last night's long awaited
removal of silent Sam. You call the protesters unlawful and dangerous but again fail to acknowledge the
violence and racism the statue represents.
You have had more than enough time to remove that statue the "safe" way. You have failed your community,
especially those people directly dehumanized every day by silent Sam's presence. I am so deeply
disappointed in the university that I love.
Keep the statue down. It's a baby step in moving to address UNC's racist past and present.
Kelly Buchanan
2013
From Julian Carr's 1913 speech at silent Sam's dedication: "100 yards from where we stand, less than 90
days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench, until her skirts hung in
shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a southern
lady."
Message
From: tonireed
Sent: 8/21/2018 9:25:23 AM
Subject: Proud to be a Tarheel
Flag: Follow up
Hi carol,
My name is Toni Reed. My husband Mike and I are UNC graduates, class of '82. our 3 children are all
also Tarheels, classes of 2013, 2015 and 2018.
We are Rams club members, have season football tickets and usually attend 6-7 basketball games a
year to pull for our Tarheels. In a nutshell, our family really does bleed Carolina Blue.
The last few years, however, have made it difficult to feel pride in our beloved institution (men's
bas ketba 77 excluded!) ... too many cont rove rsi es, scandals and weak decisions. Until last night. It took
student activists to finally do the right thing and take down silent Sam. The University (unfortunately
You) made spineless decisions, dragged your feet and had no fortitude to stand up to symbols of hate.
You were given an "out" by the governor. You could have taken down the statue based on "safety". You
could have done something. Forming committees, talking and kicking the can down the road was inaction.
Your reputation, along with MY university, diminished over this issue. It was just a matter of time
before your inaction was going to motivate the students to finally take action. We all knew this was
coming.
so the very least you can do now is not condemn the tearing down of silent Sam. Yes, it was illegal.
And yes someone could have gotten hurt when it fell (ie ... why you should have taken it down for "safety"
purposes a year ago). But you know deep down you are relieved. The students stood up for justice, each
other, and what THEIR university stands for. At the very least acknowledge that.
UNC chapel Hill is MY University. And this morning, I am proud to be a Tarheel.
Toni Reed
Message
From: Kathleen Bobrowski I
Sent: 8/21/2018 9:30:52 AM
To: UNC Families [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=00aa67abb78e4a94830634a58478fb71-DSA NSCPP P]; Chancellor
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT from UNC: Message from the Chancellor - August 21, 2018
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History will not judge you well for your inaction in taking down the statue when you were given the chance by
Gov. Cooper. He specifically stated that you could take down the statue if it posed a threat to public safety.
You, by your inaction, created the necessity of the situation last night.
What if, just for a minute, you imagined yourself in the shoes of UNC's African American students who have to
walk by that statue every day. That statue is not just a statue, it is a reminder of racism, violence, and
degradation inflicted upon them for hundreds of years.
Now is the time to understand that those 250 protestors are backed by thousands of UNC students and families
(mine included), and by millions around the globe who are watching as you parse your language and, rather
than talk about unity, you instead call out the protestors and diminish them.
Shame on you for not removing the statue earlier. Shame on you for continuing to back policies, rather than
students. Shame on you for not understanding better the experiences ofUNC's African American population.
It's time for you to listen to those students most affected by Silent Sam -- the African American students at
UNC.
This is a moment for you to take a stand, acknowledge the racist past of North Carolina and UNC in particular,
put Silent Sam in storage, and try to unite the community. There's still time. The world is watching.
Regards,
Kathleen Bobrowski
As you are probably aware, a group from among an

estimated crowd of 250 protesters brought down the
Confederate Monument on our campus last night
The monument has been divisive for years, and its

presence has been a source of frustration for many
people not only on our campus but throughout the
community.
However, last night's actions were unlawful and

dangerous, and we are very fortunate that no one was
injured. The police are investigating the vandalism and
assessing the full extent of the damage.
I appreciate the actions taken by the police to ensure

the community's safety and will keep you informed as
additional information is available.
Sincerely,
Carol L Folt

Chancellor
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Message
From: John Bennett
Sent: 8/21/2018 10:08:33 AM
Subject: Resign
Flag: Follow up
Stop defending a statue of a traitor and white supremacist or resign. You are disgusting going after children who
did the right thing because you refused to.
Message
From: Hal Brown
Sent: 8/21/2018 10:12:03 AM
Subject: Silent Sam Confederate statue UNC: Student threw ink after two years of talking got nowhere I News & Observer
Flag: Follow up
So its okay to take things into your own hands?

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article2l0303084.htm1
She turned to action against UNC's Silent

Sam after years of talk got nowhere,
protester says
By Martha Quillin
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Chapel Hill
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Silent Sam was 'raised on black blood,' says Maya Little

On Monday April 30, 2018, Maya Little defaced UNC-Chapel Hill's Confederate
monument, Silent Sam, with her own blood and red ink. "He's covered in black blood ... that's
his foundation," Little said.
Editor's note: This story was published by The }.fews & Observer on May 2, 2018.
For two years, Maya Little has talked, chanted, carried signs, handed out fliers and asked for
signatures on petitions to try to get UNC to remove its monument to the Confederacy from
the university's front yard.
This week, she seemed to finally run out of words and turned to gesture. Nearly as mute as
the bronze likeness of Silent Sam himself, Little opened bottles of red ink and, mixing in a
bit of her own blood, stained the gray Mount Airy granite base of the controversial statue
crimson red.
"That statue is not a historical object," said Little, who was arrested Monday and charged
with defacing the monument. "It's missing its history. What I did was give it some context."
Little, 25, is one of several activists who have held midday protests of the statue for months.
But as a black woman pursuing a doctorate in history from UNC, she may have a unique
perspective on the sculpture.
Commissioned in 1910 and dedicated in June 1913, the statue was installed at the request of
the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who raised most of the $7,500 it cost to
commemorate the 321 UNC alumni who died in the Civil War and the 1,062 who entered
the Confederate Army.
The statue was installed at a time when the state enforced segregation through "Jim Crow"
laws. In North Carolina, blacks were not allowed to wait for buses or trains in the same
rooms as white people. They couldn't read books in the same rooms of libraries. When they
died, they often could not be buried in the same cemeteries.
No hint of that history is inscribed on the plinth base of Silent Sam. Nor is the fact that
hundreds of slaves and freed blacks provided labor to construct the buildings and serve the
students and faculty ofNorth Carolina's first university.
Little's point in turning Silent Sam red, she said, was to commemorate the blood that ran
under the skin of those African-Americans and to remind people that a statue celebrating the
Confederacy continues to cause harm today. It was meant to be intimidating, she said, and it
has told generations of African-Americans teaching and studying at the school that they are
inferior.
She had to do something

Little said she had no idea when she started school at UNC in 2016 that the campus had a
Confederate monument. Once she saw it, she said, she knew she had to try to do something
about it.
A native of Ohio and the daughter of a teacher, Little got her bachelor's degree in history
from Bowdoin College in Maine. She spent a year studying abroad and, after college, taught
in rural China for a year.
She responded to the Confederate monument the way she does most things, she said: She
started researching it, reading historical documents and reports. She learned that it has been
the subject of protests and a tool for student expression for at least 78 of the 105 years it has
stood in the grassy common area near Franklin Street.
Last year, after a self-described neo-Nazi drove a car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a
white supremacy rally centered on a Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Va., killing
one woman, UNC students renewed their call for Silent Sam to be marched off campus.
After nine days of round-the-clock protests, which Little said were met with threats from
people who say the statue should be left in place, Little and others began their daily protests
instead. The threats still come, she said, sometimes online, sometimes within earshot of
campus police, who are tasked with overseeing the site.
"I feel afraid all the time," said Little, who said men have told her they would like to see her
lynched.
'A festering wound'

On Wednesday, 40 people who said they are members of the UNC History Department and
"the broader UNC campus community" signed a letter to Chancellor Carol Folt and other
university officials saying they support Little and others using nonviolent civil disobedience
to protest the statue.
They called the monument "a festering wound on the campus" and said, "Abundant
historical research documenting its racist origins makes clear there is not a place for such a
monument on a campus that claims to welcome all of its diverse members."
While some have advocated moving the statue to Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, and Folt has
said it is a distraction and a detriment to the university, the UNC Board of Trustees appears
to be moving forward with a plan to leave it in place and add interpretive material that would
give visitors a fuller understanding of it.
The ink Little tossed on the statue wasn't allowed to dry before university workers started
power-washing it off, she said. None of it remained when protesters gathered on Wednesday
for their daily vigil.
Video of Little defacing the statue shows her in what friends say is a rare moment.
"She is gentle," said Mary Dooley, who plans to be at Little's court hearing next week in
Hillsborough on the defacing charge. "I think she just finally felt she had to do something a
little more demonstrative."
Silent Sam statue defaced with red ink and blood from protester
Silent Sam, the Confederate statue at UNC-Chapel Hill, was doused with blood and red ink
by protester Maya Little, Monday, April 30, 2018.
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Message
From: Vanessa Poston
Sent: 8/21/2018 10:24:22 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
As an alumna ('86) and I am glad to see "Silent Sam" come down. Had the
administration of UNC-CH and the UNC System taken appropriate measures to remove the statue there would have
been no "unlawful or dangerous" actions last night. Time is marching on. The world has moved beyond Silent Sam, and
others will take matters into their own hands if the University fails to keep up. This statue commemorating fallen
soldiers in their treasonous effort against the United States has no place at our wonderful university; I say this as a life-
long North Carolinian whose two great-great-grandfathers fought for the Confederacy.
Sam represents those who fell fighting for a Confederacy whose values violated the basic human liberties our country
holds inviolate. It's erection in 1913 was part of the resurrection of white supremacy in the South and its pathway to Jim
Crow; Julian Carr's dedication speech drove this point home. He glorified the Confederate soldier whose "courage and
steadfastness saved the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South." Later, Carr boasted, "one hundred yards from
where we stand ... I horse whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds because she had maligned and insulted
a Southern lady ... " There is no doubt about the intent of this statue. To maintain it on our grounds indicates UNC's tacit
approval of human rights violations and white supremacy while providing an icon for current supremacist movements. It
is a threat and an affront to every African-American and minority student, professor and visitor to our beloved campus.
UNC-CH is a world class institution with a 1900's mindset about Southern affairs. May we please step into the modern
age?
Sincerely,
Vanessa Pope Poston

Message
From: John O'Neill i
Sent: 8/21/2018 10:32:45 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Howdy Chancellor Folt,
I'm an alumnus ofUNC Chapel Hill and I just wanted to tell you how my heart has swelled with joy to see
Silent Sam torn from his perch, his head buried in the soil of our fine state. This statue pays tribute to and
encourages anti-black violence and was intended as a threat since the moment of its commission. Its presence
has been an embarrassment for over I 00 years and its removal was long overdue.
If a single protestor is prosecuted or faces any kind of disciplinary action from the university, that will be the
end of my membership in the alumni association and the end of my donations to the school. Please don't make
me ashamed to admit my alma mater.
Best,
John O'Neill
Class of 2012
Message
From: Denise Kiley
Sent: 8/21/2018 10:37:46 AM
Subject: Full Ride Scholar participating in statue downing???>
Flag: Follow up
I saw on WTVD's live feed last night blasting the very place she is being given a FREE RIDE
on full scholarship. Shame on her and shame on you for allowing your population to be so uneducated on the
statue in the first place.
See her here at 8:40 https://vvww.facebook.com/ABCl l/videos/328190237919904/
https://www.facebook.com/TheSalinePost/videos/l l 48714035269819/
Terrible
Denise Kiley
Raleigh
Message
From:
Sent: 8/21/2018 10:38:53 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I am so very happy and relieved that the racist statue was removed. I have mix raced child at UNC and am
very frightened about her safety and well-being at UNC. she experienced racism on campus, the removal of
a statue that glorified slavery is a first small step to show parents like myself that UNC cares about
minority students and their wellbeing.
Message
From: Tracey Perdue
Sent: 8/21/2018 10:59:26 AM
Subject: Statues and hate
Flag: Follow up
I believe it is time for you to stand with the students of your campus and the nation as a whole. The time for venerating
Jim Crow, the Confederacy and the heinous acts it perpetrated and continues to fuel is over! The South lost and rightly
so. Even Robert E. Lee said he did not want his image or statues of him erected and thought it was not the way for our
country to heal and mend. And how right he was. Now, over 150 years after this terrible time in our history, and I
would point out treasonous time, these artifacts of Jim Crow are being used to whip up nationalism, racism, xenophobia,
and white supremacy; exactly what the Confederacy stood for. Period. It is time for Silent Sam to be removed
permanently. I would encourage you to be an American, not a Southerner.

Message
From: Dena Frith Moore
Sent: 8/21/2018 11:16:07 AM
Subject: Silent Sam--an opportunity to lead
Flag: Follow up
August 21, 2018
As a proud graduate of Carolina and a North Carolinian now living in Virginia, I am dismayed that vandalism is
what it took to remove the Silent Sam statue. I would have much preferred the university administration,
Board of Trustees, and/or state legislature lead the effort to resolve this issue with candor and courage.
However, I am unreservedly glad he is down.
Carolina is a university FOR ALL. Silent Sam was a tangible hurdle to living into this mission.
I am worried that you may face pressure to put him back on his pedestal. Please, please, please do not let this
happen. The symbolism of reinstating him to watch over those who enter campus would set the University
back in a very real way.
In the vein of never letting a good crisis go to waste, Carolina has a chance to stand up and both condemn how
Silent Sam was removed but also provide some context around why he should be relocated to a museum
rather than allowed to remain at the entry to Mccorkle Place. I pray that that the BOT will recognize this
situation as an opportunity rather than continue to avoid engagement, shrug in deference to the "historical
commission," or worst of all, try to teach the protesters a lesson by advocating putting the statue back. I am
convinced that strong leadership on this issue from the university administration and BOT will be respected in
the state legislature, but that a weak response will get us nowhere.
I have a son who is a senior at UVA, so I have been following the Charlottesville situation closely. UVA is finally
proactively facing the issues that come from
failing to appreciate the impact that confederate icons have on a campus that purports to be open to all. They are
making progress, and in doing so, are addressing these issues and the various opinions held passionately on all
sides by using words of reconciliation, community, and shared humanity rather than using the language of
divisiveness and conflict.
I pray that Carolina's leadership can do the same by finding the courage to move forward by leading without
having to be stunned into clarity by an event similar to what happened last summer in Charlottesville.
Respectfu Ily,
n
Dena Frith Moore
BSBA 1988
Board of Visitors 2014
Message
From: Gunde, Richard [gunde@ucla.edu]
Sent: 8/21/2018 11:19:12 AM
Subject: Support the students and faculty who pu lled down the monstrous monument
Flag: Follow up
I am disappointed by your "law and order" response to the toppling of the "Silent Sam" monument.
That the UNC itself failed to remove the monument undercuts and contradicts the message of openness,
inclusion, and social responsibility that, I am sure, you wish to convey to your students, faculty, staff, and the
public.
Sincerely,
Richard Gunde
UCLA, retired
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Richard Gunde
gunde@ucla.edu
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Message
From: Rob Nordlinger
Sent: 8/21/2018 11:31:30 AM
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Dear chancellor Folt -

I am appalled that it took a student protest to take down the confederate statue on your campus. You and
your administration need to start LEADING BY EXAMPLE. shame on you and the rest of the administration for
not being more proactive over the many years that it stood there, especially when the governor provided a
loophole to take it down. It symbolizes hate, intolerance and the very divisiveness that tears at this
country, and yet you and the administration chose the easier path and did nothing about it. shameful.
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Message
From: Jamie K. Jones [jamiekjones@gsu.edu]
Sent: 8/21/2018 1:16:53 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I'm writing in support of the protestors that felled Silent Sam last night. As an alum and former employee, I have been
ashamed of and disgusted by the University's refusal to protect its students of color. At its core, that monument is
nothing more than some good ol' boys' attempt to remind black people of their place, of their constant proximity to
violence and oppression. Do you not think that your black students feel this very real threat every time they walk past
the monument? How do you think it makes them feel that the University refuses to truly protect them?
Once, when I was walking to work at Graham Memorial, I saw a group of white male students standing on the steps of
Silent Sam. They were wearing shirts with confederate flags and belting the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie
Down." In fact, they were purposely belting it in the direction of a black family trying to picnic on the lawn. Where else
on campus would you find such blatant, undisguised racism? It happened on the steps of Silent Sam because these
young white men knew that they were protected by the same forces that protect the statue. They knew very well that
their racism was sanctified by the institutional grounds on which they stood.
Please do not re-erect that monument to terror. Please do not punish the protesters who have accomplished what
others have been unable or unwilling to do. It's a cliche to ask people in power what side of history they want to be on.
But for real, Chancellor Falt, how do you want your grandchildren to remember you? And with what caveats?
Thank you,
Jamie
Jamie Jones
Event Coordinator
Rialto Center for the Arts
Georgia State University
Ph: 404-413-9815
Fx: 404-413-9801
www.rialto.i;;su.edu
Celebrating I00 Years in Atlanta and

20 Years as Georgia State University's Hon,e for the Arts!
Message
From: Nick Butler
Sent: 8/21/2018 1:18:13 PM
Subject: Proud of Carolina
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Folt,
Last night, friends and former classmates from around the country blew up my phone, texting me to let me
know that Silent Sam had been brought down by a generation of Carolina students with greater bravery and
commitment to justice than my own. I cried tears of joy, knowing that the university with which so much of my
identity rests is no longer identified with such a vile symbol of white supremacy. I read your statement last
night, and I understand the university's concern over the manner in which this deed was done, and join your
relief that no one was hurt in the process.
That said, today I sit in my office, decked in Carolina blue, as proud to be an alumnus of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill as I have been on any day since my graduation. The removal of that statue means
as much to me as celebrating last year's national championship, as both celebrate those things that make our
school great -- whether it's the school's excellence on the hardwood or the boldness of its current generation of
students to reject the specter of white supremacy that has sadly haunted our university's history.
As proud as I am, it's now time to take the next step, by proudly declaring as a university community that
however we might feel about the way in which the statue was removed, we stand united in our resolution that
we won't let a tribute to the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow return to our sacred campus. I'm not one of the
particularly wealthy alumni, and I recognize that my commitments to the school are more symbolic than
financially meaningful. But on the day the university affirms that Silent Sam will not return to McCorkle Place -
- that his remains will be sent to a museum or landfill -- I will give the university whatever I can afford to
ensure that we replace Silent Sam with a monument to the diversity that has made the University of North
Carolina the elite institution it is. And I don't speak just for myself I was struck that within moments of the
statue's fall, dozens of my friends from Carolina had already excitedly reached out to share their pride. I have no
doubt that those dozens, and thousands more like them, would join me in helping to make this a university we,
our children, and the generations yet to come can be equally proud of
Thank you.
- Nick Butler
UNC School of Journalism, Class of 2009
Boulder, Colorado
Message
From: Elizabeth Voiers
Sent: 8/21/2018 3:36:39 PM
Subject: Glad Silent Sam is down!
Flag: Follow up
That racist monument should have come down long ago, no one should be penalized for doing what those in
power didn't have the courage to do!
Elizabeth Voiers
BA '84
Message
From: Mike Thomsen
Sent: 8/21/2018 3:56:39 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Falt:
I earned my master's degree at Chapel Hill a bit over fifty years ago. I don't agree with vandalism, but
the statue we called Silent Sam should never have been erected in the first place, and should long
since have been removed from a place of enlightenment and social justice such as the UNC main
campus. The monument honored those willing -- nay eager -- to kill their fellow citizens in order to
preserve an economic system based on the barbaric practice of slavery. The lives of the leaders of
the armed insurrection were spared only because of the compassionate desire of Lincoln and others
to forgive, heal the wounds, and reunify the nation. Since the end of that war, the descendants of
those whose blood and sweat enriched those more privileged, have time and again been denied
security, justice and equal opportunity by those hoping to reverse the outcome of that war, ranging
from Jesse Helms to David Duke. While we cannot condone vandalism, we can, and should, temper
our reaction with some understanding of the injustices and the resulting frustration that led to it. Tar
Heel leaders should be ashamed of having given Silent Sam a haven for so long.
Dr. Michael A Thomsen

Mesa, Arizona
Message
From: Jaclyn Gilstrap
Sent: 8/21/2018 7:07:34 PM
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Subject: Alumnus in support of the removal of Silent Sam
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Dear chancellor Folt and staff-

I am wr1t1ng as a 2008 UNC Alumnus and as a former employee of the university. I'm writing to make sure
that the protestors who have taken bold action are not standing alone as they face university response to
their decision to take down a racist statue.
Students, staff, faculty, and alumni have spent years respectfully requesting the removal of this statue,
and the university has remained silent, instead choosing to spend countless hours and dollars protecting
a statue that many see as racist, harmful, and unnecessary. We felt our voices falling on deaf ears.
I stand in solidarity with these freedom fighters, and I urge you to take a bold stand on the right side
of history. We need strong leadership during this time. We need a chancellor and her staff who are
willing to support a brighter future for all UNC students, staff, and alumni.
what kind of university do we want to be? We have an opportunity to demonstrate our hopes and dreams in
this very moment. It is my hope that you will stand in support of these students, too. We're all
watching.
To freedom,
Jaclyn Gilstrap
Message
From: Eric Schmidt [ESchmidt@kipphouston.org]
Sent: 8/21/2018 7:53:46 PM
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Subject: Alumni Email of Concern
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My name is Eric Schmidt and I'm a graduate of the Class of 2007. While at Carolina, I had the honor of serving as the
Senior Class Vice President. My time at Carolina forever changed my life and I believe it is a major reason I am the
th th
person I am today. This is my 12 year of working as an educator in Houston, TX and my 7 year as the principal of a
th th
school that serves over 400 students in 5 through 8 grades. Of our student body, 96% identify as Hispanic or Latino
and 90% qualify for Free or Reduced Lunch. For the last 7 years, I've dreamed of the day that one of our students from
here in Houston may have the opportunity to attend UNC.
Today, however, I found myself questioning that dream . Would UNC be a place that was bold enough to stand up for
the rights of our students and those in their community? Would it be a place they could attend and feel safe because
they knew the University would be bold enough to stand up for students from historically marginalized groups?
I'll never forget my first time visiting campus. I still remember seeing the Pit and the feeling of joy I had from seeing so
many different people in one place. There was so much excitement. So much buzz. I knew I wanted to be part of it. I'll
also never forget the first time I walked past Silent Sam and when the tour guide told me that he was standing, facing
north, protecting us from the Yankee soldiers. Protecting us from what, exactly? Years after my time at Carolina, I'm
thankful that there are students who are bold enough to ask that question and I'm thankful that there were students
and other members of the community bold enough to do something about it last night.
I'm not proud that the University, however, has chosen to not support those actions and instead has chosen to be on the
wrong side of history. I was embarrassed today that when my coworkers asked me about what was happening at
Carolina last night, I couldn't confidently say that the University was leading the way in making sure we supported all of
our students.
Three years ago, we started a curriculum at our school called the Identity Project. This daily curriculum had two goals: to
help students understand their own identity and to better understand the different identities of people around them.
We wanted all of our students to feel safe and confident in their identity. Today, I wonder if UNC still wants that for all
students? I wonder if UNC understands that when something impacts the safety, interests, and rights of one of our
students, does UNC understand that it impacts every student? If Silent Sam made just one student feel unsafe, then it
makes me feel unsafe, and has no place at the University.
I certainly would expect UNC to understand this as the University of the people ... and for the people.
With courage,
Eric M. Schmidt
School Leader I KIPP Courage College Prep
2200 Ridgecrest I Houston, TX 77055
c: I o: 713.251.3800 I eschmidt@kipphouston.org
www.kipphouston.org/courage
Work hard. Be nice.
"There are many kinds of courage. Awesome kinds. And everyday kinds. Still, courage is courage - whatever kind." -
Bernard Waber
Message
From: Avery Lue [
Sent: 8/21/2018 8:10:43 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
chancellor,
I graduated in May, and I wish I had spoken up sooner. I long held the belief that silent Sam should have
been moved, to a museum, to the cemetery, somewhere that it could be preserved and held as a historical
exhibit away from the public eye. I saw the protests escalating while I was a student there and I have
heard from others that this was the case long before I attended UNC.
The statue had racist origins. It was a confederate monument. There is no escaping it's history. It is no
surprise that it made students, especially black students, uncomfortable.
The university has had years to address the problem. Imagine my surprise when I found out that it was
spending money to protect the statue and seeking punishment for it's vandals, when the university never
even sought permission from the historical commission to move or remove it?
The inaction of the university, the lack of empathy for the student protesters, made this outcome an
inevitability. In my final semester I realized that this outcome was no longer a matter of if, but when.
Before looking to punish those involved, please consider how this may look, and let the students know
they are supported. Even the governor urged moving the statue over the possible safety concern. Why are
you only concerned about safety now? Maybe had you sought permission to remove it after the governor's
comments it may have been granted.
Your second statement was no better than the first. It characterizes student protesters as a mob and
tries to silence progress by hiding behind "peaceful demonstrations". Peaceful demonstrations have
allowed you to not respond until now. Peaceful demonstrations proved ineffective time and again as the
university took no action, pretending there was no course of action, without even trying.
In my time at UNC, I was not a protester. I did not speak up. I was part of the problem. Now that I look
back on it, I wish I had. Maybe if more of us had spoken up the university would have taken action
sooner.
I do not condone the actions of the protesters. I wish silent Sam could have been moved and preserved.
That said, I am not surprised, and I cannot place all the blame on the protesters.
This could have been prevented.
Avery Lue
class of 2018
B.A. Computer Science & Music
Message
From: Wendy McCal l
Sent: 8/21/2018 8:55:01 PM
Subject: It's about time
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Silent Sam did not belong on the UNC campus and should have been moved many years ago. As a UNC
alumna and long time Carrboro resident, I am overjoyed the statue is gone and funds will no longer be spent
guarding it. I read your response to last night's events and want you to know that I am happy it's no longer there,
as something that so many regard as a symbol of hatred and black oppression has no place on a college campus.
Student activism wasn't very strong when I attended UNC and it gives me hope to see today's students and
community taking risks to make the world a better place.
Wendy McCall
Class of 98
Message
From: chuckpeacehawk@; chuckpeacehawk@
Sent: 8/22/2018 7:13:13 AM
Subject: Mccorkle Place monument
Flag: Follow up
Carol L. Folt, Ph.D., Chancellor

This is to express my support for all those who participated in Monday's timely destruction
of the offensive and hatefully motivated statue of a Confederate soldier on McCorkle
Place. In the era of "Lost Cause" and white supremacy campaigns, such mass-produced
statues were erected to intimidate and demoralize African A1nericans.
Silent Sain's downfall was overdue, an act of patriotism, in the same spirit as Chapel Hill's
civil disobedience in the 196o's, for which students of that day were convicted, then
exonerated, their convictions duly expunged.
The Constitution of the CSA was racist and treasonous. In the future, no monument to the
Confederacy can ever be tolerated, and at this time, no legal statutes can impugn the good
citizenship of those who tore down that ugly artifact. I believe that it is your duty to
defend these students, the pride of our future generations.
As a Tar Heel, I thank you for your service, and for whatever consideration you may give to
this expression of my values.
Yours truly,
Chuck Hawkins
Madison, NC
Message
From: Charlotte Burns
Sent: 8/22/2018 9:20:29 AM
To: Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ ou=Exchange Adm inistrative Group
Subject:
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I'm proud of for bringi ng to people's attention the symbo l of racism at the University of N.
Carolina. Good for protesters of ridding the campus of that sco urge.
You need to go t hrough your campus building by bui l din g, stat ue by s t at ue and rename buildings and get
rid of any symbo l s of the racist so uth. In case you have n't heard, the civil War is over and was wo n by
the Un i on. I' m s i ck of the racism t hat prevai ls today. I live i n Massac hu setts and see racists di splay
Confederate flags i n the i r yards and on their trucks all the time.
We a re all human in side t hese bod i es. The color of ski n you were born with is t he luck of the draw. In
Heaven there is no color . To humi l iate black people and rub their noses in racism is unacceptable. We are
in t roub l ed times. We a r e on a fast track to climat e catastrop he. our democracy has been hi jacked by the
oligarchy as they i nvent new and cl ever ways to man i pulate the outcome of elect io ns, racism being a huge
factor in voter suppression. our economy has been hijacked by an unscrupulous and se l fish elite. Well,
your si l ent Sam is a symbol of an elite who did unspeakable evil to a race of people. They kidnapped them
from their homes, shipped t hem to a uction bl ocks in unimaginably tortuo us conditions, and beat them into
complyi ng with their system of free labo r . They we r e considered valuab l e commodities. Their monetary
value was a major reason slavery l asted as l ong as it did, just like the monetary value of war, of using
fossil fuels is more important than the deadly consequences.
We need to change drastically if we're going to survi ve these dire times. Peop l e need to work toget her
and cooperate to steer us i n a direction that will save us from extinctio n . No more di vi de and con qu er .
No more pitting whites agai nst blacks against Hispanics while t hey loot us l eft right and center and kill
our Mo t her Earth . We need to adopt true Chr i stian val ues, of being stewards of t he earth, of ta ki ng care
of one an other. Jes us wou l d never have stood for this. He wou l d have personally toppled that statue.
You wi ll make sure cha rges agains t are dropped, an d you wil l make s ure she fi nishes her
education.
Yours truly, Charlotte Bur ns , Palmer, MA
Message
From: Dan Hartman
Sent: 8/22/2018 10:54:37 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
When I was a student at UNC in the 60's, we giggled that "silent" Sam never fired his rifle because there were
no virgins passing by. We were TOTALLY CLUELESS as to what Silent Sam represents: white supremacy,
denigration of people of color.
We are now in 2018 and are no longer clueless. Good riddance.
Sincerely,
James Daniel Hartman

Message
From: Charles Perry
Sent: 8/22/2018 11:29:51 AM
public@bog.northcarolina.edu; president@northcarolina .edu; haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com
Subject: Silent Sam
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Good morning,
I'm writing as both a UNC Alum (class of 20 l 0) and a lifelong resident of Chapel Hill to voice my support for
those that took down the Silent Sam monument earlier this week.
The statue has been a shameful mark on the campus my entire life and I am elated that it is no longer standing.
It would be a grave error to prosecute anyone involved in bringing it down; instead, they should be celebrated
for doing something that the BOG lacked the courage to do themselves.
Best wishes,
Charles Perry
Message
From: phaedra kelly I
Sent: 8/22/2018 12:16:34 PM
public@bog.northcaro lina.edu; president@northcarolina .edu; haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com
Subject: Support those who topp led Si lent Sam
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I am an alum of UNC Law, and I am profoundly disappointed in UNC and the BOG, both in their unwillingness
to take down Silent Sam and now, in their eagerness to take legal action against those who toppled the statue.
Keeping Silent Sam up on UNC's campus for so long served to affirm white supremacy and was an affront for
all ofus who seek justice and equality in our community. I salute and applaud the brave protesters, both on
Monday and in past struggles, who fought for removing Silent Sam and who, when it was clear that UNC and
the BOG would do NOTHING, took matters into their own hands.
People are far, far more important that property. It astonishes me how often those in power seem to believe the
opposite.
Do the right thing, for once. Do not pursue an investigation against Monday's protesters. Drop the Honor court
charges against a hero in the face of injustice. Use this as an opportunity to start a campus-wide
conversation about Confederate statutes and their history, about institutionalized racism, about the continued
violence our society and community show towards black and brown peoples.
Sincerely,
Phaedra Kelly
Carrboro, NC
UNC Law Graduate, Class of 1999
Message
From: vanessa soleil
Sent: 8/22/2018 1:00:46 PM
Subject: Toppling racism
Flag: Follow up
Dear Carol F olt,
I am a graduate ofUNC Chapel Hill's Masters oflnformation and Library Science (2007) and have been
following the events and debates around the legacy of white supremacy on campus since my time on campus. I
was elated to see community advocates tear down a violent symbol of hate that is such a painful reminder of
inequity and trauma. I only wish that your office had the moral courage and compassion to support toppling of
this hateful relic of white supremacy and Jim Crow.
Please understand that the vandalism in this situation was the original erection of a white supremacist statue,
meant to intimidate and remind black people of their "place" in a time when dominant society wanted to retreat
on civil rights gains and "redeem" the South into pre-Civil War white hierarchy and disenfranchisement of
black citizens.
The destruction of Silent Sam was the right thing to do. People have tried using "proper channels" for too long
without progress, as those with formal power still tend to be white and to misunderstand the historical relevance
of statues that do not commemorate the south's role in the Civil War, but instead make a statement about white
power and supremacy. They have no place in our society-just as Germany does not place Nazi soldiers on
pedestals in public squares, we should not place those who stood for enslavement, exploitation, hatred, Jim
Crow apartheid, and lynching, in the center of civilized civic spaces, especially those claiming to be inclusive or
diverse institutions that are welcoming to all.
The failure in courage among UNC's administration is disappointing-ethics transcend law, as Thoreau,
Gandhi, Rosa Parks, Bayard Rustin, Dr. King, and other rule breakers who led society to justice, we have a
chance to come out on the moral and compassionate side of history by allying with those who did what no
political leader nor UNC leader had the will to do. We can not and will not tolerate symbols of hate and
violence. With Silent Sam gone, UNC can live into its values and create an atmosphere of inclusion that was
never possible with it there.
Thank you,
Vanessa Soleil, MA, MSLS, MEd
Message
From: michael@dallasfamilymedicine.co [michael@dallasfamilymedicine.co]
Sent: 8/22/2018 1:05:19 PM
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Subject: from a UNC parent regarding the Confederate Monument
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My name is Michael Robinson, I

appreciate the update regarding the recent events pertaining to the Confederate
Monument. While I certainly understand that the University Administration cannot
condone the actions of anyone who breaks the law, I would like to offer my perspective
on this most interesting occurrence.
, I was astounded that the university had a statue that paid homage to the
Confederacy. Later, after his acceptance, when we returned to the campus for our
orientation, I brought up the subject of the monument to many of the campus
representatives that we met. To a person, everyone I spoke with wanted nothing more
than to see this statue brought down.
I am a Duke University alumnus,
However, a monument which
honors individuals who fought to protect a way of life and an economy that was based
on one human being's ownership of another human being, is no joking matter. Rather,
in my opinion, an icon such as this, prominently displayed by an institution of higher
learning, represents an exquisitely backward way of thinking that is far out of step with
modern society. Furthermore, I believe that the Confederate Monument embodies a
certain hypocrisy for a university that has had much success, and has generated
enormous revenue, from the efforts of students who are descended from persons whom
the Confederacy fought to keep enslaved.
Keep in mind, the UNC-Chapel Hill administration itself has not always upheld the
law. In 1955, the University denied admission to 3 black students, and the University's
Board of Trustees passed a resolution against future admissions for black students, fully
counter to the rule of law at that time.
The toppling of the Confederate Monument is, in essence, "speaking truth to power",
which, throughout human history has been vital to social progress. The American
Revolution, the Underground Railroad, the Women's Suffrage movement, and the
Stonewall Riots are all examples of this.
As a Duke alumnus, and a parent, I am proud of the actions of the students of UNC-
Chapel Hill.
Ultimately, as institutions of higher learning, I believe that all universities should hold
true to the idea that they are fostering "the leaders of tomorrow". A true leader must
take action to do what is right and stand firm in the face of adversity. Such adversity,
as in the case of the Confederate Monument, is sometimes represented by institutional
norms.
At Duke University, a well-documented event occurred in which 3 lacrosse students were
falsely accused of rape. Rather than supporting the students and adhering to an
"innocent until proven guilty" standard, the University Administration, in the face of
community outrage, reflexively suspended or expelled the students long before the truth
came out. Such shameful and spineless behavior by the administration will forever be a
mark against the school that I was so proud to have attended.
It is my hope that, in the end, the UNC-Chapel Hill administration will be there for the
individuals involved in this truly historic event: an event in which an icon of slavery,
erected in an era of Jim Crow, was brought down by a progressive and forward thinking
student body. I personally pledge my financial support to any legal defense fund for
these students.
While I cannot say this again when basketball season arrives; in this case of civil
disobedience, I wholeheartedly shout "Go Heels"!
Sincerely,
Michael Robinson
Message
From: Virginia Wood
Sent: 8/22/2018 2:05:10 PM
To: president@northcarolina.edu; Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: STAND FOR JUSTICE!!! STOP ACTING & DEFENDING SOUTHERN WHITE RACISM & WHITE NATIONALISM & WHITE
SUPREMACY!!!
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TO: Margaret Spellings, President

Carol F olt, Chancellor
University ofNorth Carolina
THANK GOD THE SOUTH LOST!!!

THANK GOD THE CONFEDERATES LOST !!!
President Spellings and Chancellor Folt, it is time that both of you women stand for JUSTICE &
COURAGE by defending and the student activists who courageously tore down the
racist Confederate Statue.
Both of you have been complicit with white racists and white supremacy !!! Both of you are
gutless cowards. America is watching both of you and the university !
STAND FOR JUSTICE!!!
IS AN AMERICAN SHEROE !!! \t \t \t

TAKE DOWN EVERY RACIST AND CONFEDERATE STATUE ON CAMPUS!!!
Virginia Wood
Denver, Colorado
White American, age 67, civil rights activist & feminist since age 6
Message
From: Ethan Clauset
Sent: 8/22/2018 4:23:16 PM
Subject: SILENT SAM
Flag: Follow up

I'm writing to express my deep disappointment in the letter you sent out yesterday and your lack of
leadership on the issue of UNC's Confederate monument. silent Sam has been an enormous blight on campus
for more than 100 years, a symbol of white supremacy, racial terror and subjugation. I'm ashamed that my
generation of students didn't simply pull it down. Your statement sounded like it was addressed directly
to Confederate apologists, reassuring them that you're going to deal harshly with the people who did pull
it down-but it doesn't even mention the students who have been trying for decades to get rid of Sam, the
students who participated in Monday's celebration, the students who have been threatened with violence
and murder by deranged neoconfederates in person and online. I hope you've read the statement put out by
the Student Gov. Executive Branch, you could learn a lot from it.
Regards,
Ethan clauset
UNC '96 & '09
Carrboro, NC
Message
From: Jacob Rosch
Sent: 8/22/2018 4:32:35 PM
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Chancellor Folt,
My name is Jacob Rosch. I'm a third generation Chapel Hill alumni (Class of 2008) and a North Carolina
native. Although I don't necessarily agree with the manor by which it was achieved, I wanted to write you to say
how grateful I am that the confederate monument on our campus has been removed.
Like many in our state, I grew up believing that the confederate monuments in our state were erected to
memorialize those who had died in the civil war. As I have studied the history of these monuments, I have come
to realize their true purpose was to intimidate and exclude people of color. A cursory look at the speeches given
at the dedication of the "Silent Sam" statue reveal the true nature of the monument and the purpose for which it
was intended.
Much has changed since the statue was erected in the 1913. My grandmother, was one of their women to attend
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I remember her telling me how, as a Jew, she was limited in
where she could live. That's no longer the case and the University I know and love is an open and accepting
place to people of all genders, races, creeds, and nationalities. A statue designed to intimidate or shame anyone
has no place on campus.
I hope you'll find a way to support the students and activists who finally removed the statue from our campus.
Thank you and go Heels!
Jacob Lepie Rosch

Class of 2008
Message
From: risagri@_
on behalf of Risa Griffin
Sent: 8/22/2018 4:43:45 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I am a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumna, writing in response to the removal of the
Confederate soldier statue, Silent Sam, by protesters, on Monday night, as well as to the reaction from your
administration.
It is shameful that UNC-CH allowed a racist statue that made students of color feel threatened and unwelcome
to stand for so long. This statue created a racist environment on campus, and could have been removed for that
reason. Spending almost $400k defending this racist legacy is truly a black mark on your record.
If this statue is returned to campus, I will never contribute another dollar to UNC-CH, and I know the vast
majority of fellow alums I have spoken with feel the same way. I hope that you will choose to stand on the
moral side of this issue. Better late than never.
Sincerely,
Risa Griffin
M.A in Sociology, 2012
UNC-CH
Message
From: Dylan Sandler
Sent: 8/22/2018 4:46:18 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Good afternoon,
I am a graduate ofUNC-CH (undergrad in 2009 and graduate school 2011). I am writing to express my strong
desire for the university to avoid pressing any charges against or penalizing in any way those who participated
in the vandalism of Silent Sam. While I understand the importance of the rule of law and respect for public
property, I believe there are times in a society where people need to take risks to do the right thing. And I
believe these students acted courageously and in-line with the values that I believe the University of North
Carolina stands for.
I hope that the university can see that the best way forward is to acknowledge the harm that has been done by
acting slowly in taking steps to remove this statue that brought pain to many members of the UNC community,
and rather than narrowly focus on the actions of a few students, take broader steps to engage in a conversation
with students about what the university will stand for in the future.
Best regards,
Dylan Sandler
Message
From: Joan Petit [joan@a lumni.unc.edu]
Sent: 8/22/2018 5:14:40 PM
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(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =276f75b9c0534faf99e500380da9f2a4-Ga ry Marchi]
Subject: Alum & donor support for student protestors
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Dear Chancellor Folt and Dean Marchioni,
I'm an alumni of and donor to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love UNC, and never more than
when I see brave students taking bold action to correct a historical wrong.
As an alum and a donor, I urge the UNC-Chapel Hill administration to keep Silent Sam down. As well, I urge
you not to pursue any kind of disciplinary action against the students who participated in Sam's removal.
These brave students are in a long line of student activists who have done important work, like those who
fought the Speaker Ban in in the 1960s and those who occupied South Building fighting for a free-standing
black cultural center in the 1990s.
The students who took on Silent Sam are part of a long, proud tradition of Carolina student leaders who do the
right thing, often before the rest of us catch up. It was well past time for Sam to go. Please do not punish the
students who took action to do so.
Sincerely,
Joan Petit
BA 1995
MSLS 2006
Message
From: Amy Lovato
Sent: 8/22/2018 5:26:01 PM
Subject: So glad Silent Sam is DOWN!
Flag: Follow up
Hello! I'm a UNC alum twice over - undergrad in 2000 and I got my Masters degree from the school of
nursing just last year. I understand that you were receiving a lot of angry letters from white
supremacists - either overt or covert - regarding the pulling down of the silent Sam statue. I want you
to know that there are lots of alums on what I believe to be the right side of history who are glad to
see it down.
Sincerely,
Amy Vanderclute Lovato, MSN, RN
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Joan Gracie
Sent: 8/22/2018 5:27:56 PM
Subject: Thankful that Sam is gone
Flag: Follow up
Hello Chancellor Volt,
Thank you for your amazing service to our great university and the students!
As a graduate ofUNCCH class of 1967, I would like to express my hope that the students who pulled Sam
down be allowed to go forward without charges brought against them. They are on the right side of history and I
hope the University will choose to be on the right side as well. The removal is long overdue and students were
the only ones who could make it happen as red tape and "rules" stood in the way.
Best wishes for a great year! Keep up the good work!
Joan Hales Delamar Gracie

Class of '67
Pine Knoll Shores NC
Message
From: Ed Brinkley
Sent: 8/22/2018 5:49:22 PM
Subject: Statue
Flag: Follow up
Needs to stay gone. Unc grad. White guy. Family been in NC since anyone has been here.
Sent from my iPhone
Message
From: Kathryn Grim [kathryn_grim@alumni.unc.edu]
Sent: 8/22/2018 7:41:18 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Folt,
I spent four often wonderful years as an undergraduate at UNC. I am writing to let you know that, though Silent
Sam was a part of my university experience, I am glad the statue is no longer standing on our campus. I urge
you not to try to reverse the felling of the statue, a rebuke of the racist past it represented. It has proven to be a
costly and dangerous symbol to continue to maintain. And I urge you to act compassionately toward the student
protestors, who put themselves at risk to right a wrong that those in power could or would not.
Thank you,
Kathryn (Grim) Jepsen
UNC Class of '04
Message
From: Matthew Barnes
Sent: 8/22/2018 8:56:28 PM
To: thom@goolsbylaw.com; Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Good evening all,
I am a 2002 graduate of the master's program in Community and Regional Planning from UNG-Chapel Hill. I am writing to
you, urging the University to keep the Silent Sam statue down. The statue celebrated the oppressors of the Confederate
States of America, a nation whose founding was principled on the enslavement of people of color brought to the United
States from all over the world . Of course we need to learn and teach ourselves and future generations about the past and
the Confederacy but we should not celebrate the oppressors with statutes in prominent public displays on the grounds of
a university whose student body is so diverse. The time has come to remove tributes to the Confederacy. Regards,
Matthew Barnes
Message
From: Shannon Van Zandt
Sent: 8/22/2018 9:25:05 PM
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Subject: Keep Silent Sam down
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As a 2004 graduate of UNC and past donor, I'm writing to express my support of the students who opted to
no longer wait for the Board of Governors to make the right decision, but to take matters into their own
hands by removing the offensive and divisive silent Sam statue.
As a graduate, a scholar who focus on racial equity, and a southerner, I understand that the heritage of
our Confederate states should not be forgotten, but should serve as a reminder of our shameful history.
Thus, the appropriate location for statues such as silent Sam is in a museum that appropriately puts this
part of NC's history in context. It is NOT to be celebrated.
For the sake of all Black students and graduates of UNC, their desire to be recognized and treated as
equals, and the remaining UNC community's acknowledgement of and need to move past this stubborn clinging
to a shameful history, I implore you to allow the statue to remain down. If it is replaced, UNC will
receive no further financial support from me.
Sincerely,
Dr. Shannon Van Zandt
UNC class of 2004
Former Royster Fellow
Shannon Van Zandt

Message
From: Paul Wrayno
Sent: 8/22/2018 11:44:44 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Folt,
As a Duke alum, I am generally against most things UNC, at least when it comes to sports. So when there is
something UNC related that I approve of, you know that it does not come easy. I wanted to thank you for your
public letter in response to the toppling of Silent Sam. I know that there are social media campaigns targeting
you over supporting lawful behavior and wanted to add my voice as a counterweight. You have shown better
leadership than Duke did with the Lee statue, much as it pains me to admit it.
Dr. Paul W rayno

Message
From: Anna Jensen
Sent: 8/23/2018 11:44:20 AM
Subject: Cancel request to SBI to investigate removal of white supremacist statue
Flag: Follow up
As a UNC alum, I was overjoyed to hear that Silent Sam had been removed by protestors this week before the
start of UNC classes. Since the administration's hands were tied with respect to removal, the university should
be grateful that members of the public decided to do their work for them.
University leadership has missed an opportunity to lead this week. Silent Sam was a reminder to students of
color that they have never been welcome on UNC's campus, and in fact that UNC, like many institutions in this
state, was founded on racist violence. The fall of Silent Sam was a chance to acknowledge UNC's racist legacy
and a desire to move beyond it. You missed this opportunity; please don't add insult to injury by requesting state
resources to prosecute this courageous act.
I'm proud of the students of my university this week, but I'm embarrassed by university leadership. Civil
disobedience has a long and important history in fighting for equal rights for all in the South, and sometimes
conscience must trump the law. Please try to do better, and let's shape UNC into a university that welcomes all
students, regardless of color, with its words and its actions.
Best,
Anna Jensen '08
Message
From: Julia Freeman
Sent: 8/23/2018 12:36:07 PM
Subject: Racist Monument
Flag: Follow up
chancellor Folt,
My name is AJ Freeman and I am a resident of North Carolina who is in full support of the UNC
students, the members of Defend Durham, and everyone else who helped topple the racist monument that was
haunting your campus. I have read your message regarding the protest and it raised some troubling
concerns that I wish to address.
You stated that the protesters have the right to demonstrate, but not the right to damage "state
property". However, I'm sure you realize this would not have happened had you removed the statue earlier
in the year when a student poured her heart out (and her literal blood) to try to express to you and your
elite white staff why the statue was harmful to students of color. Why is private property more important
to you than making reparations for this state's racist history, than the emotional well-being of those
directly affected by such a monument? Is it just that you put the law above all else, or do you simply
not care to listen to the pain of your black students of color? I'm guessing it's both.
Further, you mentioned that the safety and security of your students and community are a top
priority for your staff. Who exactly is at risk from the careful removal of the silent Sam monument? Were
you concerned that it would fall on a student? Maybe that someone would trip? Please help me understand
who is at risk. Is it those who express discontent with the removal of the statue, those who ignore the
painful reminder that the statue inflicts on your black students? I think that if you were actually
concerned about the safety and security of your students, you would realize that all confederate
monuments haunt black students with images of white racists fighting to keep the students of colors'
ancestors as slaves. The effects of racism are generational chancellor.
Your statement was disappointing, but not a surprise given your previous failure to remove the
tribute to racism. I hope you will reconsider your stance that private property is more important that
the well-being of marginalized students. Either way you must know that if you put the statue up again, it
will be toppled again. The public will continue the removal of confederate monuments until there are none
left.
Sincerely,
AJ Freeman
Sent from my iPhone

Message
From: REDACTED
Sent: 8/23/2018 12:54:08 PM
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Subject: An alumnus who supports the Silent Sam protestors ...
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Ms. Folt,
As a proud alumnus of UN C chapel, the father of a current freshman, and an active supporter of the
school, I want to express my support for the students who took it upon themselves to bring down a symbol
of the confederacy.
I've always been proud of Carolina's history of racial justice and inclusiveness. I was appalled that,
in 2018, we still had a repugnant reminder of our racist past in the center of our beautiful campus. The
fact that black students had to walk in the shadow of a monument that was erected with specifically
racist intent was a blight. Good riddance. I don't support vandalism, but years of inaction by the
university made this act of vandalism necessary.
I'm proud to be a Tar Heel, and I hope the university's response to this episode will make me even
prouder.
Thank you,
REDACTED
class of 1986
Message
From: Ev Dove I
Sent: 8/23/2018 1:20:16 PM
Subject: To UNC Chancel lor and Board
Flag: Follow up
To: UNC Chancellor and Board

From: Evelyn Dove-Coleman
Date: August 23, 2018
The late Attorney Kenneth Lee told me years ago that, "The time to cross a river is
before it gets too wide." He had to fight in court to be allowed to attend the state
university. In 1951, Kenneth Lee, uncle Harvey Beech, James Lassiter, Floyd McKissick,
Sr. and James Robert Walker were the first black students to be admitted in the entire
history of the UNC-Chapel Hill Law School.They were admitted, but they definitely were
not welcome. The "Silent Sam" statue has stood as a stark reminder, for more than a
century, that no lost civil war and no lost lawsuit had changed the hearts of men.
Further, the statue was used to besmirch the reputations of women students by saying,
"Silent Sam will shoot his gun when a virgin walks by."
I write to implore you to cross this river at its narrowest point. Stand up like
humanitarian leaders who are sensitive to diversity. Let all the statue issues be over,
and move forward to the business of having a successful school year.
Sincerely,
Evelyn Dove-Coleman
--Donor to UNC-Chapel Hill
--First Black UNC-Chapel Hill Student Body Secretary
--Lifetime Member of the UNC- Chapel Hill GAA
--Former USAF Judge Advocate General
Message
From: Heather McMahon i
Sent: 8/23/2018 2:01:26 PM
Subject: Do not reinstall Silent Sam at UNC
Flag: Follow up
Good afternoon, Ms. Folt.
My name is Heather McMahon, and I received my MRP from UNC's Department of City and Regional
Planning in 2001.
As a proud Tar Heel, I am in full support of the removal of Silent Sam - I am proud of the students who
rallied for its removal, and the University should support them and their activism - especially in this charged
political climate.
Thank you for your attention to this matter,

Heather McMahon
DCRP '01
Message
From: Lia Bertelson
Sent: 8/23/2018 9:52:14 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear university administrators,

I write tonight in support of the students who removed the statue of silent Sam when those in power
lacked the courage to do so. As a UNC student in the late 90s, the silent Sam statue was a central
landmark that I passed on a daily basis. Now that I know more about the history of the statue, and the
effect that it has on many of the students, I can see that it does not belong in that central place or
role. The students were courageous in their civil disobedience and should not be punished.
Lia Mallini Bertelson

class of 1999
Message
From: Sarah Ficke [sficke@marymount.edu]
Sent: 8/24/2018 7:19:27 AM
Subject: Request from an alumna
Flag: Follow up
I am writing as a graduate ofUNC-Chapel Hill to encourage you to permanently remove the Silent Sam statue
from McCorkle place. The students who pulled the statue from its pedestal acted with great moral courage, and
those actions should be met with respect and dialogue, not criminal charges. It is abundantly clear that Silent
Sam was funded by white supremacists and dedicated to the glory of white supremacy, not the memory of the
Confederate dead. If you replace the statue, you are endorsing the words of Julian Carr, who bragged about
violently assaulting an African-American woman - a woman who could have been the ancestor of Carolina's
many African-American students. If you replace this statue, you will be sending a signal to those students that
Carolina is not a safe learning environment for them, or for other non-white students. They may feel that their
best option is to leave the university, or to counsel their friends and younger siblings to apply elsewhere, which
would deeply damage the university's future. You have a chance to move UNC forward in this moment, away
from a white supremacist past that I'm sure you and the administration regret. I hope that you are willing to take
that step so that I can continue to say I'm proud to be a Tar Heel.
Dr. Sarah Ficke, '12
Dr. Sarah H. Ficke

Associate Professor of Literature, Marymount University
Web Editor, Journal of Popular Romance Studies
My pronouns are She/Her/Hers

Message
From: David White
Sent: 8/24/2018 10:06:48 AM
CC: Hertel, Amy Locklear [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Adm inistrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/en=Recipient s/en=92d8a7a8722f47cfa351d3f9def50937-Amy Locklea]; Canady, Joseph R
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/en=Recipients/en=3c1281d747c444c08 1f833b0fec9944f-Mr Joseph R]; Curran, Joel
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Subject: Silent Sam
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Chancellor Folt,
I write to you today as a proud alumnus of the University of North Carolina. I have watched closely as the saga
over the Conferderate statute Silent Sam has played out on campus. For years the university has stood as the
beacon of higher education in the state of North Carolina, and as a symbol of what such education should look
like around the world. That shell has been cracked in recent days, weeks, and years. It is time the university
retake it's place among the best our nation has to offer.
While I am disheartened that the unlawful acts of students and protestors were the force that removed Silent
Sam from its perch at the doorstep of campus, I am even more disheartened that it took said group to do so.
When controversy began to arise over Silent Sam's place at the university, it was correctly stated that the statute
did not belong to the university but to the state of North Carolina. However, the governor granted the university
a reprieve, stating that Sam could be removed. Yet, still it stood as a symbol of the university's complacency
with the message under which Silent Sam was erected.
Now that Silent Sam no longer stands the university has once again whiffed on an opportunity to denounce
Sam's meaning, and reassure it's students, alumni, faculty, and staff of the desire to remain on the right side of
history.
I want to reiterate that I in no way agree with or promote the unlawful actions taken by those who removed
Silent Sam, however I am more willing to forgive the actions of 18-22 undergraduates than I am to forgive the
inaction of the leadership of the University of North Carolina. I sincerely hope that you and all who lead the
university are prepared to lead our priceless gem back to smoother waters.
Sincerely,
David White
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Class of 2011
Message
From: Lucas Rowe
Sent: 8/24/2018 11:42:41 AM
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Subject: Pri de and Disappointment over Silent Sam's Topp ling
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Hello Chancellor Folt and senior staff,
As a Carolina alumni I wanted to express my disappointment in the University's statements over the last few
days and in its relative inaction, particularly in the last year, in dealing with the Silent Sam statue.
The statements that blame the protesters as "unlawful and dangerous" particularly upset me because they fail to
acknowledge that inaction in the face of escalating tensions was also dangerous. Rather than working in earnest
to resolve an issue that was dividing our university and the citizens of Chapel Hill, the University dithered,
hoping tensions would dissipate.
And now, in a continued lack of leadership, the University is taking a law-and-order stance, blaming the
protestors for defying the institutions that were so unwilling to take a moral stand or even find a peaceful
compromise that could preserve history without defending it.
It also pains me to say we should follow the lead of Duke and leave the pedestal in its place as Dr. Kytle and Dr.
Robert.s suggest. But I believe that a lesson we should have learned from the Civil War is that when human
dignity and loyalty to our institutions are at odds we must, as the protesters did, favor the former.
Thanks for taking the time to read my thoughts on the matter,
Lucas Rowe
UNC Class of 2007
BS in Information and Library Science
Message
From: Katherine Theyson [kctheyso@sewanee.edu]
Sent: 8/24/2018 12:47:27 PM
Subject: Do Not Reinstall Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor Holt,
I spent many years on the UNC campus and graduated in 2010 with a Ph.D. in Economics. As an alumni of the
University, I feel it is my duty to respond to the recent events on campus with respect to the statue generally
called Silent Sam.
As you are aware, students have requested that the statue be removed from it's place of honor for many years,
but the university has been unresponsive to their requests. While I do not approve of the methods that students
and community members used to topple the statue, I believe the University bears much of the responsibility for
the frustration and anger of the community.
You tried to sweep this issue under the rug, imagining that inaction did not equate to approval of a monument
that was erected with racist intent, as shown by the University's own records (http://finding-
aids.lib.unc.edu/00141 /#folder 26# l ... ). The historical record speaks for itself and the administration provided
tacit approval of this treasonous and racist agenda for years.
Now, a member of the UNC board of governors, and a man who publicly promotes a deceptive, partisan, and
racist agenda, has asserted that the statue must be reinstalled. Please understand, if you reinstall the statue, you
will no longer be guilty of tacit approval of treason and racism, but of active promotion of it.
I have, on occasion, given small amounts of money to the University, and am coming to a point in my life were
I am expanding my philanthropy. But please understand, I will never give one dime to this University if it
chooses to actively promote a racist agenda. If you reinstall this statue, you are choosing to forgo my support
and the support of many like-minded alumni.
I hope and pray that my alma mater will stand up and be counted on the right side of history, rather than
pandering to the people who wish to glorify the evils of the past.
Katherine Theyson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Economics
Chair of the Department of Economics
Sewanee: The University of the South
735 University Ave
Sewanee TN, 373 83
Message
From: casey goldston
Sent: 8/24/2018 3:40:30 PM
public@bog.northcarolina.edu; president@northcarolina .edu; haywoodcochrane@yahoo.xn--com-9o0a
Subject: support for student protesters
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Chancellor Folt,
My name is Casey Goldston Giraudy. I am an alum and longtime donor.
While I normally do not lend my support to protesters who damage property, I write to you today to tell you that I
understand the frustration that contributed to the toppling of the offensive statue.
I know how much everyone adores the folklore of "Silent Sam" but please realize that most do not know about the
horrific history of the statue, and the language used during the unveiling years ago. I wish my beloved university
spent the time to teach the true history that goes with offensive building names, statues, etc. - but this is not the
case. I waited years for UNC to concede the impact of the suffering inflicted by those immortalized on campus, but
this never happened. I hoped that one day my university would see that these statues and memorials are as
offensive as a statue of Hitler would be on the grounds of a campus, but no such insight occurred.
So I hope we see the same hesitancy, reluctance, and caution in deciding the fate of the student protesters that we
saw when you were determining the fate offensive memorials.
I stand with the student protesters.
Respectfully,
Dr. Casey Goldston Giraudy

BA 1987
Message
From: Paul Swann
Sent: 8/24/2018 4:53:54 PM
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Subject: Black alumni re:Silent Sam
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As a 1984 graduate of my esteemed institution I would like to relay my pride in the actions of the current
students efforts in bringing about the fall of Silent Sam.
As a Black Alumnus I only regret that I did not understand the gravity of the statues meaning during my tenure.
Regards,
Paul M. Swann
UNC-CH Class of '84

Message
From: Joseph Grubbs
Sent: 8/24/2018 5:39:16 PM
Subject: Thoughts from a medical alumnus
Flag: Follow up
One of the most exciting days of my life occurred in the Fall of 2008 when I received the call that I had been
accepted into the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine. As the son of two UNC alumni, this was a
dream come true for me. I was fortunate enough not only to be accepted into UNC but also to receive a Board
of Governors medical scholarship and be inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society prior to
graduating in 2014 with both my MD and MPH degrees.
To say the past few days at UNC have been tumultuous would be an understatement. UNC students chose to act
where administration has failed to do so. The methods to some might be questionable, but the end result is not.
A monument erected to promote white supremacy has been removed from UNC's campus--as it should have
been decades ago.
Please understand, I do not believe in "mob rule" as termed by some, but I firmly support the removal of Silent
Sam from UNC's campus. The methods by which the statue was removed may be an issue, but it is an issue first
and foremost because UNC's administration for decades has chosen tradition and complacency instead of
choosing to support and protect some of its most vulnerable students and alumni.
I am writing to ask that you and your administration ensure that Silent Sam is never erected again on UNC's
campus. It is time the administration chooses to stand with its students and alumni in embracing a bright future,
instead of protecting a dark time in our past.
As a proud alumnus, I have gladly given back to UNC. Now having completed my ophthalmology residency, I
intend to give even more. Please do not make me and thousands of other alumni question our devotion to our
alma mater.
Sincerely,
Joseph Grubbs, Jr., MD, MPH

UNC School of Medicine, Class of2014
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Class of 2013
Message
From: Tara Robbins Fee
Sent: 8/24/2018 5:54:41 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Sirs and Mesdames,
As an alumna of UNC-Chapel Hill (Phd, 2005), I am so very proud of my alma mater, and especially of its current
students, who have shown the world that the Carolina of today is not the same institution that once honored great
violence committed to keep African American men, women, and children enslaved.
While I am aware that Silent Sam had different resonances for different audiences, I also know the history to which the
statue is inextricably linked (I am a professional literary historian of the nineteenth century).
There is much in the history and culture of the first public university to cherish, and our ability to reflect meaningfully on
those things in our past that shame us and to relinquish them is a mark of the education we have received from it.
Thank you for your support of these students, who are the living legacy of Carolina.
Sincerely yours,
Tara Robbins Fee
Message
Sent: 8/24/2018 8:29:55 PM
Subject: Dedication speech
Flag: Follow up
Dear President Folt,
In the light of excerpts from the 1913 dedication speech for "silent Sam" by Julian Carr-easily
accessible online-reinstallation of the monument would be shameful.
William E. Ha r ding MD
Message
From: Dinesh McCoy I
Sent: 8/24/2018 9:11:51 PM
Subject: Profound Disappointment with Response of Administration on Confederate Monument
Flag: Follow up

I am wr1t1ng to express my profound disappointment in the administration's response to the ongoing effort
for UNC to rectify its history of anti-black racial violence and oppression. After decades of struggle
and leadership on this issue, students and community organizers took matters into their own hands in
protest of the constant dragging of feet by leaders at all levels of state and university governance.
"silent Sam," a name too innocuous to truly represent the nature of the reprehensible monument to
oppression on our campus, has at long last come down. But I don't need to recount the racist history of
the statue and the racial terror of the early 1900s. The students and others who have been organizing for
decades have shown time and time again why this monument has no place on our campus.
I write today specifically to urge you to forgo any punishment of the protestors. We are in a moment of
cultural reckoning with regard to the racial realities of this country, too long unaddressed by the
majority. on one side, we have a virulent strain of white nationalism and those who appeal to fears based
on the collapse of the racial hierarchy that has been at the foundation of our country and our university
since its inception. on the other side, we have revolutionary voices who hold this country and their
local communities to account, fed up with years of unacceptable inaction and maintenance of the status
quo. Somewhere in the middle is a too-silent group who thus far has been unwilling to put forward a
strong opinion in support of marginalized communities. History will judge the actions of those who stay
silent and choose the side of the status quo and broken laws over the pain of real people.
I have long awaited a day when the UNC administrators show they are willing to put skin in the game in
protecting students, and be willing to resign or be fired by the racist powerholders if need be. This is
that moment. Now is the time to do the right thing and reverse course from the statements issued so far,
and instead stand with a younger, bolder generation who rejects bigotry and hate. No to prosecutions. No
to silent Sam. No to a Carolina that upholds the south's brutal racial hierarchy.
Sincerely,
Dinesh McCoy
class of 2015
Message
From: Aleta McClenney
Sent: 8/24/2018 11:15:30 PM
Subject: The presence of Silent Sam was more than a "source of frustration"
Flag: Follow up
I am appalled that your concern seems focused on how

Silent Sam was taken down. Its presence was an insult and a barely veiled threat, not a "source of frustration." If your
concern was student safety, perhaps you should have considered the cumulative impact on the well-being of students
for whom that statue represented a legacy of enslavement, torture, rape, family separation, and murder inflicted on
their ancestors.
UNC cannot be a healthy and diverse community with such utterly ineffective leadership. Your failure to handle this
situation appropriately a year ago has led directly to where we are now.
Sincerely,
Aleta McClenney
Message
From: hwhawkinspublish@,
Sent: 8/25/2018 7:54:01 AM
Subject: Our gratitude
Flag: Follow up
Carol L. Falt, Ph.D., Chancellor

A hundred and five years ago (and fifty years after the Civil War), at the unveiling of Silent Sam,
Trustee Julian Carr boasted at length of having "horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in
shreds, because ... she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady." That same year, Sam's
donor, the UDC, endorsed the KKK for heroism during Reconstruction. A better view of
Reconstruction comes from Ron Chernow's Grant, which I recommend.
Monday's student-initiated protest, overthrow, and destruction of that deeply offensive statue was an
act of patriotism, in the same spirit as Chapel Hill's civil disobedience in the 196o's, for which
students of that day were convicted, but later exonerated, with their record duly expunged. The
Confederate Constitution was both racist and treasonous, and I believe that before long, all such
monuments will have become universally intolerable. Sam's overthrow was a courageous and
conscientious action, and no legal statutes can impugn the good citizenship of those who tore down
such an ugly artifact of our shameful past.
My home town is Madison, N.C. I am an undergraduate (1964) and graduate alumnus (1971) of the
University at Chapel Hill. I believe it behooves you in your stewardship of the University to reinforce,
protect, and defend those young people who solved the gnawing problem of Silent Sam and who will
be the pride of our future generations. They owe us nothing; we are in their debt. Thank you.
Keeping the faith,

Hubert Wilson Hawkins, Jr.
Message
From: Betty's Gmail _
Sent: 8/25/2018 9:44:12 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Folt,
I know you are being inundated with folks who are adamant that the toppling of Silent Sam was a travesty. And
I know that you are under extreme pressure by some in the NCL who help fund the school to condemn & punish
this action. I am writing to voice the opposite opinion and to lend my support for the University to have the
courage to stand up to those voices and reflect justice and respect for all. I am a bit embarrassed to admit that in
my student years in the late 60's, the story of why Silent Sam was called Silent Sam was the focus and we really
were not registering that he was a Confederate monument. The more I learn of its history, the more
embarrassed I become for this stain on the University's history.
It is time for this reminder of the arrogance and hate of the past to leave the University. I encourage you to stand
firm for the notion that the ideas that allowed Silent Sam to be erected have no place in a civil society. As to
whether this act was wrong, I remind you and those who condemn this action of the Boston Tea Party.
Please stand for what is right,
Betty Hunter
Class of 1970
Unless we all care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
The Lorax, Dr Seuss
Sent from my iPhone

Bettv Hunter
Charlotte, NC 28203
Message
From: Suzanne Gordon [gordons@husson.edu]
Sent: 8/25/2018 10:21:36 AM
Subject: One Alumna view of Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
As a alumna of UNC (MA, 1977), I wish to add my voice to the Silent Sam issue. I believe that the wisest
course for UNC is to not repair and replace it. Instead, if repaired, it should be placed within an educational
context acknowledging history and the role of such statues in perpetuating White supremacy. In addition, UNC,
despite its position that it was powerless by law to deal with the Silent Sam statue, was complicit in its
demise. Clearly, the institution did not adequately deal with campus and student resistance to the meaning of
this statue. Given this, I would hope that once you identify the responsible students, that they not be punished
so much as are required to participate and lead in educational and community activities that address race
reparations and promote the acceptance of diversity.
Respectfully,
Suzanne Parish Gordon
Suzanne P. Gordon, PT, AJA, EdD

Pn(fessor Emeritus, School ofP~ysical Therapy,
Husson University
1 Coll1ge Circle, Bangor; ME 04401
Telephone: 20 7-404-3175
E-mail.· ,gordons(cj),husson. edu
Message
From: Lindsay Usher [lusher@alumni .unc.edu]
Sent: 8/25/2018 1:18:29 PM
To: chancellor@northcarolina.edu; Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: removal of Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I am a UNC alumna (class of '04) and a current professor at another university. I am incredibly glad that the Silent Sam statue has been removed from
campus. This symbol of racism and Jim Crow-era oppression stood for far too long on a campus where I gained friends from all backgrounds and
learned so much about the importance of standiug up for racial justice.
111e protesters who pulled it down did something that the University was not able or willing to do. When words and letters did not work, they were
forced to take action. Please be compassionate towards them. They should not be prosecuted. They hurt no one iu the process. They did damage to a
symbol that should not have existed iu the first place. Carr's dedication speech of the statue should make that painfully obvious.
Thank you,
Liudsay Usher, Ph.D.
Message
From: Robert Drojarski
Sent: 8/25/2018 2:01:39 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Sir,
As a veteran from the Vietnam Era, with due respect, I write to you.
There is a toxicity of division hanging over America since Trump was elected. No more is it more toxic then today. I have
vowed to fight the best that I can and that translates into writing emails to people like you since I cannot find Thom
Goolby in your directory.
His statement is right out of the Trump playback which can be traced directly back to Kent State. Students are being
arrested for wearing a mask at a public protest? What's next? The National Guard with live ammo?
th
These statues should have come down years ago. They were erected in response to the 15 amendment in anticipation
th
of the 19 amendment and ushered in the era of Jim Crow only to be replaced by the repeal of part of the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 giving states the right to make changes in their election laws without federal approval. State issued IDs,
denial of the vote to felons, voting roll purges are a few of many systematic, racist policies designed to suppress the
vote.
Silent Sam and the rest of the confederate monuments stand as an endorsement of the new Jim Crow. If a retired
mailman from Rochester can figure that out, certainly you can.
And Goolby defends it.
Good luck with that.
Please forward this email to him.
Respectfully,
Bob Drojarski

Message
From: Jackie Bay [jackieb@seidewitzgroup.com]
Sent: 8/25/2018 10:38:59 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear chancellor
I am an alumni from the class of 84
I was disheartened to read of the history of silent Sam protests led by some students, faculty and alum.
I have not been a part, or frankly even aware of these protests.
I also was saddened by the tearing down of the statue. Thankfully no one was hurt and am praying the
same will be true after today's events.
I feel that you have not exercised appropriate leadership with regards to this statue. Although i view
Carolina as "mine," the reality is that this university belongs to the students and to the future. If
their peaceful efforts to remove it were better handled, do you really think they would have resorted to
these steps? Perhaps you took the easy route of appeasing alumni, knowing full well that events would
take this course. You come out able to say it wasn't you and students have felony records.
Now i read that the statue will go back up in 90 days. This makes me very angry as my university becomes
another example of Carolina backwardness (the bathroom wars) at the behest of some white, male
republicans who unfortunately, appear to have a role in the university.
Please lead the university into the future rather than allowing the full burden to fall on students.
Jackie Bay
class of 1984
Sent from my iPhone

Message
From: Leon Malahias
Sent: 8/25/2018 6:37:07 PM
Subject: Expect more
Flag: Follow up
Hi Carol,
I just wanted to share my disappointment with the response to the Silent Sam statue. In light of the protests at
UV A last year I would think that a more proactive approach could have been taken to avoid the current
situation. I know this state is currently undergoing rule of a very conservative group but I'm sure you have
access to lots of smart people to find a creative solution.
Please don't continue to take the typical response you did the other night. Do what is right even if that does not
align with the archaic laws of this state.
Kind regards,
Leon
Class of 98
Message
From: Karen Greene
Sent: 8/25/2018 8:38:23 PM
Subject: Student Protesters
Flag: Follow up

>
>>Asa proud UNC alum and the daughter of one of UNC's first black graduates, I cannot stress enough how
the image of a confederate soldier stirs such feelings of alienation and serves as a reminder of the
anti-Black sentiment of the confederacy for the university's black students and the community. The civil
War was an unjust, amoral, and supremely un-American cause, and deserves no glorification on the campus
of a University dedicated to higher learning, diversity, and the pursuit of knowledge and truth.
>>
>> The truth about the civil War and the later establishment of these monuments to inspire the
intimidation of African American people is being told. No longer can people hide hate behind "heritage"
as an excuse for the message these monuments were built in order to send. If the University truly does
not support these values, there should be no resources dedicated toward reinstating this abomination and
blight on the campus footprint.
>>
>> The day silent Sam came down, I received a call about a donation to the University. If silent Sam
stays down, I'll be more than happy to continue my support of my alma mater. My family has collectively
earned (and paid for) five degrees across three generations from UNC. We continue to donate to and
support the school. My mother has made certain to make donations in my late father's name. surely you
do not intend to tell us that our support has meant nothing to the school in your charge by reinstating
silent Sam, as that is exactly what it will say.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Karen Greene '94
>>
Message
From: Eric Anderson
Sent: 8/25/2018 10:27:14 PM
Subject: Confederate Memorials
Flag: Follow up
How can you and the University continue to allow Any Confederate memorial to remain on
campus? The optics of it are absolutely terrible. Lets not forget what the Confederacy stood
for. It not only wanted to divide this country, but also wanted to perpetuate Slavery. These
are things that should be a footnote in history (and yes, a teachable moment lest we forget)
but, not something that should be memorialized. I also want to point out that these
Confederate memorials were erected in the Jim Crow Era as a means of reincarnating the
Confederacy along with the laws that were enacted to disenfranchise most blacks and tens of
thousands of poor whites. By allowing the memorial to remain on campus, the University is
not only enabling those that support Confederate views but, is also sending a message to this
country that the University is OK with what the Confederacy was all about. These optics are
absolutely terrible.
I realize that the Confederate history is an ingrained part of the South but, it's time to put this
bad chapter behind us all. In my opinion, the Silent Sam issue should have been made a non-
issue long ago by having the memorial moved to a more suitable place. A place that puts
these memorials in a proper context and can provide a teachable moment instead of being
something the perpetuates the Confederacy's views to others. If you get a chance, listen to a
song that Chapel Hill's own Mandolin Orange wrote shortly after Charlottesville and is called
"Wildfire" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAKdXoeOlk ). It tries to describe the
South's history and beliefs. It is poignant.
Anyway, I hope that Silent Sam is not reinstalled. Let memorials pay homage to those things
that contributed to the greater good of this country and a page in history for those things that
do otherwise (as a teachable moment).
Sincerely,
Eric Anderson
Montgomery, IL
Message
From: Katherine Register
Sent: 8/26/2018 11:38:09 AM
To: TGoolsby@BOG .NorthCarolina.edu
CC: phil .berger@nc leg.net; tim.moore@ncleg.net; president@northcarolina .edu; Chancellor
Marcia.Morey@ncleg.net; Floyd .McKissick@ncleg.net
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Mr. Gooslby,
I have just watched your video message concerning the toppling of Silent Sam.
UNC Board of Governors Member Says 'Silent Sam Will Be Reinstalled' I News
I cannot disagree more fervently with your opinion. Silent Sam is not part of the university infrastructure and I
am not concerned that my tax dollars have been lost due to its toppling. My tax dollars have, however, been
lost in the ongoing scandal of Sam's presence on the UNC campus since 1913, and the money spent on the
statue's security and maintenance.
The men and women who finally took the statue down should not be punished. In the face of an intransigent
power structure their frustrations boiled over. I can argue that you, the legislature, and UNC are to blame for
Sam's toppling. Why haven't you, who have the power to remove him peaceably, done so?
Silent Sam stands for a violent defense of the violent institution of slave-holding, and for the furtherance and
defense of that violence decades after emancipation, during Jim Crow. If the horrific corporeal, financial, and
emotional violence endured by slaves doesn't give you a rationale to put Sam elsewhere, then there is something
profoundly wrong.
Until I saw the video of Silent Sam coming down, I was not aware that the letters "C.S.A" were clearly etched
into Sam's canteen-a huge grain of salt added to the wound already festering. The statue is nothing but a
tribute to our blemished past-an homage to the vindictive Jim Crow era as well as the civil war. It is a
valuable piece of history, and should be preserved in a museum with the appropriate explanation of its origin,
not in a public place of adulation. It will do so much more good as an admonition that history not repeat itself,
than whatever its purpose is now.
We live in the greatest nation on earth. Shame on you, the legislature, and the university for pushing back
against folks whose objective is to unmask America's faults. Exposing our shortcomings and admitting to them
will make our country greater still.
Please don't reinstall Sam. Put him where he belongs.
Sincerely,
Kathy
Katherine Register
Durham, NC
Message
From: adanie ls04@
Sent: 8/26/2018 1:17:50 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I understand that Silent Sam's fate is not exclusively in your hands. However, I respectfully request that you do
all that you can to find a solution which will involve relocating the statue from the campus. To me, the
"heritage vs. hate" debate is incidental. More important, this is a safety issue, an expense (for campus security)
issue, and a state community (in the name of North Carolinians working together to civilly find solutions to
common problems) issue.
I fear that reconstructing the statue on the campus, given the inflamed passions on both sides of this issue, will
invite the tragedy of Charlottesville to Chapel Hill.
Thank you again for your leadership during what I'm sure has been a testing, and will prove to be a historically
consequential, time of your administration.
Andrew Daniels
Hickory
Message
From: Greg Amaya
Sent: 8/26/2018 2:37:26 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up

As an a 7 umni of both UNC-CH, '92 and UNC Schoo 7 of Medicine, '96 as we 17 as and a North Caro 7i na native,
I watch with concern about the silent Sam issue.
I feel like the majority of Americans are on the side of not having statues commemorating the
Confederacy, similar to how Germany doesn't have statues commemorating the Nazis. UNC has loved to use
the quote from
Charles Kuralt, ... "meant to be, the University of the people" ... not of the Confederacy, a group of
people, who traitorously tried to secede from the country and broke up families, most due to economic and
ethical differences over the most basic of human rights, slavery.
I do hope UNC does not choose to use valuable resources to resurrect a statue symbolizing a disgraceful
time in our state/country.
Sincerely,
Greg Amaya
Message
From: Karin Abell
Sent: 8/26/2018 2:53:58 PM
Subject: My personal reason for donating to UNC
Flag: Follow up
I donated to UNC last week for the first time since the athletics scandal happened. It was the first time in quite a
while that I felt unusually proud ofUNC and I wanted to support students. The Undergraduate Executive
Board's official statement on Silent Sam was, honestly, the best thing I'd read about the incident. It inspired me
specifically to support Project Uplift.
I have not always been someone who had strong feelings about Silent Sam. When I was a UNC student in the
1990s, it mainly was one of the things like okra or cheese grits that reminded me that I was in The South. But a
little over a year ago, I started really thinking about what it meant to have that sort of statue in such a prominent
place--prominent not only for UNC but for Chapel Hill itself My son goes to Northside Elementary and I
thought of how the kids who live around the school love UNC in a way that is even more profound than I do. I
thought about one of my son's African-American classmates one day attending UNC-Chapel Hill and walking
by that statue every day. Maybe the meaning would be easy to ignore, but maybe it would be a reminder of the
inequities and injustice in the world at large. This is why I am glad that the statue is not currently standing. And
I certainly hope that it will not return.
I know that one of the things a person in senior administration might fear when a big change occurs is donor
alumni backlash. But things change at universities all of the time, whether it's new buildings being put up or
outdated technology being replaced. I can only speak for myself, but I want to make the clear statement that
some alumni are proud oftotay's UNC students. And some ofus hope that you and others in a position of power
will listen to students about what needs to happen next. They might surprise you.
Respectfully,
Karin Abell, MA 1997
Message
From: David Murphy
Sent: 8/26/2018 3:39:42 PM
Subject: Dr. Folt, you are wrong.
Flag: Follow up
I've read recent reports about your thoughts on moving the statue that's the center of controversy on your campus. What
you should do is speak out, and then destroy the statue. Nothing short of that would be acceptable. You are playing a
game with bigots. Don't let them win.
Sincerely,
David Murphy
Ashdown, AR
Message
From: Jacqui Merrill Martin
Sent: 8/26/2018 4:38:15 PM
Subject: Permanent Removal of Si lent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I am emailing to express my desire for the permanent removal of the Silent Sam statue from Mccorkle Place . As an
alumnus of UNC Chapel Hill, I believe the Silent Sam statue represents a time of discrimination and oppression to
the University community.
We should aim to move forward in making all members of the community feel welcome and ensure that our school
truly represents "The University of the People."
In Carolina Spirit,
Jacqui Merrill Martin, Class of 2011
Jacquelyn Merrill Martin

Message
From: Elizabeth Graves
Sent: 8/26/2018 8:48:30 PM
Subject: Silent Sam: Do not resuscitate
Flag: Follow up
Good evening,
I learned recently through conversations with other alumni that the university is considering replacing
the statue of silent Sam. While I would not be opposed to the current statue being relocated to a museum,
I would like to add my voice to the chorus asking that silent Sam not return to its pedestal in our
beautiful quad.
I don't encourage vandalism of University property and hope that going forward there can be productive
dialog about our campus, it is WELL past time to remove a tribute to the Confederacy.
This should be a time of reflection for the University community to have conversations around what our
great family holds most dear. what we hold most dear is not Sam.
Elizabeth Graves
UNC class of 2009
Message
From: Will Mebane
Sent: 8/26/2018 8:52:02 PM
Subject: "Si lent Sam" is on your hands!
Flag: Follow up
Dear Honorable Board Members,
"Silent Sam" first "spoke" to me as a high schooler spending a few nights circa 1968 on
retreat in Vance Hall with other choral music students from across North Carolina.
"Silent Sam," and what it symbolizes, terrified me as a teenager. It was enough to cause
me to refuse to apply for admission to UNC-CH; save for Ms. Nancy Rowland, my high
school guidance counselor, who insisted I not allow "Silent Sam" to deter me.
As I matriculated Carolina (1971-1975, BS RTVMP), I obviously made many trips past

"Silent Sam." Each crossing caused my stomach to do flips as I hurried past the statue
without looking at it on my way to Vance Hall or to cross Franklin Street. African
American students at UNC-CH elected me to serve as chairman of the Black Student
Movement (BSM) '73-'74. Chancellor Nelson Ferebee Taylor, former President William
Friday, and I spent many hours privately discussing why Black students and others at
Carolina were not only offended but terrorized by "Silent Sam." Those were turbulent
times on campus and Ferebee, Bill,and I sought ways to deal with the monument before
someone decided to simply tear it down. The recent actions of students illustrate that we
obviously failed. Or did we?
Perhaps you, respected leaders, are the ones that have failed! How long are students
and other fair-minded individuals supposed to endure the torture carried out in
deafening silence each and every day by a symbol of hatred and treason? Your failure to
take the action most, if not all of you, know in your hearts is the proper course, led to
last week's unfortunate and uncivil actions to pull the statue down. That unruliness is on
your hands, however! Please act before more serious harm is done by your
fecklessness.
This is an appeal for you to be merciful to the students and others responding to your
impotence. Your leadership does not require courage but simply decency. It's not about
compassion but justice. Please demonstrate that you are the honorable and
humanitarian leaders alumni and students thought you to be.
Your affirmative response to this appeal is requested,
The Very Rev. Willie. (Will) H. Mebane, Jr., '75

Chair, Black Student Movement, '73-'74
Order of the Golden Fleece
Order of the Grail
Order of the Old Well
GAA Life Member
Message
From: Rob Merrill
Sent: 8/26/2018 9:04:22 PM
CC: Jacqui Merrill Martin Lee Merrill Jessica Merri ll
; David T. Martin
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up

I am writing to express my desire for the permanent removal of the Silent Sam statue from
McCorkle Place. As a double alumnus of UNC Chapel Hill ('77 BS-Chem; '81 DDS), I believe the
Silent Sam statue represents a time of discrimination and oppression to the University community.
We should aim to move forward in making all members of the community feel welcome and ensure
that our school truly represents "The University of the People.
Robert LMerrill,Jr. DDSFAGD
Office: 561 Old County Home Road

Asheville, NC 28806
(828) 254-0400 / (828) 251-1785 - fax
Home:
Message
From: Allison Rogers I
Sent: 8/27/2018 11:06:20 AM
Flag: Follow up
Good morning Chancellor Folt,
I am writing as an alumnus of the class of 2016 to say I have been very discouraged by the Chancellor's office
and the Board of Governors response to the removal of Silent Sam. I don't think it has been stressed enough
how divisive of a symbol this has been. Students of color every day for years have had to walk by a symbol of
white supremacy and bigotry, and the biggest concern over the statue's removal is vandalism? What about the
students of color? What about them? It is disappointing to see the University react in this way, and I believe the
University is on the wrong side of history.
Sincerely,
Allison
Message
From: David T. Martin
Sent: 8/27/2018 12:27:06 PM
Subject: Permanent Removal of Si lent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I
write
as an alum
to express my desire
that
the Silent Sam statue
be permanently removed from our campus
T
he statue represents a time of discrimination and oppression to a large segment of the University
community
and the People of North Carolina
Although there is room for disagreement regarding how the statute was taken down, we would be mistaken to now
move backward in the name of process .
Rather, progress demands that we
move forward
toward
making all members of
our
community feel welcome
. Permanently removing the statute is a small but necessary step toward this goal. Only then can we truly consider
ourselves
The University of the People.
Best,
David Martin
B.A., Economics and Philosophy, 2010
David T. Martin
Message
From: Kathryn Wall _
Sent: 8/27/2018 1:50:19 PM
Flag: Follow up
I am a 3 time alumna (classes of 92, 94, and 00) and and also eligible to be a member of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy (though I choose not to be affiliated). I understand that you are hearing from many people
wanting you to put Silent Sam back up, but I urge you not to give in to that pressure.
I was on campus on Saturday morning on unrelated business, and it put a chill down my spine to see people on
our campus waving Confederate flags and yelling demeaning comments at people. With our shameful southern
legacy of slavery and segregation, the notion that such sentiments are still alive and well and speaking loudly on
the UNC campus was hard to accept in 2018. The idea that my university might capitulate to these groups in
putting up a statue with white supremacist origins because of the desire for funds from pro-Confederate donors
or fears of the legislature is similarly disheartening.
Please leave this statue in the dustbin of history where it belongs. I remain proud to be a Tar Heel, but if this
statue goes back up on campus without a strong fight from the administration, my donations and support will go
elsewhere. My fuller thoughts on the topic are below. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Kathryn Wall
1. Monuments like Silent Sam were erected en masse by groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy
decades after the Civil War in a movement to rehabilitate and glorify the so-called "Lost Cause" of the
Confederacy.
2. The Lost Cause movement was closely associated with local and state governments that, during that same
time period (1890s-1920s), were writing hundreds of laws across the South to strip African Americans of
political, economic, and social power, entrench segregation, and codify white supremacy into the legal
framework of the society.
3. At this EXACT SAME TIME, the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups were enacting a reign of
terror on people of color throughout the south with lynchings, violence, and cross-burnings that were
intended to reinforce racial hierarchy.
It is no SURPRISE then, that these monuments were put up in the public spaces where one might go to
register to vote, to apply for a deed for land, to try to attend school, to get a marriage license, to get justice
from the legal system, and to otherwise assert one's citizenship. They were ALWAYS intended to embolden
white supremacists while intimidating citizens of color. Their racist origins are not in dispute.
4. If you want to make and argument about it being "heritage not hate," then, history is not on your side. And
as someone who is the descendant of Confederate (and also Union) soldiers, I'm ashamed to admit that part
of my family's heritage WAS hate -- or, at the very least, an unconscionable willingness to regard the right to
hold other human beings as property to be a value worth dying for. I do not consider their actions honorable
or a part of my heritage worth celebrating, though I fully affirm that people are complicated and sometimes
folks with redeeming qualities do terribly misguided and frankly sometimes evil things. But I'd just as soon
see the monuments that were allegedly erected to glorify their treason (but were actually erected to support
a move toward legitimizing white supremacy some 45 yea rs after the war ended) removed, and either
destroyed or placed in appropriate historical context in a museum or park somewhere so that future
generations can learn the horrible price our nation has paid for white supremacy.
AND for those who are still raising the hew and cry about legal channels and destruction of
property ... consider this:
5. The GOP-driven state legislature passed a law in 2015 making it illegal for campuses or municipalities to
remove Confederate statues based on the w ill of the people or decisions of local governing bodies. So in
terms of a legal way to remove them, the legislature has made that process cumbersome and is unlikely to
approve requests to remove the statues. So you might say, "Sure, but then the thing to do is to elect new
state legislators, not take matters in to your own hands," BUT ...
6. Thanks to the gerrymandered districts that the GOP-run legislature pushed through, the ability to shift the
legislature away from those who support the Confederate monuments is very limited -- not because there
aren't people in enough districts who would like to see more moderate representation, but because the
district lines have been intentionally drawn to bleed off the power of those voters and maintain the status
quo.
7. We are currently in a situation where the people of the town of Chapel Hill, students at the University, and
the faculty (along with numerous alumni) have repeatedly tried to get this statue removed. There is no
meaningful legal way for the people of the community to remove the statue thanks to the law prohibiting
doing so. There is no way for citizens to get those laws changed because the legislature is changing voting
districts and practices to maintain the power of a single party. University leadership had some options -- they
could have taken the statue down for "cleaning" and dragged their feet in putting it back up, or made a fuss
to the state to try to appeal to remove it legally, but they chose not to do either (which I see as a serious
problem). But when you have a situation in which democracy is no longer functioning, sometimes civil
disobed ience and direct action are the only options left, unless you want to just keep going along with the
status quo, which is in this case, a status quo with white supremacist origins that is harmful and offensive to
our community.
And as the great great granddaughter of a member of the 61st NC Infantry, as well as a 3-time almuna of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...under these circumstances, I'm 100% okay with this outcome.
Message
From: Dana Brinson
Sent: 8/27/2018 3:58:24 PM
Subject: Silent Sam should stay down and should stay at UNC
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To President Spellings and President Folt,
As a UNC alumna who earned a MA from the History department in 2005, I write to share my deep concerns
that UNC-Chapel Hill is considering returning Silent Sam to its former pedestal. Silent Sam is a symbol of
racial oppression and violence and has no place on the campus of an institution of higher learning. He should be
removed permanently from campus.
Further, protesting racist and oppressive systems through principled action should not result in the loss of access
to a university education. _ fully informed about the true history of the Silent Sam statue, the people
who chose to install it and the ethos it represented, took a stand against racism, revisionist history, and the
University's tacit approval of both. I hope you will do everything in your power to support m
remaining at Chapel Hill.
Finally, I implore you to take all possible actions with your power--and beyond--to remove any statues,
monuments and building names--throughout the UNC system--that serve only to whitewash history and provide
historical cover to slave holders, human rights violators, terrorists like the KKK, and any others whose violent
and reprehensible actions should be the object of derision, not elevation.
History will judge us all and I hope you, in your esteemed leadership roles, will make sincere efforts to be on
the side commited to justice and equality for all.
Sincerely,
Dana Brinson
UNC-CH, History, 2005
Message
From: Nicholas Carey I
Sent: 8/27/2018 6:14:02 PM
Subject: Removal of Silent Sam Staue
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Chancellor F olt,
I am writing to express my desire for the permanent removal of the Silent Sam statue from Mccorkle Place. As
an alumnus of UNC I believe the Silent Sam statue represents a time of discrimination and oppression to a
large segment of the University community. Millions of people have walked or driven by the statue and have seen
a representation counter to the University's mission statement "to serve as a center for research, scholarship, and
creativity and to teach a diverse community of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to become the
next generation of leaders."We should aim to move forward in making all members of the community feel
welcome and truly make our school "The University of the People."
Sincerely,
Nicholas Carey
B.A. , Chemistry, 2010
Nicholas Carey
Message
From: Chris Asch [cmasch@colby.edu]
Sent: 8/27/2018 9:51:46 PM
Subject: UNC alum against the restoration of Silent Sam
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As a historian, a scholar of American history, and an alumnus of the UNC History Department's graduate
program, I am writing to urge you not to allow the statue of Silent Sam to be restored on UNC's campus. The
statue, like many other statues glorifying the Confederacy that dot the South, represents the triumph of white
supremacists during the late 19th and early 20th centuries after they had successfully overthrown biracial
governments in North Carolina.
I am historian. I love history and know its value. But "Silent Sam" and other such statues honor myth, not
history; indeed, they distort history and perpetuate misunderstanding. Removing them does not "erase" history
- it actually allows us to talk more honestly about the past. "Silent Sam" deserves no place of honor at UNC,
and I urge you to resist the pressure to restore this statue.
Sincerely,
Chris Myers Asch

Department of History
Colby College
Author, Chocolate Citv: A History o(Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital (UNC Press, 2017)
Message
From: Tim Prizer
Sent: 8/27/2018 9:55:33 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I write to you, as a UNC alum, with a plea: DO NOT place Silent Sam back atop his pedestal. It is a pedestal
that exalts nothing outside of racism and violence, outside of a history explicitly rooted in the preservation of
the "Anglo-Saxon race" and the "horse-whipping of negro wenches until their skirts hung in shreds," as Julian
Carr proudly proclaimed in his dedication of the statue in 1913. If this is ostensibly about "heritage not hate,"
we must once and for all recognize that we what we have is a heritage of hate.
What's more, the nature of your own legacy is in your hands as it has never been before. I can 100% assure you
that if you decide to be remembered as the leader who fought against the powerful voices of division and hatred,
you will be placed upon a permanent pedastal unlike any Confederate "hero" could have ever hoped. I can also
assure you with equal confidence that, whether you decide to take a stance of indifference or reinstatement, you
will be firmly relegated to the wrong side of history for time immemorial, your name and image dragged
through the mud for as long as memory will allow.
I trust that you will navigate this pressing and precious issue in way that will move UNC, our country, and your
own career and legacy on the path of progress rather than regress and hatred.
Sincerely,
Tim Prizer
Folklore, M.A.
UNC-Chapel Hill, 2009
Message
From: MARY MONTGOMERY Wolf [mwolf@uga.edu]
Sent: 8/27/2018 10: 14:28 PM
Subject: Silent Sam must stay down
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Dear Chancellor,
As an alumna of UNC and as a historian, I write to state the the Silent Sam statue cannot be restored. I'm sure
that you are aware of the historical significance of Confederate statues and memorials erected in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were created and placed in prominent places to remind
southerners - white, but especially black - of the racial power structure that maintained the oppression of
blacks.
For 100 years, UNC has been complicit in the perpetuation of "Lost Cause" racist ideology. Please do the right
thing and do not replace the statue.
Thank you.
Montgomery Wolf, PhD (UNC, History, 2008)

Senior Lecturer, University of Georgia
USA
706-542-2053
Message
From: Rachell Underh ill I
Sent: 8/27/2018 10:17:36 PM
Subject: Comment s on Silent Sam's possible reinstallation from members of the UNC community
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I sincerely hope you are able to read this message because I am afraid you may not be hearing from a large
population of your constituents who share my viewpoint
I have an undergraduate degree and a graduate certificate from UNC and I am a current Chapel Hill resident I love
this university and have always been a proud, outspoken advocate for Carolina. I am writing on behalf of myself
and my family- a family with deep roots in North Carolina that pre-date UN C's founding- and a family a great
many of whom are also UNC alumni, Chapel Hill residents, faculty, employees and/or donors.
I was born at UN C's Memorial Hospital while my parents were UNC students. My two uncles and my aunt are
alumni, as was my grandfather and my great-grandfather. My great-great-great uncle's name was Weldon Davis. He
was a UNC alumnus who died fighting for the confederacy. The United Daughters of the Confederacy said that they
wanted to install Silent Sam on UN C's campus to honor him and roughly 300 other confederate alumni.
But I am not here to defend Silent Sam's place on campus. In fact, I, and every single one of my alumni friends
and family implore you to please do everything you can to keep this blight from returning to our beloved
campus!
Defenders of this statue may say that it should remain to commemorate the lives of UNC alumni lost during the civil
war. But those familiar with UN C's campus know that, in addition to Memorial Hospital and Memorial Hall, on
Cameron Avenue, there is a beautiful and respectful memorial to all alumni war dead. It includes a bronze 'book of
names' featuring the name of my relative and over 700 other alumni who died in the Civil War as well as World
War I, World War 2, Vietnam and other conflicts. Having a separate monument only to the confederate alumni dead
is disrespectful to the larger number of alumni who died in all other conflicts.
In my direct experience, and according to well-documented university history, Silent Sam has always been a rather
unwelcome but immovable presence on campus. He never has never truly belonged to Carolina, its campus or
its students. No students, not even the most apolitical, seem to have any real affection for him. He is an
anachronism who looks like he was dropped onto our campus by a third party, which is not that far from the truth.
I have yet to meet one single supporter of Silent Sam's re-installation who actually lives or works in Chapel
Hill. To those who say Silent Sam was harmless, I say he was at very best, an unpleasant artifact who is most widely
known as the inspiration for a vulgar misogynistic joke about UN C's female students.
Even in this most generous interpretation, is the presence of this statue worth the damage it causes to UN C's
reputation? Is it worth the increased threat to student safety?
Returning this monument in its prior place of honor, above everything else on campus, sends the message that this
piece of granite is more important than the tens of thousands of vibrant, talented and diverse members of our
present community who live and work on campus every day.
How can we ask new students to love and support Carolina when the very presence of this statue sends the
message that Carolina doesn't love and support them?
IfUNC is really "For all kind", the best way to demonstrate this is to respect the wishes of the vast majority
of the Carolina community who are tired of being embarrassed and insulted by this hateful spectacle, now
on the verge of being re-installed and thereby endorsed by UN C's administration.

Rachell Underhill, UNC '01
Message
From: Michael Knight [Michael.Knight@ucf.edu]
Sent: 8/27/2018 10:35:04 PM
Subject: from UNC alum (PhD '16)
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As a proud UNC alum who obtained my PhD in religious studies at Chapel Hill in 2016, I wish to join the many
voices urging that the Confederate statue is not restored. The statue has caused pain for the campus
community for decades. To restore it would only further prevent the community from healing and coming
together. For the University to move forward, the statue needs to go. Otherwise, UNC risks falling far behind
on the wrong side of history.
In addition to being a Tar Heel, I am also a direct descendent of Confederate veterans, and acknowledge the
statue's historical significance; it is indeed my own history. But remembering history does not require that we
honor it. The Confederacy does not deserve to be honored by the University.
Sincerely,
Michael Knight
Assistant Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies
University of Central Florida
Message
From: Curran Campbell
Sent: 8/27/2018 11:47:03 PM
Subject: Questions regarding Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Folt,
I understand that in these trying times you are likely getting flooded with emails and I will do my best as to not
waste your time, that being said, let me get to my point here.
I, like many of my fellow North Carolinians, would like to see the Silent Sam statue at McCorkle Place,
LEGALLY removed from campus.
I have come around from my initial outrage regarding the statue and have since adopted a more rational way of
thinking on the issue.
So, "facts" being all over the place on this issue as they typically are, I would like some clarification on a key
point.
What needs to be done, in order to LEGALLY remove Silent Sam from it's current location on campus and
what can I do as a citizen, if anything, to help speed along that process, so we can avoid violent outbursts like
we saw last week in the future.
I thank you for taking the time to read this message, and hope that this situation works out in the future for the
betterment of the University, the State of North Carolina, and the Town of Chapel Hill.
Regards, Curran Campbell

Message
From:
Sent: 8/28/2018 3:52:19 AM
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Subject: Student Safety in wake of monument toppling
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Dear Chancellor/Staff,
Let me first say I appreciate the words offered to the Carolina community by your office. My wife is a UNC
graduate and our son is currently attending UNC this year, so it is a joyful and yet sad time for our family. With
our son being a young African-American male, we were very concerned regarding his safety during these latest
protests. It is our sincere hope that the campus does not decide to hide behind the fact that although the Silent
Sam statue/monument represents a piece of North Carolina history, it is not a history to be proud of I don't
want to take up too much of your time, however I felt it necessary to make this appeal to your office for this
university to send a message to all those that would use symbols of hatred and injustice that UNC Chapel Hill is
first and foremost an institution of higher learning and does not strive to be a reminder of a painful past. We will
be praying for the faculty and students that tensions will ease and that love and reason will prevail. Please
consider our plea and take every measure not to replace the Silent Sam statue.
Sincerelv
Message
From: Sara Juengst
Sent: 8/28/2018 7:20:19 AM
Subject: Confederate Monuments on UNC Campus
Flag: Follow up

I write to you, as a UNC alum, with a plea: DO NOT place Silent Sam back atop his pedestal. The history this
monument commemorates is a history of racism and violence, as explicitly expressed by it's original erectors in
1913 who wished to preserve the "Anglo-Saxon race" and were proud of their "horse-whipping of negro wenches
until their skirts hung in shreds." Leaving Silent Sam down does not erase this history; not in our memories, not in
the bodies of the black people of America, and certainly not in our broken political discourse. Our nation has a lot of
work to do to heal the wounds that persist from slavery and the 150 years of discrimination that have continued
since. However, by celebrating this history, we are telling students of color that they do not belong on this campus,
that they are not safe here. I don't believe that's what UNC stands for and I don't think you do either.
If people are worried about losing history, encourage them to make a donation to the History department on campus
or their local library, which struggle for the funds to actively preserve history everyday.
I trnst that you will navigate this pressing and precious issue in way that will move UNC, our country, and your mvn career and
legacy on the path of progress rather than regress and hatred.
Sincerely,
Sara Juengst
Anthropology, PhD
UN C Chapel Hill '15
Message
From: Betsy Dain _
Sent: 8/28/2018 7:54:58 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
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Dear Chancellor,
I am a '98 grad of the School oflnformation and Library Science. I am writing to urge the University to find
another home for Silent Sam. If the statue is put back up, there will be terrible repercussions for the university,
the town, the state, and the country. We are all watching.
Thank you.
Sincerely yours,
Elizabeth S. Dain
Message
From: Amy Watkins
Sent: 8/28/2018 8:03:45 AM
Subject: Keep Silent Sam down
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor,
_ I believe the statue must stay down. It is in everyone's best interest to move it
off the main campus and into a more secluded, museum-type space where it can be offered with more extensive
educational context.
Campus safety should be your biggest concern, and allowing multiple hate groups from outside the campus area
(such as ACTBAC) to intimidate our students is absolutely appalling. I have read quotes of people who attended
Charlottesville and came to Chapel Hill, who say "do them like they did Silent Sam ... we'll give them a war...
bodies in the street" - THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE ON OUR CAMPUS, or anywhere else, frankly.
Your INACTION has brought us to this point. If you truly care about our students, do not let Thom Goolsby or
anyone else bully you into returning that statue.
Thank you,
Amy Watkins
Charlotte, NC 28211
Message
From: Elisabeth Curtis
Sent: 8/28/2018 8:37:33 AM
Subject: restoration of Si lent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I urge the UNC administration not to restore Silent Sam to his previous
location. He belongs in a museum with explanation of how hate and
bigotry can shape history. UNC and North Carolina need to move beyond
what Silent Sam represents to this state. The repercussions of
reinstatement would be huge -- emotionally, politically and economically.
Elisabeth Curtis
Message
From: Amelia Fiske [a .fiske@iem.uni-kiel.de]
Sent: 8/28/2018 9:05:54 AM
Subject: (kein Betreff)
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I am a 2016 graduate of the UNC Anthropology PhD program. I write to you to express my deep
concern in regards to the University response to the statue removal and specifically, claims that Silent
Sam will be returned to his place.
To return Silent Sam to his pedestal is to continue to endorse a history of racism and violence, as was
explicitly expressed by it's original erectors in 1913 who wished to preserve the "Anglo-Saxon race" and
were proud of their "horse-whipping of negro wenches until their skirts hung in shreds." Leaving Silent
Sam down does not erase this history; not in our memories, not in the bodies of the black people of
America, and certainly not in our broken political discourse. Our nation has a lot of work to do to heal the
wounds that persist from slavery and the 150 years of discrimination that have continued since. However,
by celebrating this history, we are telling students of color that they do not belong on this campus, that
they are not safe here. I don't believe that's what UNC stands for and I don't think you do either.
If people are worried about losing history, encourage them to make a donation to the History department
on campus or their local library, which struggle for the funds to actively preserve history everyday.
I trust that you will navigate this pressing and precious issue in way that will move UNC, our country, and
your own career and legacy on the path of progress rather than regress and hatred.
Sincerely,
Amelia Fiske
Dr. Amelia Fiske, Ph.D.

Senior Research Fellow
Inst. f. Experimentelle Medizin
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus 28
24105 Kiel, Germany
Message
From: Emily Baran
Sent: 8/28/2018 9:25:45 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up

I am an alumnus of UNC-Chapel Hill. I completed the PhD program in the History Department in 2011. I
would like to strongly urge you not to restore Silent Sam on the campus. As a relic of the Jim Crow South, this
statue needed to be removed from its place of honor a long time ago. The individuals who put up this statue
meant it to honor White supremacy and the Confederate cause. This is not a part of our American past that we
should celebrate.
As a Soviet historian, I immediately think about how ordinary Soviet citizens tore down the statue of Felix
Dzerzhinsky, the original head of the secret police, in the waning days of the Soviet Union. They did not need
this statue in the center of Moscow to remind them of their history. Indeed, the statue was meant to silence the
voices of those who had been imprisoned, tortured, and executed by this hated institution. Removing the statue
was an act of reckoning with the past, of grappling with it, rethinking it, and ultimately of beginning to heal and
move forward. I would like to see us be able to do the same with our history of slavery, discrimination,
disenfranchisement, and violence against African Americans.
I have not donated to UNC since graduation, and have always stated that I would only do so once Silent Sam
was removed from campus. I am proud of the students that made this happen, and I hope that you will make
every effort to keep Silent Sam down and protect those students who engaged in non-violent civil disobedience.
Best,
Emily Baran
Message
From: Sheffield, Sarah [ssheffield2@usf.edu]
Sent: 8/28/2018 10:05:23 AM
Subject: Silent Sam-UNC must keep it removed
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Dr. Folt,
I am a proud UNC alumna (2011 ). UNC is where I learned so much about myself and about the experiences of
others across the world. I experienced performances by Maya Angelou,, orchestras from all over the world, and
dance troupes from Chicago to Cambodia. I also made lifelong relationships from people of all backgrounds
possible. I've always felt that UNC was one of the most wonderful places on Earth, where I was exposed to so
many different viewpoints. Even more, because I was a low-income student, UNC welcomed me with a
Carolina Covenant scholarship, making it possible for people like me to attend college-I always felt that UNC
was incredibly welcoming; it is heartbreaking to learn that UNC has not been as welcoming for all students, and
especially students of color.
We have a history that cannot be ignored. We cannot pretend that Silent Sam is 'just' a statue, a part ofUNC
like the Old Well is. It was created to celebrate a historical part of the United States that should never be
celebrated. Its dedication speech glorified the slavery of black people and the brutality inflicted upon them by
white people that they faced for so long before and after the Civil War. This statue must stay down-put it in a
museum, if you must, and let it serve as a warning to never repeat history. But we, the alumni of the university,
will not stand by as black students are asked to walk past commemorations of their ancestors' slavery-can you
imagine how that must feel? As a white person, I cannot begin to imagine how awful that must be. But I don't
have to imagine-black students, faculty, and staff have told us very clearly how it makes them feel and we have
to listen to them. So it must be UNC' s duty to uphold its respect for all of its students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
I understand you are in a difficult position, truly. But there is only one right path and that is making UNC a
haven for ALL students-and that starts by addressing our problematic history.
I love my university and that is why I demand better. Please remove Silent Sam.
Sincerely,
Sarah Sheffield, Ph.D.

Visiting ass istant professor, School of Geosciences
The University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave, NES 107
Tampa, FL 33620
Office: SCA 524
ssheffie ld2@usf.edu
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From: Kasula, Varun Reddy [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Please don't intentionally put up Silent Sam again. I would feel so uncomfortable if that much effort was put
into resurrecting a racist statue.
Thank you,
Varun
Message
From: mpaulaus
Sent: 8/28/2018 10:22:07 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
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I graduated from UNC in 2012 with a PhD in History. I am writing to strongly urge you not to return Silent
Sam to his pedestal on McCorkle Place. When I arrived at UNC in 2004, its message of hate was unmistakable
to me, as it was to the many students of color who confided in me about the statue as their teaching
assistant. The research done by my colleagues at UNC demonstrating the racist history of the statue only
confirmed these responses. Silent Sam has no business standing as a symbol of the university today.
I urge you to assemble a panel of faculty and students to decide what to do with the statue now that it is down.
Best regards,
Dr. Michael Paulauskas
UNC PhD in History, 2012

Message
From: Ethan Kytle [ekytle@csufresno.edu]
Sent: 8/28/2018 11:32:20 AM
Subject: Please Do Not Return Silent Sam
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I am a Tar Heel grad (MA, 1999; PhD 2004) and historian of the U.S. South. I have co-authored a book on the
memory of slavery and the Civil War, so I am thoroughly familiar with of the long history of Silent Sam and
other white supremacist symbols.
It would be a tragic mistake to return Silent Sam to the empty pedestal that now sits on McCorkle Place. As the
events at Charlottesville last summer highlighted, Confederate monuments have become totems for a newly
resurgent white nationalist movement. If UNC puts Silent Sam back up, it will create a new rallying point for
white nationalists and neo-Confederates that will surely lead to violent conflict with monument opponents. To
return Silent Sam would make UNC every bit as complicit as President Trump in fueling the current white
supremacist revival and the bloodshed that it goes along with it. As a proud Tar Heel alum, I urge you not to
undermine the safety of the Chapel Hill community, nor to sully the school's fine reputation, by reinstalling
Silent Sam.
I realize that you face a great deal of pressure from conservative members of the state legislature and the Board
of Trustees who want you to restore Silent Sam and to discipline student protestors, including
Please take the courageous step of resisting this pressure. To do so would be to etch your name
alongside your great predecessor Frank Porter Graham. To bow to their wishes, on the other hand, will ensure
that you are remembered alongside long-time critics of the university such as Jesse Helms.
Please do the right thing.
Sincerely,
Ethan J. Kytle
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Message
From: penne sandbeck
Sent: 8/28/2018 1:39:19 PM
Subject: Do not re-erect Silent Sam on campus
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Dr. Folt,
I attended the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982-1983, and received my B.A. there in
December 1983. My relationship with UNC since graduation has been a mostly pleasant one up to this point; as
an architectural historian who has worked in North Carolina and Virginia since 1994, I've frequently used the
archives at Wilson Library over the years, and cannot say enough good things about the North Carolina
Collection and Southern Historical Collection staff It's been a happy and poignant experience to walk through a
campus as both an adult and an alumna.
But walking on campus and, frankly, being in Chapel Hill have become increasingly poignant and fraught since
Silent Sam became a controversial issue. For the record, I have never cared for the statue--even as an
undergraduate, it struck a discordant note with me as its presence alienated other members of the student body,
specifically black students. Friends of mine who attended UNC after I did said the whole name of "Silent Sam"
was based in misogyny--that "Silent Sam" would not betray the UNC boys who took advantage of their female
classmates. That was not my experience when I was at UNC, but I found it interesting that students there in the
1990s had created a further negative connotation for the statue.
Here is what bothers me. I think Mitch Landrieu got it right in this part of his recent speech:
These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign
history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the
death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.
Not all history is good--frankly, a lot of it is terrible. Humans have done horrible things to one another
over the course of time. Not everything can be wiped away and made "squeaky-clean" for public
memory. But I find it increasingly outrageous and painful that an institution like UNG-Chapel Hill,
whose motto is "Lux, Libertas," and whose mission statement includes "to teach a diverse community
of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to become the next generation of leaders," is
considering re-erecting the statue. What does re-erecting Silent Sam say to this diverse community of
students? What does it mean for "light and liberty"? I don't see Silent Sam as an example for free
speech; I see the statue's presence in UNC culture as an example of intolerance that others have
been forced to tolerate. And if the statue is re-erected, why on earth would any intelligent, diverse
young man or woman want to attend my alma mater? Do you not see the message this will implicitly
state if the statue is returned to its pedestal?
Furthermore, the athletics program at UNC has been a boon for the school, attracting both talented
sportsmen and sportswomen, and it's made the school an even bigger draw for potential students.
Many of our most famous athlete-alums--Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Lawrence Taylor--are
African-American . They've brought a lot of money and prestige to the school. How do you think they
felt when they had to walk by that statue? Is the hypocrisy of having made money (albeit mostly
indirectly) off these students and yet keeping a white supremacist monument aloft not obvious? Take
it down a few steps, and think of how every African-American student at UNC has felt when he or she
has thought of Silent Sam. Think about how they felt when they heard that particularly despicable part
of Julian S. Carr's speech for the first time. Think about the message UNC sends to not just those
students, but to African-Americans throughout this country: that UNC continues to give a blind eye to
elitism and white privilege. In reality, this is not how a diverse community works; if one of us hurts,
then we all hurt. If one of us is wronged, we cannot be right until we address that wrong.
I don't agree with how Silent Sam was removed. I'm grateful no one was hurt or killed in the process. I
would have liked to have seen a removal undertaken in a more thoughtful, measured way that could
have led to truth and reconciliation in North Carolina. But you and the Board of Governors had plenty
of chances to do that, and you all chose not to take them. Still, the statue is gone and the so-called
"mob" has handed you an opportunity to quickly proceed in making things right, and pursuing some
honest evaluation about history's visual interpretations on campus. If you put that statue back on its
pedestal, though, you will negate everything that has been accomplished in the last week.
I'm not a rich architectural historian, and I'll be poorer in April 2019 when I'm officially divorced. I'd
hoped to give money to UNC someday. But I will not give you all one dime if that statue goes back
up, and I will discourage friends from sending their children to UNC until the school becomes a truly
diverse community. My one threat is a small one, I know, but there are thousands of other North
Carolinians who feel as I do.
Thank you for reading my e-missive.
Penne Smith Sand beck

Message
From: Tara Powell
Sent: 8/28/2018 2:24:33 PM
Subject: Confederates on the campus
Flag: Follow up
I am writing to express my concern about the rumored possible return of "Silent Sam" to its pedestal on the
UNC campus, as well as the negative light cast on the protestors who toppled him. I speak to you as a native of
North Carolina, born and raised, a 3-time alum of the university ('97, '99, & '04), and a scholar of southern
literature and culture. Though I now make my home in the other Carolina, no one who knows me doubts my
love for all things Tar Heel. My office and much of my home are Carolina blue; my daughter's name is
Carolina; and I thrill to the achievements of our alums, faculty, student athletes, and more. The seeming decline
of the reputation of our great university for academic excellence and freedom in recent years has been a great
grief to me, for I have long loved what Thomas Wolfe called that "magical place," not just for the memories I
have of there, but what it stands for. A university's excellence resides in part in its traditions, but also in its
dynamism and vigor in navigating the world in which we live now. That statue, explicitly erected to intimidate
people of color and celebrate white violence, has long been a blight on the campus. An embarrassment, to put it
in the mildest of terms. Much like the confederate flag that I watched be removed from the statehouse in
Columbia not so long ago, Sam's time has come. He is the erasure of history, the covering up, the lie about who
we are. His removal is a breath of fresh air. Before he was toppled, students, faculty, and others had asked
repeatedly that he be removed legally; the act of civil disobedience that brought him down followed many years
of efforts to find another way. Regardless of what one thinks of the methods employed, and I respect that
reasonable people may differ there, the choice before you now is not whether to remove him, but whether, in
2018, to erect a monument celebrating racism. At best, it's an uncontextualized historical anachronism, a
conscious affront to the Carolina Way--at worst, psychological violence against all our students, citizens, and
colleagues of color. I know there are people who don't see it that way, but that is the indisputable fact of the
historical record. To see such a thing placed anew, today, in our time--it's offensive in the extreme. I would
regard such a thing as a gross betrayal of Carolina values. Don't break this alum's Carolina blue heart by
contemplating such a thing. Make this a teaching moment that shines the light of truth. Retire Sam and his
long shadow. It will brighten the magical place immeasurably. It already has.
Sincerely,
Dr. Tara Powell

Associate Professor of English
University of South Carolina at Columbia
Columbia, SC 29208
Email:
Fax: (803) 777-9064
Message
From: Ke lley Adams
Sent: 8/28/2018 3:14:30 PM
Subject: Concerned alumna
Flag: Follow up
I am a proud Tar Heel. I distinctly remember choosing UNC as my first choice college as a sophomore in high
school. My love for our university grew deeper as I took a tour of campus during my senior year of high school. Coming
from Memphis, TN, I was the only person from my high school to get accepted and to attend Carolina. From my first day
at CTOPS, I knew it was the only place for me, and that I was starting a love affair that would last a lifetime. And it
has: following graduation and going home for medical school, I returned to UNC to complete my residency and
fellowship training, and my first job was at UNC's Counseling and Wellness Services. I then took my die-hard Tar Heel
love to the University of Kansas (where it was not well received), and now at the University of California at San Diego.
Everyone who enters my office knows they are in the presence of a Tar Heel.
Because I love my university so, I feel compelled to contact you regarding the current climate on campus. I
watched with sadness and terror as neo-Nazi and White Supremacist groups marched the streets in Charlottesville, and
prayed that such would not happen at Carolina. I hoped the University would take Governor Cooper's offer to allow the
removal of Silent Sam, in an effort to protect the safety of our students, faculty, staff, and community members. When
that didn't happen, I feared that someone would be injured when the statue eventually came down at the hands of
th
protesters. I was relieved August 20 , when no one was hurt. We were very lucky, and I fear that returning Silent Sam to
his prior position will push that luck in a dangerous way. When I see what has happened at the University of Missouri,
how they have lost the support of their alumni and staff and now have to close dorms due to under enrollment, my
original thoughts were "never Carolina." Now I hope not at Carolina.
I won't speak to my personal feelings about the statue, or the feelings it engendered for me as young Black
woman on campus. I am sure you have heard many of these stories and I doubt another would affect your opinion on
the matter. As someone who truly loves our University, the University of the People, I implore you to make all of our
safety paramount. If Silent Sam returns, the protests will continue. There will be further attempts to topple it. I cannot
imagine the sum of money it will take to try to provide safety for it and those utilizing their rights to protest (in addition
to the astronomical $400,000 that was already spent). As someone whose career has been working with college
students, rest assured they will not let this lie. As history has shown, many difficult transitions occur with college
students leading the march. I am sure we agree that anyone injured, no matter their stance on the issue, would be seen
as a failure of University administration to act responsibly.
I am concerned about the next steps the University will be taking in regards to the removal of Silent Sam. It is my
strong belief that the statue should not return to Mccorkle Place, and encourage you to engage with the University's
History Task Force to maintain the historical accuracy and truth of our shared Carolina past, to assure a more inclusive
Carolina future for all students, faculty, and alumni.
With deep concern and Tar Heel pride,
Kelley M Adams, MD c/o 2000
(As always, GO TAR HEELS!)

Message
From: Joseph Calder
Sent: 8/28/2018 4:42:37 PM
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I am writing as an alumnus of the University of North Carolina, a former Robertson Scholar and a third year
law student at the University of Virginia. During my first year in Charlottesville, I watched in horror as my
friends, classmates and neighbors were assailed by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and right wing thugs. The
neo-Nazis that marched on Charlottesville are the same people that paraded around McCorkle Place during my
senior year at Carolina, and they are the same folks who were on campus just a few days ago. Returning Silent
Sam to his pedestal only serves to legitimize the same hatred that scarred Charlottesville and stained McCorkle
Place until August 20th.
I am sure that you have received similar messages from supporters of Silent Sam. Many of them have likely
threatened to cut off donations to the University. I can assure you that an equally large number of alumni,
especially many recent graduates on the verge on entering the professional world, feel just as strongly about
keeping Silent Sam down.
Silent Sam should not return to our campus.
Hark the Sound,
Joe Calder
Class of 2016
Joseph M. Calder Jr.

Message
From: Ashley Melzer
Sent: 8/28/2018 4:50:12 PM
Subject: Keep Silent Sam silent.
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor Folt and President Spellings,
I am an alumna of UNC and tax paying NC resident who is a valued member of the Carolina community. I
stand with thousands of alumni and current students in saying DEEPLY OPPOSE the reinstatement of Silent
Sam. I am abhorred by your handling of this situation and hope you seek the counsel of the brilliant historians
on campus who would properly educate you and guide this process.
Please don't bend to the racists. Please keep this monument to tyranny off campus.
Ashley Melzer
ashl evm elzer.com
Message
From: Sarah Pannenberg
Sent: 8/28/2018 5:34:49 PM
Subject: In Opposition to Restoring Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I am writing to you as an alumnus of the University of North Carolina, who has been proud of my alma mater in
the past, and who wants to continue to hold that pride in my heart. I know there have been talks of returning
Silent Sam following the recent protests, and I want to urge you to reconsider this.
Restoring Silent Sam would legitimize the hatred, racism, and bigotry harbored by Neo-Nazis and white
supremacists, who have paraded around our own campus during my senior year. You have people of all races,
religions, genders, and sexualities who attend your school, and in this turbulent and hostile political climate, it is
imperative that they feel your support. Please, stand for our beautiful university and for all of the diverse
students who attend it. Show the world that we stand against racism and discrimination of all kinds.
Silent Sam has no place on our campus.
Hark the sound,

Sarah Pannenberg
Class of 2016
Message
From: Jean Stoyer
Sent: 8/28/2018 7:26:20 PM
CC: jstoyer@alumni .unc.edu
Subject: Please don't reinstall Sam
Flag: Follow up

I am a loyal and supportive alumnae of the University - AB, Political Science, 1989. I have dutifully
supported the University through meaningful (to me, at least) annual contributions to Carolina, directed
in various years to the undergraduate scholarship Fund, the college of Arts and Sciences, the school of
Public Health, and other Departments at UNC. Two of my sons applied and were accepted (although, sadly,
did not attend - as out of state students without much financial aid available, they accepted full
scholarships at Pitt, in our home state of Pennsylvania) - and all three sons consider themselves "Tar
Heel born" and "Tar Heel bred"! Hark the sound!
As an undergraduate at Carolina in the late 80s, of course I giggled along to the legend of silent Sam's
gun firing only in the presence of a virgin. (When my sons heard the story on their admissions tours, I
dutifully told them with a wink that I always avoided walking past Sam because the sound of gunfire was
so distracting.) It was all in good fun.
When I attended Carolina, a Pennsylvania girl living in the south for the first time, I assumed that
silent Sam had been erected by contemporaries of the civil war dead. (My ancestors fought for the Union,
but I respected the need for southerners to mourn their lost sons.) otherwise, the old divisions between
the north and south, and the causes of the civil war, were not discussed much outside of the classroom
during my time at Carolina. (Save for one night when a lecherous "townie" in Bub O'Malley's mocked me as
a "yankee", remarking that I "probably love[d] nidd'ers and j;'ws").
However, in the past few years I've learned more about Sam. I learned that the statue was erected many
decades after the end of the civil war, by those who promoted the "Lost cause" movement, which morphed
into decades of Jim Crow, when African Americans in the south were systematically dehumanized and
deprived of their rights. If I had known then what I know now about Sam, I could never have participated
in the "inside joke" that I enjoyed as an undergrad. Frankly, realizing that I took some humor and
enjoyment from something that (unknown to me) was a symbol of oppression and pain to many, and a monument
to white supremacy to others, makes me sick.
I know that you have been put in a difficult pos1t1on by the North Carolina General Assembly, and are
limited in what you have been able to do easily to move Sam to another, more appropriate location, where
the statue can be studied in historical context, but I urge you to be courageous and find a way to resist
putting Sam back on Mccorkle Place. The presence of the statue would send an aggressive message to many
that their pain and their humanity does not matter to North Carolina. I believe that my University is
better than that. Please don't prove me wrong. Please resist the efforts of the misguided proponents of
confederate monuments, including Mr Ghoolsby and his like, to replace the statue. Instead, move the
statue somewhere for preservation, study, and reflection on man's inhumanity to his fellow man.
If Sam is replaced on Mccorkle Place, I will withhold future contributions to Carolina. I know my
contributions are a drop in the bucket compared to those of major donors, but it's a matter of principle.
I believe in Carolina. Please don't let that faith prove to be misguided.
Best regards,
Jean Gallagher Stoyer (AB, 1989)
jstoyer@alumni.unc.edu
Message
From: Cole Voorhies
Sent: 8/28/2018 7:42:19 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up

I am wr1t1ng to you as a Carolina alum and concerned North Carolinian. It is absolutely imperative that
your administration DOES NOT replace silent Sam. This move will endanger the lives of all minority
students on campus as well as embarrass our great university. Your policies so far towards this statue
have been despicable - it is time to make right and join the right side of history. Put away your
cowardice and take a stand for what you KNOW is right. As I enter law school and prepare for a successful
professional career, I promise that I will never give any money to UNC until that statue is removed
permanently. Stand for the students, carol.
Cole R Voorhies
Carolina class of 2018
Fordham Law class of 2021
Message
From: jpaysour@
Sent: 8/28/2018 8:19:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
chancellor Folt,
My name is Jacob Paysour and I am a 2010 alumnus of the University (BA in economics). My wife and I
recently had our first child, and as I thought about the values we wish to instill in him, I thought many
times about the things I learned at the University of North Carolina, and all it stands for. I thought
about taking him to see chapel Hill, and pointing out so many places of memory. When I heard the news
that silent Sam had been removed by a group of courageous protesters, I thought of how much more proud I
would be to walk him through the campus and point out the spot where a statue that promotes hate and
instills fear was no longer allowed to stand. I was supremely disappointed to hear that the Board is even
considering putting the statue back up. We are not big donors, and may never be, as I teach high school
and my wife is a pastor, but we will certainly look elsewhere with our money should the Board choose to
do so.
Perhaps more importantly, the University, a placer' ve loved so much and where I learned so much about
inclusion, love, and kindness, would lose immeasurable esteem in my eyes, and I may never recommend my
son to follow in those footsteps. Please, do not do simply what is expedient or cave to the loudest
voices of the extreme. Do what is right. Do what is courageous. Do what everything that being a Tar Heel
is about. Thank you for your time, God bless and Go Heels.
Peace,
Jacob Paysour
Economics, '10
Message
From: Jennifer Stoloff
Sent: 8/28/2018 9:36:25 PM
Subject: I support the removal of Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear chancellor Holt,

I support the students and community members who removed the most visible symbol of slavery and
oppression from the UNC campus. A non-violent protest was organized and the result was a positive one for
the chapel Hill community as a whole.
I have a Master's and PhD in Sociology from UNC and I'm a proud Tar Heel. I'm also proud of the citizens
who took matters into their own hands.
Please do not persecute the people who had the courage to do the right thing.
Jennifer Stoloff
MA, 1995
PhD, 2001
Message
From: Josh Anderson
Sent: 8/28/2018 10:17:11 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Madam chancellor,

My name is Joshua Anderson, class of 2002. I truly enjoyed every moment of my time at UNC back in the
day. The amount of pride I have in my alma mater never ends, however:
I implore you to not allow silent sam to go back on that pedestal.
As an alumni, as a lineage of alumni, for all current students, those who love our university, and as
one that hopes my children attend our great and fine university, please do not allow that statue to go
back on that pedestal.
My thanks and sincerely yours,
Josh Anderson I Technical Director I DPAC I ce 17 I 12 3 Vi vi an St. Durham, NC 2 7701 I

janderson@dpacnc.com
Message
From: Trey Groce
Sent: 8/29/2018 9:00:55 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Greetings, Chancellor Folt!
I'm contacting your office simply to request that the statue not be put back on display on campus.
I'm confident that you'll make what you feel is the best decision for the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill family.
Thank you & take care -
Willis H. "Trey" Groce, III, Asheville, NC, UNC-CH '04

Message
From: Bradley Blankemeyer
Sent: 8/29/2018 10:22:35 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Lux et Libertas - "Light and Liberty". Like so many things encountered as an undergrad, I never truly understood the
symbols of the university, nor did I honestly care so much about it - there are lots of concerns at that age. I never knew
that the motto was a nod to the Enlightenment, a period of philosophical during which the University of North Carolina
was founded. I never knew the colors of blue and white were a recognition of the two primary societies, the Dialectic
and Philanthropic. And I recall during my four years there having walked innumerable times through Mccorkle Place on
my way to class or even to just work at Graham Memorial, and at that time I had no clue as to the complete history of
the statue that stood there. My sister worked as a tour guide and knew the basic rundown on the memorable aspects of
the two quads, and at the time it seemed to be an honorable monument, even if the tribute to the slaves who built the
campus and its buildings were dwarfed in their presence and placement. All these things I never knew, nor did I bother
to find out because I only thought it was such a privilege to attend such a school and attain such an education - and,
let's be honest, to participate in rituals surrounding such a tradition of athletic achievement. I am writing as an alumnus
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA, 2009), to express my concern about the potential decisions
regarding Silent Sam, because I sought to understand more than these superficial lessons, to investigate further as I was
taught through my education at UNC.
As a student trained in History, I became aware how much the writing of history can be one-sided, biased, even
incomplete, and how this can be exacerbated when communicated to the public and their own perceptions cloud
judgment. As I taught and studied further through graduate school, I heard more about the protests against Silent Sam
than I had ever known during my undergraduate, but I did nothing to understand their perspective outside what I
remembered about the statue. I respected their approach, but I was apathetic. It was when I read the words of the
dedication ceremony that it truly affected me, and I sought to learn more about the history of such monuments. Not
merely concerned with a commemoration of those who fought and died, these symbols were imbued with the politics of
the time to signal not only the loss of lives but the cause too. As a historian today, I have nothing against
memorialization, and I do not want to see statues and monuments destroyed. We need more education, more context,
and more rational ways of presenting that. Museums have the potential to provide a greater understanding of the
history of objects in ways that public displays can not. This kind of decision should have been made in the first place,
when deliberations were supposedly occurring but excused by a law only recently enacted.
The statue has been removed, in a manner that I certainly did not favor but was precipitated by inaction on the part of
university and state leaders. Putting this statue back in place not only further solidifies this passivity but rather shows a
concerted effort to preserve it at the expense of fee-paying students and tax-paying citizens of the state - myself
included. It also shows a willingness to placate some of the more wealthy donors at the expense of those who cannot
afford to financially support our alma mater, even if we want to. It says that no matter the fact that we are all
alumni/alumnae, those who made the most profits after leaving UNC and give back some of those earnings more
considerably than others will have greater say. However, just as there was a Philanthropic side to the university in its
infancy, there is a Dialectic side - one which presents an argument and debates against the existing norm, who is part of
a discussion in which all inputs are considered. Even if you say these perspectives are considered, the fact is that in the
places where these decisions are made and with the people involved in them they are not. Please honor the principles
inherent within the true spirit of the University of North Carolina, the "Lux et Libertas" that is granted to all people and
which we all seek; the light and liberty which those erecting this statue sought to continue denying to emancipated
Black Americans.
Please find a better place for this statue to rest, in a place that better honors the university and all the people who have
fought for it, in battle or otherwise. Replacing it where it once stood does not.
Sincerely,
Bradley Blankemeyer, BA '09
Bradley T Blankemeyer
DPhil candidate in History
St Anne's College, Oxford
Message
From: Jackie Weaver I
Sent: 8/29/2018 10:29:43 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Fort,
My name is Jackie Potter and I am a graduate of the class of '99. I am in town visiting family this week
We visited the base of Silent Sam and I explained the
situation to and how the statue represented different things to different groups of people. As I am opposed to erasing
history and the destruction of historical statues, I feel a relocation of this statue to another area of campus would be a more
appropriate option rather than restoring it within the main campus (which will lead to further protest and possible
violence). Hopefully a solution can be met that will appeal to all parties and still allow this statue to remain a part of
campus history.
Jackie
Message
From: Jan Capps
Sent: 8/29/2018 10:41:24 AM
CC: Steve Capps I
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
We are writing regarding Silent Sam. We are graduates of UNC-of the six adults in our family we
have nine degrees from UNC. We care about our University and its mission.
We realize the divisiveness of Silent Sam and wish that steps had been taken to address the matter
prior to the actions of the activists last week. As is often said, wishing is not a strategy; not taking
action gave us a rather predictable, albeit unfortunate event last week. We understand that there are
competing factions who have stymied progress toward taking any action prior to last Monday. We
also understand the frustration of the people who took unauthorized action.
Silent Sam is now down. Irrespective of how it happened, the base should remain as a reminder of
what was there and as a teachable instrument for those who walk by it in the future. But Sam, the
soldier, should be moved to a venue other than our front lawn.
We should take no less of a strong stand than Governor Nikki Haley did when she removed the
Confederate flag from the capitol grounds in South Carolina.
A university is charged with shaping the future. Having Silent Sam in a museum and his base in
Mccorkle Place will allow history to be taught as it should be and will remove a monument to
divisiveness from our front lawn. We can learn from what remains as we move forward with the
mission of our great University.
We do not buy the argument that removing the soldier is a slippery slope. Let's take each piece of our
difficult history individually. Just as the confederate flag on the front lawn of South Carolina had to
come down to make a statement, so did Silent Sam. It is time to take bold leadership consistent with
our values of inclusiveness and openness.
Keeping the base of Silent Sam in place will not appease factions on either side of this argument;
neither does it deny history. Resurrecting Sam will, however, enhance divisiveness and stain the
values for which our University stands.
Sincerely,
Jan Rowe Capps, Class of 1975
Stephen Allen Capps, Class of 1986

Message
From: Jeremy Roach
Sent: 8/29/2018 1:48:21 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam
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To the UNC Board of Trustees:
Ten years (nearly to the day) have passed since my first class at Carolina. In that first semester I took mostly
prerequisites for my eventual Chemistry degree, but my first-year seminar on democracy, debate, and citizen
engagement stands out. Professor Perrin and I have kept in touch, and I've heard through him that the Board
wants input from the community on the removal of Silent Sam. I was immediately moved to write.
Silent Sam has been controversial certainly since my time at Carolina, and I'm sure much longer than that. The
beauty and the curse of symbols is that they will be interpreted differently by different people. To some, the
confederate flag means pride in one's region of birth, while to others, it stands as a reminder of their
subjugation. Neither side is necessarily wrong in their interpretation.
Silent Sam is a similarly divisive symbol. To some, it commemorates fallen ancestors. To others, it is a signal of
nostalgia for the harshest of racial inequality, a reminder that this public space is more welcoming for some than
for others, belongs more to some than to others.
When considering the fate of Silent Sam, we must bear in mind the harm done by replacing or removing it.
Returning Sam to McCorkle Place would be a clear signal to African-American students that 'this space is not
for you.' Finding a less prominent home for him, one that properly contextualizes the history he ostensibly seeks
to commemorate could not possibly do the same level of harm to the other side of this controversy.
I share the feeling that Chancellor Folt expressed in her initial statement: that toppling the statue was dangerous,
and that we are lucky no protestors were harmed. Watching the protest devolve was deeply unsettling, and
everyone would agree that legal means to achieve these ends would've been preferable. But we must also
remember that the legal representation in North Carolina has been deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court in several instances, and has been said to "target African-Americans with almost surgical precision" by
the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. In instances such as these, where the people in power refuse to represent the
will of the people, the people have a power of their own.
Thank you all for your time and consideration,

Jeremy Roach, PhD
UNC Class of 2012
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Sent: 8/29/2018 1:55:44 PM
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This article that appeared in Sunday's "Raleigh News and Observer" is under appreciated by the public and the
university. I'm recommending you use its contents strategically as an integral part of your solution for resolving the Silent
Sam controversy.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article217079720.html
The Alumni War Memorial has special meaning for me. Last October I co-hosted a reunion of my 1966 Navy Aviation
Officer Candidates School class (AOCS). I was asked to host a tour of UNC-CH for 20 plus Navy Officer veterans and
spouses, their first exposure to UNC as I was the only UNC alum. Among the on-campus sites we visited was our Alumni
War Memorial. Among the names engraved in the Vietnam section is one Paul Jensen, who gave his life as a helicopter
pilot in combat in Vietnam. Paul was one of my AOCS room mates in Pensacola in 1966. It was coincidence only that
brought us together back then. I did not know Paul while we were both at UNC. He was a Morehead Scholar from
Asheville who had dropped out of school early before enlisting in the USMC Marcad aviator program.
Paul's widow attended the weekend's event with us. When I showed our group the Memorial, she was touched and
completely surprised because she had no knowledge of the Memorial and that Paul's name was included in the
Memorial's pages. So I have wondered how many others, alumni and the public, even know this beautiful and tasteful
memorial exists. That's why I ask that the administration consider how we can best leverage its role as an integral part of
the solution we all seek.
I believe it is acceptable and forgiving that the names of the Confederate alumni war dead are placed on the Memorial on
an equal standing with those who gave their lives defending the American flag. I have empathy for the young alumni who
died for the wrong cause. I lay the blame for their deaths at the feet of their slave owning treasonous leaders. I am a
lifelong Southerner with ancestors who fought on both sides of the civil war. Aren't we all fortunate that the Union forces
under Lincoln and Grant prevailed? Our nation was preserved. This great university recovered!
I can't begin to fully appreciate the pressure you and others guiding our university face in removing Silent Sam
permanently from its long too prominent position on our campus. Perhaps you can find inspiration from the extraordinary
example of courage from a Navy Officer and leader, John McCain --- and from the names listed on our Memorial -- all who
gave their lives for us.
You have my trust and support.
Sincerely,
Edmund S. Burke
Class of 1963 (BS '65)

Message
From: Grant Pinnix I
Sent: 8/29/2018 2:15:11 PM
Subject: "GOLD STANDARD" -- celebrating the CONFEDERACY?!?!? REALLY?!?!?
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you said, ""As America's first public university, Carolina became the gold standard. The founders passed the
baton, and the future is up to us. How can we fulfill this honorable charge in a way that is ever fresh and
relevant?"
I AGREE!!! now why don't you GROW A PAIR and do what is RIGHT. you need to, along with your
colleagues, faculty, employees, TELL THE LEGISLATURE THAT YOU WANT THAT MONillvIENT
REMOVED to PROTECT THE SAFETY OF YOUR STUDENTS AND EMPLOYEES!!! FIGHT THAT
STUPID LAW!!!! you know it is the RIGHT THING TO DO!!! YOUR STUDENTS ARE IN DANGER
EVERY SINGLE DAY UNTIL YOU DO. IT'S THE - ONLY LOGICAL SOLUTION- !!!!! THIS WILL
NEVER END UNTIL YOU GET RID OF THAT MONUMENT PERMANENTLY!!!
HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE AND ANNOUNCE THAT YOU WILL BE FIGHTING THE
LEGISLATURE ON THIS RIDICULOUS LAW WHICH TRIES TO MAKE US ALL SUFFER FOR THE
BACKWARD IDEAS AND DEFIANCE OF THOSE WHO WANT TO REMAIN PART OF THE
CONFEDERACY UNTIL THEIR LAST DYING BREATHS!!!!!
BEALEADER!!!!!
grant pinnix
greensboro
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Subject: Fw: silent sam
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I recently wrote to the Chancellor and I wanted to share my message more broadly:
Hi Chancellor Falt,
I am a recent alum and I wanted to let you know I do not think the confederate memorial should go back up.
Memorial Hall already commemorates confederate loss. I study US history and culture and I throughly believe
Silent Sam does harm to students. I have listened to undergraduate students of color discuss feeling ostracized
on campus due to the statue. I have also helped students who were sexually assaulted on campus and
who noted they had heard about the statue's sexist undertones.
The university would be very tone-deaf and cruel to put it back up. The media and most tweets I saw after the
statue's removal viewed the statue coming down as a positive step for UNC. Don't listen to a small group of
powerful white men who fear changing demographics in our state. Listen to students and to a huge number of
donors who support the removal of Silent Sam.
As you well know, this situation could have been avoided if the university had acted a year or many years ago.
Please don't throw more money at preserving something that is hurtful to students.
Rachel
Rachel Gelfand, Ph.D.

Royster Fellow in American Studies
Message
From: Courtney Mitchell
Sent: 8/29/2018 4:02:40 PM
Subject: Canceling my gifts to Carolina
Flag: Follow up
I first read Julian Carr's speech dedicating the Confederate Monument in 2013, and since that day, I have not
walked through Mccorkle Place without the words 'horse-whipped a negro wench' scrolling on my mind like a
marquee. Horse-whippped.
We know, because we have the information, that Carr reported this whipping as gleefully as a good grade,
wistfully recalling how it ripped her clothes to shreds. We have to assume that, beneath her torn garments,
the flesh on her body was as badly broken. In Toni Morrison's "Beloved," which I first read in English 23 as an
18-year-old at Carolina 20 years ago, Paul D likens the cartography of Sethe's back to a chokecherry tree, the
scars from Teacher's skin-shredding whippings erupting from her back in thick tree limbs. Or, maybe you recall
the history of Gordon, an enslaved man in Louisiana who escaped to join the Union Army and became the
subject of a world-famous photograph revealing a thicket of knotty scars from brutal whippings across his
back. The Atlantic wrote how the bold image is ... "basically saying 'It's a fact."'
It is a fact that a horse whip isn't a fly swatter, and slavery wasn't merely working for free. Our texts and
photos tell us what slavery was: flesh-splitting beatings, an assailant's fevered whips dripping his sweat into
the wounds. Slavery's legacy for our moderns times is the threatening presence of white supremacy that so
quickly slipped into its place, the insidious thread of racism so tightly woven into many North Carolinians that
they can't acknowledge it is there, or even that it is wrong. We know that legacy's destructive power because
scholars study it and record their findings. Academics have found the link between the physiological toxicity of
absorbing racial microaggressions and early heart disease. Books, movies, music and oral histories map for us
how systemic poverty, mass incarceration and the racial wealth gap all lead back to a biased system built by
slavery. Evidence abounds that black women disproportionately die in childbirth due to minority health
disparities and negative racial attitudes toward black mothers.
Remembering the American Civil War and properly placing its morally bankrupt cause in our nation's history
does require nuance. (Our campus is full of scholars who can lead the way.) But continuing to see Silent Sam
simply as a commemoration of lost lives is, at best, a lazy interpretation of the events surrounding his
installation and, at worst, a willfully negligent and ambivalent understanding of race and history in our nation,
particularly the South. You simply cannot tell Carolina's brilliant black students that they can come here for
the education of a lifetime, but that they must also walk under the vacant gaze of a monument that wants
them enslaved, slaughtered and subjugated - all because the adults in charge have not yet finished wringing
their hands about the right thing to do.
When you know better, you do better - especially if you're a top-ranked public university. That's the very
heart of education. That's what research, innovation, all these things, are meant to do. You set out to discover
new things and update your information in pursuit of a better world. But, if you prioritize the interests of
alumni, donors, boards, legislators and other supporters who cannot use the available information to update
their ingrained biases in this country, who fail to educate themselves on the noxious nature of racism and do
the basic work of tracing those ills back to the slavery Silent Sam was here to proudly propagate, you turn your
back on the students you claim to champion. You confirm that, inside the incredibly white bubble of UNC's
governing bodies and top leadership, racism is not a deal breaker.
It is a deal breaker for me. I have discontinued my monthly gift to Carolina. I will not be able to give to Carolina
until the leadership of the University can publicly acknowledge how Silent Sam and the lack of motivation to
confront him have encouraged and nurtured racism on our campus.
This hurts - giving to Carolina has been important to me because this was the University of my small-town
dreams, and I so value the opportunity I had for an education. Because of that education, I had the tools to
investigate and claw past the venomous racial attitudes of the rural South where I was born and raised, of
even my own family, and I could begin to listen and learn, to know better, to do better.
I will be so proud when I can see our nation's first public university catch up with the rest of the country by
doing the same.
Thank you for listening.
Respectfu Ily,
Courtney Mitchell '01
Carolina staff from 2004-2018
Message
From: Philip Cohen I
Sent: 8/29/2018 6:02:14 PM
Subject: UNC respect
Flag: Follow up
I was a professor in your Sociology Department for six years until 2011. I remain a supporter and booster of
UNC. I am sure your major constituents our campus community members and the state government. However, I
offer my opinion from the outside world: ifUNC puts Silent Sam back in any kind of place of honor it will be
an embarrassment and a stain on the University and the state, in the eyes of nation and the world. We have to
move beyond this, and we move beyond this by reconciling with the past and not playing the old games. The
statute is a shame and it always was.
Thanks for listening.
Philip Cohen
University of Maryland
Philip N. Cohen
Professor of Sociology
University of Maryland, College Park
philipncohen.com
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Message
From: Kim Kutz El liott
Sent: 8/29/2018 8:53:02 PM
Subject: Alumni opposition to return of Silent Sam statue
Flag: Follow up
I graduated with my Ph.D. from the UNC History Department in 2013. I now teach history at Khan Academy,
an educational non-profit website serving over 200 million users. At Carolina, I specialized in Civil War
memory, and I want to register my opposition to returning Silent Sam to any position of display or honor on the
UNC campus, as well as my opposition to sanctions against students involved in the statue's removal.
I love UNC and remember my time in Chapel Hill fondly. I talk to my friends and fellow alumni on a daily
basis, and I met my husband (Glenn Elliott, Computer Science Ph.D. 2015) at Jack Sprat's coffee shop on
Franklin Street. We moved to the Silicon Valley together in 2015, but we enjoy meeting with other Tar Heels to
watch basketball games in San Francisco. We dream of one day moving back to Chapel Hill and making North
Carolina our permanent home.
Not all of my time in Chapel Hill was wonderful, however. Not a native southerner, I was stunned in my first
few weeks at Carolina in 2007, when I witnessed a manager on Franklin Street harassing an elderly African
American man out of his store, yelling "Get out of here, boy!" In the classes I taught on Civil War memory or
African American art, I was distressed to see how my students of color felt powerless and alienated at the
university. I wanted to invigorate them to feel that they could change the world around them and that their
actions matter -- the goal of any history professor who hopes to help students understand that history doesn't
just happen to them, they can make it happen. Consequently, I support students' act of courageous civil
disobedience in bringing down the statue, which the university ought to have done long ago.
Much has been said elsewhere about the historical context of Silent Sam's placement on the UNC campus in
1913, so I will not belabor the point. What I may hope to offer is a reminder that although as chancellor you
must feel the importance of institutional tradition and a desire to uphold the law, there are--as Martin Luther
King, Jr. wrote--both just laws and unjust laws. Unjust laws are laws that are out of harmony with moral
laws, in which a majority compels a minority to follow a law it is unwilling to follow itself The law preventing
Sam's removal, or a similar one forcing its reinstatement, is one such unjust statute. It compels minority
students at Carolina to endure daily racial harassment in order to placate a handful of Confederate sympathizers.
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. By punishing students for doing what is right, UNC
sends the old segregationist message that maintaining "law and order" matters more than fostering light and
liberty.
The history of the Confederacy is not the only history of North Carolina or the university that matters. It is a
chapter, and we ought to remember it, but we have no obligation to enshrine it at the entrance to the university.
Indeed, what we do have is an obligation to place it in a museum where students can learn about that era of the
past in context. North Carolina and the university system were also important cradles of another history--that of
the Civil Rights Movement. Lunch counter sit-ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee were
both born in North Carolina within an hour's drive of Chapel Hill. The Civil War ended even closer - in
Durham, when Johnston surrendered to Sherman. Removing Silent Sam doesn't erase the history of Carolina; it
allows for other histories to emerge as well.
My husband and I are proud of our degrees from Carolina, and we seek to represent the university well in our
respective careers and in the Silicon Valley. We cannot do so in good conscience, nor can we give to the
university financially, until Carolina shows that it stands on the right side of history.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott and Dr. Glenn Elliott
Message
From:
Sent: 8/29/2018 9:32:48 PM
Subject: Campus Rally
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Dr. Folt,
I am writing as a parent of 3 children - the youngest being a student at UNC.
I appreciate the updates regarding the recent protests on campus. I am becoming concerned that allowing
protests by people who are not students at the school are a distraction to the students and maybe even a
danger those on campus.
Even my daughter - who is in support of the statue being relocated - can see that someone needs to take
charge and put an end to outsiders coming on to campus in order to further their own agenda.
I agree that students have a right for peaceful protest over issues they support. I do not agree that
others should be allowed that same privilege on campus if the are not affiliated with the school.
Your students pay tuition in exchange for an excellent education and should be able to expect that their
safety is a top priority. You are now warning students to avoid areas of campus on a weekly basis.
Please take charge of this situation and do the right thing for your students.
With respect,
Message
From: Fletcher Garner
Sent: 8/29/2018 9:57:47 PM
Subject: Alum speaking up
Flag: Follow up
With the weight of the decisions you have, I can only imagine that my note would be of little help. However, as
an Alum, 2001, I have to at least speak up and share that my feelings for the University and the Town of Chapel
Hill will not waver. I have moved back in 2017 and felt such pride to have returned to a community that
welcomes diversity, justice and spirit in all it does.
With the coming challenges facing you in regards to the confederate monuments, you will be following rules,
laws and precedents but I urge you to blaze a real trail for diversity and not to replace racist symbols of the past
on the University grounds. Protecting monuments is not saving face for the University. I'm ashamed you can
not currently answer the question if Silent Sam will return to campus. Its time to move on to real reconciliation
and heal our community and University body.
Regards,
Fletcher Garner
UNC Class of 2001
Message
From: Cassandra Hartblay
Sent: 8/30/2018 1:03:22 AM
Subject: Stop this nonsense
Flag: Follow up
I write to you from Toronto, Ontario, in my capacity as an alumna ofUNC-CH. And, I implore you: DO NOT
place Silent Sam back atop his pedestal.
As you must surely know by now, the history this monument commemorates is a history of racism and violence,
as explicitly expressed by it's original erectors in 1913 who wished to preserve the "Anglo-Saxon race" and
were proud of their "horse-whipping of negro wenches until their skirts hung in shreds." The statue's continued
vantage over the campus indicated a passive celebration of this history, telling students of color that they do not
belong on campus, that they are not safe on campus -- on a campus which you argue is a "great, global research
university." Greatness requires recognizing the legacies of oppression in which we are complicit. To my mind,
the long refusal of the university to formally acknowledge the racist history of the statue - in the face of
scholarly research conducted by the university's own best and brightest - is an example of cowardice and not
greatness.
The student activists who organized around this issue, on the other hand, in doing so participated in a grand
tradition of civil disobedience (not "mob rule" as some news media would have it) that has been a cornerstone
of civil rights protest and leadership throughout our nation's history.
I understand that some citizens of North Carolina fear that not replacing the statue is an erasure of history. On
the contrary, to replace the statue on the pedestal is to attempt to erase the courageous civic organizing and
scholarship of scholars of color on the UNC-CH campus, and therefore, a direct reinscription of racialized
violence. Those worried about losing history can be encouraged to make a donation to the History department
or their local library.
I trust that you will navigate this pressing and precious issue in way that will move UNC, our country, and your
own career and legacy on the path of progress rather than regress and hatred.
Sincerely,
Cassandra Hartblay, PhD

Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
http://cassandrahartbl ay. com/
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Message
From: Barbara Allen [a llenb@lasalle.edu]
Sent: 8/30/2018 10:05:36 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
As an alumna of UNC-Chapel Hill (BA History 1989), I am writing to express my opposition to the return of the Silent Sam
statue to campus.
I remember during my freshman week orientation hearing the fable that his gun would go off if a virgin were to walk by.
This is melded in my mind with the horror I felt upon hearing that a woman grad student was kidnapped from the
parking lot of Morehead Planetarium, raped, and murdered, also during the first week after I arrived at UNC-Chapel Hill.
I loved my Carolina experience, but I also remember avoiding dark places on campus and feeling uncomfortable every
time I walked past Silent Sam.
Please do not allow the statue's return to campus. Carolina should be an inclusive place for all its students, no matter
their race, sex, gender, or religion.
Regards,
Barbara Allen
Barbara C. Allen, Ph.D.

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From: Misako T.
Sent: 8/30/2018 10:13:47 AM
Subject: No place for Silent Sam
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I an1 writing to urge you to oppose any efforts to restore Silent Sam to a place of honor on lJNC's carnpus.
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symbol that celebrated the Confederacy. When the statue was dedicated, one of the speeches notoriously
espoused "horse-whipping" a black woman.
UNC is a major research university, and its reputation should not be tarnished by embracing the Confederate
past.
Sincerely,
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Message
From: Marilyn Disco [
Sent: 8/30/2018 11:41:49 AM
Subject: Statue removal, please do not put it back up.
Flag: Follow up
I am a UNC Alumni from the class of 1999 and a former adjunct faculty. I strongly urge you not to restore the
statue known as "Silent Sam." It is a disgrace that the University did not proceed with the petition to the State
Historic commission to have it removed in the first place.
I disagree with how it was removed, but putting it back is a waste of public funds and also disrespectful.
It should be replaced with an educational placard, describing the context in which it was originally placed.
I will continue withholding donations and am encouraging other alumni to do the same, until the University
ensures it is not put back up.
Thank you
Marilyn Disco, PharmD '99

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From: Kathleen Newman
Sent: 8/30/2018 1:23:27 PM
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Dear Board of Trustees at UNC Chapel Hill:
I write as a fellow academic and as a deep admirer of your university. Here in Pittsburgh we had a public
process that led to the removal of a racist and hurtful statue. It's been very healing for our community.
Silent Sam is not silent at all. He screams with racist meaning and history. His presence has been an affront to
so many for so long. Please leave him down.
Kathy Newman
Kathy M. Newman
English Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
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Sent: 8/30/2018 1:27:55 PM
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Subject: Silencing Sam
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Dear Chancellor Folt, Chairman Cochrane, and UNC Board of Trustees,
My masters degree in Folklore from UNC (1983) has been one of my proudest achievements. After working as
a journalist for a decade, trying to figure out this race thing as a white southern woman, I discovered that the
field of folklore held far more answers than journalism or even history.
Moving to Alabama in the 1960s was a shocking experience for my East Tennessee family. Ever since I have
sought answers to questions about white people's beliefs about race as well as class. Why do so many people,
including my beloved grandmother, cling to the Lost Cause? It was at UNC that I discovered that the power of
belief, part of our individual, personal folklore, is very hard to penetrate. My grandmother went to her grave
convinced that she would have been a plantation owner's wife and benevolent slave mistress if only "we" had
won the Civil War. Never mind that my family's Civil War souvenir was a Union officer's sword (East
Tennessee was deeply divided).
In addition to studying folk belief as part of my Folk Studies masters, the renowned historian Joel Williamson
became my mentor. Through his amazing race relations history courses, and later his Pulitzer Prize winning
books, we learn the perfidy of the Lost Cause and the ramifications of failed Reconstruction on current
generations. When white upper-class women across the South mounted campaigns to erect Confederate
monuments in every county seat in the early 1900s, they perpetrated a lasting travesty that falsifies history and
hurts every African American who must pass them daily.
I moved from Alexandria to Charlottesville, Virginia, in March. Every day I walk past the giant Stonewall
Jackson and Robert E. Lee statues where white nationalists battled last August. I walk past the small memorial
in the sidewalk noting "Slave Auction House" and the generic CSA private in front of the county courthouse.
And I walk past the daily changes made to the impromptu memorials to Heather Heyer, who was killed by a
white nationalist on my street a year ago.
UNC was an amazing place when I entered in 1980, an intellectual oasis after my years at the University of
Alabama. Please do not restore the statue that represents not only hate but fake history.
Sincerely,
Paddy Baker Bowman
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Charlottesville, VA 22902
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From: Sarah G. Alexander
Sent: 8/30/2018 3:04:28 PM
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Subject: Do Not Replace the St atue
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Folt and Trustees:
It's been reported in the news media that the Chancellor feels she's heard from more people who support the
statue remaining on/returning to McCorkle Place than those who wish to see it gone. Certainly she must
understand that her inbox is not a poll; if you really mean for your decision about what to do with this statue to
be based on the wishes of the majority of the community, you ought to undertake a more accurate count than the
Chancellor's anecdotal recall.
I hope, however, that you will instead base your decision on a principle that really should not require reiterating
in 2018, and which, like all of our most fundamental moral principles, will always be true regardless of whether
a majority of people believe it to be: white supremacy has no place anywhere in any community at any
time. The statue represents white supremacy. It has always represented it, and always will represent it. It
absolutely should not be restored.
Sincerely,
Sarah Alexander
Cary, NC
Message
From: Mazzucca, Stephanie
Sent: 8/30/2018 3:18:19 PM
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Hello,
As the proud recipient of two degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill (2008 Biology undergrad and 2017 PhD in Nutrition from
the Gillings School of Global Public Health), I am deeply saddened and disappointed to learn that the Board of Trustees is
considering reinstating Silent Sam to Mccorkle Place. As was highlighted in a statement by UNC College of Arts and
Sciences department chairs and endorsed by School of Public Health department chairs "The values that the statue
represents are inherently opposed to the principles of light and liberty that guide the educational mission of UNC Chapel
Hill."
While I am disappointed by the inaction of the BoT to remove the statue voluntarily in the last year, this is a critical
opportunity to do something meaningful and just that reaffirms the high moral standards I know my university
espouses. Instead, the statue should be placed elsewhere, in a place where people can learn from our rich history.
Additionally, if the statue is reinstated, I will discontinue all financial contributions to the University. I am happy to
provide any additional information to clarify my position; my contact information is below. Thank you for your time and
careful consideration of such an important issue.
Warmly,
Stephanie
Louis
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Subject: Silencing Sam
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Dear Board of Trustees at UNC Chapel Hill;
It is time to allow the campus its freedom from the shadows of this piece of racism. Sam needs to be relocated and
released from a public place. My daughter graduated from UNC CH and would welcome the freedom from Silent Sam and
would support that effort (she died on 03/14/2017). As a community member (I live in Carrboro) and a member of WILPF
and the Raging Grannies, I ask you to please not return Silent Sam to the pedestal . Yes, you should write some new
history here where all can feel welcome and supported.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Evans
Message
From: mikeeeisen
Sent: 8/30/2018 3:43:47 PM
Subject: Chancellor Carol Folt Please Do Not To Restore Silent Sam
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There are rumors that UNC may restore the Silent Sam statue back to its place on campus. This is
despite the fact that most students and faculty members do not want this racist symbol returned to a
place of honor on the UNC campus. When Silent Sam was dedicated, Julian Carr notoriously
celebrated segregation and bragged that he had "horse-whipped a negro wench." It is clear that Silent
Sam is a symbol of a racist tradition and that the statue's presence on campus would create
unwanted tension and potentially economic boycotts. So, let's email Chancellor Falt and make clear
that we don't want Silent Sam to regain a place of honor on a college campus. Please try to write your
own email, and if possible, emphasize that you won't be donating to the university if Sam is restored .
Michael Eisenberg
Message
From: Margaret Musgrove
Sent: 8/30/2018 4:29:40 PM
Subject: Statue Removal
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One year ago, I woke up to the news that the President of my undergraduate alma mater, the University of
Texas, had made a decision to remove from public view on campus several statues of people with strong
Confederate connections. He stated that he made this decision in order to "acknowledge that those parts of our
history that run counter to the university's core values ... do not belong on pedestals."
Today, I sadly watch as the leadership of my graduate alma mater, the University of North Carolina, has failed
to take a similar stand. Once the racist speech made at the dedication of the "Silent Sam" statue had been
revealed, it became imperative for UNC to take the statue down from its public pedestal. No longer can the
historically false narrative of the "noble cause" be maintained. It is the job of the University to recognize
historical truth and to rectify past mistakes, where possible.
One year ago, after learning of the courageous action of the President of the University of Texas, I sent a
contribution to an academic unit of the University that reported directly to the President's office. I did this in
order to help prevent a drop in donations on that day, and hopefully to fuel a spike. A similar donation could
have been yours, if you had acted soon enough to prevent the informal and unofficial removal of the statue.
Now the only way to rescue the moral high ground is to declare that the statue will not be replaced in its outdoor
public space. There is still time, if you are able to stand up for what is right.
Sincerely,
Margaret Worsham Musgrove
Ph.D. (Classics), 1991
M.A. (Latin) 1987
Professor, Department of Humanities and Philosophy
University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, OK
Message
From: Joshua Davis
Sent: 8/30/2018 6:56:41 PM
haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com; Duckett, Chuck [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Adm inistrative Group
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Subject: An alum and historian requesting Silent Sam's permanent removal from UNC
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Dear Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees,
Hello, my name is Joshua Davis. I earned my PhD from Carolina's history department in 2010, and I'm now an
assistant professor of history at the University of Baltimore. I'm writing to you as an alum who cares deeply
about the future of UNC, as a professional historian, and as the descendent of Confederate veterans.
I urge you to permanently remove Silent Sam from campus. I know that some people were dismayed to see
protesters pull down this statue. We cannot change what happened. But at this point, with Silent Sam currently
not displayed on campus, UNC would seriously damage its local, regional, national, and international reputation
by re-installing Silent Sam, whether the statue returned to McCorkle Place or anywhere else on campus, indoors
or outdoors.
Re-instlalling Silent Sam will seriously hurt alumni giving. I know many alums-both with undergrad and grad
degrees from Carolina-who will not give money to the university if Silent Sam returns to campus. Personally,
I have donated to UNC in the past, including to the University's Library, but several years ago I decided I will
never donate to Carolina again until Silent Sam is removed.
Re-installing Silent Sam will seriously hurt the university's ability to recruit students nationally and
internationally. Across the United States, citizens are demanding the removal of Confederate statues. I know
many people in Baltimore who will not want to send their children to a university that installs a Confederate
statue today in 2018 or 2019. IfUNC erects Silent Sam now, it will reduce the out-of-state applications and in
tum lower the university's national ranking.
Re-installing Silent Sam will damage the university's ability to recruit African American students and other
students of color. These students will simply not feel welcome at a university that installs a Confederate statue
in 2018 or 2019, and they will choose to attend another school. It would be very, very unfortunate for UNC to
become less diverse because it had erected a Confederate statute in the twenty-first century.
As a professional historian who is proud to have received his doctorate at Carolina, I urge you to consider the
consider the racist roots of this statue. Never forget that Julian Carr bragged that he "had horse-whipped a negro
wench" at the statue's dedication. That quote is all anyone needs to hear to understand the sentiment behind
Silent Sam's original installation.
Finally, I am the descendent of Confederate veterans whose family has lived in Georgia since the early 19th
century and in North Carolina even earlier. As such, I urge you to reject the argument that removing this statue
is to erase Southern history or to disrespect Southern culture. In fact, Silent Sam distorts Southern history, by
erasing the many Southerners, both white and black, who did not support the Confederacy. Anyone who wants
to learn about the Confederacy can do so by taking one of the many excellent courses on Southern history in the
History Department, or by reading any number of outstanding histories by History professors at Carolina.
For the good of the university and the state, please do not erect Silent Sam again on campus. The political
damage that the legislature and Board of Governors will seek to inflict on UNC will be temporary, but the
damage to the university's national reputation will be permanent. If Carolina erects a Confederate statue on its
campus in the twenty-first century, its academic and moral reputation will never recover.
Respectfully,
Joshua Davis' 10
University of Baltimore
Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies
Message
From: emily keel
Sent: 8/30/2018 8:09:17 PM
Subject: silencing Sam
Flag: Follow up
I am an alum of 1972 and felt such a sense of relief after the toppling of the monument. I was elated and cannot
imagine what a relief it must be to the Black community of students and local residents. Do not consider
reinstating this divisive statue but take this opportunity to promote the safety of the campus by sending it to a
place of history for the public not our university. It does not represent me or the majority of the university.
Emily Keel
Message
From: Stephen Barrett
Sent: 8/30/2018 8:16:22 PM
Subject: Silent Sam should not be returned
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I am not a UNC graduate, but I enjoy UNC' s cultural presence and donate to support some of the school's
activities. I hope that silent Sam does not return so that UNC can focus on more important things. Most
of the pressure to keep Sam on campus is coming from outside hate groups composed of paranoid individuals
who make a lot of noise. The best way to deal with paranoia is firm leadership. A firm decision plu s
ignoring further protests will make them go away.
Stephen Barrett, MD
(Psychiatrist)
Fearrington Village
Message
From: Mary Arnold
Sent: 8/30/2018 8:47:11 PM
Subject: Please don't reinstall Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Reinstalling the statue will cause unending civil disorder on the UNC campus and waste tax dollars.
People are coming here from outside the community to fight about this. This statue would probably have
been taken down already, as the people who actually live here wish, but for the short-sighted legislation
passed in 2015.
I live in Carrboro and I am a member of University Presbyterian church, which is right across the street
from this mess. I am 70 years old, white, born in Florida, and grew up in a world of "colored" and
"white" bathrooms and drinking fountains. I have seen so much hate and violence around the desire to
maintain white supremacy, even as the country has grown more diverse. This statue was put up by white
supremacists as a monument to the cause of maintaining white supremacy. Although some in our state and
nation think white supremacy makes America great, most Americans prefer to "choose welcome." My church
certainly does. And I do too.
Please don't put the statue back up. Let peace return to the UNC campus and our community.
Mary Arnold
Carrboro, NC 27510
Message
From: Ai leen Carey _
Sent: 8/30/2018 8:51:39 PM
public@bog.northcaro lina.edu
Subject: Silent Sam
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Good Evening,
I am writing to express my desire for the permanent removal of the Silent Sam statue from Mccorkle Place . As an
alumnus of the UNC system , I believe the Silent Sam statue represents a time of discrimination and oppression to a
large segment of the University community. We should aim to move forward in making all members of the
community feel welcome and truly make our school "The University of the People."
Thank You
Aileen Carey
Message
From: Judith Barrett
Sent: 8/31/2018 12:27:06 AM
Subject: Don't reinstall Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
As the mother & mother-in-law of 2 faculty members and the grandmother of 2 high school students who are
planning to attend UNC, I do not wa nt silent Sam's statue to be reinstalled. It does not reflect the
values of the University.
Thank you,
Judith N. Barrett, M.D.
Message
From: Erice18
Sent: 8/31/2018 6:11:47 AM
CC: president@northcarolina.edu; public@bog .northcarolina .edu
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear chancellor,
I am an alum of the University of North Carolina, chapel Hill class of im1982.
I am writing to express my profound disappointment that the university has not taken a conclusive
decision regarding silent Sam.
This Jim Crow memorial to the Confederacy has no place on the UNC campus, nor any other public place in
the state of North Carolina.
silent Sam was designed to function as a reminder of the brutality inflicted upon people of color during
and after the Reconstruction Era.
It continues to serve as a reminder of North Carolina's complicity in the efforts spearheaded by the Ku
Klux clan to intimidate Black Americans and other minority groups.
silent Sam should have no presence on a public university campus, especially one that prides itself as a
place where" diversity and inclusion are about building understanding across differences creating
conditions to ensure the equitable educational and social benefits of diversity and cultivating an
inclusive and supportive environment for undergraduate, graduate and professional students, faculty and
staff"
(https://www.unc.edu/diversity/)
I will not donate any money to UNC-Chapel Hill until the statue is permanently removed from the campus.
The continued presence of silent Sam will no doubt discourage promising students of color and members of
other minorities from enrolling.
I am hoping to see the permanent removal of silent Sam sooner rather than later.
Sincerely,
Eugene Rice
class of 1982
Sent from my iPad
Message
From: L Patrick Burrows [pburrows@alumni.unc.edu]
Sent: 8/31/2018 9:27:38 AM
Subject: On gassing students
Flag: Follow up
My name is Patrick Burrows and I am an undergraduate alumnus of UNC. After seeing that students were
gassed by police last night at a counter-protest, while white supremacists were given police escort, I feel
compelled to write to you in a form other than Twitter.
I am proud of the students at UNC standing up to white supremacists, but the complete lack of moral conviction
and basic courage of this administration is absolutely disgusting and mocks the "Carolina Way" you so often
trumpet. Dean Smith, who coined the phrase, individually desegregated several places in Chapel Hill when he
took black players to restaurants, using his privilege (who's going to refuse to serve Dean) to do the right thing.
The inability of this administration to replicate even his courage (not to mention decades of black students), and
yet continuing to use the way of life he triumphed, is disgraceful and besmirches his memory. Instead, you
deploy the police state to protect white supremacists and teargas your own students. That image, students
running back to their dorms after being gassed while white supremacists get police escorts, will be your legacy
as Chancellor.
This obsession with treating both sides as if they are acting in good faith, as if they are both legitimate
expressions of democratic ideals and to be accorded the protections of those ideals, pretends there can be
neutrality when it comes to hatred and injustice. UNC knows better than that, but you have proven yourself so
afraid of the tyrannical NC GOP that you have abandoned the more basic commitments to Light and Liberty
with which you have been entrusted. But, as a doctoral student with formal training in ethics, let me remind you
that pragmatic calculations do not change the morality of a situation. They actually clarify it, by distinguishing
between the just choice and the easy one. That's what the Carolina Way is about: choosing to be good when
being good might be costly. That's the kind of person UNC taught me to be, someone who tries to choose the
good over the easy. The failure of its administration to do the same, to be rather than to seem, esse quam videri,
is a betrayal not only to the students, to Dean, but to the best principles of this University.
For that reason, as with its same lack of courage with HB2, I hereby cease all financial support of UNC and will
organize others to do the same. We can no longer trust your leadership with stewardship of the ideals of the
University, or with its money.
But more crucially, and with all due respect, I call on you, Chancellor, to resign your post over your cowardice
and lack of moral direction and leadership in the face of hatred and evil, and for deploying police violence
against the students with whose care and education you have been entrusted. UNC needs and deserves moral
leadership and strength of conviction at its helm, and your refusal, Chancellor, to remove Silent Sam before and
the obscenity of gassing students doing what you have had the lack of courage to do, has shown you unfit for
the job or its honors.
Sincerely,
L. Patrick Burrows
Th.D. Candidate I Harvard University
M.Div. I Yale University, 2014
AB.! University of North Carolina, 2010
Message
From: Jeff Byrum
Sent: 8/31/2018 10:05:54 AM
Subject: Removal of Offensive Statuary
Flag: Follow up
As a proud alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Class of 1965), Morehead Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa
inductee, and a resident of North Carolina (Asheville), I write concerning the recent furor over the removal of the offensive
and racist statue known as "Silent Sam". Specifically, with all due respect, I write concerning a report by NPR that
"... UNC Administrators have asked the State Bureau of Investigation to help local police make arrests .. ." for alleged
"vandalism and destruction of property".
I assume that "UNC Administrators" includes you, Chancellor Folt, and in fact, that this action was undertaken at your
direction.
I understand that our extremely biased legislature has enacted a law that bans the removal of monuments on public
property without permission from a so-called "Historical Board". I don't regard that as a sufficient justification for you, and
the other administrators, to have done nothing to deal with this situation. The "Historical Board" law clearly violates the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 by maintaining a racially hostile learning environment. I'm at a loss to understand why your
administration has not initiated legal action to have that law declared unconstitutional.
I ask you to consider the following "thought experiment". Suppose that in 1913, the year "Silent Sam" was erected,
decades after the Civil War, that folks had erected on campus a statue of a tree with a dead slave, bearing lash marks
and other wounds, hanging by the neck from a rope. Would you have avoided brisk action to remove such an
abomination? How far on the scale of racism would such a statue be from "Silent Sam", a tribute to treason against the
United States of America and our Constitution?
I call on you to abandon your misguided attempt to identify and persecute the admirable young people who took moral
action to remove this outrage from sight on the campus I remember otherwise with such regard.
Thomas Jefferson ("Jeff") Byrum, Jr.

Message
From: Erika Weiberg I
Sent: 8/31/2018 10:36:12 AM
To: Haywood D. Cochrane Jr. [haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com]; Duckett, Chuck [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange
Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/en=Recipients/en=d42915aef8014bc4896b876cf0d6ecf0-Mr Charles];
Julia Sprunt Grumbles [juliagrumbles@gmail .com]; Jefferson W. Brown [jeffbrown@mvalaw.com]; Caud ill, Walter
Lowry [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
58827-wkeyes87e]; Allie Ray McCullen : W. Edwin McMahan .
Hari H. Nath ; Stevens, Richard [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =8035964fb67f49eca339d4530e249e 19-sa kate ]; Chancellor
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Dear UNC Board of Trustees and Chancellor Falt,
As a once-proud alumna of UNC-Chapel Hill, I am writing to urge you not to put the Confederate statue known
as Silent Sam back on its pedestal. I received my PhD at UNC in 2016 and am grateful for the world-class
education that I received there, which got me a job as an assistant professor of Classics at Florida State
University. I am hoping that the example of FSU will be helpful for you as you consider what to do. This year,
our president and former Republican legislator John Thrasher held a series of listening sessions in which he
invited the public to discuss a statue on our campus commemorating a founder of the university who was also
a prominent slaveholder. After listening to the concerns and opinions of students and the larger Tallahassee
community, President Thrasher decided to remove the statue from its current location because he recognized
that its display in a commemorative context went against the values of the university and its commitment to
diversity and inclusion. The statue was removed and will be preserved and redisplayed within a museum
context that acknowledges this historical figure's complex legacy. I strongly urge you to follow his example in
order to make it clear that UNC stands for inclusion and openness, the well-being of its students, and historical
rigor. It would be a true disgrace for the university to put the statue back up, and would send the message
that the university leadership stands for white supremacy and bigotry. Imagine how the diverse student body
at UNC would feel about receiving an education in such a place. Please listen to your students, your former
students, and your faculty, who are urging you not to put the statue back up. FSU has made the right decision.
I sincerely hope that UNC will too.
With kind regards,

Dr. Erika L. Weiberg
Assistant Professor of Classics at Florida State University
Alumna of UNC-CH, 2016
Message
From: Jean Byassee
Sent: 8/31/2018 12:18:20 PM
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I am a graduate ofUNC-CH, with both my BA and MSW obtained here, and a former faculty member. In this
time in our country when people who don't agree with each other are finding it so hard to talk, I hope you will
find a solution for the statue that will facilitate discussion, which is the opposite of what has happened with
recent events. Too bad there was no such solution months ago, before things heated up and so much tax payer
money was wasted. Yours, Jean Byassee
Message
From: John Henkel [John_Henkel@georgetowncollege.edu]
Sent: 8/31/2018 4:05:31 PM
Julia Sprunt Grumbles [juliagrumbles@gmail .com]; Jefferson W. Brown [jeffbrown@mvalaw.com]; Caudill, Walter
58827-wkeyes87e]; Allie Ray McCullen ; W. Edwin McMahan _
Hari H. Nath I Stevens, Richard [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: Please do not restore Silent Sam
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Dear UNC Trustees and Chancellor Folt,
I write as an alumnus (Ph.D. 2009, MA 2006), with a family of other alumni, to oppose the restoration of Silent
Sam to its pedestal. All ofus love the University dearly, but were ashamed by the continued presence of this
statue on campus after historians connected it to Jim Crow-era efforts to marginalize and terrorize black
Americans. After it was toppled, we have been pained by efforts to restore it.
For the past eight years I have been a professor at a small, Christian liberal arts college in Kentucky, where
racial justice is this year a theme in our common curriculum. Current events naturally come up as we speak
about this topic with our students, and I dread the possibility that I might have explain a decision by UNC to
restore Silent Sam to its pedestal. I hope, however, that I will be able to explain that UNC moved the statue to a
museum or other display site (as our city Lexington, KY recently moved its confederate statues to the memorial
cemetery).
UNC's reputation has been tarnished by several scandals since I graduated in 2009, but none that shame me so
much as would a decision to restore this statue. I already regret that it was toppled by protesters instead of
removed by the University. Please let this be the end of the scandal and shame that have dogged this statue's
history.
Sincerely,
John Henkel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Classics and General Studies & Foundations 111 Director
Georgetown College
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Message
From: David Davis [DAVIS_DA@mercer.edu]
Sent: 8/31/2018 4:22:48 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
As an alumnus ('08G), a Royster fellow, and a scholar of the U.S. South, I would like to add my voice to the chorus of
people telling you not to return Silent Sam to Mccorkle Place or to any other site of prominent, public display. The fact
that the statue commemorates white supremacy has been made perfectly clear. The fact that many students, faculty,
and community stakeholders want the statue removed has been made perfectly clear. The fact that the statue
constitutes a threat to public safety has been made perfectly clear. The moral and ethical case for removing the statue
has been made perfectly clear. I, and thousands of others, are only asking you to do the obviously right thing.
Sincerely,
David A. Davis, PhD

Director of Fellowships and Scholarships
Associate Professor of English
Associate Director of the Spencer B. King, Jr., Center for Southern Studies
(478) 301-2358
davis da@mercer.edu
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From: Starfire [susan@starfireconsulting.org]
Sent: 8/31/2018 5:12:38 PM
58827-wkeyes87e]; Allie Ray McCullen W. Edwin McMahan ·
Hari H. Nath Stevens, Richard [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: Relocate Silent Sam
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Please do not restore silent Sam to his former location. such a restoration would, in my view, be a
terrible mistake. I agree with t he faculty letter that stat ed: "retiring the statue to any prominent
location would reaffirm the values of white supremacy that motivated its original installation. Moreover,
to do so would undermine the moral and physical security of all members of the university community. The
values that the statue represents are inherently opposed to the principles of light and liberty that
guide the educational mission of UNC chapel Hill."
As a UNC alumni and reside nt of NC for more than 50 years, I implore you to relocate the statue.
Sincerely,
Susan Sachs
Durham, NC,
Sent from my iPhone

Message
From: Bloom,David C [dbloom@UFL.EDU]
Sent: 8/31/2018 9:20:28 PM
Subject: a ca ll for UNC to rise to greatness
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I am not in the habit of writing letters or emails to university presidents or politicians. But I write this email to
you out of my love for the University of North Carolina. I feel that the University is at a pivotal crossroads and
I am hopeful it will find its way to excellence.
I was an undergraduate at UNC from 1980-84, and I feel grateful for having the opportunity to have been taught
by a number of outstanding faculty, and to have forged great friendships that continue on to this day. There is
no doubt in my mind that UNC had central role in shaping my academic career and I will be forever grateful for
that.
I write to you because I feel UNC has regressed. It seems to no longer be a free environment for open dialogue;
instead it seems to be moving backwards and protecting its sad history of racism and hate. This hurts me and I
am ashamed at what I read in the news.
Silent Sam was a relic of the past. The monument was conceived in hate (Julian Carr's speech dedicating the
monument was outrageous). And the fact that UNC conferred an honorary degree on Mr. Carr in 1923 and this
has not been revoked - amazing!
While I fully understand the pressures you face, and agree that pulling down the statue could have caused harm
to those around, I can not but feel that your statements surrounding these events honor the monument more than
vilify it.
I feel as Chancellor your role is to lead UNC into a new era, not take us back to its sad past.
Sincerely,
Dave
David C. Bloom, Ph.D.

Professor
Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, FL. 32610-0266
Tel: 352-273-9524
Fax: 352-273-8905
Message
From: Mary Maclean Asbill [mmasbill@selcnc.org]
Sent: 9/1/2018 10:38:12 AM
Subject: THANK YOU!
Flag: Follow up
For standing up for OUR University!
Please don't let them put Silent Sam back up. Even when I was an undergrad (1985-1989) it was offensive ... there were
rude jokes about women related to the statue. I am so glad it's down.
If the statue gets put back up on Mccorkle place, many alums (including yours truly) will no longer donate. And no
longer participate. And no longer send our children to the best university around. It will be a sad day.
Things will change with the November election. Please please please hang in there.
Very truly yours,
Mary Maclean D. Asbill

Southern Environmental Law Center
601 West Rosemary Street, Suite 220
919-967-1450 office
919-389-2636 cell
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From: REDACTED
Sent: 9/1/2018 12:01:14 PM
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Subject: Thoughts on Silent Sam
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Dear chancellor,
Thank you for everything you are doing regarding the silent sam statue. My daughter is a freshmen at UNC
and I personally hope that neither of us ever have to come into contact with that statue again.
1. It's offensive to most people and

particularly African America
students.
2. It creates a dangerous and
distractive environment for our
students.
3. This divisiveness will never go away
if you put it back up outside.
4. If it goes back up, it needs to be in a
building alone, with nothing else
accept maybe other unwanted
statues.
5. It's racist and has the KKK name
attached to it due to the speech by
Julian Carr.
6. The outcome will make a statement
about the schools values and public
image.
I would also like to comment that I take offense to Thomas Goolsby being on the Board of Governors.
There are 26 board members. What gives Thomas Goolsby the right to tweet out that the stature must be
reinstated due to his interpretation of the law? That tweet represented your entire board. Why is he
even on the board with his tarnished past? He was part owner in an Investment Company, when he himself
had no securities licenses. His company was forced to shut down because of their fraudulent business
practices and then he abruptly resigned from the legislature before his term expired. I don't think he
sets a very good example for our students and I don't think he should have been rewarded with his board
seat after his deceptive investment practices. He seems to be self-serving and lacks the understanding
of "Inclusion". His actions are a bit a rogue and I foresee him creating a more divisive situation on the
board if he remains. Even though I myself am long time resident of Wilmington, I have no respect for his
views on the statue. He should be replaced before he attempts to move forward with his self-serving
agenda. Maybe replace him with another more deserving and honorable member who can add more diversity to
the board.
Respectfully,
REDACTED
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From: David Robinson
Sent: 9/1/2018 1:13:28 PM
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ cn=Recip ients/en =34be32522a4549bcb309fddad4de 78 la-south_chan c]; Tay Ior Batten
[tbatten@charlotteobserver.com]
Subject: Silent Sam
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Hello,
I am a 1969 graduate of UNC chapel Hill with fond memories of my time there.
As you consider the disposition of silent Sam I encourage you to think

about this particularly divisive time in our country and the negative
impact of putting this statue back in a place of prominence on the
campus.
silent Sam represents both the bravery and sacrifice of the soldiers
who died fighting for the Confederacy as we ll as the deplorab l e values
of the slave owners who bought and kept blacks in slavery. While the
south l ost the civil War there has been a l ong and painful struggle to
entitle the black descends of those slaves to full participation in
the America of today. Many have not yet achieved that status.
History is important but publicly honoring the memory of racists does
nothing to promote racia l harmony - which I think should be a goal of
a great University.
I was born in NC, spent many years here and am well aware of the deep
anger, and prejudice that many people hold against blacks.
I ask you not to support the darker side of history.
Regards,
David Robinson
Message
From: Amanda Kyser [amanda@kyserdesign.com]
Sent: 9/1/2018 2:48:34 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
chancellor Folt and Board members

As a native of chapel Hill I played under the statue and wondered what exactly he represented. Now that
I've learned the history of how and when it got to Mccorkle Pl ace I see it as a open wound which does not
represent this town or our university. It is also clearly a risk to public safety and cannot be replaced
on the pedestal!!
Sincerely,
Amanda Kyser
UNC class of '74 and chapel Hill taxpayer
Message
From: jvirgil581,
Sent: 9/1/2018 9:54:30 PM
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The recent controversy surrounding the removal of Silent Sam on campus has elevated the university to discuss a
subject that will undoubtedly disappoint and offend people on either side of the issue. My concern is for the latter.
During my time on campus in the late 70's I never came into contact with anyone who represented the views for which
the statue seems to represent. Were there people who felt the statue was a symbol for which they could be proud,
certainly but I strongly disagree. To simply take Silent Sam down and move it to another site on campus would not be
the correct or courageous thing to do.
I was in Chapel Hill just last week to attend the ceremony dedicating the basketball court to Coach Roy Williams and was
present as you addressed the gathering on Friday evening. Your remarks were very appropriate and I felt the sincerity
and fondness you have for the university.
Chancellor Falt, you certainly did not ask to solve a matter so difficult as this. I just hope you listen to all the fellow
administrators ,faculty, professors and concerned citizens of this great institution to come to a sound conclusion. I have
great confidence you will arrive at an appropriate decision that will make all TarHeels Proud.
Respectfully,
John Virgil
Class '80

Message
From: Katherine Register
Sent: 9/2/2018 10:31:04 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Here is a message I sent to Mr. Goolsby last week in response to his video appeal.
Dear Mr. Gooslby,
I have just watched your video message concerning the toppling of Silent Sam.
UNC Board of Governors Member Says 'Silent Sam Will Be Reinstalled' I News
I cannot disagree more fervently with your opinion. Silent Sam is not part of the university infrastructure and I
am not concerned that my tax dollars have been lost due to its toppling. My tax dollars have, however, been
lost in the ongoing scandal of Sam's presence on the UNC campus since 1913, and the money spent on the
statue's security and maintenance.
The men and women who finally took the statue down should not be punished. In the face of an intransigent
power structure their frustrations boiled over. I can argue that you, the legislature, and UNC are to blame for
Sam's toppling. Why haven't you, who have the power to remove him peaceably, done so?
Silent Sam stands for a violent defense of the violent institution of slave-holding, and for the furtherance and
defense of that violence decades after emancipation, during Jim Crow. If the horrific corporeal, financial, and
emotional violence endured by slaves doesn't give you a rationale to put Sam elsewhere, then there is something
profoundly wrong.
Until I saw the video of Silent Sam coming down, I was not aware that the letters "C.S.A" were clearly etched
into Sam's canteen-a huge grain of salt added to the wound already festering. The statue is nothing but a
tribute to our blemished past-an homage to the vindictive Jim Crow era as well as the civil war. It is a
valuable piece of history, and should be preserved in a museum with the appropriate explanation of its origin,
not in a public place of adulation. It will do so much more good as an admonition that history not repeat itself,
than whatever its purpose is now.
We live in the greatest nation on earth. Shame on you, the legislature, and the university for pushing back
against folks whose objective is to unmask America's faults. Exposing our shortcomings and admitting to them
will make our country greater still.
Please don't reinstall Sam. Put him where he belongs.
Sincerely,
Kathy
Katherine Register
Durham, NC
Message
From: David Nicke ll
Sent: 9/2/2018 11:23:30 AM
Subject: Let Sam remain Silent
Flag: Follow up
Dear Members of~ the Board,

As a graduate, class of '71, and a 1ne111·ber of~
the Nick.ell Family Trust, I stron.gly 11.rge you to
n.ot place Silent Sam i11 a place of pro1nine1.1ce
and importa11ce~
This statue, like so 111any otl1ers that celebrated
tl1e Con.tederacy, were erected in the early
1900's, long after the en.cl of our awful Civil
ar~ Right after the war, there were poor white
folJcs a11d freed l1lacks in. Congress~ .A.s the Jim.
Crow laws a11d movem.ent e1nerged a1.1d white
supremacy 011ce again imposed its self~ believed
rightful place of~ pro111inence, minorities were
subjected to secon.d class citizen.Se Th.ese
stat11es are celebrations of'white supremacy, not
to honor the men and boys who fought for the
South. again.st th.e U11ited Statese Th.ey are
h.orrible statem.ents of wl1ite privilege and
s11pre1nacy ®Wl1ile I may not condone the
destruction by those who orcl1estrated the
rem.oval, the _A_d_m.in.istratio_n sh.ould. h_ave
re1noved the statt1e long ago§
To replace it again in a place of~ prominence
places our u·n.iversity back_ in an_ i111.1noral ti111e
an.cl place~ As a leading i11stitt1tion of.higher
learning, a statue that celebrates slavery and
perpet11ates the degradation of~ female students
is un.acceptable~
· ·e are better than this~ Tl1ere is a museum_
wl1ere Sam can stand and receive the shame or
praise th_e observer wa.nts to l1estow upo11 h.i111,
but he in no way deserves an l1onored _place 01.1
our ca1npus~ Our diversity, ot1r intelligence, ot1r
moral sta11di11g demands we do wl1at is rigl1t®
Do not restore Sile11t Sa_m to a position_ of
pro111inence authored by tl1e .Board and
Ad1ninistration~ Stand for incl11sion a11d the
future of our University and ot1r society~
Regards,
David B -icl<ell
Class of~' 71
''If love does not drive out the fears th.at so

easily divide 11s, we will 11ever gatl1er together
in coalitio.ns stron.g e.nough to ch.alle.nge th.ose
-h " " . "
wh.o be11e fi.1t 1.rom 1nJust1ce . ,,·
. Barber
Message
From: Gail Marsh
Sent: 9/2/2018 1:19:56 PM
Subject: Rejecting Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
No one should consider returning the statue Silent Sam to the UNC campus--especially not to a prominent
location. Silent Sam represents white supremacy, and thus, should have no place on a campus that teaches
tolerance and respect for each human being. To return Silent Sam to campus would show utter disrespect for the
most basic values of the UNC system.
Sincerely,
Gail Marsh
Durham, NC
Message
From: Jonathan Kirby
Sent: 9/2/2018 1:34:51 PM
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public@bog.northcaro lina.edu; president@northcarolina .edu; haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com
Subject: The Fa ll of Silent Sam and Leadership in NC
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Hello,
My name is Jon Kirby and I am a 2004 graduate of the University of North Carolina. Since graduating, I have
lived in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, and in each city, have taken great comfort in finding and
befriending other Tarheels. This has served to curb homesickness, and to fellowship with other North
Carolinians outside of state lines.
Meeting Tarheels of color has been especially insightful, realizing many of them had to avert their gaze as they
walked by Silent Sam, realizing that the University had been tone def to generations of enrollees. As a white
male, I had the privilege of remaining blissfully ignorant to exactly what kind of message this could send to my
classmates. But I have grown up.
I am proud of this new generation of Tarheel, who took the initiative to lead when their leaders remained
inactive. I am proud that a new class of Tarheels, many white, listened to their classmates, sympathized with
their frustrations over this symbol of oppression, and acted when their university--their home!--was unwilling.
Today, I am proud to be a Tarheel.
Regards,
Jon Kirby c/o 2004
Winston-Salem, NC
Jon Kirby - Freelance Writer and Music Historian

Compiled : Various Releases for the Numero Group
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Message
From: Sarah Slavick
Sent: 9/3/2018 3:05:58 PM
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Subject : Silent Sam Removal
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Dear Chancellor Falt and UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees,
As a university professor, I know I would be greatly disturbed to have a "Silent Sam" monument on
my campus in any location. I know I would do everything in my power to have it removed . Reinstalling
the statue to a place of prominence, honor, or visibility would be even worse. Ensuring public safety
with such a monument is not possible. There is no "safety" in painful racist symbols of oppression. I
am writing you today to urge you to be on the right side of history and remove this dishonorable
statue from the commun ity.
Sincerely,
Sarah Slavick
Senior Lecturer and Lesley Art+ Design SEIU Faculty Representative
Lesley University
Message
From: Mclaughlin, Richard M [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=554502A052584AE6887CFEBE5B6D66EB-RICHARD MM]
Sent: 9/3/2018 5:10:47 PM
Subject: thank you
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I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for the message you sent Friday about finding an alternative, more
appropriate location for Silent Sam. I can only imagine how complex this topic is, with its many, many variables.
Thank you for working to find a rational solution to this complex issue while carefully continuing to position UNC for
success in the long term.
Best wishes,
Rich
Carolina Center for
office: 919-962-9816
fluids labl: 919-843-8900
fluids lab 2: 919-843-3483
rmm@email.unc.edu
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From: lliadis, Christian [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/CN =RE Cl Pl ENTS/CN =2625 72F980BA4E6B983F9C04202780E8-CH RISTIAN I]
Sent: 9/3/2018 6:24:11 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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Dear Carol,
I would like to express my strong support of your statement from last

Friday to find an alternative location for UNC's confederate statue.
Thank you so much for everything you are doing for us.
Best wishes,
Christian
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Subject: Silent Sam
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To all concerned,
I write as a UNC alumnus whose ancestor class of 1864, left UNC to fight for the
Confederate States and die in the Civil War. I would like to state in no uncertain terms that to put Silent Sam
back on his pedestal is against my family's wishes. The statue should be placed in a museum or library setting
that explains the Jim Crow-era context in which he was created. Many family papers are housed in the
Southern Historical Collection of Wilson Library, and perhaps Sam can join them there.
I have a BA and a Master's degree from UNC; I met my spouse there; my son graduated from UNC; my
daughter attends the school now. My parents graduated from UNC on the GI Bill and my grandfather had a law
degree from UNC. It is my grandfather's uncle who fell in the war, among other relatives who fought. I did not
know my grandfather, but I saw my parent's attitudes about race change over the years, and I know they would
agree that the statue should be removed from McCorkle Place.
I think I am as qualified as anyone to speak on the future of Silent Sam; he indeed does not belong on our
School's front door.
Sincerely,
Message
From: Charlie Merritt
Sent: 9/3/2018 8:37:14 PM
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I am writing to express my desire for the permanent removal of the Silent Sam statue, both from its
former location at McCorkle Place and from any location on the UNC campus. As an (at least) third
generation UNC alumnus, I have always had a deep love and admiration for Carolina, much of that
steeped in the mythology of legendary figures like Frank Porter Graham and Dean Smith. My family
was prone to hero worship, and I certainly know how easy it can be to celebrate our history, and the
history of our university, through rose-colored glasses. But what I appreciate most about the
education I received at Carolina was that it did not make anything about the past easy. It was at
Carolina that I learned to turn a critical eye towards the whitewashed narratives of history that we
often hear, and to begin to comprehend the systemic racism on which this country was founded and
which, even now, continues to shape every aspect of our society. It was at Carolina that I learned that
Confederate "war memorials" have nothing to do with honoring the soldiers who fought in the Civil
War and everything to do with racial initimidation and reinforcing white supremacy. This is true of the
Silent Sam statue, which was erected and dedicated during the height of the Jim Crow era, many
years after the conclusion of the Civil War. One need only look at Julian Carr's remarks dedicating the
statue to glean the intention behind it (the graphic details of which I will not go into here).
The University I know and love does not represent these values. It embraces diversity and is
committed to ensuring that all of its students and faculty feel safe, secure, and empowered to reach
their full potential. White supremacy and racial intimidation can have no place at "The University of
the People." This is especially true now that the statue has been torn down - to affirmatively replace it
now, in 2018 when everyone is well aware of its true history, would send an unmistakeable signal that
the University of North Carolina, the university of Frank Porter Graham and Dean Smith (and of my
father and grandfather who worshipped them, and more importantly the values they stood for), stands
on the side of white supremacy. Whatever state "law" that requires the University to send that signal
is no just law; Silent Sam is no "historical monument" and Carolina surely has the moral courage to
stand up and accept whatever punishment flows from not re-erecting a statue around which actual
neo-Nazis and the KKK openly rally.
I greatly appreciate your time and attention, as well as your service to UNC.
Sincerely,
Charlie Merritt c/o 2012
Message
From: Rusty Unger
Sent: 9/3/2018 9:55:58 PM
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Dear Madam,
As a resident of Chapel Hill, I feel strongly that the Silent Sam statue should not be returned to campus. It truly
pains me to think of how a student of color might feel having to constantly pass in front of a symbol of someone
who fought in defense of slavery. It would be similar to how a Jewish student in Germany would feel if he or
she had to pass before a Nazi soldier statue on their way into school. Many thanks for your kind attention.
Sincerely, Rusty Unger
Message
From: Ongaro, Giulio [ongaro@chapman.edu]
Sent: 9/4/2018 12:28:03 PM
Subject: Silent Sam controversy
Flag: Follow up

I am an alumnus of UNC (MA '81, Ph.D. '86) and until a few years ago I was a proud alumnus. Then the athletic scandals
started and I was particularly dismayed at what happened and at the fact that one faculty involved was a professor of
Ethics! Now, with this latest controversy, and your apparent decision to return the Confederate soldier statue to
campus, I feel even less proud to be a UNC alumnus. For many of your students that statue is a symbol of oppression
and slavery, and it's time that people in North Carolina stopped worrying about the War of Northern Aggression (as
st
many called it when I was there) and joined the 21 century.
Please do the right thing and put that statue on the dustbin of history, where it deserves to be.
Best regards,
Giulio Ongaro
Giulio Mo Ongaro, Ph.Do

Dean and Professor
One University Drive

Orange, CA 92866
T (714) 997-6672
F (714) 997-6798
Email: om,aro d:chapman.edu
Web: chapman.edu/copa
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Message
From: Rebecca Nesvet
Sent: 9/4/2018 4:15:30 PM
CC: Jack, Emily [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =ebd9d33c 10f64199bbcb5d 17046dea82-Em il y Jack]
Subject: The 1913 CSA Monument
Attachments: Dear Chancellor Folt.docx
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Please see attached.

September 2018
I ·write to you as an alumna of the University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill (Ph.D., 2014) and, more recently, a Friend of the
Library and donor of funds earmarked for a Rare Books Collection acquisition. I have the utmost respect and admiration for the
RBC, and especially the work of Frank Borden Hanes Curator Dr. Elizabeth Ott 111e RBC's work under Dr. Ott and (previously)
Dr. Claudia Funke's leadership has made my research possible and introduced my students-hundreds of them, now-to
literature that advances humanism, in part by documenting past injustices and suggesting what a more just society rnight look
like. I am also deeply grateful for UNC 's development and public sharing of the Southern F olklife and Southern Historical
collections, with their emphases on the preservation and revelation of truth in the interests of the pursuit of justice. Consequently,
I had intended to bequeath my own small but growing personal collection of rare Victorian books, especially "penny bloods and
dreadfuls," to the RBC. At least one book in this collection is possibly the only complete copy in the world.
However, my plans might need to change. I understand from the Chronicle a/Higher Education article of September 4, 2018,
that you "will propose a new site for [the] toppled Confederate monument" colloquially lmown as "Silent Sam," and that this site
will be on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. In other words, you propose to install on the UNC Campus a monument to treason
against the United States, white supremacist ideology, and dehumanization of and brutality towards African-American men,
women, and children. Innocent of the original 1913 installation of the monument by Klansman Julian Carrboro and others, you
wish to invite their spirits back to UNC. TI1is action, if accomplished, will make all modem-day members of the UNC
community complicit in the hatred and violence that "Sam" has always promoted, and which today have become socially
acceptable in the United States in ways perhaps not imaginable only a few short years ago .
I do not wish to be complicit in such an endorsement of hatred and violence. I do not wish to be one of the white people who
ignore the advance of white supremacism for reasons of civility, fear of financial retribution, or mere laziness. I know that white
supremacism produces violence. I have learned that in part from the Holocaust survivors and refugees, now aging or passed,
whom I have had the good fortune to encounter. I know that the Confederacy and the KKK are not my heritage, even though I am
not only a UNC alumna but a native of the state of Virginia. I inherited citizenship in the United States of America, not the
Confederate States of America. I reside in the United States of America, not the Confederate States of America. TI1e only C.S.A.
that I wish to honor is community-supported agriculture. Consequently, until you have reassured the public that you will not
install the 1913 monument to hatred and treason in any publicly visible place on campus, I will no longer donate money to
UNC's excellent library system.
Perhaps you fear that violence will occur if the monument is not reinstalled, or that white supremacists among our alumni will
withhold their money until they see their hatred honored on campus again. Those are reasonable fears, but to install the
monument because of them constitutes caving to the white supremacists' will. Good leaders do not do this. Neville Chan1berlain
did this: see how effective that was. Alternately, you may see the monument's reinstallation as a way of honoring the letter of the
law. Under the Nazis and Jim Crow, many people honored the letter of the law in ways that advanced hatred and facilitated
violence against already-marginalized, dehumanized, and individually and existentially endangered people. Good leaders do not
do this, either. Instead, they know that sometimes courage lies in opposing unjust law, even at great instit11tional or personal risk
After all, we must be realistic. Books (rare and otherwise) can save us from hatred and violence, incite it, or both. Ifwe, the UNC
Community, actively decide to incite hatred, ignorance, and brutality as key values of our institution, by installing a monument to
those values, can we really be trusted to collect, preserve, contextualize, and share the physical evidence of the past?
Best wishes,
Rebecca L. Nesvet
Little River, Wisconsin
UNC-Chapel Hill Ph.D. Class of2014
Message
From: Cathy Co le
Sent: 9/4/2018 4:16:07 PM
Subject: Does Silent Sam have a place at UNC?
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Dear Chancellor Folt: I have no idea if this message will reach you, but I feel the need to comment on the
current situation.
First, I am an alum, a retired UNC staff member, a native Southerner and a descendant of several Confederate
soldiers. My paternal great grandfather died in the 1920s and my father knew him well, so the history is very
close to me. I grew up with people who lived through Reconstruction.
I am not politically powerful or wealthy, so my views will matter little to the Board of Governors.
In my family, growing up in York County, SC, the Civil War, the Confederacy, the terrible price our homeland
paid for the conflict in which they had little to say, but much to lose, was NEVER celebrated. In fact, was never
mentioned. My family attempted to move on as citizens of the United States of America.
But, particularly as a female, the threat was ever present toward any Southerner who did not support Jim Crow,
or White Supremacy, or the 'States' Rights" to legalize these things. I learned to say little and to keep my head
down; to pass quickly by displays of Confederate flags and white crosses in pastures. We Southerners
recognized these symbols for what they were: threats against those who did not conform. Threats to both
person and property. It was dangerous to be labeled a Nigger Lover or a race 'traitor'.
When my family came to UNC in 1978 for my husband to do graduate work, we learned the lore of Silent Sam
in regards to feminine virtue. That the statue would fire its weapon if a 'virgin' passed was a joke, but also a
reflection of how co-eds were seen. In the days of Jim Crow and even into the 1970s, young women were only
as respected by many college men as their reputations for virtue or as their family's influence could command.
I went on to do graduate work, myself, at UNC-CH, and my children also attended. Silent Sam cast a cold
shadow over us every time we passed it. Thank God it is gone. Does it really have a place at UNC, and if so,
what place is that?
Cathy Smith Cole

MA Comparative Literature
UNC Retiree
Message
From: Gary Peterson [gpeterson@seinstitute.com]
Sent: 9/4/2018 5:33:17 PM
To: aywoodcochrane@yahoo .com; Duckett, Chuck [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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The anger and contentiousness of the Silent Sam issue is disturbing.

Please put this to an end to this and respectfully put Silent Sam in a less public area.
Ca,vH Pefe¥.s,,o-vv, /VI.D. DLFAPA, LFAACAP

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From: Richard Fox [
Sent: 9/4/2018 8:57:33 PM
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Subject: Do not replace the statue
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I urge you not to reinstate silent Sam, a memorial raised by
chest-beating supporters of a foul Jim Crow south, in honor of traitors
who took up arms in rebellion against our country and in defense of
slavery. The protestors who toppled the statue did so in an act of
principled nonviolent resistance, just as Gandhi did in 1930 when he
made salt in violation of British Indian law. By removing silent Sam,
the protestors only did what you and your administration should have
done, but did not, even though you must have been aggrieved by the
racism it embodied in the past and carried forward into the present.
My wife and I are not major donors to UNC (although my wife is an
alumna), but over the years, we have donated quite a few instruments and
a bit of money to the Department of Music in support of the Early Music
program. The debacle perpetrated by one of your departments in support
of sports programs that should be peripheral to the university troubled
us because it was so detrimental to UNC's deserved reputation as a great
institution. The failure to take action in support of the many valid
reasons to remove the statue, even after the governor provided you a
legal work-around, added to our misgiving. That you would now consider
undoing the moral protest action on campus by reinstating the
white-supremacist memorial to traitors fills us with dread and makes us
reconsider our commitment to your university.
Sincerely,
Richard G. Fox, Ph.D.
President Emeritus
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
New York, NY
Message
From: Diane Sasson
Sent: 9/5/2018 4:31:28 PM
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Subject: Silent Sam
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Dear Members of the UNC Board of Trustees:
I have lived, studied, and worked in Chapel Hill for over 54 years.
I believe it is time that Silent Sam be put to rest.
The history of racial oppression and should be studied in university classrooms, not commemorated on the campus. If
Silent Sam absolutely must be kept on university property, store him somewhere out of public view, where he can no
longer be an affront to all who believe in a society based on equality for all.
We need to move on and put our energy toward making this a truly just society.
Sincerely,
Diane Sasson,
Chapel Hill, NC 27517.

Message
From: Susan Spalt I
Sent: 9/5/2018 4:47:45 PM
CC: Allen Spalt [aspalt@att.net]
Subject: Silent Sam
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Susan Willey Spalt
Carrboro, NC, 27510
Chancellor Carol Felt

103 South Building, CB 9100
UNC-Chapel Hill
Dear Chancellor Folt
We are writing to support your to efforts to keep Silent Sam off the UNC campus. I am a 1963 graduate of the
UNC School of Nursing and I earned by MPH from the School of Public Health in 1974. My husband, Allen, is
not an alum but is a "converted tar heel," and a member of the UNC General Alumni Association. My years at
UNC were influenced by teachers who have been life long inspirations: Bill Friday, Dean Smith, Elizabeth
Kemble, Arden Miller, and Margaret Dolan, to name a few. I gained, not only a degree, but a perspective on
life. In that spirit Allen and I urge you to stand up to the forces trying to restore Silent Sam. Silent Sam is not a
memorial to fallen confederate soldiers but rather to the resurgence of racism during Reconstruction. It is a
symbol, not of honor but rather of intimidation and white supremacy. You are right that it should "not be at the
front door of a safe, welcoming, proudly public research university."
UNC has a long history of taking a stand for justice and for human rights. Thank you for honoring this history
by standing up for the UNC community and against those who are trying to bring Silent Sam back.
Thank you
Susan Willey Spalt, BSN, 1967, :MPH, 1974.

Message
From: ShelleyW I
Sent: 9/5/2018 9:27:11 PM
CC: Dibbert, Douglas Steven [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: Request that Silent Sam be permanently removed from UN C's campus
Flag: Follow up
I am an alumna ofUNC-Chapel Hill (class of '04) who is writing to request that you permanently
remove Silent Sam.
I was heartened by your recent promise not to display the monument at the front door of our
"welcoming" University. However, I stTongly urge you to go further and commit to not displaying
the statue anywhere on UNC's campus.
Although I had ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, I did not interpret the statue as honoring
their memory - rather I felt it was racist and sexist. As a Northerner by birth, I never felt welcomed
by this statue. I remember going on a college tour of UNC and almost deciding not to apply after I
saw Silent Sam and heard the legend of him firing when a female virgin walked by. I can't help but
wonder how many potential students have failed to attend Carolina as a result of it.
It also concerns me that the University has spent so much money protecting this statue - by some
estimates $1,700 a day. I personally do not feel comfortable donating to UNC unless I am assured
that not a single penny will be used to protect Silent Sam. I want any donations I make to help
students get a better education - not to protect a statue with a white supremacist histrny. llJ
UNC has an appropriate way to honor alumnis who died in wars: the Alumni War Memorial. That
is the proper way to honor veterans, not a statue that was erected with a speech about whipping a
black woman.
One of my favorite things about UNC was its diversity and how welcoming it was to students of all
backgrounds. That is the UNC I love and want to see flourish. That UNC would realize that it's
time to put Silent Sam away. It's past time to send a clear message that students of all backgrounds
are welcome at UNC and that their history and voices matter, too. Those students deserve to feel
welcome on campus and should not have to spend every day walking by a statue that is an ode to
white supremacy.
Thank you for your consideration of this request. I look forward to your response.
Respectfully,
Shelley \Vaiden
Albuquerque, Niv1 87104
cc: Douglas S. Dibbe1t '70

President, UNC General Alumni Association
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Message
From: Clint Dorman
Sent: 9/6/2018 2:07:26 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Good afternoon Chancellor Folt. My name is Clint Dorman and I'm a resident of the state of North Carolina in
Winston-Salem. I'm a licensed attorney and currently have the pleasure of serving as a United States
administrative law judge.
I have followed the events surrounding the Confederate monuments on the UNC campus with interest lately.
Has the University's legal staff considered the possibility that the continued installation of these symbols creates
and/ or contributes to a hostile work environment for employees? It occurs to me that any action, including the
installation of an ethnically intimidating or threatening monument/symbol, could create the perception of a
hostile work environment for those intimidated and threatened by the same. I suppose this could in theory at
least subject the University to damages both literally and figuratively.
I would think that the University's interest in avoiding a hostile work environment would trump any competing
interest in maintaining the installation of the offensive symbol. Of course this is not legal advice, simply just my
personal thoughts off the top of my head. I submit my question and thoughts out of pure curiosity.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Good luck and best wishes with this complicated and contentious
issue.
Respectfully,
Clint Dorman
Message
From: Alyssa Wilson Leggoe
Sent: 9/8/2018 12:09:44 PM
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Hopkins, Ke ll y Matthews [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Dear Chancellor Holt and Board of Trustees and Board of Governor Members,
As a UNC alumna (class of '99), Morehead-Cain Scholar and Tarheel for life, I am writing to voice my support for the
permanent removal of the Silent Sam statue from the UNC-Chapel Hill grounds. Alumni from around the country and
around the world - I am currently serving overseas in Haiti - have been following with interest the removal of Silent
Sam and the request for you, Chancellor Holt, to present a permanent and lawful plan for the statue by November
15. We have weighed in with suggestions about where the statue should be relocated - including the Oakwood
Historic Cemetery for the confederate dead. We have peacefully protested against the statue for decades - including
well before my time at UNC in the 1990's - and those protests were not heeded. We strongly encourage you to
identify an alternate location outside of the UNC-Chapel Hill grounds for this statue, so that we do not continue to
glorify a racist symbol within the hallowed grounds of the university.
To voice my support for the permanent removal of Silent Sam, I have chosen to direct my most recent donation to
the University to the Stone Center, and will encourage other alumni to do the same.
We are all watching, Chancellor Holt, and we encourage you to make the right decision.
Thank you,
Alyssa Wilson Leggoe
Morehead-Cain Scholar
From: UNC Gift Services <giving(ci)unc.edu>
Date: Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 11:51 AM
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generosity, and your contribution will be put to work to help the University fulfill its vital mission of teaching,
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We encourage you to consult your tax adviser about the deductibility of any charitable contribution.
Please print this email, which will serve as your official receipt for your records and for tax purposes.
You will not receive a mailed copy of this receipt unless you request one. Should you have any questions,
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Message
From: LEWIS GREENWALD
Sent: 9/9/2018 9:13:29 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear chancellor Holt:

I will be brief. silent Sam has no place at all on the UNC campus. Sam is a symbol that honors slavery
and white supremacy. He is a memorial to a time when African Americans were treated like farm animals,
or worse. Sam is an insult to all people of color, students, faculty, and staff, at UNC. He is a blot
on an your otherwise wonderful institution. I urge you to do all in your power to just get rid of him.
Sincerely,
Lewis Greenwald
Efland, NC 27243
Sent from my iPad
Message
From: Will Isley [will@steelstringbrewery.com]
Sent: 9/9/2018 10:33:15 AM
Subject: September 8, Worst Day in Modern History of Our University
Flag: Follow up
Surely, September 8 will be remembered as the most disgraceful day in the modern history of our university. As
if the continued academic and sports scandals weren't enough. As if the way you've handled the entire
Confederate statue wasn't embarrassing enough. As if you hadn't permanently sullied this University's
reputation by being nothing but a shill for a Board of Governors that was selected by an illegally gerrymandered
general assembly. When I thought I couldn't be less proud of my alma mater or my state, you have a bunch of
wanna be GI Joe outsiders come on to OUR campus. You think those guys look like they were going to be
reasonable? Shame on you for arresting peaceful protestors. Silencing free speech of either type has no place in
a public place of higher learning. If holding a potluck isn't peaceful I'd like to know what you and your inept
administration would consider to be appropriate. The images from yesterday are shameful. You are shameful.
And until you resign, our University, one of the greatest beacons of accessible education in all of History, is
shameful.
Willis Isley
Owner, Steel String Brewery
UNC Class of '08
Message
From: Susan
Sent: 9/10/2018 4:51:58 PM
Subject: Request from Class of 2017 Alumna
Flag: Follow up
To Whom it May Concern:

I am a proud Tar Heel and a member of the UNC GAA
and would like to ask that the silent Sam memorial/statue NOT be replaced and returned to its previous
location. I actually believe it does not be l ong on any part of our campus. Please find another solution
to this issue. In closing, I would also like to state that I will be unwilling to donate any funds to UNC
if it gets put back up.
Thank you.
Susan Leichliter
class of 2017
Message
From: emily keel
Sent: 9/12/2018 11:12:24 AM
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Subject: Alumni dues
Flag: Follow up
Just returned my dues solicitation with no$ due to Silent Sam. When he is no where on our campus, I will
reconsider. I am pleased with the decision to move from place of prominence but it needs to be in a museum or
cemetery.
Emily K. Keel
class of 1972
Message
From: Aubrey Brawner [brawner@savcds.org]
Sent: 9/17/2018 8:51:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up

My husband, my son, and I are graduates ofUNC-CH and members of GAA. I am writing to plead with you to
find a solution to the Silent Sam problem that does NOT include putting him back up on a pedestal on the
campus.
Please do not put Silent Sam back up.
Thank you,
Aubrey Brawner
Aubrey H. Brawner
Chair, Math Department
Savannah Country Day School
824 Stillwood Dr.
Savannah, GA 31419
912-961-8705
Service through know ledge and character.
Message
From: Harvey Brenneise
Sent: 9/20/2018 3:54:16 PM
Flag: Follow up
Dear Dr. Folt:
I'm a Chapel Hill graduate (MSLS 1979, and also accepted into the doctoral program in history 1978). I'm
writing to express my desire that the statue not be restored. Fighting for slavery and rebellion against the Union
is not something that believe deserves honor.
Best,
Harvey Brenneise
Message
From: Mary Leadbetter
Sent: 9/25/2018 5:01:34 PM
Subject: Mary Friday Leadbetter -- Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor Falt and the Board of Trustees:
In recent days, facing Florence, North Carolina has shown the unity, energy and strength of purpose that
reminds us just how great the people of North Carolina can be.
Why don't we harness that strength and positive vision in other areas too.
I refer, of course, to the continued question of what should be the future of the statue of a Confederate
Soldier that once appeared on the UNC CH campus and is referred to as "Silent Sam".
As a graduate of UNC-CH and as a native of Chapel Hill I have watched with concern and disappointment as
events unfolded over the past year. I have attended demonstrations, panel discussions and
presentations. Initially to satisfy myself as to the involvement of UNC- CH ( the 'University') students and
later in support.
At this point in time, Silent Sam is gone. This is over.
Ours is not a static society. This great University should be a leader in moving society forward. However, in
the matter of Silent Sam the University has displayed neither deftness nor political savvy. It has not moved
forward. The inaction of the University invigorated protests. Actions designed to control or lessen the impact
of protests might have had the impact of chilling free speech. Yet the students persisted. The expectation that
the students would not find a way was misplaced. As one who remembers the Vietnam War demonstrations
on campus - it should have been anticipated.
There were moments and options. For example, the University had a precedent in the history and
development of Memorial Hall that it could have utilized. Might it not have been instructive to follow the
history of the list of confederate dead in Memorial Hall on the Chapel Hill campus where immediately adjacent
to the building are monuments to alumni lost in military service. It is sober, inclusive and could have been
presented as a place where history is told. Therefore, Silent Sam is not needed. This was a missed
opportunity.
When the University fails, all of us feel it and fail too.
The University now has the chance to move forward constructively.
The history of the statue itself does not justify its continuous presence. It was installed to celebrate and to
intimidate. Symbols are powerful. And Silent Sam is a symbol of civil war, duty, and has been re-invigorated
as a symbol to represent the idea the US is fundamentally for white folk.
Andy Griffith observed, Republican or Democrat, North Carolinians all share a pride in this state. A pride
based in part on the fact North Carolina distinct from other Southern States was not defined by racial
prejudice. Robert E. Lee, I shouldn't have to remind the reader, stated it was "wiser not to keep open the
sores of war". I also refer you to the October 4, 2017 statement from the University Department of
History. I suggest bringing the statue back onto the campus would create damage and danger.
Much noise has been made over contextualizing and heritage. I must ask to what end and benefit? To
continue the perception of a part of the American population as the 'other' has no place in this century. To re
install the statue or simply to place it somewhere else will relight the flame of protest all around. What a
shameful waste of energy, effort and funds.
Specifically, to those who say, a historical notice or a second statute of a civil rights leader would be context
enough need to understand that to set an appropriate context would require much more. In Germany,
where I worked in the 1990's, the Nazi parade grounds created by Albert Speer were starting to be
transformed from neglected and decaying structures into an historic site of museums, lecture halls and
displays. It was part of an effort to adequately educate both German citizens and visitors. Similarly, In South
Africa, the museum of apartheid was established in Johannesburg. In our own country, in Alabama, the
National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum recently opened. Any undertaking to
provide a context that would be appropriate would require a greater scrutiny of North Carolina history and
historical figures and a great commitment of resources and talent.
The longer this matter remains open, the more difficult a resolution may become. But there is now the
opportunity to move on and do the right thing. Silent Sam is gone. Let it remain so.
Thank you
Message
From: Jay Kennett [jaykennett@hucc .org]
Sent: 9/26/2018 10:40:52 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I am deeply sadden by your comments that the majority of North Carolinian's want Silent Sam back where it was in a place of
prominence on Campus on the UNC campus. Even if this was true replacing this statute celebrating white supremacy to its
former location or any location outside of one that would considered it as a historic icon of a past age with the story of its racist
past told as well as the racism of the institution that maintained it, is a horrific step backward in the move to make our
institutions of higher education ones that are inclusive for all North Carolinians. Chancellor Folt, even if the poll you are
relying upon where a nonbiased one and seventy percent of the people of this state wanted the statue back where it was if you
are committed to education, trnth and an inclusive learning environment you would lead by doing what is right to maintain
those values and not by popular opinion. As a pastor and community member I deeply disappointed by the lack of moral
leadership shovvn by the University up to this point, but I call upon you now to become the leader you have been chosen to be
and do what is right for all the people of this state, the students on your campus who include my parishioners and in particular
your African American students. Now is the time to lead and to show that your institution stands for inclusion, truth and a
learning environment free from racism and intimidation. The choice is yours, lead us into that future or show us that your
institution is still rnled by the small-minded racist voices that erected the statute in the first place.
Sincerely,
The Reverend J. Jay Kennett
Pastor,
Hillsborough UCC
200 Davis Road
Hillsborough, NC 27278
Progressive, Inclusive, Creative,
Caring and Kid-Friendly
Message
From: Alli Cooke
Sent: 9/26/2018 12:05:53 PM
Subject: My thoughts on Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
I write as an alumna to thank you for your leadership thus far on the Silent Sam issue, and to urge you to stay
the course in keeping him off "our front lawn." While your statements haven't been perfect, I (as a PR
professional at a prestigious liberal arts college) respect the tremendous amount of effort that goes into crafting
something so delicate, and the incredibly difficult and nuanced conversations you are engaged in.
UNC is my proudest achievement, and despite leaving NC in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, I carry the
university with me everywhere I go. (I have a tattoo of the Old Well letterhead logo on my arm - it helps me
find alumni everywhere!) Being part of the very first class of Covenant Scholars has made my entire life
possible. Many of my fellow Covenant Scholars were students of color, and while I (a white girl from Chicago)
cannot fully understand the legacy of slavery and segregation, I know that Silent Sam is an affront to POCs who
only want to feel safe and equal in the academic environment that they've strived so hard to attend. Furthermore,
the Unsung Founders Memorial was installed while I was a student, and its close proximity to Sam always
struck me as insensitive. I believe Sam belongs--dents, dirt and all--in a museum, indicating its place as a thing
of history. Its only value now, in fact, is academic.
Please stand strong. The BOT and BOG are a bunch of overwhelmingly "old white Southern men" - I say this
not to denigrate them but to point out their extreme blind spots and biases - and UNC, as a globally respected
university, owes it to alumni and future students to act globally and in the best interest of the entire University
community, not just for the people who have always lived free and without fear.
Sincerely,
Alli Cooke '08
i:s intendrxi for the exc!usivfi USfi of the

Message
From: Catherine Lee
Sent: 9/27/2018 2:41:02 PM
To: Dean Kevin M . Guskiewicz [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ cn=Recip ients/en =48ee 14640033453 7b6a 73f8b 1288ae 10-south _ asdea]
Subject: response to recent newsletter
Flag: Follow up
Hi Dean Guskiewicz,
I recently received a newsletter with updates from the College of Arts and Sciences. It is always good to hear
what is happening in the place where I received my degree in '99 and received so much nurture academically
and personally. I am a proud graduate and current resident of Chapel Hill, so I literally walk by the building on
a regular basis and recall fond memories.
I regret that at this time I will not be making any donations to the College of Arts and Sciences of any branch
of UNC until a final determination has been reached on the location of the recently deposed statue of Silent
Sam.
I applaud the bravery and leadership of local activists in removing the statue and regret that UNC was unable to
remove the statue of its own accord. I hear persistent rumors that some in the UNC administration are
continuing to contemplate re-establishing the statue on its pedestal on McCorkle Place.
Until UNC publicly commits to keeping the statue from being returned, I regret I will not be making any
donations to UNC.
I hope that you will share this information with the leadership at UNC, including Chancellor Folt.
Thank you for your time and go tar heels!
Catherine Lee MDiv

Message
From: NICHOLAS, LOUIS
Sent: 9/28/2018 4:14:54 PM
Subject: Down with Racism
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Falt:
I just read about the toppling of Silent Sam. Your position is absurd, disgusting, and outdated. It was wonderful to see a
mob take action against this symbol of racism on your campus. I hope that your so-called legal actions against the
people who toppled and defamed Silent Sam turns into a public relations nightmare for your racist school and state. The
Confederate army deserves no place of honor anywhere anymore. You, your administration, your state government,
and your racist donors should be ashamed. You stand on the wrong side of history. You and your administration will
become the laughingstock of American academia if you don't reverse your insane racist course. Drop your racist "legal"
actions against these protestors now and offer an apology to them for your pathetic racist school. You really want to
hold onto this racist past? Shame on you!
Louis Nicholas
Message
From:
Sent: 10/4/2018 2:17:19 PM
Subject: 70% is NOT POSSIBLE
Flag: Follow up
Ms. Fol t,
70% of the state of NC DOES NOT WANT SILENT SAM BACK. It isn't possible. You are saying that a state
that has a 30% African American population that 100% of the caucasian voters WANT IT?
We do NOT WANT IT BACK.
As Caucasian parents of a student who is a person of color, we find this extremely offensive and we find
the percentage extremely inaccurate.
Message
From: Ev Dove [
Sent: 11/8/2018 3:31:20 PM
Subject: From Kali Holloway ..... .... .Fw: Outmoded
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human beings. And this "elevation'' 1vas not by accident. It came atprecisely the moment when tlwse.formerly enslavedpeople
were competing H'ith tlwirformer enslaversforpoliticalpoH'er. I~v asserting that slavery 1vas not that bad and that 1vhite people
had alw0;vs acted honorably and in the best interests ,?f blacks, the Lost Cause became an argumentfor a socie~)I in which white
people belonged at the top o_{the order and blacks at the bottom.
That's 1l'hite supremacy.
Time to Expose the Won1en Still Celebrating the
Outrnoded Confede:racy
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ZJze United Daughters of the Confederacv lay a lvreath and hold up a Confederate States
o(America.flag at the Confederate lvfemorial during Confederate A1emorial Dav services
atArlington National Ce1nete1y' in Arlington County, Virginia, US., on June 5, 1922.
(Public Domain, vVikimedia)
ln 1926, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument to the Ku Klux
Klan in a tmvn just outside Charlotte,. North Carolina. Though the marker itself seems to
have been lost to time---------or more precisely, to the urbanization and shmbbe1y that has
Cor!federate f\,fonurnents and A1enwria!s, a book that handily compiles various tributes to
the Confederacy from around the state, many of them the lJDC's own handiwork. \Vriter
Greg Bufiinan got his hands on a first pressing, in which he noted the monument's
inscription:
"In conunemoration of the 'Ku Klux Klan' during the Reconstruction period fr)llowing the
'\Var Between the States,' this marker is placed on their assembly ground. Erected by the
Dodson-Ramseur chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. 1926."
Since the UDC's founding in 1894, the elite \vhite Southen1 ladies' group has dedicated
itself to erecting ConJederate monuments around the country and, in more recent years,
quietly ensuring those markers remain standing. They have been the single most effective
propagandists for the Lost Cause myth, an alternative-fact-ridden version of history that
denies slave1y as the central cause of the Civil \Var while also insisting that slavery was a
mutually beneficial institution---------a win-win for both enslavers and the enslaved. lJDC
textbooks have taught generations of Southern children that the Confoderacv---------a nation
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whose founders were unequivocal about its cmnerstone being white superiority and black
enslavement--------was a valiant and valorous cause.
Despite its influence, the UDC is rarely name-checked in national discussions about
Confederate monuments overtly celebrating white supremacy. And the group remains
active, with its national conference-an explosion of antebe11um dresses and nostalgia for
slavery-happening last weekend in Virginia.
It's time they were given the credit they deserve.
\Vhite Supremacists Hiding in Plain Sight
"Their name is on all their monuments, but maybe because those plaques are rusty and
faded people don't realize the UDC is still a functioning organization," says Heather
Redding, an organizer with Hillsborough Progressives Taking Action, a North Carolina
chapter of Indivisible. For the past two years, BPTA and other local anti-racist
organizations have protested the North Carolina lJDC chapter's annual gathering in
Durham.
"'fhey meet regularly, they collect dues, they give scholarships, and they're a nonprofit
that gets tax breaks," says Redding. "Basically, they're white supremacists hiding in plain
sight. /\nd that's particularly fhrntrating, because they parade around like an innocent
historical group that just does community service."
According to the SPLC, the UDC sponsored more than 450 monuments, buildings, plaques
and other tributes to the Confederacy. Though its influence has always been most
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Robert E. Lee was only removed last year; a road the group named for the Confederate
general remains in the borough. Seattle's only Confederate monument was erected by the
UDC and, not incidentally, carved from a 10-ton block of Stone Mountain, Georgia, where
the KKK held its 1915 rebirth ceremony. Even Arlington National Cemetery has a UDC
Confederate memorial, erected in 1914 on Confoderate President Jefferson Davis's
birthdate. It features a crying black "mammy" figure, a white baby under her an11 and
another tugging at her apron.
Iv1ost of the UDC's monuments \vere erected long after the Civil \Var, in the 1910s and
l 950s, eJTecti vely monumentalizing \vhite racial resentment during the eras of Jim Crmv
and the Civil Rights l'vfovement In periods of epidemic anti-black racist violence and
intimidation. lJDC Confederate markers were visible svmbols of white terror.
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They still are.
Creating a JV!iscducatcd Nation
Ladies J\,fomorial Associations fiJn11ed immediately after the Civil \Var in battle-ravaged,
economically wasted towns across the South. ""fhey were trying to honor Confederate
dead at a time vvhen surviving Confederate veterans could not 1,,vear their uniforms in
pubhc, could not be involved politically, could not hold political office," says Jalane
Schmidt, a professor at the University of Virginia and organizer for the CharlottesviUe,
Virginia, chapter of Black Lives T\1Iatter. In an era when the white South was still
demoralized by their Civil \Var loss, these white Southern women---------many of them from
wealthy, prominent families---------set about doing the work of decorating the fallen.
Karen Cox, author of the definitive history of the UDC, 2003's Dixie's Daughters,
describes the LMAs as concerned with proper burials. "One of the key things Ladies
Ivlen1orial Associations did early on was try to return soldiers bodies' from battlefields
where they died to their hometowns, and to create Confederate cemeteries," she says.
"They vvould also raise money for monuments, but the first monuments that they put up
\vere modest, and they were erected in cemeteries."
At the end ofReconstniction-that brief period when federal intervention made racial
equality in the South seem possible---------the North pulled its troops out of the South, leaving
formerly enslaved blacks to fond for themselves. Power was again assumed by white
southern men, Cox writes, and the Lost Cause agenda tmly took shape, focusing "less on
bereavement and more on celebrating <--·
the virtues of the Confederacv."
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In the 1890s, the LJDC coalesced from disparate LN1A chapters throughout the South, and
Southern agricultural paradise against a Northen1 industrialized Goliath. \Vith the war on
the battlefield long lost, the lJDC aimed its sights on a cultural win.
"The memorial associations had been seen as doing women's work--------tending to the dead,
remembering those lost, bringing flowers to graves. H was seemingly innocent work
confined to graveyards," says Schmidt "But the Trojan Horse factor comes in when the
[lJDC] started taking this fonn of memorialization,. which had been saved for the grieving,
out into the pubhc square ... That's \vhen we see the start of Confederate propagandizing.
The UDC moves from memorializing in graveyards to monumentahzing in public spaces.
And what these monuments did is they raced public spaces as white."
The UDC chose to erect many monuments in close proximity to legislative and judicial
power centers, which is why so many Confederate markers are today located near
courthouses and on state capitol grounds---------a reminder to black folks that white institutions
were not there to serve their interests. This past August, North Carolina's historical
commission declined to take down a UDC Confederate marker, along with two others,
from the Raleigh capitol building; a coalition of Charlottesville residents is cunently
engaged in a fight to remove a 109-year-old UDC "Johnny Reb" statue from a local
courthouse.
"'fhe UDC put [its monuments] in places \vhere citizens have to \vork with their
government," says Cox. "If you're an African-American person or a person of color, you
have to pass by that Confederate monument on your way into the courthouse. It was a
reminder that vou're not hkelv to get a fair tiial or fair treatment inside of that building .
•, .... .r...,.. .r.....
That, to me, was one of the UDC's most overt signs to the local black community that,
'\Ve're in charge here. This is a white man's government"'
Around the start of \Vorld vVar I, UDC membership hit a peak of 100,000. In addition to
erecting cheap, mass-produced statues from Yankee manufacturers at an astonishing dip,
the UDC in this era was venturing into uncharted public relations territory for the time.
\\7hen the group learned in 1912 that a new transcontinental higlnvay 1,,vas to be named for
Abraham Lincoln, members fundraised and lobbied state legislatures to build a competing
cross-country highway named after Jeilerson Davis. Though the project \Vas never fully
realized, a handful of states still have roadways named for the leader of a rogue lJ.S.
enemy state. In 1923, the UDC successfully lobbied the U.S. Senate to build a
\Vashington, D.C., monument "in memory of the faithful slave mammies ofthe South."
The project died in the House, but the UDC succeeded in putting up other "loval slave"
markers elsewhere, bolstering the sinister Lost Cause lie that blacks had been content in
'-
bondage.
"The UDC always had ties to the Klan," says Heidi Christensen, former president of the
Seattle UDC chapter who quit the group in 2012. "But the connection became n1ore overt
in the 1910s. You've got Birth tf a Nation, and then the second rising of the Klan, and you
see [the UDC] openly revering the KKK and defonding then1 as saviors of the white
Southern race during Reconstruction. Those things made it dear they were loyal to the
Klan and sa,v them as heroes. And in some \vays [the UDC vvas] sort oflike the KKK's
more feminine,. genteel sister organization."
ln a 1915 letter to the designer and original sculptor of the Confederate monument at Stone
1.1ountain, Georgia UDC member Caroline Plane requested Khmsmen be represented in
the marker because "the Klan ... saved us from Negro domination and caq)etbag mle." One
year later, Los Angeles UDC leader i\nnie Cooper Burton penned a book simply titled The
Ku Klux Klan that encouraged every UDC division to get "a memorial tablet dedicated to
the Ku Klux Klan." UDC "historian" Laura lviartin Rose's 1914 book, The Ku Klux Klan
or Invisible Empire, today reads like KKK fan fiction, brimming with swooning passages
about the Klan's knack fr)r racially terrorizing black people. Rose justifies that tenor by
leaning into the racist lie about the need to violently protect the sanctity of white
\vomanhood.
"'fhis book was unanimously endorsed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.,.,"
Rose writes, "[who] pledged to endeavor to secure its adoption as a supplementary reader
in the schools and to place it in the librmies of our land."
The UDC's endorsement ofpro-Confoderate textbooks---------and bans of those that didn't

promote the Lost Cause---------would ultimately shape Southern education and historical
men1ory fr)r generations. That effort started ahnost immediately after the group's
establishment, when members began promoting textbooks for schoolchildren such as
Susan Pendleton Lee's Advanced S'chool Histm:v qf the [Jnited ,5tates. The 1895 book
concluded the upside of slavery was that "hundreds of thousands of African savages [were]
civilized and Christianized,." and suggested perks included being "fed, clothed, lodged and
cared for better than any other menial class on the globe." According to Cox, the effort to
indoctrinate Southern children into the mythology of the Lost Cause-creating "living
monuments" \vlm 1,,vould propagate the UDC's agenda-became one of the UDC's greatest
priorities and legacies. The UDC's youth auxiliary, the Children of the Confederacy, was
founded in 1917.
Two years later, UDC "historian general" l\tfildred L Rutherford published a lengthv 1919
pamphlet titled A Afeasuring Rod to Te,,'t Text Books and R.€~ference Books in Schools,
C'olleges, andLibraries. The brochure advised school administn1tors charged with vetting
fr,vth.-,nlr'" in ".-•nrlr->frr->c Ql'tlnnlc ~inrl ~11! Q,-•hnl!1Qt-1r 1ndit1ri-1nnc" tn r,-,;,,_,r,t hnnl,<c fh~it rlirln't
Reject a book that calls a C'mf/t:derate soldier a traitor, a rebel and the ivar a rebellion
Reject a hook that says the Southfcmght to hold her slaves
Reject a hook that speaks t?{ the slaveholder a,,, cruel or W?fust to his slaves
Reject a textbook that glor[fies Lincoln and vil(fies ,h1ferson Davis

The brochure also advised Southern librarians to vandalize hooks in their own co11ections
that did not adhere to these rules by \\Titing "Lhtjust to the South" on the title page. This
method of vetting history textbooks became common practice in Southern schools from the
1920s through the late 1970s. \Vhite Southen1 children---------as well as their black peers, who
inherited old textbooks when whites had no more use for them---------were steeped in the myths
and delusions of white supremacy.
That misinfr,nnation cmnpaign has infon11ed the politics oflawmakers from Strrnn
Thurmond to Jeff Beauregard Sessions to Kay Ivey, resulting in policy-1naking that springs
frrnn anti-blackness and Confederate apologia. Neo-Confodernte politicians raised on UDC
propaganda have in recent years passed cultural heritage laws that make Confederate
monument removal illegal and fabricated the existence of black Confederate soldiers to
promote the fable that the Confederacy was an exercise in diversity. Virginia Senate
candidate Corey Stewait built a campaign platJonn out of a pile of Confederate
monuments draped in rebel flags-and very little else-and secured the GOP nomination.
It's not just politicians. i\ 2015 lvfcClatchy-Tviarist poll found 41 percent of Americans
don't believe in the immutable fact of slavery as the catalyst for the Civil \Var. And those
books aren't folly out of circulation. Earlier this year, angry parents in Texas complained
after discovering their kids were being taught history from a textbook that goes out of its
way to declare some enslavers "kind and generous owners," among other offonsive tidbits.
The UD(~: Stm \Vinning
By the UDC's o,vn estimates, current membership stands somewhere around 25,000. In
2008, the lJDC issued a "Reaffinnation of the Objectives of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy,." 1,,vhich began by restating its objectives from the group's 1919 Articles of
Incorporation: "Historical, Benevolent, Educational, IVIemmial and Patriotic." But among
the Lost Cause rhetoric about "Confederate valor" and references to "the \Var Bet\1/een the
States" was an update that makes dear UDC eflorts to distance itself from its racist legacy
and those who carry it forth:
BE IT KN01YlV, that T71e United Daughters c~fthe CmrfederacyJ{) does not associate 1Yith
or include in its t!fJicial UDC'fimctions and e1'ents, m~y individual, group or organization
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BE IT FURTJfER KNOTf~V, that The United Daughters cf the Cm;federacy'(Jt: 1vil! not
associate 'With m~y individual, group or organization identU1ed as being militant,
unpatriotic, racist or subversive to the United States c?fAmerica and its Flag.
Even as the rest of the country has empted in debates, and occasional violence, over
Confederate monuments, the UDC has generally kept a low profile. Ivlen1bers rarely speak
publicly or respond to activists or the media. (The group did not respond to a request for
comment on this story by press time,) A rare exception followed the 2017 Unite the Right
raUy in Charlottesville, an event \vhose target audience vvas racists enraged over the
proposed removal of a Robert E, Lee statue, I-leather ]--leyer' s murder and the beating of
DeAndre Harris proved the violent extremes white racists will go to in order to defend
Confederate monuments,
"\Ve are grieved that certain hate groups have taken the Confederate flag and other
symbols as their own," UDC President Patricia Ivt Bryson wrote on the group's website.
"\Ve as an Organization do not sit in judgment of [our ancestors] nor do we impose the
standards of the 21st century on these Americans of the 19th century."
In this, Bryson inadvertently confinned the UDC' s continued commitment to ignoring the
personhood of black "Americans of the 19th century," who ahvays recognized the
immorahty of slavery. New millennium, same old lJDC
Instead of putting new Confederate monuments up---------the Sons of Confederate veterans are
handling that job quite nicely--------the UDC now pursues legal action against those trying to
take them down, Over the last few years, the courts have become the primary tool of the
lJDC in fighting off challenges to their memorials,
In an ongoing case, a Texas chapter of the group sued the city of San Antonio afier a
council vote brought down a Confodernte marker. This past July, a Louisiana UDC chapter
announced plans to appeal a federal judge's dismissal of their lawsuit seeking to prevent
removal of a Shreveport ConJedernte monument The Tennessee UDC chapter sued
Vanderbilt University over its plans to remove "Confederate" from a dormitory name,
citing a $50,000 lJDC contribution to the building's construction in 1933. Vanderbilt was
ultimately forced to pay the UDC $1.2 million-the 2016 equivalent of the original
donation---------for the right to wipe the offensive word from the building's facade.
In August, the city of Franklin, Tennessee, filed suit against a local UDC chapter in
response to threats oflitigation by the group's lawyer. The issue? Plans by local officials to
put up four African-American history markers near a UDC Confoderate monument in a
town square to "help tell a fo1ler story of the Civil \Var." But the group that says it is about
anvwhere near its monument.
There are other less grand ways the UDC continues promoting its damaging and dangerous
historical hes. Kirt von Daacke, an assistant dean and profossor in the History Departlnent
at the University of Virginia, and author of a 2012 book titled Freedom Has a Face: Race,
Identi(v, and Conununi~y in J(lf(:rson 's Virginia, told me in a brief email exchange that the
UDC had emailed requesting he "come speak to the group about the 'happier' stories
during the time of slavery." IIe declined.
Eadier this year, Encyclopedia Virginia editor Brendan vVolfo wrote a brilliant response,
quoted below, to demands from the state's UDC branch to revise its entrv on the group to
omit the term "white supremacy." (The group also has a petition calling for the same
change to its Wikipedia page.)
... AH of these things add up to a nostalgic elevation of a society the foundation of which
was the violent enslavement of other human beings. And this "elevation" was not by
accident. H came at precisely the moment when those frmnerly enslaved people were
competing with their fiJn11er enslavers for political power. By asserting that slavmy was
not that bad and that white people had always acted honorably and in the best interests of
blacks,. the Lost Cause became an argument for a society in which vvhite people belonged
at the top of the order and blacks at the bottom.
That's white supremacy.
\Vhat does this look like in practice? A Virginia histrny textbook from around the time of
UDC's founding, written by a Virginia woman, described enslaved people this way:
"Generally speaking, the negroes proved a harmless and affectionate race, easily governed,
and happy in their condition."
... That's white supremacy.
So 1,,vere efforts by veterans' and memorial groups to censor textbooks that attempted to
advance a different understanding of slavery. So was Birth of a Nation, a film that cast
black legislators as corrupt, ignorant, and less than human. So vvas the vlolence of slavery
brought into the post-slavery world: the lynching of John Henry James just outside of
Charlottesville, for instance. A witness wrote her husband two days later that "it behooves
the Virginia men to be on their guard at aU times" fbr "black devils" like James, "whom
we have been taxed to educate, & give the rights of a white man." They are not fit for such
freedom, she wrote; they will only rape your women.
That's white supremacy, hut so is a rc/i1sal to engage thi,,, history. To understand it only as
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If you think the exan1ples above are chelTy-picked, then you ought to read more widely in
the sources. These were mainstream, acceptable attitudes in their day, and an attempt to
acknowledge and understand them is crucial fr)r dealing with the issues of today.
Past Time to lTpdate the Story
Despite the various ,vays in which the UDC has contributed to the miseducation of the
American public and helped mainstream white racist terror, there's been little public
shaming of the group or its members.
A recent article bv AP reporter Allen Breed notes that the govenunent of Virginia stiU
awards its state branch "tens of thousands of dollars for the maintenance of Confoderate
graves---------more than $L6 million since 1996." Funding to maintain black grave sites from
the late 19th and early 20th centuries only began in 2017, after a series of bills cleared the
Virginia General Assembly.
"I think many ofus have taken an interest in this group because no one else has," Heather
Redding says, explaining why she and fellow activists have focused their efforts on the
UDC as part of a larger strategy of anti-racist action, "It doesn't seem like there's been any
sort of movement to hold them resrt__ )Onsible for the damage
"--· tbev've
,.., done and for the vvav,..,
they continue to impede racial reconciliation and healing in this country. Once you start
going down the rabbit hole oflooking at their propaganda, it's hard to fathom that this
group still exists. i\nd the more you realize how entrenched they are in this false narrative
they've constmcted, you can't help but hold them accountable for all the damage they've
done over generations and generations."
'Tm sure these ladies are ve1y nice ladies. I'm sure they're doting grandmothers and they
love kittens. And they are also the Great Aunt Bettys of fi.)lks who are sitting on the city
council. So how dare you say she is a racist? But that's part of the problem of the
nonnalization," says Schmidt. "We,. as a country, should have moved beyond this-the
fact that these \vmnen \Vere able to install monuments that are still here, in some cases, 100
years later, that we can't get rid of. There's just not the political ,vi11 to remove them. ln as
much as political officials don't want to challenge this, they are passively aHmving this
ideology to win. And this organization is still winning."
The above tvas originally published on the Dailv Beast. Click to read the article online.
Kali Holloway is the director of Make It Right, a pn~ject of the Independent 1l-Iedia
Institute.
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From: Jerry Dyer
Sent: 11/6/2018 1:54:51 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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chance ll or Folt
I am Jerry Dyer, a graduate of the class of 1969. It really saddened me to see t he statue of silent Sam
torn down by people who probably did not know for what the statue stood.
Please put the statue in a prominent place for people to see and understand that it stands for the UNC
participants who died in the civi l War. I doubt many Confederate infantrymen owned slaves or were
fighting for slavery's existence.
I would like to suggest the statue be placed in the southern Historical collection in Wilson Library.
There it could be part of the collection and be right at home with the wealth of southern scholarship
contained there.
Thank you so much for any consideration and thank you for the wonderful job you are doing for our beloved
University.
Jerry Dyer
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ubi caritas et amor
Deus i bi est
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Subject: Psychology and Neuroscience Departmental Statement on "Si lent Sam"
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I hope this email finds you well. As plans are made for the Silent Sam monument, I wanted to share our
Psychology & Neuroscience Departmental Statement on Silent Sam, which was recently drafted and approved
by our faculty. We appreciate your efforts to consider various points of view and hope that it is not too late for
our statement, and the supporting science, to be considered in ongoing planning efforts.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Our statement and supporting references and links can be found at:
https://psychology.unc.edu/2018/10/16/departmenta l-stateme nt-on-silent-sam/
Sincerely,
Professor Neblett
Director of Diversity Initiatives
Enrique W. Neblett, Jr., PhD

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Dear Chancellor FolL"
I recently retired from the School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and
Management: aft:er 28 years,
I know you have received much input on the Silent Sam issue, and my comments may be
redundant but in the case they may offer additional insight, I offer them,
I am from South where I grevv up playing pretend wars between the north and the
south, ]Jurinbo· a dedication ccrenmnv at mv high school, I was an usher, dressed in a
J J L,
confederate uniform, The Civil \Var was a conunon part of my upbringing,
I also entered the Marine Corps, serving in Viet Nam as a helicopter pilot
Since my youth, I had a different: take cm things"J was always "accused" being a
Hbera1 But in those days, every Southern family had its eccentric that: was tolerated and
strn included in extended frnnily events,
I earned a Baccalaureate deb0 ree from Duke before groing to Viet Nam; a Master's degrree in
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Public Administration from NC State, and a PhD, In Public Policy frmn UNC-Chape! Hilt
And; of cm1rsr:; worked and taught in the School of Public Health, an institution with the
best mission and people in the world,
As a southerner, a combat veteran, an academic and a public policy professional K suggest

that SHe:nt Sarni be n1oved to the Old Chapel HiH Cernetery, Herc is rny reasoning,
I understand a little the history of the statue and realize that its initial placement vvas to
honor a way of life that many in the early 1900's stiH wanted to cling to, For that reason,
the stat:ue should be 1nelted down, However, it can also be looked upon as
acknowledgen1cnt of the rnany who died in a conflict out of their control and from a
n1isguidcd sense of duty,
I vvas motivated by a sense of duty and a faith in our national leaders, to enter the Marine
Corps and go to Viet Nam, even when i had doubts about that conflict
I think a re-dedication of Silent Sam in the old cemetery stating that the idea
slavery and the institutions supporting it, arc dead, should be buried and have no life
among the living is appropriate, At the same time, acknowledging the suffering, the nation
went through during that tragic time and, in particular, what ordinary men and women
endured in the fighting is appropriate,
If both sides of this issue could accept a comprornise similar to this and participate in a re-
dedication, we mav be able tqut this issue behind us, The idea of slavcrv is dead and
w w
should never be resurrected, but we should also keep reminders how we erred so we
never go down this again, The Gennans have done this by rejecting the ideas that:
lead to Nazism and by keeping reminders the horrors that time, By doing this, it is
less likely the lessons of hJstory wm be lost, and thus repeated,
Janies V Porto (Jim) Ph,ll, MPA (and Former Marine)

Retired From Health Policv and Management
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Gillings Global School of Public Health

UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hm, NC 27599-7411
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Marine." Do not describe Marines as soldiers, which is generally associated with the Army,
Use "troops" if a generic term is needed, AP Stylebook
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immediately; a few good men arc wanted to make up her complement" (Marine Captain
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cowards and its figrht:inbo· bv fools, Thucvdides
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Sent: 10/16/2018 9:12:44 AM
Subject: Silent Sam:
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Chancellor Folt:
I have been very concerned about the issues and incidents regarding the statute of Silent Sam. I strongly believe
that the statute should not be replaced or otherwise moved to some other location on the University grounds. I
also believe that the State Historic Commission may well have full jurisdiction over the final disposition of
Silent Sam. Dr. Kevin Cherry, the Deputy Secretary of Culture Affairs, may be the appropriate party to assist
you with this matter. Please let me know if I can help in any way.
0. Max Gardner III

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unfettered by racial and other prejLKiices, with a dedication to service to society, with an intellectual sharpness, and
with an ability to think strai9ht now and throu9hout life. All of these poals are of outra9eous ambitions."
\I .C. Governor Sanford, September 1984
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusion of knowledge."

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shut."
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Dear Chancellor Folt and the Board of 'Trustees,
l am an alumna. I was born in Chapel Hill, l cunently live in Chapel Hill, and l am raising my children
. I met mv. future husband in Monison
here. l have wonderful memories of mv., time at the Universitv.
donn.
l feel compelled to write you because l have heard that a tally of emails and letters win determine
whether or not Silent Sam will be resunected and I find that disturbing. Leaders don't make decisions
this way. And if Silent Sain is put back up, that ,viU be a reflection on you. Do you want to be
remernbered fcrr being on the right side of histmy or the wrong side?
The lJniversity should be a place that welcomes all people. Silent Sam's original pmvose was to
divide, terrorize, and intimidate. 'Ihere is no place for that in our community. Resurrecting Silent Sam
would be a stain and an embarrassment for the University, town, and state.
l also believe that many people, like myseH: who didn't protest and publicly advocate for the removal
of the statue would find the courage to speak up if the statue is put back up.
Reinstalling Silent Sam would inflict unnecessary harm to our community. l urge you not to bring
Silent Sam back to our campus. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Miranda Mullen Shook

Class of 2004
Message
From: Ev Dove
Sent: 10/12/2018 4:15:31 PM
CC: City Desk [city@dailytarheel.com]
Subject: Ask Daughters of Confederacy to build a museum to place statues in, so like-minded people have a place to go.
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Ask Daughters of Confederacy to build a museum to place all their statues in, so like-minded people
have a place to go.
Note the Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro.
Not like statues on public university grounds and state capital trying to intimidate like slave
overseers.
Just a history museum.
Evelyn Dove-Coleman, UNC '75, '78

1st black UNC Student Body Secretary
Message
From: Michael Lindsay
Sent: 10/12/2018 12:55:10 PM
Subject: Proposal for updating the Silent Sam statue at UNC Chapel Hill
Attachments: Silent Sam Proposed Update.pdf
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Dear Chancellor Falt and the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees,
Attached is a proposal for updating the Silent Sam statue at UNC Chapel Hill. I believe this is a win -win solution
that will help you meet the November 15th deadline for submitting a plan to the UNC system's Board of
Governors for Silent Sam's "disposition and preservation." This proposal accomplishes the following goals:
1. Returns Silent Sam to its pedestal. Thereby adhering to a 2015 state law that prevents moving historic
monuments. Also, this action does not reward the mob who illegally pulled down the statue in August.
2. Adds a "ring of history" that will give new context to the monument; while not altering the monument
itself (in keeping with State law).
3. Honors both UNC alumni who put down their books to fight, and African Americans who suffered the
consequences of slavery and Jim Crow.
4. Maintains our history while evolving to a more complete understanding of it.
5. Offers a win-win solution for everybody concerned; Silent Sam is returned to its historic location, while
a more complete history of the monument is created.
These points are in the attached I-page PDF, along with visuals of the proposed "ring of history."
Thank you for your time reviewing this information. It is my hope that this proposal will satisfy most people on
both sides of this controversy; while maintaining our history, and improving our understanding of it.
Sincerely,
Michael Lindsay
1) Put the Silent Sam statue back on its pedestal.
2) InstalI a ring of semi-opaque glass around the statue (IeveI with the top of the pedestal). The glass will sit in a
metal frame supported by 4 polls; metal will be similar in color to the monument's stone base.•-
3) Quotes and historical references will be etched into the glass; creating a "ring of history:'
The round ring of glass will still allow complete viewing of the statue and plaques on the pedestal, while offering new
historical updates. In addition to the re-discovered Julian Carr quote from his dedication speech, other quotes and
the history of this statue will give new context to Silent Sam.
*A more creative support structure that does away with the metal polls next to the pedestal, and allows the ring of history to "float"
around the statue is possible. (It will be more expensive to build, but more exciting)
The combination of restoring Silent Sam to

his pedestal and adding a ring of history will:
• Honor UNC alumni who put down their
books and volunteered to fight.
• Honor African Americans who suffered the
consequences of slavery and Jim Crow.
• Be honest about our country's history,
acknowledging the good and the bad.
• End a controversy with a win-win solution.
• Maintain our history while evolving to a
more complete understanding of it.
Concept and design by lvlichael Lindsay

Contact information:
C•;',2018 Michael Lindsay

Message
From: Jnewbanks
Sent: 10/6/2018 6:52:05 AM
Subject: Positive Idea for Silent Sam
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Dear chancellor Folt

I am a UNC alum, class of 1984, and a former member of the marching and basketball pep bands. Typically
I supply my ideas under an alias, but as UNC is one of my alma maters (the other the University of Notre
Dame), I write under my true identity. For the record, my ideas have been adopted by others; but, I
receive no credit as I never wished any.
To the point of silent Sam. Instead of relocating silent Sam, what if the quad was reinvented into a
statue garden? silent Sam has many histories on the UNC campus, including the one to which I was taught
on a new student tour - he's searching for virgins and nobody ever discussed the American civil War,
racism, etc. The plaque on one side, if placed on any other war memorial, would never be found
objectionable. It is also fair and reasonable for the University to recognize fallen alums - even from
the American civil War.
To diminish the impact of a single statue (no matter where it is placed) add statues for other wars, but
also add statues for our alumni, such as those that fought for civil rights or were pioneers in medicine,
science or renown for other reasons. But no benefactors, per se.
Turn the quad into a garden celebrating the alumni of UNC. Not necessarily their policies. While it is
regrettable that one individual gave a hateful speech at silent Sam's unveiling, I do think it is
reasonable to believe that some, maybe many or most, simply wanted a memorial to those that they loved
and lost. This is the way that I always saw silent Sam, and the virgin thing. For the record, to the
best of my ancestral knowledge, my family would have been in the Ohio River valley during that war and
none fought for the Confederacy, so I do not have some personal attachment to this topic.
I will admit that I do not understand those that feel anguish from something that occurred 150 years ago,
the civil War, I do get that many have been victims of recent racism. I do not feel that silent Sam
necessarily represents current racism as we can document racism in multiple directions, including against
whites - although I have never personally experienced it.
I recognize that no matter what you or a committee choose to do, some will find your decision to be
objectionable. Frankly, there are many things that UNC has recently done or does today that I find
objectionable. But I shall leave those for another day.
John Newbanks
PS - While I have never been a benefactor of UNC of any consequence - my sons attended elsewhere and so
did my money - if such an idea above were adopted, I would be happy to pledge to support it financially.
I would imagine that it would take years, if not decades to fulfill such a vision. And in just 3 more
semesters, I won't be sending my money to u of SC. Yay !
Sent from my iPad
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To the Board of Trustees, I am writing to you as a proud graduate of the UNC Graduate School, employee of
the UNC system, North Carolina resident, and all around southerner, having grown up in Texas. I am asking
you to please keep Silent Sam out of the public eye. Removal to a museum and contextualization within the Jim
Crow era would be appropriate. The argument that removing statues is erasing history is silly. To trot out the
obvious hackneyed example, in Germany there are no monuments to Hitler or Nazism and yet the world
manages to remember what happened in World War II. No one, except for Neonazis and other white
supremacists, argues that the Nazis should be honored for their enthusiastic embrace of and willingness to die
for their ideals. Although many people believe that Confederate monuments are simply signs of respect to
soldiers who fought during the Civil War, in the vast majority of cases--not just in North Carolina but
throughout the south--the statues were erected decades after the end of the war with the specific intent of
resisting any sort of racial equality. During the unveiling of the statue, Julian Carr stated that it was in honor of
those who fought to save "the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South" and noted that "to-day, as
a consequence the purest strain of the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States." He
recalled with pride that he horsewhipped a "negro wench" for insulting a white woman. At other times,
he praised the KKK and argued that black men should be kept in line with lynchings and public
execution. He was proud to honor the new statue because it represented exactly what his life
represented--a commitment to white supremacy and the debasement of African Americans.
Imagine a student of color encountering the endorsement of white supremacy when walking across
the grounds of a university that purports to value diversity and inclusion--and yes, I truly believe that
returning the statue to its former position is in fact declaring that white supremacy, slavery, and Jim
Crow are worthy of respect If "history" is really what we're after, pretending that this isn't a monument
to racism is bad history. And the excuse "it's just a sign of its time" rings hollow and hypocritical. If
these monuments are not associated with white supremacy, ask yourselves why the modern KKK
and Neonazis are so intent on keeping them around. In a poll concerning the removal of the Robert E.
Lee statue in Charlottesville, 73% percent of African Americans wanted it gone. Why do you think that
is? Are you willing to embrace the notion that black people just don't know what they're talking about?
The fact that many white people believe that these statue just represent honor for soldiers is no
justification for keeping it. UNC is an institution of higher education and should not make decisions
based on white people's lack of historical knowledge--in this case their ignorance over the original
purpose for erecting the statue.
Again, I ask you to remove the statue to a museum or similar venue where people can go not to
honor those who fought to preserve slavery and, later, racial injustice, but to learn about a painful part
of American history and, hopefully, strive to do a better job in the present.
Sincerely, Alison Gulley, Ph.D.

Message
From: Allegra L. Jordan
Sent: 9/5/2018 8:26:44 AM
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CC: Tiane Mitchell Gordon
Subject: The Courage to Remember & Silent Sam
Dear UNC Board,

cc Tiane Mitchell-Gordon
We can honor the dead without insulting the living. We can re-build community without inflicting pain on one
side.
Please do not return Silent Sam to its current pedestal. Please consider the words of your regular visitor, the late
Rev. Peter J. Gomes, in the matter of what to do about Silent Sam.
You have an opportunity to create a new legacy for UNC - a beautiful one that widens the narrow vision the
statue represents.
I live in Chapel Hill. I wrote a best-selling novel about war memorials and community building at Harvard -
yes, the same Harvard that Julian Carr cites for having people on both sides of the Civil War but excludes them
from Memorial Hall. Peter said that was wicked - though he was descended from slaves. Peter says you must
include everyone to move forward.
My grandfather was one of the last actual son's of a Confederate veteran. My other grandfather - in Ohio -
owned the house that was part of the Underground Railroad.
I am mixed tribally- but I am not mixed up about what a beloved community needs to flourish. You have the
power to build that community in a way that will echo through the ages with its kind, beautiful voice.
At Harvard Peter Gomes opened my vision about what can be done with a war memorial. And he was no liberal
- for much of his life he was a staunch GOP member, giving the prayer at a GOP president's inauguration.
The Courage to Remember 1991 by Rev. Peter Gomes, Harvard Memorial Church
Over on the North Wall (of the Memorial Church) in the far back is a plaque in Latin, which most ofyou will be
unable to read In translation it says this, "Harvard University has not forgotten its sons, 11/ho under opposite
colors also gave their lives in the Great War.'' And then there are listed four German members of the University
who died in the service of the Kaiser in the First World War. This is one of the more extraordinary memorials
in this church. You will notice that it is separated by a vast acreage from the memorial to the war dead of the
first War in the Jvfemorial Room. This was a controversial matter in 1932 when this church was built. And the
University authorities said that they could not in good conscience include the war dead of the enemy in the
same place as the war dead of the Allies. And it was my predecessor, the Chairman of the Board of Preachers,
Willard Sperry, who with his colleagues said this is wrong. "We cannot contravene the President and Fellows
ofHarvard College, who are we against them?" But we could improve upon their narrow vision and in this
church ive shall remember them. And we did and we do and there they are. A reminder of the fact that
humanity transcends the sides and there are no victors ultimately; there are only those to be commended to
God
Consider commending us all to God in ways that invite the community to heal. That vision moves you forward
in this contentious debate.
Sincerely,
Allegra Jordan
Author of THE END OF INNOCENCE
Co-author of MY SOUL IS NOT SHREDDED with Tiane Mitchell Gordon
Photos of the shredded dress at Silent Sam's pedestal and poem here:
My co-author and I have written a poem to give voice to the person Julian Carr bragged about torturing which
he bragged about at the dedication of the statue. It's called MY SOUL IS NOT SHREDDED.
https ://reconciliationpoetry. com/original-poems/my-soul-is-not-shredded/

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Subject: disposition of the monument known as Silent Same
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I recently sent the following email to each member of the Board of Trustees. I
would like you to have a copy of my message.
Thank you for your service and leadership.
William L. Andrews
E. Maynard Adams Professor of English
Thomas Jefferson Award 2015
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Dear Mr. or Ms. :
The monument to the Confederacy and white supremacy known as "Silent Sam"
should not be returned to the public space where it was erected in 1913. Nor
should it be defaced or destroyed. It should be relocated to a private space, such
as a museum, or to a state park devoted to the history of North Carolina's role in
the Civil War.
Reinstatement of the monument to its former location will have numerous

detrimental consequences. Such an action will create a flashpoint for greater
protests and worse violence. It will be extremely costly to sustain. It will hamper
the University's ability to recruit the best students and faculty, irrespective of
color, ethnicity, or national origin. Just as we would not want the state of North
Carolina to be known globally as the home of the infamous "bathroom bill," let us
not make UNC-Chapel Hill notorious nationally and internationally as an institution
of higher learning where a monument to the Confederacy and white supremacy is
now defended and honored.
Thank you for your service and leadership.
Respectfully,
William L. Andrews
E. Maynard Adams Distinguished Professor of English
UNC-Chapel Hill Thomas Jefferson Award 2015
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(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=104FA9CBCCSB44F4980A6843D27A3060-BENJAMIN S]
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Subject: plans for Si lent Sam statue?
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I am writing to express my concerns that the Silent Sam statue will be reinstalled in McKorkle Place . BOG
member Thom Goolsby is reported to have 'tweeted' that the monument will be reinstalled and that CH
"police who did nothing will be held accountable" (https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/ora nge-county-
news/-sil ent -sam -to-be- reinstalled-withi n-90-days-unc-bog-member-says/1393253906).
If this is how state leaders are framing the situation, the university has totally failed in its messaging on this
issue.This controversy surrounding this statue has been simmering for some time and many feel that the
university has presented no public plan of action for how to deal with it. As a result of inaction and little and
confusing public messaging on this, the statue wa s vandalized . This act can be seen as a direct result of the
university's ineffective, weak, and confusing attitudes on Silent Sam. Posturing emails from your office over
the past week (clearly aimed at different audiences) emphasizing public safety and community and
threatening strong legal action have not helped. Trying to placate both North Carolina 's General Assembly,
the BOG and alumni who want things to stay the same, and faculty, students and community members who
want things to change has not been effective.
In any case, I would suggest that the Silent Sam statue be considered a potential Public Nuisance, likely to
create dangerous conditions on campus and should therefore not be reinstalled. I am sure Legal Counsel can
find a way to argue this to counter the General Assembly's hastily crafted law banning the alteration of
'historic' monuments.
Perhaps this is an opportunity for the University to take a more active and stronger role in presenting a plan
for how to deal with this issue.
Since I am not hearing anything from the University, here are some options:
1) take a leadership role on the issue of confederate monuments and organize a meeting of university leaders
and stake holders from across the South on campus
2) make a plan for a new (larger) monument located close to Silent Sam (in front or behind) highlighting UNC's
aspirations for the future. Either futuristic or classical (or a combo) this could direct positive energy at
something new and exciting
3) replace the Silent Sam bronze statue with a modern digital 3-D image visible on top of the pedestal at night
that can rotate between multiple characters from UNCs history including Sam
4) incorporate the Silent Sam monument into a larger monument that tells a more inclusive story of UNC
values and aspirations, perhaps quoting Julian Carr's speech at the monument's unveiling.
5) move Sam from the main axis of the university to another location, acknowledging the need to honor UNC's
Civil War dead (as Harvard does with its Memorial Hall) but shifting the narrative from its Jim Crow era
messaging.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Arbuckle
Benjamin S. Arbuckle, PhD

Associate Professor
email: bsarbu@email.unc.edu
https.//unc.academia.edu/BenJaminArbuckle
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I write to urge you not to reinstall the silent Sam statue on Mccorkle place.
Simply put, this statue represents racism and oppression and has no place in our institution of learning.
Sincerely,
Jennifer E. Arno l d
Dept. of Psychology and Neuroscience
UNC chapel Hill
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Dear UNC Trustees and Chancellor Folt,
I would like to add my voice to those of the many who I expect have written you to say that the statue should
not be restored to its 'place of honor' on McCorkle Place.
Thank you,
Emily Baragwanath
Emily Baragwanath
Associate Professor of Classics
Director of Graduate Studies, Classics
http://classics. unc. edu/people/facu lty/em ily-baragwanath
212 Murphey Hall, CB# 3145
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Subject: Post-Silent Sam
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As a longtime community member, UNC graduate, current faculty member,

I want to express my strong encouragement to resist the pressure to return Silent Sam to our
campus. We would be acting along with other campuses and cities who allowed the toppling of confederate
symbols to result in their permanent removal. North Carolina, as you all well know, has participated explicitly
in a long history of racial oppression. Returning the statue at this time would be acting counter to the direction
of inclusion that UNC values as a university "for all." It would also be to the detriment of the health and
wellbeing of members of our most vulnerable groups, which in turn, affects every one of us.
I hope you use this opportunity for moral courage and leadership.
Thank you,
Debbie
Deborah Barrett, PhD, LCSVV

School of Social Work &
School of Medicine - Psychiatry
office: 919-843-58"18
email: dbarretl@unc.edu
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Subject: Letter regarding Silent Sam
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Dear Members of the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Falt,
I am a retiree from UNC-Chapel Hill after 35 years of service, and a native North Carolinian having grown up in
Kannapolis, North Carolina. I have lived in Orange County, Hillsborough, and Chapel Hill since 1975. I am 65 years old
and white. I received my degree from UNC-Charlotte, and have always lived in North Carolina, determined to make it a
better place in whatever way I could.
I regret that the slow response to doing something honorable about Silent Sam led to its toppling instead of an
appropriate governing response. I am among those who wanted to see it removed to a museum or other location that
would place the monument in a true historical context, explaining that the statue was born out of racist hate and
misogyny, and lack of respect for the Union of the United States. The Confederacy was a traitorous secessionist action
with hopes of continuing the abominable, inhuman, business of slavery.
I have nothing against mourning soldiers sent off to any war. They are all a sacrifice of human life which shouldn't ever
have to happen. But, again, this statue celebrated a secessionist government that lost its war. Mourn all the soldiers of
the Civil War, but not in a way that celebrates the cruelty, bigotry, and racism of the movement that lost it. Also mourn
the innumerable slave lives that were lost or permanently damaged by slavery. And the damage the war and slavery
brought to our country, and continues to cripple. Bring us into Union again, and not into a slavery of baser values.
I trust you have read the text from Carr at the erection of the statute. I have walked by that statute for over 40 years.
Chapel Hill is one of my two hometowns, but when I walked by it I had to sometimes force myself to remember what it
stood for, and not the pleasantness of having a statue of a handsome solider in the quad.
I have heard that you are considering all options "including one that features a location on campus to display
the monument in a place of prominence, honor, visibility, availability and access." This statue does not deserve a place
of "prominence, honor, visibility". It doesn't deserve to be erased from history necessarily either. Are we not an
educational institution? And does this not create a perfect opportunity for teaching and living up to the higher values of
the University, the State, and the Country?
I add my voice to those who do not agree that it should be "on a location on campus to display the monument in a place
of prominence, honor, visibility." It must be placed, whatever happens to it, in context, and the reasons behind erecting
the statue be explained truthfully, and forthrightly.
The Tao Te Ching states:
If you want to govern the people,

you must place yourself below them.
If you want to lead the people,
you must learn how to follow them.
I ask in all humility, and concern for the devastations that are being wrought on our democracy and our highest values,
that you make a proper and moral decision about the future of Silent Sam.
I send my gratitude to you for all you do, and my belief that you are people whose hearts and souls are with us all.
Jeffery Beam
Former Librarian, Former Vice-Chair of the UNC-CH Employee Forum, Poet, Editor, and Citizen
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Subject: On Silent Sam -- from a former faculty member and an alum
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Chancellor Folt -
I moved to North Carolina in 1991 to attend the UNC School of

Social Work. i intended to serve the people of North Carolina, and
that is what I have done for my entire career in mental health.
You presented a public service award to me in 2015 for my work
on the Critical Time Intervention project, for my work with
people experiencing homelessness and mental illness.
I worked at UNC for 21 years-- 17 in the Department of Psychiatry

and 4 in the School of Social Work. I lost funding in 2016, and with
it my faculty position.
But I remain interested in what happens at UNC. I want to share

with you some writing that I did after attending the Confederate
rally on campus in 2015. Silent Sam is a symbol of white
supremacy. I am a daughter of the South. We need to reconcile
this history; to change the narrative of this university. I implore
you not to replace the statue.
Here is what I wrote in 2015, updated in 2016:
Reflections on a Confederate Rally in Chapel Hill

Barbara B. Smith
11/21/16
As the daughter of an Episcopal priest, I went to church a lot. My
father was a good preacher, but I developed an ability to tune
him out. His sermons were a time for me to daydream and to let
my mind wander. So I am fortunate that my father wrote a
memoir before he died. Now, at a different stage of my life, i am
more open to hearing him.
I thought of my father on October 24th, 2015 when I was
attending a counter protest to a pro-confederate rally at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After many loud pick
up trucks flying large Confederate flags drove down Franklin St.,
the main street in this lovely Southern college town, the group
gathered in the parking lot of the Morehead Planetarium. They
stood beside the Chapel of the Cross, the Episcopal church with a
long connection to the university. I felt afraid, and angry.
I think my father's ghost visited me at that moment. Instead of
walking away, I walked toward the protesters, feeling the urge to
sing a hymn from my childhood that speaks of fighting the dragons
of anger.
In the brief conversation I had with the Confederate protesters,
we talked about Southern heritage. Like them, I have a proud
Southern heritage. My ancestors included signers of the
Declaration of Independence, a governor, an ambassador, an
architect, and a bishop. Some were rice planters and built their
great wealth using the technical skill and brutal labor of enslaved
African Americans. My fa the r's namesake was the presiding bishop
of the Episcopal Church after the Civil War. I sang Dixie when I
was a child in Alabama, and I love these Southern lands.
But I understand the complexity of our history, and the power of
symbols that can be used to terrorize and intimidate. The
celebration of the Confederate flag and monuments like Silent
Sam, erected at a time when Jim Crow laws were being used to
deny equal rights, and organized groups like the Ku Klux Klan
terrorized people of color and their allies to keep them in their
place, elicits fear amongst many.
In the early 1960s, when I was a baby, my father helped organize
a church youth gathering that included youth from white and
black churches. In the aftermath of that church-sponsored
interracial youth get-together, some clergy lost their jobs. We
had threats of a cross burning. My dad kept his job, but we had
college students stay at our home when he was away to protect
us.
That Sunday in 2015, seeing so many Confederate flags waving
proudly on the UNC Chapel Hill campus, my heart ached. The
Confederate battle flag is strongly associated with an ideology of
hate, of denying a place in our country for those perceived to be
the other. I thought of the Charleston Nine, and Our Three
Winners, three Muslim students shot execution style a few miles
from my home - all deeply religious individuals, murdered by
individuals who were filled with hate. Where did they learn to
hate so terribly?
Most of the accounts written about the protest in 2015 focused on
the loud and profane response of some counter protesters. Here is
what I saw on campus: there were two groups of counter-
protestors, one well-organized by UNC students. This group stood
on the opposite side of Silent Sam from the pro-Confederate rally.
They were loud, and at times used profanity in their chants. Not
everyone in this group joined in the profanity. There was also a
smaller group of counter-protesters, not organized by UNC
students. They stood very close to the Confederate rally and were
verbally abusive and confrontational. There was a large and calm
police presence, with barricades set up around the statue of
Silent Sam, separating the two main groups.
After awhile, the student-organized group moved away from the
monument. We gathered on the steps of a nearby building. As
people stood to speak, I saw courage and powerful emotion. A
group of African American women led the speakers. We heard
from a Palestinian man, an Asian American woman, and a white
South African man. This group represented the university that i
love, an inclusive community that includes all in the human
family.
We all stood up against hate. It was important for me to be there
for two reasons-to support the students, and to be a witness to
the event. I didn't know then where we'd be in the Fall of 2016,
and what sleeping dragons we would wake. For all those
considered ''other" and their allies who stand up against hate, I
will continue to stand with you.
ulet faith be my shield and let joy be my steed
·Gainst the dragons of anger, the ogres of greed
And let me set free with the sword of my youth
From the castle of darkness, the power of truth"
Bebe (Barbara B.) Smith, MSW '93
Bebe Smith, MSW, LCSW

Social Worker/Consultant
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Subject: Against reinstalling Confederate statue
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Dear Board of Trustee members,
As a faculty member at UNC, I write to strongly urge against reinstalling the Confederate statue known as
"Silent Sam" to a place on our campus. It contributes to a divisive and unsafe atmosphere, and it does not
belong on a just and inclusive campus. It could be placed somewhere else, with its troubling history explained.
Sincerely,
Susan Bickford
Susan Bickford
Associate Professor of Political Science
Message
From: Blain Roberts [broberts@mail.fresnostate.edu]
Sent: 8/28/2018 12:12:14 AM
Subject: Silent Sam debacle
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Folt,
I am a historian who earned an M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2005) from UNC-Chapel Hill. My area of expertise is
southern history. I have just published a book about the memory of slavery, which I co-authored with my
husband, who also earned his M.A. and Ph.D from the university. Our book addresses, among many other
things, the history of Confederate and white supremacist monuments.
At UNC, I learned from some of the best historians in the country. Based on the excellent training I received, I
can unequivocally say two things:
l) Silent Sam was a monument to white supremacy that the university should have dealt with long ago, and the
administration's and BOG's inability to grasp that fact created the environment where last week's actions were
inevitable.
2) If you reinstall Silent Sam, or if you pursue disciplinary action against any of the students involved in the
statue protests or toppling, history will judge you very, very poorly.
I urge you to do the right thing.
Sincerely,
Blain Roberts
Blain Roberts
California State University, Fresno
5340 N. Campus Dr. M/S SS21
Fresno, CA 937 40-8019
Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy (The New Press, April 2018)
http://denmarkveseysgarden.com/
http://thenewpress.com/books/denmark-veseys-garden
Message
From: Bruce Lightner
Sent: 8/26/2018 11:03:56 AM
Subject: To The UNC Board of Governors
Flag: Follow up
Sunday,August26,2018
Mr® Harry l® Smith, Chairman

Universi of North Carolina Board Of Governors
Chapel Hill 1 North Carolina
Dear Mr~ Smith:
Greetings kind Sir* Below you will find an op-ed letter written by
tw =one former Student Bod Presidents of UNC Chapel
Hill, in today»s News & Observer Raleigh newspaper~ Said letter
speaks volumes as to what has been the history and
consequences of the famed, yet disgraced 1 Silent Sam Statue®
You don 1 t know me but Raleigh Mayor Tom Fetzer does, and can
speak to my pedigree~ I respectfully ask that you read the letter1
very carefully, and in doing so will summon the courage to resist
any attempt whatsoever to have the Statue reinstalled to the
UNC Campus® That would be a travesty which will only breed
more upheaval and discontent Best leave '01 Sam on moth
balls~
Most sincerely and respectfully1
I am 1 so truly yours 1
Bruce E~ Lightner
OP-ED
The News & Observer

Raleigh, North Carolina
Former UNC-Chapel Hill

student body presidents stand
with Silent Sam protesters
•
2018 05 20 Ffvl
Carolina students, faculty, and staff have a long and rich history of
fighting injustice through direct action.
The fight for racial integration, the Speaker Ban, the food worker
strike, the fight for a free-standing Black Cultural Center, the
housekeepers' movement, and the removal of the name "Saunders"
from Carolina Hall were all movements where students confronted
injustice head on - and changed the history of our university for
the better.
With the removal of Silent Sam, this generation of Carolina
students accomplished what many before them were unable to do,
despite many years of diplomacy, organizing and protest.
Although some say the statue simply commemorated alumni who

died fighting for the Confederacy, Silent Sam was dedicated almost
50 years after the end of the Civil War by a Carolina trustee to
honor those who "saved the very life of the Anglo-Saxon race in the
South" and celebrated the "pleasing duty" of beating a "negro
wench" just yards away from where the statue was erected.
As many historians have noted, a wave of statues like this were
erected across the South during the Jim Crow era as a show of
strength designed to perpetuate white supremacy. Is it any ,vonder
that for students of color, Silent Sam represented a stifling daily
reminder of hatred and oppression?
As alumni, donors, and members of the UNC community, we are
proud of the students, faculty, and staff past and present who have
,vorked tirelessly to secure the removal of Silent Sam. There is no
place on our campus for white supremacists or their symbols of
hate.
In 2015, the General Assembly enacted a law preventing the
removal of Confederate statues without approval from the NC
Historical Commission. The General Assembly passed this law amid
nationwide racial tensions, only weeks after the racially motivated
killings of nine black church goers in South Carolina and at a time
when other government officials were removing similar vestiges of
hatred around the country. The 2015 law ,vas enacted for reasons as
thinly veiled as those given for keeping Silent Sam and worked
toward the same purpose: to exert dominance and to disenfranchise
those who may have had the ability to remove the statue.
We are indeed a nation of laws. However, Thomas Jefferson, said
that "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is
obligated to do so." Acts of civil disobedience are often, by their very
nature, unlawful. Acts of civil disobedience are often unacceptable
to those in positions of power, dangerous to those participating in
such protests, and incomprehensible to those resistant to change.
We stand against unjust laws that disproportionately affect students
of color.
We are proud to stand with the students who, despite what some
view as controversial methods, finally removed a symbol of hatred
that has haunted generations of Carolina students, faculty, staff,
and members of the community. May it never return.
As with injustices that past Carolina students have tackled, today's
students have created an opportunity to once again change the arc
of our university's history for the better - this time with dialogue
and action that honors a more complete portrayal of our history and
reconciles a more truthful representation of our complicated past.
Hark the sound!
The undersigned Student Body President Emeritus,
Robert S. Powell, Jr., 1966-67; Robert M. Travis, 1967-68; S. Alan
Albright, 1969-70; Carlisle Ford Runge, 1973-74; Kevin Monroe,
1983-84; Bill Hildebolt, 1990-91; Matthew Heyd, 1991-92; George
Battle, III, 1994-95; Cal Cunningham, 1995-96; Reyna Walters-
Morgan, 1998-99; Brad Matthews, 2000-01; Justin Young, M.D.,
2001-02; Jennifer Daum, 2002-03; Matt Tepper, 2003-04; JJ
Raynor, 2008-09; Jasmin Jones, 2009-10; Hogan Medlin, 2010-
11; Mary Cooper, 2011-12; Will Leimenstoll, 2012-13; Bradley
Opere, 2016-17; and Elizabeth Adkins, 2017-18
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Subject: Silent Sam
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Dear Chancellor Falt and Members of the Board ofTrustees,
There are many folks around the state, most of whom do not live in Chapel Hill and do not have to live with that toxic
statue in their midst. They have a right to their opinions, but those opinions should not determine the fate of the statue
here in Chapel Hill. Silent Sam now represents a threat to the safety of our UNC students, faculty, staff, and
community. Do not put the statue back on its pedestal in Mccorkle Place. At the very least, it would be too expensive
to provide round -the-clock security to ensure the safety of passers-by, protesters, and defenders alike, an expense
neither the university nor the town can be expected to bear or should bear.
The cause for which Silent Sam was erected more than a century back, was lost long ago. Consign the statue to some
other place, where its lessons can be properly contextualized, and please let the campus community get back to being a
university, a place of free inquiry and engaged discussion, one that we can all be proud of. This is a moment that
requires leadership and foresight. Don't waste another opportunity to act for the future of UNC, to be a place where all
can be welcome.
Melissa M. Bullard
UNC-CH
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To the UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC System Administration:
Below you will find a Black Faculty Statement on Silent Sam that has been signed by 62 Black faculty from across the
UNC campus. This Statement has been published in the Daily Tar Heel, Washington Post and Diverse Issues in Higher
Education.
We would appreciate the opportunity to meet and share our perspectives with the Chancellor, Provost, members of the
Board of Trustees, members of the Board of Governors and the President of the UNC System.
September 6, 2018
As UNC Black faculty, we occupy a unique position relative to the Confederate monument known as "Silent
Sam ." When the Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the monument for the University, when
University donors offered resources to support its completion, when the University paid the remaining balance,
and UNC Board of Trustees member Julian Carr delivered his racist remarks at its dedication, we doubt any
envisioned Black faculty as vibrant and necessary members of the University's intellectual, cultural, and social
community. In 1913, the Confederate monument did not stand in opposition to the stated values and mission of
the University. In 2018, it most certainly does. It has done so since the University chose to admit the first Black
student or offer the first Black faculty member a contract for employment. We have witnessed a monument that
represents white supremacy in both the past and present be venerated and protected at the same time that we
have been asked to serve as examples of diversity and inclusion. That is a demoralizing burden.
A monument to white supremacy, steeped in a history of violence against Black people, and that continues to
attract white supremacists, creates a racially hostile work environment and diminishes the University's
reputation worldwide. For us, arguments of moral equivalency are extremely problematic; there are not two
morally valid sides to the history the monument represents nor to its current significance. Without brave acts of
civil disobedience that changed the moral character of the nation and advanced the cause of justice, Black
faculty, staff, and students would not be here. To reinstall the Confederate monument to any location on UNC's
campus is to herald for the nation and for the world that UNC is not a welcoming place for Black people.
We, the undersigned faculty, urge the Chancellor, Provost, Board of Trustees, and Board of Governors to
permanently remove the Confederate statue and its pedestal from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. There is no way to re-erect the statue without valorizing an incomplete version of history. A symbol of
racism, violence, and white supremacy has no place on our 21st century campus often called the "University of
the People."
1. Elizabeth A. Adams, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and

Neuroscience
3. Michele Tracy Berger, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
4. Maya Berry, Assistant Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
9. Claude A. Clegg Ill, Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor, African, African American, and
Diaspora Studies
10. Shauna M. Cooper, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
11. Renee Alexander Craft, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
14. Livis James Freeman Jr., Teaching Assistant Professor, School of Media and Journalism
22. Jerma A. Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of History
23. Meta DuEwa Jones, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
33. Fabian Monrose, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science
37. Terence Oliver, Reese Felts Distinguished Associate Professor, School of Media and
Journalism
40. Charlene Regester, Associate Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
42. Liana Richardson, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
44. Whitney R. Robinson, Associate Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health
46. Theodore M. Shaw, Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the
Center for Civil Rights
47. Tanya L. Shields, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
48. Karla Slocum, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair, Associate Professor, Anthropology
49. Deborah Stroman, Clinical Associate Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health
51. J. Michael Terry, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
54. Karolyn Tyson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Sociology
55. Anissa Vines, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health
57. Eric King Watts, Associate Professor , Department of Communication
61. Erika K. Wilson, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair, Associate Professor, School of
Law
62. Courtney G. Woods, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences and
Engineering
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Attachments: Final Statement from Black Faculty-9.pdf
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Thank you for your response last Friday to the Black Faculty Statement on Silent Sam. The Statement has been covered
in the News and Observer and Winston-Salem Journal, and has been printed in its entirety in the Washington Post and
Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Black faculty who signed the statement are eager to share their thoughts with you
and would appreciate meeting at your earliest opportunity. We realize this is a very busy time, so we appreciate your
consideration of this request.
I am attaching the most recent list of signatories to the Statement with this message. As of today, 62 Black faculty have
signed the statement from across the UNC campus.
Sincerely,
Kia Caldwell
Kia Lilly Caldwell, Ph.D.

Professor, AfricaR African Arnerican, and Diaspora Studies
Director, African Diaspora Fellows Program
Battle Hall, CB #3395
919-962-8225
kiacald\veH.corn
September 6, 2018
As UNC Black faculty, we occupy a unique position relative to the Confederate monument
known as "Silent Sam." When the Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the monument
for the University, when University donors offered resources to support its completion, when the
University paid the remaining balance, and UNC Board of Trustees member Julian Carr
delivered his racist remarks at its dedication, we doubt any envisioned Black faculty as vibrant
and necessary members of the University's intellectual, cultural, and social community. In 1913,
the Confederate monument did not stand in opposition to the stated values and mission of the
University. In 2018, it most certainly does. It has done so since the University chose to admit the
first Black student or offer the first Black faculty member a contract for employment. We have
witnessed a monument that represents white supremacy in both the past and present be
venerated and protected at the same time that we have been asked to serve as examples of
diversity and inclusion. That is a demoralizing burden.
A monument to white supremacy, steeped in a history of violence against Black people, and that
continues to attract white supremacists, creates a racially hostile work environment and
diminishes the University's reputation worldwide. For us, arguments of moral equivalency are
extremely problematic; there are not two morally valid sides to the history the monument
represents nor to its current significance. Without brave acts of civil disobedience that changed
the moral character of the nation and advanced the cause of justice, Black faculty, staff, and
students would not be here. To reinstall the Confederate monument to any location on UNC's
campus is to herald for the nation and for the world that U NC is not a welcoming place for Black
people.
We, the undersigned faculty, urge the Chancellor, Provost, Board of Trustees, and Board of
Governors to permanently remove the Confederate statue and its pedestal from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There is no way to re-erect the statue without valorizing an
incomplete version of history. A symbol of racism, violence, and white supremacy has no place
on our 21st century campus often called the "University of the People."
1. Elizabeth A. Adams, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

and Neuroscience
3. Michele Tracy Berger, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender
Studies
4. Maya Berry, Assistant Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora
Studies
9. Claude A. Clegg Ill, Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor, African, African
American, and Diaspora Studies
10. Shauna M. Cooper, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and
Neuroscience
11 . Renee Alexander Craft, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
14. Livis James Freeman Jr., Teaching Assistant Professor, School of Media and
Journalism
22 . Jerma A. Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of History
23. Meta DuEwa Jones, Associate Professor, Department of English and
33. Fabian Monrose, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer
Science
37. Terence Oliver, Reese Felts Distinguished Associate Professor, School of Media
and Journalism
40. Charlene Regester, Associate Professor, African, African American, and
Diaspora Studies
42 . Liana Richardson, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
44. Whitney R. Robinson, Associate Professor, Gillings School of Global Public
Health
46. Theodore M. Shaw, Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and
Director of the Center for Civil Rights
47. Tanya L. Shields, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender
Studies
48. Karla Slocum, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair, Associate Professor,
Anthropology
49. Deborah Stroman, Clinical Associate Professor, Gillings School of Global Public
Health
51 . J. Michael Terry, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
54. Karolyn Tyson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor,
Sociology
55. Anissa Vines, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global
Public Health
57. Eric King Watts, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
61 . Erika K. Wilson, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair, Associate
Professor, School of Law
62 . Courtney G. Woods, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences
and Engineering
Message
From: Chambers, Jan [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=1FD0B4A57D5046E8852000466CB906C8-JAN CHAMBER]
Sent: 8/31/2018 11:53:08 AM
Subject: Urgent Request
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I write today to urge you not to return the statue of Silent Sam to the pedestal in Mccorkle Place. I have
signed the letter penned by Edwin Fisher, along with more than 300 of my faculty colleagues, but I want to
make a personal plea.
I am a white woman of southern heritage, born in North Carolina. As a child I remember asking my mother
why I could not drink out of the water fountain marked "colored" - I thought it meant that rainbow colored
water would come out of it. That was only the beginning of my disillusionment. I grew to understand that
there was an ugliness to the world that I lived in that was founded on the notion of white supremacy and,
worst of all, I was a part of it.
It is said with sound reasoning that racism is the white persons' problem. It is incumbent upon us, then, to
recognize and reject bias and racism wherever it exists - collectively and individually. I've carried this belief my
entire life, and in the vernacular of today I can say that I feel "woke". But every day, when I look into the eyes
of my friends, colleagues and students of color, I see that I fall short of understanding what they feel.
Their pain is real and their grief is deep. It is beyond my imagination, but not beyond my ability to empathize
and act in whatever ways I can in order to create a more just world.
You are in a position to do exactly that. I implore you to remove the pedestal and the statue to a venue where
it can be appropriately contextualized, NOT to "honor" the horrific events that it represents, but to stand as a
symbol of a collective turning point of accepted responsibility, an acknowledgement and understanding of
the truth of history and it's impact on the people who live in this community, this state, this nation.
Be that turning point. Please.
Most sincerely,
Jan Chambers
Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Resident Designer, PlayMakers Repertory Company
CB# 3230 Center for Dramatic Art
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From: Childs, Selena B. [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=A8DA5FD837DA406A8A97013FA2A729D4-SELENA B CH]
Sent: 8/22/2018 5:46:29 PM
Subject: Silent Sam-please do not restore
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As an undergraduate at UNC in the late 80s, silent Sam was a symbol of sexism-supposed to fire when a
virgin walked by, but always silent. This inherent implication that Carolina Girls were "loose" always
made me feel uncomfortable, and although it made no sense, I felt self-conscious walking by the statue.
Many years later I'm on the faculty here in the school of Social Work. When things heated up around Sam
this year and last, I hoped that it would be removed. Reading Julian Carr's dedication speech,
specifically his celebration of whipping a negro woman who had insulted a southern Lady, is chilling at
best. It brought home that the sexism the statue represented to me was nothing compared to what it
represents for descendants of slaves and other people of color. The statue is truly unwelcoming, and not
the Carolina Way that we celebrate. I understand you are in an incredibly difficult position, which is
why I want you to know how strongly I, and I can venture to say almost all of my faculty colleagues in
the school of Social Work, feel about the statue remaining down. Your hands were tied, so students took
care of it for all of us. If you are now under pressure to resurrect the statue, and if you do so, it
will send an awful message in support of racism, intended or not. so please know that your Carolina
community stands behind you-we bolster your strength to push back any pressure to return the statue to a
place of prominence. We just can't turn back. Please let us know how we can help YOU navigate these
difficult waters.
Best,
Selena Childs
clinical Associate Professor
UNC School of Social Work
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Subject: Please do not re-install Silent Sam
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I'm sure you have already received hundreds of emails about this topic, and I appreciate that you must be very
busy. The issue of Silent Sam is clearly difficult and divisive, and the media attention keeps the issue in our
minds and leaks into the classroom. I personally implore you to provide guidance and leadership and help
permanently remove Silent Sam from our campus. Thank you for your time.
Best regards,
Hans
Hans Christianson
Assoc. Prof and Diversity Liaison
304B Phillips Hall
hans@math.unc.edu
hans.unc.edu
My office is a SAFE ZONE. All are welcome!
Mail:
CB #3250 Dept. of Mathematics
UNC
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3250
USA
Message
From: Clint Johnson
Sent: 8/21/2018 7:57:45 AM
To: Jonathan.Jordan@ncleg.net; Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: N.C. Legislature shou ld cut police funding to UNC
Good morning, Jonathan, Clint Johnson of Ashe county here (you know me
from library and Ashe county Wildlife club).
After l ast night's mob action in tearing down the statue of silent Sam
on the UNC campus, I urge you to find a way to eliminate the funding of
the police force on UNC's campus. It is pretty obvious that someone in
power on campus, maybe chancellor Folt herself, ordered the police to
stand down and allow this vandalism to take place. If UNC allows violent
people to do what they want on campus, then there is no need for a
police force to stop them.
I have no idea how much funding the university receives from the
legislature, but I would urge my representatives and senators to look at
all departments to determine if the graduates being turned out are
actually making a contribution to society. The ones who rioted last
night around silent Sam are not.
I am not a UNC alumni, but I am urging everyone I know who is to stop
funding UNC. If the first university in the nation has no respect for
history, it has no need for money from people who do.
Sincerely yours,
Clint Johnson
Tax Payer from Ashe county
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From: Collins, Marsha S [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=24FE5F693FC74A28898010CF8F803CE9-MARSHA S CO]
Sent: 8/30/2018 1:53:42 PM
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To the members of the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Folt:
I am writing to add my voice to that of many others in requesting that Silent Sam not be reinstalled on Mccorkle Place. The
controversy over the statue and what it represents has escalated and intensified, not lessened, in just a year's time, and along
with the controversy, the expense and difficulties of protecting the safety of students, faculty, and staff on our campus. The
unresolved fate of the statue also continues to attract greater numbers of people to our campus who arguably increase
threats to that safety and the welfare of our campus community, and also threaten to compromise the central mission of our
university as a leader in research, higher education, and public service. The safety issue has reached the point where it should
be more than sufficient to meet the burden of proof for legal, permanent removal of the statue from the pedestal on
Mccorkle Place, where it has had a prominent place in the central, historic part of our campus for far too long.
When I first arrived on the Chapel Hill campus 30 years ago, I was told that the statue was a simple monument to Confederate
soldiers and that providing historical context for the statue legitimated its place of prominence at our University. Until
recently, however, the overtly racist historical context surrounding the original unveiling of the statue did not come to light
nor was it widely discussed. In my opinion, we can no longer put a statue intended to promote the "superiority of the Anglo-
Saxon race" at the heart of our community, in a place of public prominence where it confronts visitors and members of the
community with a daily message of prejudice and exclusion. This message is at odds with the values of diversity and inclusion
that I believe are integral to our Carolina community and to our motto of lux et libertas.
Sincerely yours,
Marsha S. Collins
Professor of Comparative Literature
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Carolina Campus
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From: Crescenzi, Mark J [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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Sent: 8/27/2018 5:20:58 PM
To: UNC Provost [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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CC: Westbrooks, Elaine Louise [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: ABL Statement regarding the relocation of Silent Sam into one of the UNC libraries.
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Dear chancellor Folt and Provost Blouin,

The following statement comes from the Administrative Board of the Library regarding the relocation of
the monument of the Confederate soldier into one of the libraries. Thank you for receiving this
statement, and for your leadership.
Respectfully,
Mark Crescenzi, chair

Administrative Board of the Library
ABL Statement regarding the relocation of silent Sam

The Administrative Board of the Library opposes the placement of the monument of the Confederate soldier
("silent Sam") in any of the University's libraries. In accordance with UNC's Policy on Prohibited
Discrimination, Harassment and Related Misconduct, the Libraries are "committed to providing a safe,
diverse, and equitable environment to all members of the Carolina community." Relocating this statue into
one of UNC's libraries would inhibit their fundamental mission of "research, teaching, learning, and
public service for the campus community, state, nation, and world" and create an unsafe and untenable
environment for our students and staff.
our Libraries provide an inclusive, safe learning environment where students can discover, process, and
develop knowledge. Relocating this statue into a UNC library would also relocate a volatile ongoing
debate into a physical space that would alter the learning environment of that space and those who work
to support it. The Libraries have always archived, preserved, and made accessible a variety of print-
based research objects that might be considered offensive or distasteful. Librarians and archivists
across the nation are at the forefront of the preservation of the First Amendment, yet they do so by
preserving access to knowledge. The presence of this statue in a UNC library at this time would inhibit
such access.
The staff of the Libraries are entitled to this same safe and equitable environment, and we must be
cognizant of the impact this statue would have on this community. Moreover, none of our libraries have
the resources to accommodate the risks and challenges that would accompany this monument. Wilson Library,
for example, does not have sufficient fire protection to handle the increased risk of fire that
accompanies the continued protests and counter-protests of the monument. The safeguarding of the statue
would also be a financially impracticable challenge to the security of Wilson Library's irreplaceable,
world-renowned collections.
We recommend that the monument be placed in a location such as the North Carolina Museum of History-a
place dedicated to the interpretation of history through exhibitions and educational programs, with the
presumption that the NCMH has or can be provided with the necessary security resources to house the
statue safely.
Message
From: Dan Heiman
Sent: 8/24/2018 12:04:36 PM
Subject: My thoughts ...
I am writing you today as a very concerned alum, long time Rams Club member and part of a proud Carolina family that
dates back to 1946. My wife and I met in Chapel Hill in 1978, graduated in 1981 and returned to Chapel Hill to be
married at the Forest Theatre. My father attended UNC from 1946-1949, until he was called to serve in the Korean War.
I said we were a proud UNC family-at least until last week.
The events surrounding the destruction of the Silent Sam statue have us very angry and embarrassed. This type of
violent, radical behavior is totally unacceptable on a college campus like UNC. I've always considered UNC to be a
bastion of free expression. Students over many generations have been involved in non-violent protests and were
instrumental in promoting positive change during the historic civil rights and anti-war movements. You notice I said
"non-violent."
After doing some research and watching news reports on the incident, I was stunned to find that a UNC professor was
not only involved in the incident but was the ringleader. This is apparently not his first foray into this type of violent
behavior, and shockingly there are public images of him brazenly brandishing high powered weapons. The obvious
question is why the hell is this person still employed at UNC? After all of the violence we have seen directed at schools
by crazy people with an animus or political agenda, is this really the type of person we want teaching our kids and having
a safe space at UNC? People like this should not be within a 100 miles of a university. He is an obvious threat to the
student body and I am shocked that he continues to have a job. Here is the article about Mr. Dixon that really set me
off.
https://carolfnareviewonline,org/7..01.8/02/25/dv,rayne-dixon/
In closing I want to say this.
My wife and I were dumbfounded and unable to give a straight

answer. Unless the university takes a very strong stand against Mr. Dixon and the people associated with him, we will
not subject to that kind of danger. We have spoken to many other parents who are considering UNC and they
feel exactly the same way. I also know for a fact that a parent who has a current student at UNC is considering pulling
her out. I'm sure you would agree that this is a very bad look for the university.
As you already know, leadership is not a popularity contest-it's about setting an example. This is a time for you, as the
leader of this wonderful university, to take a very strong stand-not a vague PC statement, but a very clear,
unambiguous message that says that UNC will never tolerate this type of behavior or this type of person representing
the Carolina faculty. If crimes were committed by a member of the UNC faculty, then that person should be fired
immediately, lose all seniority and tenure and pay reparations to restore Silent Sam. If there are current students who
were involved in any criminal behavior or violations of the UNC Honor Code then they should be expelled. A precedent
cannot be set that says it's OK for anyone associated with the university to behave in this manner.
I love UNC and am heartbroken over this. I am looking to you to fix it. I know you will do what is necessary to restore my
faith in the UNC administration and this proud university's reputation.
Thanks for letting me vent,

Dan Heiman
Message
From: Dan Reichart
Sent: 8/29/2018 9:13:01 AM
Subject: thank you (and an unsolicited suggestion)
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First of all, I want to thank you again for the personal attention that you took on the day of my injury, at the
Davie Poplar tree. Bruce Cairns took great care of me, and I'm now almost I 00% healed, and will be back to
I 00% over the next few months.
I know that you are probably getting more suggestions than you care to hear right now, regarding Silent Sam. I
apologize for burdening you with one more. Below is a letter that I wrote to the DTH three years ago (after an
argument with a family member about the statue motivated me to think more deeply about it).
Swapping it with the statue of President Polk, currently in the Planetarium Rotunda, is the kind of compromise
solution that might just annoy all parties equally ... but perhaps only annoy instead of enrage.
For your consideration,

Dan
"Swap the Statues"

I've been a professor at Carolina for 13 years, and generally don't involve myself in political matters, especially
university political matters. I'm an astronomer, and am more than content spending my time contemplating such
esoteric things as stars, galaxies, and cosmology.
However, I find myself struck by the debate over the Silent Sam statue. I understand that for some it is a symbol of
southern heritage. For others it is a symbol of slavery.
I do not doubt that it is both. But here's how I see it. I'm white. Suppose that I was a southerner (my wife is anyway)
and that I was really into my heritage, displaying symbols of such in my home. Furthermore, suppose that I was
these things and in no way racist.
Now suppose that I invite a black family over to my home, say for dinner. I would have the sense to understand that
they would view these symbols that I've displayed in my home very differently. I would have the courtesy - common
courtesy - to put these symbols away when they came over. For example, I would not serve them dinner on plates
adorned with the confederate flag.
Nor would I erect a statue of a confederate soldier in my front yard to greet them as they arrived.
But this is exactly what we have done. Funded by the Daughters of the Confederacy, we erected Silent Sam in
1913. We started inviting black students to dinner in 1951.
But this is where the analogy fails. Our black students are not guests. They are as much a part of UNC as our white
students, as are our students of all races. So why do we continue to display so divisive a symbol, quite literally, in
our front yard?
One of my ancestors fought in the Civil War. He is, technically, part of my heritage. But realistically, he is but a
footnote - over 150 years removed - from anything having to do with how I identify myself today.
But our black students are not only descendants of black people from 150 years ago - they are still black today!
Silent Sam must be much more of an insult to their identity than a reinforcement of mine (or more appropriately, of
my southern colleagues).
So, what is to be done? I propose the following: Standing in the historic rotunda of Morehead Planetarium and
Science Center is a similarly sized (and, frankly, more artfully carved) statue of James Polk - the only UNC alum to
have ever served as president. Furthermore, historians rank him as one of our better presidents, in the top twenty
according to Wikipedia.
Let's swap the statues. Let's move Silent Sam indoors, to a more appropriate, historic, museum setting, and bring
President Polk - not only a symbol of NC heritage, but more germanely, a symbol of UNC heritage - out in its place.
If the South Carolina legislature could find the courage - and the common courtesy - to remove the confederate flag
from its statehouse grounds, we can find the courage to do this, and to act at least as quickly and decisively as, well,
a bunch of South Carolina politicians ...
Dan Reichart
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Dr. Daniel E. Reichart

Director of the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network
Director of PROivIPT and Morehead Observatory
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Office Phone: (919) 962-5310
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To the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees:
As a proud and dedicated faculty member at UNC, I would respectfully like to share my opinion with
you.
I am wholeheartedly opposed to re-installing Silent Sam, a symbol of racism, back on our

campus. Such an action will lead to divisiveness and not unity, will lead to extremism rather than
open a dialogue.
Sincerely,
Jane Danielewicz
Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature

CB# 3520
UNC Chapel Hill
Office Phone (919) 962-1988
Jane Danielewicz
Message
From: David Shelor
Sent: 8/22/2018 10:17:16 PM
Subject: 8/22/2018 ~ Silent Sam, an African American commentary
Chancellor Folt,
This morning, I wrote to you regarding an Asheville attorney, African American, on campus in period battle
dress who gave an eloquent summation today of why Silent Sam has value. I write again with a more
complete video from this afternoon of the same individual which speaks for itself, the man, and the statue.
I forward this to you from YouTube as an example of the kind of civil discourse the majority of alumni expect
from our university. Perhaps you will consider inviting this individual to give one lecture and bring nuance and
context to the issue, in balanced counterpoint to the mob's bully pulpit.
I have no agenda in forwarding this to your office, I have no connection to the "interviewer" and trust that this
email will not be casually dismissed. There is value and humanity in this brave individual's discourse. He
seemed to all observers to be both lucid and educated on the history and well spoken on the value of Silent Sam.
With kind regards,
David Shelor
Class of 1995
Attachments: YouTube link below

"Black Confederate Gives History Lesson ... "
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3TXWWpQgwRw
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Morning,
Just passing along the note we received from Margaret Raynor regarding the events around Silent Sam .
Thank you,
Emily
Emily Berryhill
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Office of University Events
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From: Margaret Raynor

Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 9:35 PM
To: ADV Chancellors Football <chancellorsfootball(@uncedu>
Subject: Silent Sam
I cannot believe that we are pulling down Silent Same. He has been there for so many years and is part of the history of
NC. I am a Yankee by birth and am for equality but I think we cannot change history and should have used this as an
example of what we do not want. Pulling him down is not going to change what happened and the students t hat pulled
him down have never known what happened. I am very, very upset about this. I think the police should have stoped
it. Margaret Raynor
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From: Don Taylor [don.taylor@duke.edu]
Sent: 9/1/2018 9:37:05 AM
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Dear Members of the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees and Chancellor Falt:
As a lifelong North Carolinian from Goldsboro, and as a 3 time alum ('90 BSPH; '92 MPA; '95 Ph.D.), let me first thank
you for your service to my (and for most of you) our alma mater.
I came to UNC in the fall of 1986 as an uninitiated student who went to college because I thought that I was supposed to
do so, and left nearly a decade later on a trajectory that has seen me become a professor, and now Chair of the
Academic Council at Duke University. I have been truly blessed. These blessings were only possible because at Carolina I
discovered that school was not only something you were supposed to do, but through some incredible professors and
classmates, I found that the life of the mind was engaging and exciting. I have given my professional life to being a
scholar and an educator. None of this would have been possible without UNC, and I am forever grateful. Thank you
Carolina.
I played football at Goldsboro High School, and we had three foes in our conference from Wilmington: Hoggard, Laney
and New Hanover High, and I spent many hours riding to and from games in activity buses thinking about Wilmington.
However, I never heard until I was in my 30s of the 1898 "Wilmington race riot" that was as a matter of fact, essentially
a coup d'etat that saw a multi-racial elected local government run out of town in racially motivated violence. Governor
Charles B. Aycock is the most famous person from where I come from, and in several visits to his birthplace homestead
just outside of Goldsboro, I never heard one word of his role in fomenting the political climate that enabled this event
th th
just before he became Governor, in spite of having taken an entire year of North Carolina history in 4 and 8 grade. I
placed out of U.S. history via the AP exam, so did not take it at UNC. The version of post-Civil War U.S. history that most
of us have been taught and told in the South is faulty and incomplete, and Carolina should play a key role in fixing this
problem, not only for your students but for the entire state, country and world.
I am sure that I have walked past Silent Sam hundreds of times, beginning when I was 5 or 6 and went to UNC football
games with my parents (both alums of UNC), and then of course during my nearly a decade as a student on campus. I
really never thought much about the statue one way or another, until I learned more about its history, and the history of
the erection of confederate monuments, generally. I have heard from many students, fellow alums and current faculty
who do think about it, and they experience it as a symbol that they did not fully belong at UNC. I regret and am sorry for
how tone deaf I was for so long. The faulty telling of history is not just a historical error, but it effects our world today.
The University has a chance to demonstrate Lux et Libertas by keeping scholarship at the forefront of how Carolina
proceeds, as is befitting of a great research University. We should commit to a full and accurate telling of the post-Civil
War American experience, and the role that white supremacy played in it, and most importantly, t o struggle with what
this history means for us today.
Silent Sam belongs in a museum, perhaps in the Wilson Library, where a full contextualization of the statute and the role
that confederate memorials in North Carolina played in imposing Jim Crow and enabling violence against black persons
in our state is described and owned. The history of the epidemiology of confederate memorials most certainly does not
need to be washed away, but interrogated, laid bare and communicated widely. In fact, Professor Jim Leloudis has
provided an example of what public facing scholarship should look like
!.}.HP?_;/jsparb.1dobe.rnm/r..~~-g_?.f.?A_gH.JKurmmkZS/ This 5 minute lesson on the history of Silent Sam in particular, and of
confederate monuments more generally, is how a research university should proceed. We need more of this, and as
many voices who are willing to own their words should be invited to contribute.
As a final thought, after moving Silent Sam to the Wilson Library, the question of what to do with the plith will arise. I
urge you to consider leaving the plith as it Is, a ruin of sorts, while adding more information in Mccorkle place about the
statue, and pointing people to Wilson Library who want to know more. This will rehabilitate Silent Sam a tool for
education, and not a symbol of white supremacy at the front door of Carolina.
Best wishes and with deep gratitude for what Carolina has done for me.
Don Taylor
Donald H. Taylor, Jr. Ph .D.

Professor of Public Policy
Chair, Academic Council
Duke University
www.donaldhtaylorir.com
https://academiccouncil,duke,edu/
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To the Trustees and chancellor Folt:

I am writing to add my voice to those of many of my UNC faculty colleagues who, I expect, have been
writing you this week: I feel strongly that the Confederate statue should not be returned to its former
position on Mccorkle Place. The statue should not be placed in a position of "honor." The values that the
statue represents - by virtue of the historical documents that record its dedication - are opposed to the
values of light and liberty that guide the educational mission of UNC today, and that support our work as
a community of faculty, students, staff, and citizens.
Yours sincerely,
Janet Downie
Janet Downie
Associate Professor
Department of classics
University of North Carolina at chapel Hill
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I have been teaching at l.JNC, Chapel liiU for over 25 years and I have
·witnessed our conununity be divided and trau1natized by the presence of
Silent Smn on our cmnpus. This is a public university and it should be an
inclusive place for a]l It should also act ethically - based on historical and
current facts and conditions. Silent Smn represents the vvorst of 1\n1erican
history. Please seriously consider placing hin1 safely in a 1nuseun1/archive
context so that our co1nn1unity can learn, live and teach in peace. The
,vorld is ,vatching us. It is one thing to erect Silent Sain ,vhcn they did, but
to "re-erect" hiln novv \vould be the vvorst outco1ne for everyone - even for
those vvho support hitn and the racist ideology he stands for. J\1y students
arc fearful and frustrated, exhausted and asha1ned that the adn1inistration
and the state have not acted in the na1ne of equality and justice. l do not
\Vant to be ashmned of lJNC, but if you decide to put hiln back up, I vvill
be and l \viU not be alone.
Sincerely.' ~
elin o'Hara slavick

Artist/ Professor of Art
Hanes Art Center CB# 3405
UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
www.elinoharaslavick.com
Message
From: Elizabeth Matheson
Sent: 9/2/2018 3:50:33 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
To the Board and chancellor Folt,

I am writing as the descendant of a founder of the University, James Hogg, as the great-niece of Frank
Porter Graham, as a southerner and devoted Tar Heel. Until I read the shocking address by Julian Carr, I
thought silent Sam should stay where he was. Now, having been made aware of the nakedly racist context of
the statue's existence, I cannot think of any justification in returning it to this prominent spot. To do
so would inevitably send a terrible signal about the University's core values and, in addition, would
probably provoke more dangerous and unproductive confrontations.
I understand the legal and political bind you are in and do not envy your task.
Very sincerely
Elizabeth Matheson
Message
From: El liot L. Hirshman
Sent: 9/26/2018 7:25:04 AM
Subject: A message of support

As a longtime chapel Hill faculty member and a former public university president, I wanted to send a
brief message of suppo rt.
You are demonstrating grace, fairness, politeness, and respect in the midst of a conflict that was not of
your making.
This effort makes a difference in advancing our society even if there is no way to resolve the conflict
felicitously.
Be kind to yourself and your loved ones as you face these chal lenges.
With admiration,
Elliot Hi rshman
Sent from my iPhone
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From:
Sent: 9/17/2018 12:44:31 AM
Subject: confederate monument, Silent Sam
I am writing to encourage you to peruse a new report, Segregation in America, and a companion website:
www.segregationinamerica.eji.org. The Equal Justice Initiative, founded by Bryan Stevenson, released this report in July,
2018, demonstrating how white America in the 1950's and 1960's, had massive, organized campaigns, led by powerful
white supremacists and segregationists, to oppose the Civil Rights Law and Brown vs Bd of Education .. Putting up
confederate monuments, icons to maintain and sustain the need for white supremacy was one way to remain in control
and demonstrate white power. The website names over 1500 of these monuments, North Carolina with 192, the state with
the second largest number of these icons, Virginia topping all others at over 330 monuments.
Just a few months ago, I visited the opening dedication of the Legacy Museum, from Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, AL, returning to one of the places I served as a social
worker in the the late 1960's into the late 1970's. I thought I would at least be somewhat acclimated to what I would
witness but my visit led me even deeper into the need of addressing our history of the horrendous mistreatment that
America waged on persons of color, namely Black America. I also heard many wise educators, film producers, poets,
writers, and attorneys, speak at the summit being held there about the need for facing the truth before we can overcome
any racial inequality. They told their audiences, that we must begin confronting our past, understanding our history, facing
our prejudices before more uncontrolled anger is unleashed. The Equal Justice Initiative and the collective wisdom from
our speakers, makes the case that "failure to repudiate segregationists and their ideologies will allow racial bias to remain
unchallenged even in many modern institutions."
I am asking that after taking time to digest all the comments from students, faculty and supporters of the University and all
others, that you also consider taking a step in acquainting yourself with this report. No monument whose history
announces white power and white supremacy has a place at UNC, which embodies the values of equal opportunities for
growth and educational development for all races. Violence, I fear, is part of an unbalanced equation where we need an
honest look at why and then how we can begin to reach a better solution .
Libby Johnson
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I write to you as a UNC-CH faculty member, an alumnus (PhD Physics
1997), and most importantly as a mentor of graduate and undergraduate
students. It is this role that most strongly compels me to speak up on
the silent Sam issue. I strongly recommend against replacing the statue.
In fact, I believe it has no place on UNC's campus.
The case that this statue has any positive historical value is
critically undermined by its particular documentary history, and the
broader context of the white supremacist resurgence in the early 20th
century that brought about its installation along with others throughout
the south. One only has to read Julian Carr's words to understand the
intended symbolism of the statue. His speech was not a somber elegy, but
a glorification of the Lost cause. It also contained a proud confession
of racial violence. This documentary history establishes the intended
goal of the memorial in clear terms: to promote white supremacy and to
intimidate those, black and white, who dared oppose it. The argument
that this was simply Carr's perspective, and that there is room for
other interpretations is a hollow and disingenuous one. We have seen in
recent days that active hate groups still see this statue as resonant
with their views.
There are those who are genuinely innocent of this truth, and see the
monument as a peaceful memorial to fallen soldiers with a message free
of racial animus. I understand that as institutional leaders, you must
hear these voices with some degree of patience. But their interpretation
is a distortion, willful or not, of unsettling historical and
sociological facts that are not in dispute. As an institution dedicated
to rational discourse, we should not grant equivalence to such a flawed
interpretation. Particularly when that false interpretation papers over
painfu l and damaging symbolism that alienates students of co l or and adds
weight to their feelings of disenfranchisement.
-Mike Falvo
Michael R. Falvo
Research Professor
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
Phillips Hall CB#3255
(919) 962 9346
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I'm writing to thank you for your recent leadership on the issue of the Silent Sam statue. In my understanding, when the
statue was dedicated many years ago, it was clearly done so as a means of preserving a racist paradigm championing
white supremacy, one in which violence against people of color, especially Black people, was not just tolerated but
glorified.
As a white person who has been offended by the existence of this statue on UNC's campus since I've known about it, I
really cannot imagine the pain this statue has caused Black people and other people of color who have had to walk by it
every day for so long-as students, as professors, as staff members, as visitors. The statue's existence on campus was a
towering, in-your-face, and appalling reminder of a racist and oppressive past that is still all -too-present in the lives and
experiences of many Americans today.
It would have been beneficial for that statue to come down long ago at the direction of both University and State
leaders. But in absence of that historical leadership (even currently this leadership appears severely deficient at the
state level especially), it was inevitable that public opinion would evolve such that the statue would come down one way
or another-in an authorized manner or not.
Regardless of the manner in which the statue came down, it should never ever be put back up on UNC's campus, and the
base of it should be removed too. I truly appreciate your stance that it should not go back up, and I wish you the best as
you move forward with your efforts. The fact that the statue formerly existed prominently on UN C's campus for over
100 years provides a more-than-sufficient opportunity for the University to continue to discuss it and teach students and
other citizens about it in the context of history going forward. Outside of it being discussed and understood in an
historical context, the statue should have no place in and be no part of the University's future.
Thank you for taking the time to read my comments.
Sincerely,
Crista Farrell
Crista Farrell
Project Manager
Research Group of Professor Joseph M. DeSimone
farrellc@email.unc.edu
http://desimone-g rou p. chem. unc. ed u/
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Subject: Retire the statue
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Dear Members of the Board of Trustees,
I hope that the statute memorializing white supremacy that for too long has had a place of prominence at UNC will be
permanently retired. It has been an unwelcome stain on this institution, making a mockery of our stated ideals of
diversity and inclusion.

Barbara Fedders
Barbara Fedders
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina School of Law
102 Ridge Road, CB #3380
Phone: 919.962.2623
Fax: 919.962.2883
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Dear Colleagues,
If indeed it becomes necessary to relocate Silent Sam to another place on our campus, I suggest that the most
appropriate location is the Di-Phi cemetery plot in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
In the early years of the University, students who died in Chapel Hill were buried here in plots in the village cemetery
maintained by the two literary societies, to which all students belonged . The most cogent argument for preserving the
monument is that it honors not the ante bell um regime but those young men whose education was cut short by a war
they did not start and in whose thrall many of them lost their lives. The Di-Phi plot fulfills the criterion of a place of
honor for a memorial to their sacrifice. Although the cemetery is not under the University's ownership or control, I
presume the Di-Phi Society retains the right to authorize interments in the Di-Phi plot. I would argue that that right
carries with it the right to erect appropriate memorials. I also suggest that it would be wonderful if a student
organization were to step forward to provide a solution to this seemingly intractable controversy.
Joe Ferrell
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From: Fine, Michelle [MFine@gc.cuny.edu]
Sent: 9/9/2018 10:48:42 AM
Subject: A note to Chancellor Folt about campus climate
Attachments: folt.docx
Michelle Fine, Ph.D.

Deputy Executive Officer of Psychology
Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
September 8, 2018
Chancellor Carol L. Folt

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
chancellor@unc.edu
I am writing to you the mo(u)rning after watching the videos of yesterday's confrontation between police
and students on the campus of UNC. It was shocking. Reminiscent of Little Rock Arkansas, with echoes of the
students at University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg demanding that #RhodesmustFall and
#FeesMustFall, just before the administration called in the military.
I write as an individual, of course, in no official capacity and as a senior woman faculty member who, like you,
entered the academy at a thrilling moment of "opening up." I, like you, left an Ivy League university (Penn) for
a public institution (The Graduate Center, CUNY) because I believe in the vision, the asymptote of the public,
democratic university- never quite reached but so worth striving toward. I write to you personally, and not
publically, my concerns about UNC at a crossroads for public higher education.
I begin with my fear: Once a university turns against the students, with police and military, that is, once you
invited police onto your campus and they began to beat, toss to the ground and pepper spray your students,
public universities lose their credibility as moral institutions that can lead us forward. In the North and South,
throughout the country and the globe, today marks a moment of heightened nee-conservative violence, hate
crimes against Blacks, Jews, Muslims, people who identify as LGBTQ+, Latinx community members,
documented and undocumented immigrants and aggressive assaults on those who challenge dominant views.
Public universities must be in the lead as institutions that look forward, protect the right to protest, create
holding environments for critical perspectives, care for those most vulnerable, and take a stand against
movements that advocate hate and violence.
UNC is at a crossroads. Your ethical leadership and courage are required by the moment, and as you know the
nation is watching. I do not envy your position, and can only imagine the lawyers, Board members, alumni
whispering in your ear, calling for a tough stance, but I ask you to imagine another version of what your
leadership and legacy can be.
I write to you as a professor at City University of New York, the Graduate Center- but trying not to sound like
a Northerner preaching "social justice" to a Southern university. I am humbled by the gravity of the pulls on
public universities, particularly in the South. I write to you, if I may, as a colleague, an age peer, who taught at
University of Pennsylvania for 12 years and then moved - because I believe in "public" - to CUNY. Few of us
jumped from Ivy to public - but I know we leapt with hope and faith in something "not yet."
In the 30 plus years that you and I have been in the academy, we have witnessed the rapid decline of public
universities as spaces for radical possibility, and their mutation into defunded spaces that still struggle for
excellence and equity, while conservative/corporate/right wing interests are taking hold on the Board,
through philanthropy and in the militarization of our campuses.
Let me return to those videos, from yesterday, as the students were carrying food for a food drive, as one
young man was thrown to the ground and pepper sprayed, as young people screamed "he is not resisting." If
you watch as a leader, as perhaps a parent, a student, a faculty member, a taxpayer, you might ask who is the
university protecting? If you look in the eyes of those officers, does it appear that they have your well being,
the students' well being, the university's passion, the first amendment or the cause of democracy driving their
actions? I fear not.
I went back and watched videos from the past months of protest at UNC. And I was stunned by the
consistency: the administration seems to be recruiting state power to protect a statue that represents a racist
history and then the Oath keepers while treating students as the enemy.
My scholarship addresses education and racial politics; I have done work in universities, prisons and secondary
schools in the U.S. and internationally. As a visiting scholar at the University of Regina in Sasketchewan
Canada, University of New Zealand in Auckland New Zealand, University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg
South Africa, as well as the Institute on Arab Studies at Haifa University, I have had the honor of working with
faculty, students and community members who struggle for racial/ethnic/religious justice on their campuses,
who commit to Truth and Reconciliation and restorative practices. I have seen glimmers of a path forward,
and I have seen evidence of the metastasized outcomes that unravel once we "arm" our campuses as
occupied sites.
When universities harden and militarize - we lose our soul; someone gets hurt; democracy dies a violent
death; legal budgets escalate. As one point a few years ago CUNY invited the NYPD onto campus to conduct
surveillance on Muslim American students - this was a violent betrayal of our history. Alumni, faculty,
community lawyers and students mobilized; there was an expose of secret emails. CUNY had to address the
betrayal morally and financially.
In South Africa, before the Chancellor of Wits called in the military, the students launched a sit-in, disruptive
yes, but they were holding reading groups in libraries, studying transnational university systems with free
tuition and no fees, reading about and imagining a decolonized curriculum. Once the military was brought on
campus - everything changed . South African students stood with signs, faces tight, embodied anger,
addressing their elders, now police and the military: "You fought for educational freedom in Soweto in 1976,
how can you turn your guns on us now?" Once the educational leadership handed authority over to the police
and military, tensions escalated. The law library was burned, and many students started chanting that they did
not want to learn from or read White authors/White texts, resurrecting the very pernicious racial binaries
their families fought against under apartheid. University leaders cannot relinquish moral and educational
authority to police and the military, nor to corporate or political pressures eager to resurrect a fantasy of the
good old days when universities were white, and male.
When institutions harden and militarize, when we turn students into enemies, we lose our soul. We may keep
our donors, and legislators happy, but you and I are in our middle 60s, is that the legacy we desire?
This morning I read your biography -you have served as interim president at Dartmouth College and in
your Blueprint for Nextyou advocate for UNC "the university's willingness to continually reinvent itself." In an
interview about the future, you smiled and said, "As the nation's first public university, the best is yet to
come ... I know that because I witness it on campus every day. The future is studying in our classrooms,
working in our labs and serving our communities right now. I couldn't be more proud and optimistic."
I appreciate your vision and your sense of hope.
UNC is at a precarious crossroads.
On the one hand, UNC Chapel Hill is rapidly becoming a symbol of a public university occupied by and
supportive of corporate, police and nee-conservative interests - a "safe space" for men who proudly consider
themselves Nazis or Fascists, and white elites wishing for a return to the past, anda dangerous space for
students demanding equity, justice, freedom of expression - and a food drive.
It is as if when the statue of Silent Sam came down, his ghost penetrated the administration. Indeed
"wenches" are being flogged, and pepper sprayed, and locked up and beaten - in the name of protecting the
university?
At the same time, however, UNC is widening the national imagination as a progressive vision of public higher
education. UNC has also become a national symbol of a Southern university where students - White, Black,
international, Latino, Asian and indigenous - and faculty and staff have mobilized for a culture of inclusion,
diversity, democracy and dissent. Students from the South with the courage to fight in multi-racial coalitions
for racial justice - this is something to be proud of.
And so - with humility I would like the imagine that you would decide that this is a moment for the university
to take the second path and "reinvent" itself:
* Get the statue off campus; donate to a museum on North Carolina history
* Drop all charges - the honor code and criminal charges - against and the other students
* Remove police from the campus - and bring in, instead, writers and musicians, artists and healers to
rebuild campus life
* Meet with the protesters
* Create an interdisciplinary faculty-staff-student oral history collective to document this struggle -
collectively narrate the diverse perspectives on this turning point in the history of UNC in a nation torn apart
with political violence, spewing hatred but also embracing new solidarities and desires for "what might be."
I am sure you are surrounded by Board members, alumni and lawyers calling for you to stay the course:
toughen up, harden, punish the students. That is exactly the wrong strategy- it is inhumane, immoral, costly
(you will be paying far more in legal fees), ineffective and a betrayal of public education.
Instead, I ask for you, as a public steward of public education, to be as courageous as the students and fulfill
your own words that you will serve community, move forward and midwife the university to reinvent itself.
I of course don't envy your position; I am, indeed, aware of the "chutzpa" of unsolicited advice from the
North, and I am horrified that UNC will become a beacon of nee-conservative victory with the notion of
"public" turned to ashes by the flames of their last gasp of glory.
With this note I write to you personally, without public audience. I do hope to hear from you
at mfine@gc.cuny.edu. Many of us are watching - there is too much at stake to cave to interests you know to
be antithetic to the ethical future of the public university. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Michelle Fine

Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Urban Education and Gender/Women's Studies
Deputy Executive Officer of Psychology
Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
September 8, 2018
Chancellor Carol L. Falt

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
chancellor@unc.edu
I am writing to you the mo(u)rning after watching the videos of yesterday's

confrontation between police and students on the campus of UNC. It was shocking.
Reminiscent of Little Rock Arkansas, with echoes of the students at University of
Witswatersrand in Johannesburg demanding that #RhodesmustFall and
#FeesMustFall, just before the administration called in the military.
I write as an individual, of course, in no official capacity and as a senior woman

faculty member who, like you, entered the academy at a thrilling moment of
"opening up." I, like you, left an Ivy League university (Penn) for a public institution
(The Graduate Center, CUNY) because I believe in the vision, the asymptote of the
public, democratic university - never quite reached but so worth striving toward. I
write to you personally, and not publically, my concerns about UNC at a crossroads
for public higher education.
I begin with my fear: Once a university turns against the students, with police and
military, that is, once you invited police onto your campus and they began to beat,
toss to the ground and pepper spray your students, public universities lose their
credibility as moral institutions that can lead us forward. In the North and South,
throughout the country and the globe, today marks a moment of heightened neo-
conservative violence, hate crimes against Blacks, Jews, Muslims, people who
identify as LGBTQ+, Latinx community members, documented and undocumented
immigrants and aggressive assaults on those who challenge dominant views. Public
universities must be in the lead as institutions that look forward, protect the right to
protest, create holding environments for critical perspectives, care for those most
vulnerable, and take a stand against movements that advocate hate and violence.
UNC is at a crossroads. Your ethical leadership and courage are required by the
moment, and as you know the nation is watching. I do not envy your position, and
can only imagine the lawyers, Board members, alumni whispering in your ear,
calling for a tough stance, but I ask you to imagine another version of what your
leadership and legacy can be.
I write to you as a professor at City University of New York, the Graduate Center -
but trying not to sound like a Northerner preaching "social justice" to a Southern
university. I am humbled by the gravity of the pulls on public universities,
particularly in the South. I write to you, if I may, as a colleague, an age peer, who
taught at University of Pennsylvania for 12 years and then moved - because I
believe in "public" - to CUNY. Few of us jumped from Ivy to public - but I know we
leapt with hope and faith in something "not yet."
In the 30 plus years that you and I have been in the academy, we have witnessed the
rapid decline of public universities as spaces for radical possibility, and their
mutation into defunded spaces that still struggle for excellence and equity, while
conservative/corporate/right wing interests are taking hold on the Board, through
philanthropy and in the militarization of our campuses.
Let me return to those videos, from yesterday, as the students were carrying food
for a food drive, as one young man was thrown to the ground and pepper sprayed,
as young people screamed "he is not resisting." If you watch as a leader, as perhaps a
parent, a student, a faculty member, a taxpayer, you might ask who is the university
protecting? If you look in the eyes of those officers, does it appear that they have
your well being, the students' well being, the university's passion, the first
amendment or the cause of democracy driving their actions? I fear not.
I went back and watched videos from the past months of protest at UN C. And I was
stunned by the consistency: the administration seems to be recruiting state power
to protect a statue that represents a racist history and then the Oathkeepers while
treating students as the enemy.
My scholarship addresses education and racial politics; I have done work in

universities, prisons and secondary schools in the U.S. and internationally. As a
visiting scholar at the University of Regina in Sasketchewan Canada, University of
New Zealand in Auckland New Zealand, University of Witswatersrand in
Johannesburg South Africa, as well as the Institute on Arab Studies at Haifa
University, I have had the honor of working with faculty, students and community
members who struggle for racial/ethnic/religious justice on their campuses, who
commit to Truth and Reconciliation and restorative practices. I have seen glimmers
of a path forward, and I have seen evidence of the metastasized outcomes that
unravel once we "arm" our campuses as occupied sites.
When universities harden and militarize - we lose our soul; someone gets hurt;
democracy dies a violent death; legal budgets escalate. As one point a few years ago
CUNY invited the NYPD onto campus to conduct surveillance on Muslim American
students - this was a violent betrayal of our history. Alumni, faculty, community
lawyers and students mobilized; there was an expose of secret emails. CUNY had to
address the betrayal morally and financially.
In South Africa, before the Chancellor of Wits called in the military, the students
launched a sit-in, disruptive yes, but they were holding reading groups in libraries,
studying transnational university systems with free tuition and no fees, reading
about and imagining a decolonized curriculum. Once the military was brought on
campus - everything changed. South African students stood with signs, faces tight,
embodied anger, addressing their elders, now police and the military: "You fought
for educational freedom in Soweto in 1976, how can you turn your guns on us now?"
Once the educational leadership handed authority over to the police and military,
tensions escalated. The law library was burned, and many students started chanting
that they did not want to learn from or read White authors/White texts,
resurrecting the very pernicious racial binaries their families fought against under
apartheid. University leaders cannot relinquish moral and educational authority to
police and the military, nor to corporate or political pressures eager to resurrect a
fantasy of the good old days when universities were white, and male.
When institutions harden and militarize, when we turn students into enemies, we
lose our soul. We may keep our donors, and legislators happy, but you and I are in
our middle 60s, is that the legacy we desire?
This morning I read your biography - you have served as interim president at
Dartmouth College and in your Blueprint for Next you advocate for UNC "the
university's willingness to continually reinvent itself." In an interview about the
future, you smiled and said, "As the nation's first public university, the best is yet to
come ... I know that because I witness it on campus every day. The future is studying
in our classrooms, working in our labs and serving our communities right now. I
couldn't be more proud and optimistic."
I appreciate your vision and your sense of hope.
UNC is at a precarious crossroads.
On the one hand, UNC Chapel Hill is rapidly becoming a symbol of a public
university occupied by and supportive of corporate, police and neo-conservative
interests - a "safe space" for men who proudly consider themselves Nazis or
Fascists, and white elites wishing for a return to the past, and a dangerous space for
students demanding equity, justice, freedom of expression - and a food drive.
It is as if when the statue of Silent Sam came down, his ghost penetrated the
administration. Indeed "wenches" are being flogged, and pepper sprayed, and
locked up and beaten - in the name of protecting the university?
At the same time, however, UNC is widening the national imagination as a

progressive vision of public higher education. UN C has also become a national
symbol of a Southern university where students - White, Black, international,
Latino, Asian and indigenous - and faculty and staff have mobilized for a culture of
inclusion, diversity, democracy and dissent. Students from the South with the
courage to fight in multi-racial coalitions for racial justice - this is something to be
proud of.
And so - with humility I would like the imagine that you would decide that this is a
moment for the university to take the second path and "reinvent" itself:
* Get the statue off campus; donate to a museum on North Carolina history
* Drop all charges - the honor code and criminal charges - against and
the other students
* Remove police from the campus - and bring in, instead, writers and musicians,
artists and healers to rebuild campus life
* Meet with the protestors
* Create an interdisciplinary faculty-staff-student oral history collective to
document this struggle - collectively narrate the diverse perspectives on this
turning point in the history of UNC in a nation torn apart with political violence,
spewing hatred but also embracing new solidarities and desires for "what might be."
I am sure you are surrounded by Board members, alumni and lawyers calling for
you to stay the course: toughen up, harden, punish the students. That is exactly the
wrong strategy - it is inhumane, immoral, costly (you will be paying far more in
legal fees), ineffective and a betrayal of public education.
Instead, I ask for you, as a public steward of public education, to be as courageous as

the students and fulfill your own words that you will serve community, move
forward and midwife the university to reinvent itself.
I of course don't envy your position; I am, indeed, aware of the "chutzpa" of
unsolicited advice from the North, and I am horrified that UNC will become a beacon
of neo-conservative victory with the notion of "public" turned to ashes by the flames
of their last gasp of glory.
With this note I write to you personally, without public audience. I do hope to hear
from you at mfine@gc.cuny.edu. Many of us are watching - there is too much at
stake to cave to interests you know to be antithetic to the ethical future of the public
university. I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Michelle Fine
Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Urban Education and
Gender/Women's Studies
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Subject: Faculty Support for Black Faculty Statement on Confederate Monument
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To: The UNC Community, including Board of Governors, Board of Trustees, and President as well as students, faculty,
and administ ration of UNC-Chapel Hill
The undersigned 417 faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, copied here, endorse and support the
following position of 60 Black faculty members of the University, regarding the disposition of the confederate statue
that formerly stood on campus:
As UNC Black faculty, we occupy a unique position relative to the Confederate monument known as
"Silent Sam." When the Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the monument for the University,
when University donors offered resources to support its completion , when the University paid the
remaining balance, and UNC Board of Trustees member Julian Carr delivered his racist remarks at its
dedication, we doubt any envisioned Black faculty as vibrant and necessary members of the
University's intellectual, cultural, and social community. In 1913, the Confederate monument did not
stand in opposition to the stated values and mission of the University. In 2018, it most certainly does. It
has done so since the University chose to admit the first Black student or offer the first Black faculty
member a contract for employment. We have witnessed a monument that represents white supremacy
in both the past and present be venerated and protected at the same time that we have been asked to
serve as examples of diversity and inclusion. That is a demoralizing burden.
continues to attract white supremacists, creates a racially hostile work environment and diminishes the
University's reputation worldwide. For us, arguments of moral equivalency are extremely problematic;
there are not two morally valid sides to the history the monument represents nor to its current
significance. Without brave acts of civil disobedience that changed the moral character of the nation
and advanced the cause of justice, Black faculty, staff, and students would not be here. To reinstall the
Confederate monument to any location on UNC's campus is to herald for the nation and for the world
that UNC is not a welcoming place for Black people.
We, the undersigned faculty, urge the Chancellor, Provost, Board of Trustees, and Board of Governors
to permanently remove the Confederate statue and its pedestal from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. There is no way to re-erect the statue without valorizing an incomplete version of history. A
symbol of racism, violence, and white supremacy has no place on our 21st century campus often called
the "University of the People."
Signed in alphabetical order:
Adaora A. Adimora, Sarah Gra ham Kenan Distinguished Professo r, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology
Barbara Ambros, Professor, Department of Religious Stud ies
Alle n Anderson, Professor, Department of Music
Ken neth Andrews, Mason Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor, Department of English and Comparat ive Literature
Javier A. Arce-Nazario, Associate Professor, Departme nt of Geography
Florence E. Babb, Harrington Distinguished Professor, Depa rtment of Anthropology
Robert G. Babcock, Alum ni Distinguished Professor, Department of Classics
David J. Baker, Pete r G. Ph ialas Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Fadi A. Bardawil, Assista nt Professor, Department of Asia n Studies
Deborah Barrett, Clinical Associate Professor, Schoo l of Social Work
Cla re L. Barri ngton, Professor, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Daniel Bauer, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neurosc ience
Karl Bauman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Frank R. Baumgartner, Richa rd J. Richardson Distinguished Professor, Depa rtment of Political Science
Misha Becker, Professor, Depart ment of Linguistics
Sylvia Becker-Dre ps, Associate Professor, De partments of Family Medicine and Epidem iology
Arthur Be navie, Professo r Emeritus, Department of Econom ics
Trude Be nn ett, Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Maternal and Chi ld Hea lth
Peggy Bentley, Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor, Departme nt of Nutrition
Tamara Berg, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sc ience
Tracy Bersley, Assistant Professor, Depa rtment of Dramatic Art
Susan Bickford, Associate Professor, Department of Politica l Science
Sarah A. Birken, Assistant Professor, Depart ment of Health Policy and Management
Kaci Bis hop, Cl inical Associate Professor, School of Law
Carole Blair, Professor, Department of Commu nicatio n
Cha rlotte Boettiger, Associate Professor, Depa rtment of Psyc hology and Neuroscie nce
Jessica A. Boon, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Stud ies
Ka ren M Booth, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Lydia Boyd, Associa t e Professo r, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Marcella H. Boynton, Assistant Professo r, Depa rt ment of Health Behavior
Jane Brown, James L. Knight Professor Emeritus, School of Med ia and Journalism
William Brown, Associa t e Professo r, Department of Comm unication
Kathryn Burns, Professor, Department of Histo ry
Em ily Burrill, Associate Professor, Departments of of History and Women 's and Gender Studies
Justin Byron, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medic ine
Kia Caldwell, Professor, Department of Africa n, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Gabrielle Calvoco ressi, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Neal Caren, Associate Professo r, Department of Sociology
Martha Carlough, Professor, Department of Fam ily Med icine
Flora Cassen, Associate Professor, Depart ment of History
Crystal W il ey Cene, Associate Professor, Department of Med icine
Jan Chambers, Professor, Department of Dramati c Art
M imi Chapman, Professor, School of Soc ial Work.
Selena Ch ilds, Clinical Assoc iate Professor, School of Socia l Work.
Hans Christianson, Associate Professor, Department of Mathemati cs
Jocelyn Chu a, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropol ogy
Daniel M. Cobb, Professor, Department of America n Studies
Jessica Cohen, Assistant Professo r, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Lora Cohen-Vogel, Distingu ished Professor, School of Education
James Coleman, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Li t erature
Marsha S. Co ll ins, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Pamela Johnst on Conover, Burton Cra ige Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science
Shaun a M . Cooper, Associate Professor, Depa rtme nt of Psychology and Neuroscience
Michael Louis Corrado, Arch Allen Professor Emeritus, Schoo l of Law
Taylor Cowdery, Ass istant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Renee Alexander Cra f t, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Communication
Elyse Cryst al I, Teaching Associate ProfessorDepartment of English and Comparative Litera tu re
Andrew Pau l Curley, Assistant Professor, Department of Geogra ph y
Jane Danielewicz, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Jean Ann Davison, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Steven Day, Research Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Paul Delamater, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Sarah E. Dempsey, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Dwayne Dixon, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Thad Domina, Associate Professor, School of Education
Marisa Elena Domino, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Janet Downie, Associate Professor, Department of Classics
Lori Edmonds, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Education
Stephanie M. Engel, Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Adrienne Erickcek, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Emilio del Valle Escalante, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Marcie Cohen Ferris, Professor Emeritus, Department of American Studies
William Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Center for Study of the American South
Laurel A Files, Professor Emeritus, Department of Health Policy and Management
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Mary Floyd-Wilson, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Thomas Freeman, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Leah Frerichs, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Bruce Fried, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Maggie Fritz-Markin, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Leslie Frost, Teaching Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Henry Fuchs, Federico Gil Distinguished Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering
Michele Jonsson-Funk, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemio logy
David F. Garcia, Associate Professor, Department of Music
Kathleen Gates, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Marilyn Ghezzi, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Rhonda Gibson, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Annamae Giles, Clinical Instructor, School of Social Work
Melissa B. Gilkey, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Marianne Gingher, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Amy Gladfelter, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Joseph T. Glatthaar, Stephenson Distinguished Professor, Department of History
Melissa L. Godwin, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Shelley Golden, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Carol E. Galin, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Behavior
Oscar Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Rachel W. Goode, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Penny Gordon-Larsen, Professor, Department of Nutrition
Clark Gray, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Associate Professor and Margaret Shuping Fellow of Creative Nonfiction, Department of English and
Michael Gutierrez, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Carmen M . Gutierrez, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
Minrose Gwin, Kenan Eminent Professor Emerita, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Jacqueline Hagan, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
Rob Hamilton, Lecturer, Department of Communication
Russell Harris, Professor Emeritus, Department of Internal Medicine
Elizabeth Havice, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Gail E. Henderson, Professor, Departments of Social Medicine and Sociology
Jim Herrington, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Glenn Hinson, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and American Studies
Josh Hinson, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
John Hipps, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Jennifer Ho, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Fred Hobson, Lineberger Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Sharon P. Holland, Townsend Ludington Term Distinguished Endowed Professor, Department of American Studies
Kristin Hondros, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Eric A. Houck, Associate Professor, School of Education
Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science
Daniel M . Huff, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Education and Department of Music
Malcolm Ray Hunter, Jr., Adjunct Professor, School of Law
Andrea Hussong, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Kristina Killgrove, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Tom Linden, Glaxo Wellcome Distinguished Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Suzanne Ma man, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Evyatar Marien berg, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Timothy Marr, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
Cecilia Martfnez-Gallardo, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Derrick Matthews, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Ketan Mayer-Patel, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Noreen McDonald, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
Michael McFee, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
John McGowan. Hanes Distinguished Professor of English
Aimee M. McHale, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Leadership Program
Terence McIntosh, Associate Professor, Department of History
China Medel, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Benjamin Mason Meier, Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Professor, Department of Public Policy
M. Kathryn Menard, UpJohn Distinguished Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Carla Merino-Rajme, Assistant Professor, Department: Philosophy
Townsend Middleton, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology.
Charles Mitchell, Professor, Department of Biology
Jeanne Moskal, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Layna Mosley, Professor, Depa rtment of Po litical Science
Cheryl Moy, Teaching Assistant Professo r, Department of Chem istry
Kate Muessig, Assist ant Professor, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Dee panjan M ukhopadhyay, Professor of the Practice, Depa rtment of Art & Art History
Dennis Mumby, Ca ry C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Department of Communication
Andrea M urray-Lichtma n, Assistant Clinica l Professor, Sch ool of Social Work
Christop her T. Nelso n, Professor, Department of Anthropo logy
Ram Neta, Professo r, Depa rtment of Phi losophy
George W . Noblit, Josep h R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor, School of Education
Tamara H. Norris, Clinica l Ass ociate Professor, School of Socia l Work
Ka ri E. No rt h, Professor, Department of Epidem iology.
James J. O'Ha ra, George L. Paddison Professor, Department of Classics
Tere nce Oliver, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Elizabeth Olson, Professor, Departme nt of Geography.
Micha l Osterweil Associate Professor, Curricul um in Globa l Studies
M ichael Palm, Asso ci ate Professor, Department of Communication
Kristi n Pa poi, Clinical Assista nt Professor, Sch ool of Edu cation
Mary Pardo, Associa t e Professor, Department of Art and Art Hist ory
Patricia Pa rker, Associate Professo r, Department of Communicat ion
David L. Penn, Linda Wagner Martin Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Louis A. Perez, Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor, Depa rtment of History
Krista M. Perreira, Professor, Depa rtment of Social Medicine
Tony Perucci, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Communication
Erica Pettigrew, Ass istant Professor, Department of Family Medic ine
John Pickles, Patt erson Distinguished Professor, Departments of Geography and of Internationa l Studies
David Pier, Asso ci ate Professor, Department of African, Afri can Ameri can, and Diaspora Studies
Morgan Pite lka, Professor, Department of Asian Studies and Depa rtment of History
Beth S. Posner, Clinical Asso ciate Professor, Schoo l of Law
Adam Price, Teac hi ng Assista nt Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
William H. Race, George L. Padd ison Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics
Donald J. Raleig h, Jay Richard Judson Disting uished Professor, Department of History
Shabbar Ranapurwa la, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Edwa rd V. Rankus, Associate Professor, Department of Commu ni cation
Peter Redfie ld, Professor, Department of Anthropo logy
Daniel E. Reicha rt, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Donald Re id, Professor, Depart ment of History
Tom Reinert, Associate Professor, Dept of English an d Comparative Literature
Andrew Reynolds, Professor, Department of Po litical Sc ience
Dana K. Rice, Assistant Professor, Public Health Leaders hip Program
Eliza Richards, Associate Professo r,
David Ric hardson, Associate Professo r, Department of Epidemiology
James Rives, Kenan Eminent Professor, Depa rtment of Classics
Michele Rivkin-F ish, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropo logy.
Graeme Robertson, Professor, Department of Politica l Science
Michelle Robinso n, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
Shielda Glover Rodgers, Cli nica l Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Xue La n Rong, Professor, School of Education
Nora Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Vict oria Ravine, Professor, Depa rtment of Art and Art History
Gillian Russell, Professor, Department of Phi losophy
Carol ina Sa Carvalho, Assistant Professo r, Depa rtment of Romance Studies
Patricia Sawin, Associate Professo r, Department of American Studies
Laurie Selz-Campbell, Clinica l Associate Professor, Sc hool of Social Work.
Pascha l Shee ran, Professor, Department of Psyc hology and Neuroscience
Margaret Sheridan, Assistant Professor, Departme nt of Psychology and Neuroscience
Daniel J. Sherman, Lineberger Distinguished Professor, Departments of Art Histo ry and History
Tanya L. Shields, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gende r Studies
Pam Silbe rman, Professor, Department of Health Policy an d Management
Kumarini Si lva , Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Becky Slifkin, Professor, Department of Health Po licy and Management
Ka rla Slocum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropo logy
Jason B. Smith, Associate Professor, De partment of Health Behavior
Jay M. Smith, Professor, Depart ment of History
Sa ra Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Cong he Song, Professor, Depa rtment of Geograp hy.
Jeffrey Son is, Associate Professor, Depa rt ments of Soc ial Med icine and Family Medi cine
Sa lly Stearns, Profess or, Department of Health Po licy and Management
Julea Steiner, Assistant Professor, Public Health Leade rship Program
John D Stephens, Lenski Professor, Depa rt ments of Political Science and Soc iology
Chad A Stevens, Associate Professor, Schoo l of Media and Journa lism
Lynda Stone, Samuel M. Ho lton Distinguished Professo r, School of Education
Beverly Taylor, Professor Department of Eng lish and Comparative Literature
Matthew Taylor, Associa t e Professor, Department of English and Comparative Lit erature
Todd Taylor, Norman and Dorothy Eliason Disti nguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Litera tu re
Eva H. Telzer, Assistant Professor, Depart ment of Psych ology and Neuroscience
J. Michae l Terry, Associate Professor, Department of Li nguistics
Meenu Tewari, Associa t e Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
James Thompson, Professor, Department of English and Compa rative Literature
Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of America Honors Disti nguished Term Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Silvia Tomaskova, Professor, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and Anthropo logy
Jenny To ne-Pah-Hote, Associate Professo r, Department of American Studies
Kimberly P. Truesdale, Associate Professor, Depa rtme nt of Nutrition
M ichael Tsin, Asso ci ate Professor, Department of History
Katherine Turk, Associate Professo r, Department of History
Gabriela Valdivia, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Geography
Tonya B. Van Deinse, Clinical Assistant Professor, Sc hool of Social Work
Sa rah Verbiest, Cl inical Ass ociate Professor, School of Social Work.
Ariana Vigil, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Stud ies
Joseph Viscomi, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professo r, Department of English and Comparative Lite rature
Rob in Visser, Associate Professo r, Depa rtment of Asian Studies
Lisa Vizer, Ass istant Professor, Depa rt ment of Medicine
Neeta Vora, Associate Professor, Department of Obst etrics and Gyneco logy
Colin S. Wallace, Teac hing Ass istant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronom y
Daniel Wallace, Distinguished Professor, De partment of English and Com parative Literature
Marty Weems, Clinica l Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Jennifer We inberg-Wo lf, Teachi ng Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Sam We ir, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medici ne
Sharon S We ir, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Deborah M . Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Ellen R. Welch, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Stud ies
Rachel Wi lli s, Professor, Department of America n Studies
Erika K. Wi lson, Reef C. Ivey II Term Professor, School of Law
David A. Woh l, Professor, Department of Medicine
Jessica Wolfe, Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Classics, and Romance Stud ies
Richard Wolfenden, Alu mni Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Courtney G. Woods, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmenta l Sciences and Engineering
Cecil W. Woot en, Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics
Alex Worsnip, Assist ant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Gesche Wurfel, Teachi ng Assista nt Professor, Department of Art and Art Histo ry
Claudi a Yaghoobi, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Nadia Yaqub, Associate Professor, Department of Asia n Studies
Ka rin Yeatts, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
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To: The UNC Community, including Board of Governors, Board of Trustees, and President as well as students, faculty,
and administ ration of UNC-Chapel Hill
The undersigned 417 faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, copied here, endorse and support the
following position of 60 Black faculty members of the University, regarding the disposition of the confederate statue
that formerly stood on campus:
As UNC Black faculty, we occupy a unique position relative to the Confederate monument known as
"Silent Sam." When the Daughters of the Confederacy commissioned the monument for the University,
when University donors offered resources to support its completion , when the University paid the
remaining balance, and UNC Board of Trustees member Julian Carr delivered his racist remarks at its
dedication, we doubt any envisioned Black faculty as vibrant and necessary members of the
University's intellectual, cultural, and social community. In 1913, the Confederate monument did not
stand in opposition to the stated values and mission of the University. In 2018, it most certainly does. It
has done so since the University chose to admit the first Black student or offer the first Black faculty
member a contract for employment. We have witnessed a monument that represents white supremacy
in both the past and present be venerated and protected at the same time that we have been asked to
serve as examples of diversity and inclusion. That is a demoralizing burden.
continues to attract white supremacists, creates a racially hostile work environment and diminishes the
University's reputation worldwide. For us, arguments of moral equivalency are extremely problematic;
there are not two morally valid sides to the history the monument represents nor to its current
significance. Without brave acts of civil disobedience that changed the moral character of the nation
and advanced the cause of justice, Black faculty, staff, and students would not be here. To reinstall the
Confederate monument to any location on UNC's campus is to herald for the nation and for the world
that UNC is not a welcoming place for Black people.
We, the undersigned faculty, urge the Chancellor, Provost, Board of Trustees, and Board of Governors
to permanently remove the Confederate statue and its pedestal from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. There is no way to re-erect the statue without valorizing an incomplete version of history. A
symbol of racism, violence, and white supremacy has no place on our 21st century campus often called
the "University of the People."
Signed in alphabetical order:
Adaora A. Adimora, Sarah Gra ham Kenan Distinguished Professo r, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology
Barbara Ambros, Professor, Department of Religious Stud ies
Alle n Anderson, Professor, Department of Music
Ken neth Andrews, Mason Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor, Department of English and Comparat ive Literature
Javier A. Arce-Nazario, Associate Professor, Departme nt of Geography
Florence E. Babb, Harrington Distinguished Professor, Depa rtment of Anthropology
Robert G. Babcock, Alum ni Distinguished Professor, Department of Classics
David J. Baker, Pete r G. Ph ialas Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Fadi A. Bardawil, Assista nt Professor, Department of Asia n Studies
Deborah Barrett, Clinical Associate Professor, Schoo l of Social Work
Cla re L. Barri ngton, Professor, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Daniel Bauer, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neurosc ience
Karl Bauman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Frank R. Baumgartner, Richa rd J. Richardson Distinguished Professor, Depa rtment of Political Science
Misha Becker, Professor, Depart ment of Linguistics
Sylvia Becker-Dre ps, Associate Professor, De partments of Family Medicine and Epidem iology
Arthur Be navie, Professo r Emeritus, Department of Econom ics
Trude Be nn ett, Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Maternal and Chi ld Hea lth
Peggy Bentley, Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor, Departme nt of Nutrition
Tamara Berg, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sc ience
Tracy Bersley, Assistant Professor, Depa rtment of Dramatic Art
Susan Bickford, Associate Professor, Department of Politica l Science
Sarah A. Birken, Assistant Professor, Depart ment of Health Policy and Management
Kaci Bis hop, Cl inical Associate Professor, School of Law
Carole Blair, Professor, Department of Commu nicatio n
Cha rlotte Boettiger, Associate Professor, Depa rtment of Psyc hology and Neuroscie nce
Jessica A. Boon, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Stud ies
Ka ren M Booth, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Lydia Boyd, Associa t e Professo r, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Marcella H. Boynton, Assistant Professo r, Depa rt ment of Health Behavior
Jane Brown, James L. Knight Professor Emeritus, School of Med ia and Journalism
William Brown, Associa t e Professo r, Department of Comm unication
Kathryn Burns, Professor, Department of Histo ry
Em ily Burrill, Associate Professor, Departments of of History and Women 's and Gender Studies
Justin Byron, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medic ine
Kia Caldwell, Professor, Department of Africa n, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Gabrielle Calvoco ressi, Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Neal Caren, Associate Professo r, Department of Sociology
Martha Carlough, Professor, Department of Fam ily Med icine
Flora Cassen, Associate Professor, Depart ment of History
Crystal W il ey Cene, Associate Professor, Department of Med icine
Jan Chambers, Professor, Department of Dramati c Art
M imi Chapman, Professor, School of Soc ial Work.
Selena Ch ilds, Clinical Assoc iate Professor, School of Socia l Work.
Hans Christianson, Associate Professor, Department of Mathemati cs
Jocelyn Chu a, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropol ogy
Daniel M. Cobb, Professor, Department of America n Studies
Jessica Cohen, Assistant Professo r, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Lora Cohen-Vogel, Distingu ished Professor, School of Education
James Coleman, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Li t erature
Marsha S. Co ll ins, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Pamela Johnst on Conover, Burton Cra ige Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science
Shaun a M . Cooper, Associate Professor, Depa rtme nt of Psychology and Neuroscience
Michael Louis Corrado, Arch Allen Professor Emeritus, Schoo l of Law
Taylor Cowdery, Ass istant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Renee Alexander Cra f t, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Communication
Elyse Cryst al I, Teaching Associate ProfessorDepartment of English and Comparative Litera tu re
Andrew Pau l Curley, Assistant Professor, Department of Geogra ph y
Jean Ann Davison, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Steven Day, Research Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Paul Delamater, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Thad Domina, Associate Professor, School of Education
Marisa Elena Domino, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Lori Edmonds, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Education
Adrienne Erickcek, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Laurel A Files, Professor Emeritus, Department of Health Policy and Management
Thomas Freeman, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Leah Frerichs, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Bruce Fried, Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Maggie Fritz-Markin, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Studies
David F. Garcia, Associate Professor, Department of Music
Marilyn Ghezzi, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Rhonda Gibson, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Annamae Giles, Clinical Instructor, School of Social Work
Amy Gladfelter, Associate Professor, Department of Biology
Joseph T. Glatthaar, Stephenson Distinguished Professor, Department of History
Melissa L. Godwin, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Carol E. Galin, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Behavior
Rachel W. Goode, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Associate Professor and Margaret Shuping Fellow of Creative Nonfiction, Department of English and
Carmen M . Gutierrez, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
Jacqueline Hagan, Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology
Russell Harris, Professor Emeritus, Department of Internal Medicine
John Hipps, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Jennifer Ho, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Eric A. Houck, Associate Professor, School of Education
Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science
Daniel M . Huff, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Education and Department of Music
Kristina Killgrove, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Tom Linden, Glaxo Wellcome Distinguished Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Suzanne Ma man, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Evyatar Marien berg, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Cecilia Martfnez-Gallardo, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
China Medel, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
M. Kathryn Menard, UpJohn Distinguished Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Carla Merino-Rajme, Assistant Professor, Department: Philosophy
Layna Mosley, Professor, Depa rtment of Po litical Science
Cheryl Moy, Teaching Assistant Professo r, Department of Chem istry
Kate Muessig, Assist ant Professor, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Dee panjan M ukhopadhyay, Professor of the Practice, Depa rtment of Art & Art History
Dennis Mumby, Ca ry C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Department of Communication
Andrea M urray-Lichtma n, Assistant Clinica l Professor, Sch ool of Social Work
Christop her T. Nelso n, Professor, Department of Anthropo logy
Ram Neta, Professo r, Depa rtment of Phi losophy
George W . Noblit, Josep h R. Neikirk Distinguished Professor, School of Education
Tamara H. Norris, Clinica l Ass ociate Professor, School of Socia l Work
Ka ri E. No rt h, Professor, Department of Epidem iology.
James J. O'Ha ra, George L. Paddison Professor, Department of Classics
Tere nce Oliver, Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Elizabeth Olson, Professor, Departme nt of Geography.
Micha l Osterweil Associate Professor, Curricul um in Globa l Studies
M ichael Palm, Asso ci ate Professor, Department of Communication
Kristi n Pa poi, Clinical Assista nt Professor, Sch ool of Edu cation
Mary Pardo, Associa t e Professor, Department of Art and Art Hist ory
Patricia Pa rker, Associate Professo r, Department of Communicat ion
David L. Penn, Linda Wagner Martin Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Louis A. Perez, Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor, Depa rtment of History
Krista M. Perreira, Professor, Depa rtment of Social Medicine
Tony Perucci, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Communication
Erica Pettigrew, Ass istant Professor, Department of Family Medic ine
John Pickles, Patt erson Distinguished Professor, Departments of Geography and of Internationa l Studies
David Pier, Asso ci ate Professor, Department of African, Afri can Ameri can, and Diaspora Studies
Morgan Pite lka, Professor, Department of Asian Studies and Depa rtment of History
Beth S. Posner, Clinical Asso ciate Professor, Schoo l of Law
Adam Price, Teac hi ng Assista nt Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
William H. Race, George L. Padd ison Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics
Donald J. Raleig h, Jay Richard Judson Disting uished Professor, Department of History
Shabbar Ranapurwa la, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Edwa rd V. Rankus, Associate Professor, Department of Commu ni cation
Peter Redfie ld, Professor, Department of Anthropo logy
Daniel E. Reicha rt, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Donald Re id, Professor, Depart ment of History
Tom Reinert, Associate Professor, Dept of English an d Comparative Literature
Andrew Reynolds, Professor, Department of Po litical Sc ience
Dana K. Rice, Assistant Professor, Public Health Leaders hip Program
Eliza Richards, Associate Professo r,
David Ric hardson, Associate Professo r, Department of Epidemiology
James Rives, Kenan Eminent Professor, Depa rtment of Classics
Michele Rivkin-F ish, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropo logy.
Graeme Robertson, Professor, Department of Politica l Science
Michelle Robinso n, Associate Professor, Department of American Studies
Shielda Glover Rodgers, Cli nica l Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Xue La n Rong, Professor, School of Education
Nora Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Hea lth Behavior
Vict oria Ravine, Professor, Depa rtment of Art and Art History
Gillian Russell, Professor, Department of Phi losophy
Carol ina Sa Carvalho, Assistant Professo r, Depa rtment of Romance Studies
Patricia Sawin, Associate Professo r, Department of American Studies
Laurie Selz-Campbell, Clinica l Associate Professor, Sc hool of Social Work.
Pascha l Shee ran, Professor, Department of Psyc hology and Neuroscience
Margaret Sheridan, Assistant Professor, Departme nt of Psychology and Neuroscience
Daniel J. Sherman, Lineberger Distinguished Professor, Departments of Art Histo ry and History
Tanya L. Shields, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gende r Studies
Pam Silbe rman, Professor, Department of Health Policy an d Management
Kumarini Si lva , Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Becky Slifkin, Professor, Department of Health Po licy and Management
Ka rla Slocum, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropo logy
Jason B. Smith, Associate Professor, De partment of Health Behavior
Jay M. Smith, Professor, Depart ment of History
Sa ra Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Cong he Song, Professor, Depa rtment of Geograp hy.
Jeffrey Son is, Associate Professor, Depa rt ments of Soc ial Med icine and Family Medi cine
Sa lly Stearns, Profess or, Department of Health Po licy and Management
Julea Steiner, Assistant Professor, Public Health Leade rship Program
John D Stephens, Lenski Professor, Depa rt ments of Political Science and Soc iology
Chad A Stevens, Associate Professor, Schoo l of Media and Journa lism
Lynda Stone, Samuel M. Ho lton Distinguished Professo r, School of Education
Beverly Taylor, Professor Department of Eng lish and Comparative Literature
Matthew Taylor, Associa t e Professor, Department of English and Comparative Lit erature
Todd Taylor, Norman and Dorothy Eliason Disti nguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Litera tu re
Eva H. Telzer, Assistant Professor, Depart ment of Psych ology and Neuroscience
J. Michae l Terry, Associate Professor, Department of Li nguistics
Meenu Tewari, Associa t e Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning
James Thompson, Professor, Department of English and Compa rative Literature
Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of America Honors Disti nguished Term Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Silvia Tomaskova, Professor, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and Anthropo logy
Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote, Associate Professo r, Department of American Studies
Kimberly P. Truesdale, Associate Professor, Depa rtme nt of Nutrition
M ichael Tsin, Asso ci ate Professor, Department of History
Katherine Turk, Associate Professo r, Department of History
Gabriela Valdivia, Assoc iate Professor, Department of Geography
Tonya B. Van Deinse, Clinical Assistant Professor, Sc hool of Social Work
Sa rah Verbiest, Cl inical Ass ociate Professor, School of Social Work.
Ariana Vigil, Associate Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Stud ies
Joseph Viscomi, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professo r, Department of English and Comparative Lite rature
Rob in Visser, Associate Professo r, Depa rtment of Asian Studies
Lisa Vizer, Ass istant Professor, Depa rt ment of Medicine
Neeta Vora, Associate Professor, Department of Obst etrics and Gyneco logy
Colin S. Wallace, Teac hing Ass istant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronom y
Daniel Wallace, Distinguished Professor, De partment of English and Com parative Literature
Marty Weems, Clinica l Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Jennifer We inberg-Wo lf, Teachi ng Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Sam We ir, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medici ne
Sharon S We ir, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Deborah M . Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Ellen R. Welch, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Stud ies
Rachel Wi lli s, Professor, Department of America n Studies
Erika K. Wi lson, Reef C. Ivey II Term Professor, School of Law
David A. Woh l, Professor, Department of Medicine
Jessica Wolfe, Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Classics, and Romance Stud ies
Richard Wolfenden, Alu mni Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Courtney G. Woods, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmenta l Sciences and Engineering
Cecil W. Woot en, Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics
Alex Worsnip, Assist ant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Gesche Wurfel, Teachi ng Assista nt Professor, Department of Art and Art Histo ry
Claudi a Yaghoobi, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Nadia Yaqub, Associate Professor, Department of Asia n Studies
Ka rin Yeatts, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
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Corrected
August 29, 2018
Dear Chancellor Folt and Provost Blouin:
The letter below and attached has now ( 1 pm, August 29) been signed by 319 of your faculty colleagues.
We look forward to your response.
.
Sincerelv'
As listed below
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August 25, 2018
Chancellor Carol Falt and Provost Robert Blouin

(Chancellor@unc.edu; Bob BlouiwZo.unc.edu)
Dear Chancellor Falt and Provost Blouin:
This letter, pasted below and attached, is signed by 199 of your colleagues [plus 120 additional faculty as of
8/29/18] from the faculty of the University, also copied.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
President John F. Kennedy
A year ago, amidst long overdue articulation of the horror memorialized by the confederate statue on the UNC-
Chapel Hill campus, university administrators had the chance to show leadership in resolving a divisive
issue. They dodged.
Monday night, the confederate statue was removed. The means was not the most desirable, but the horror it
represented, the decades of indulgence by the university, and the recent studied deafness of the administration
made such an action, although not violent, nearly inevitable, as President Kennedy predicted.
In all our disciplines, we try to encourage critical inquiry. The most cursory critical inquiry has made clear,
time and again, that the confederate statue memorialized racism, that the purpose of its installation - as
celebrated by the oratory that accompanied it - was to enforce and sustain racism. To assert anything else about
its history and motive is nai:ve at best but, really, simply abetting the cause it embodied.
The time is now for leadership. Surely a means might be found to recognize the sacrifices of UNC graduates
and friends in the too many wars our nation has endured, but a way to memorialize the individuals who made
those sacrifices, not the horrible cause in which, sadly, many of them died.
In responding to the removal of the statue, the administration has said that "safety and security ... will remain
our top priority." What about the safety and security of the African American woman whose beating was
celebrated in the speeches at the unveiling of the statue? What about the safety of the thousands of citizens who
have been beaten and murdered through the cause the statue advanced? This is not about safety. It is about the
heart of our country. For our administrators to continue to dodge that simple reality is coy and cruel.
The administration has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to become involved and assures that "we will
use the full breadth of state and University processes to hold those responsible accountable for their actions."
Law enforcement, public safety, and respect for the history that surrounded the statue and its removal require
discretion. Leadership requires it as well.
The time is now for the university administration to show leadership, not bureaucratic obfuscation. Show us
that you and the university do indeed stand for Lux et Libertas, not sustaining and enforcing the symbols of
human cruelty.
Sincerely (alphabetically),
William L. Andrews, E . Maynard Adams Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Anna Bardone-Cone, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Tenn Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Deborah Barrett, Associate Professor, School of Social Work Department of Psychiatry
John P. Bowles, Associate Professor, Department of Ari and Art History
Jan Chambers, Professor, Department of Dramatic Ari
Renee Alexander Craft, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Elyse Cry stall, Teaching Associate ProfessorDepartment of English and Comparative Literature
Ar1drew Paul Curley, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Florence Dore, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Eric Downing, Weinberg Distinguished Professor, Departments of Gernian and of English and Comparative Literature
Gerri Eng, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Studies
Banu Gokanksel, The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography and Global Studies
Carol E. Gohn, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Behavior
Carmen M. Gutierrez, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
Jenna A. Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of History
Kenneth Janken, Professor, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies.
I Jonathan Kief, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Sherryl Kleimnan, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology,
Dr. Beth Kurtz-Costes, Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Jacqueline Lmvton, Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Priscilla Layne, Associate Professor, Department of Gennanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Laura A. Limian, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Associate Professor, Department of History, Director, Center for the Study of the An1erican South
Douglas Mac Lean, Professor, Department of Philosophy
Evyatar Marienberg, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Layna Mosley, Professor, Department of Political Science
Kate Muessig, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Michal Osterweil Associate Professor, CurTiculum in Global Studies
Patricia Parker, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Louis A Perez, Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor, Department of History
Della Pollock, Professor, Department of Communication
Beth S. Posner. Clinical Associate Professor. School of Law
Victoria Rovine, Professor, Department of Art and Art History
Bland Simpson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Jeffrey Sonis, Associate Professor, Departments of Social Medicine and Farnily Medicine
Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of An1erica Honors Distinguished Tern1 Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Adam Versenyi, Professor, Department of Dramatic Art.
Deborah M. Weissman, ReefC. Ivey II Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Erika K. Wilson, ReefC. Ivey II Term Professor, School of Law
120 Additions after 1:30 pm, Saturday, August 25, as of 1 pm, August 29
Adaora A Adimora, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology
Sarah A. Birken, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Carolyn E. Crump, Associate Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Eduardo de J. Douglas, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Ari History
Michele Jonsson Funk, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Melissa A Herman, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Jeffrey Johnson, A Ronald Gallant Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry
Suzanne Maman, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Jonas Mona st, Assistant Professor, School of Law
Lilly U Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Kari E. North, Professor, Department of Epidemiology.
James J O'Hara, George L. Paddison Professor, Department of Classics
Michael Palm, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Andrew J Perrin, Professor, Department of Sociology
Matthew Redinbo, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry
Mark Schoenfisch, Distinguished Endowed Professor, Department of Chemistry
Kimberly P. Trnesdale, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition
Lynne Walter, Adjunct Tnstrnctor, School of Social Work
August 25, 2018
Chancellor Carol Folt and Provost Robert Blouin

(Chancellor@unc.edu; Bob _Blouin@unc.edu)
This letter, pasted below and attached, is signed by 199 of your colleagues [plus 120 additional faculty as of
8/29/18] from the faculty of the University, also copied.
A year ago, amidst long overdue articulation of the horror memorialized by the confederate statue on the UNC-
Chapel Hill campus, university administrators had the chance to show leadership in resolving a divisive
issue. They dodged.
Monday night, the confederate statue was removed. The means was not the most desirable, but the horror it
represented, the decades of indulgence by the university, and the recent studied deafness of the administration
made such an action, although not violent, nearly inevitable, as President Kennedy predicted.
In all our disciplines, we try to encourage critical inquiry. The most cursory critical inquiry has made clear,
time and again, that the confederate statue memorialized racism, that the purpose of its installation - as
celebrated by the oratory that accompanied it - was to enforce and sustain racism. To assert anything else about
its history and motive is nai:ve at best but, really, simply abetting the cause it embodied.
The time is now for leadership. Surely a means might be found to recognize the sacrifices of UNC graduates
and friends in the too many wars our nation has endured, but a way to memorialize the individuals who made
those sacrifices, not the horrible cause in which, sadly, many of them died.
In responding to the removal of the statue, the administration has said that "safety and security ... will remain
our top priority." What about the safety and security of the African American woman whose beating was
celebrated in the speeches at the unveiling of the statue? What about the safety of the thousands of citizens who
have been beaten and murdered through the cause the statue advanced? This is not about safety. It is about the
heart of our country. For our administrators to continue to dodge that simple reality is coy and cruel.
The administration has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to become involved and assures that "we will
use the full breadth of state and University processes to hold those responsible accountable for their actions."
Law enforcement, public safety, and respect for the history that surrounded the statue and its removal require
discretion. Leadership requires it as well.
The time is now for the university administration to show leadership, not bureaucratic obfuscation. Show us
that you and the university do indeed stand for Lux et Libertas, not sustaining and enforcing the symbols of
human cruelty.
William L. Andrews, E . Maynard Adams Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Anna Bardone-Cone, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Tenn Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
John P. Bowles, Associate Professor, Department of Ari and Art History
Jan Chambers, Professor, Department of Dramatic Ari
Elyse Crystall, Teaching Associate ProfessorDepartment of English and Comparative Literature
Ar1drew Paul Curley, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Eric Downing, Weinberg Distinguished Professor, Departments ofGernian and of English and Comparative Literature
Gerri Eng, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
William Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Center for Study of the An1erican South
Jenna A Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of History
Jacqueline Lmvton, Assistant Professor, Department of Dramatic Art
Laura A Linnan, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Malinda Maynor Lowery, Associate Professor, Department of History, Director, Center for the Study of the An1erican South
Leslie A Lytle, Professor, Departments of Health Behavior and Nutrition
Douglas MacLean, Professor, Department of Philosophy
Jolm McGowan. Hanes Distinguished Professor of English
Dermis Mumby, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, Department of Communication
Michal Osterweil Associate Professor, CurTiculum in Global Studies
Louis A Perez, Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor, Department of History
Beth S. Posner, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Law
Jeffrey Sonis, Associate Professor, Departments of Social Medicine and Farnily Medicine
Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of An1erica Honors Distinguished Tern1 Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
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Deborah M. Weissman, ReefC. Ivey II Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Brett \Vhalen, Associate Professor, Department of History
Erika K. Wilson, ReefC. Ivey II Term Professor, School of Law
F. Charles Wiss, Associate Professor, Department of Psycholo6'Y and Neuroscience
Sarah A Birken, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Emily BurTill, Associate Professor, Departments of of History and Women's and Gender Studies
Melissa A Herman, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Sharon P. Holland, Townsend Ludington Term Distin6ruished Endowed Professor, Department of American Studies
Ke1meth R. Janken, Professor, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Jonas Monast, Assistant Professor, School of Law
Michael Palm, Associate Professor, Department of Communication
Jeff Sekelsh.y, Professor, Departments of Biology and Genetics
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Kimberly P. Truesdale, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition
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August 29, 2018
The letter below has now (1 pm, August 29) been signed by 319 of your faculty colleagues.
We look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
As listed below
++++++++++++++++
August 25, 2018

University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
(Chancellor@unc.edu; Bob Biouin?lmnc cdu)
This letter, pasted below and attached, is signed by 199 of your colleagues from the faculty of the University, also copied.
A year ago, amidst long overdue articulation of the horror memorialized by the confederate statue on the UNC-Chapel
Hill campus, university administrators had the chance to show leadership in resolving a divisive issue. They dodged.
Monday night, the confederate statue was removed. The means was not the most desirable, but the horror it represented,
the decades of indulgence by the university, and the recent studied deafness of the administration made such an action
nearly inevitable, as President Kennedy predicted.
In all our disciplines, we try to encourage critical inquiry. TI1e most cursory critical inquiry has made clear, time and
again, that the confederate statue memorialized racism, that the purpose of its installation - as celebrated by the oratory
that accompanied it - was to enforce and sustain racism. To assert anything else about its history and motive is nai:Ve at
best but, really, simply abetting the cause it embodied.
The time is now for leadership. Surely a means might be found to recognize the sacrifices of UNC graduates and friends
in the too many wars our nation has endured, but a way to memorialize the individuals who made those sacrifices, not the
horrible cause in which, sadly, many of them died.
In responding to the removal of the statue, the administration has said that "safety and security ... will remain our top
priority." What about the safety and security of the African American woman whose beating was celebrated in the
speeches at the unveiling of the statue? What about the safety of the thousands of citizens who have been beaten and
murdered through the cause the statue advanced? This is not about safety. It is about the heart of our country. For our
administrators to continue to dodge that simple reality is coy and cruel.
The administration has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to become involved and assures that "we will use the full
breadth of state and University processes to hold those responsible accountable for their actions." Law enforcement,
public safety, and respect for the history that surrounded the statue and its removal require discretion. Leadership requires
it as well.
The time is now for the university administration to show leadership, not bureaucratic obfuscation. Show us that you and
the university do indeed stand for Lux et Libertas, not sustaining and enforcing the symbols of human cruelty.
Fadi A Bardawil, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies
Anna Bartlone-Cone, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Elyse Crystall, Teaching Associate ProfessorDepartment of English and Comparative Literature
Andrew Paul Curley, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Eric Downing, Weinberg Distinguished Professor, Departments of Gemian and of English and Comparative Literature
Marcie Cohen Fenis, Professor Emeritus, Department of American Studies
William Fenis, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor Emeritus, Department of History and Center for Study of the American South
Carmen M. Gutienez, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
Jim Henington, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Glem1 Hinson, Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and American Studies
Erica Johnson, Associate Professor, Cuniculum in Global Studies
Dr. Beth Kurtz-Costes, Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Tenn Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Laura A Linnan, Professor, Department of Health Behavior
Leslie A Lytle, Professor, Departments of Health Behavior and Nutrition
Douglas Mac Lean, Professor, Department of Philosophy
M. Ben Major, Associate Professor, Departments of Pharniacology and of Computer Science
Michal Osterweil Associate Professor, Curriculum in Global Studies
Louis A Perez, Jr., J Carlyle Sitterson Professor, Department of History
Inga Pollmann, Associate Professor, Department of Gennanic and Slavic Languages and Literature
Donald J Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor, Department of History
Michele Rivkin-Fish, Associate Professor, Department of Ar1thropology.
Daniel J Shennan, Lineberger Distinguished Professor, Departments of Art History and History
Jeffrey Sonis, Associate Professor, Departments of Social Medicine and Family Medicine
Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of America Honors Distinguished Term Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Harry L. Watson, Atlanta Distinguished Professor in So uthem Culture, Department of History
Sarah A Birken, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Stephen R. Cole, Professor, Department ofEpiderniology
Eduardo de J. Douglas, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art. History
Pe1my Gordon-Larsen, Professor, Department of Nutrition
Michael GutierTez, Teaching Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Melissa A Herman, Assistant Professor, Department of Phannacology
Kenneth R. Janken, Professor, Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Carol Magee, Associate Professor, Department of Art. and Art History
Jonas Monast Assistant Professor. School of Law
Lilly U. Nbruyen, Assistant Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
Michael Palm, Associate Professor, Department of Conmrnnication
Kimberly P. Trnesdale, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition
Lynne Walter, Adjunct Instrnctor, School of Social Work
August 25, 2018

(Chancellor@unc.edu; Bob_Blouin@unc.edu)
Monday night, the confederate statue \Vas removed. The means was not the most desirable, but the horror it represented,
In all our disciplines, we try to encourage critical inquiry. The most cursory critical inquiry has made clear, time and
that accompanied it - was to enforce and sustain racism. To assert anything else about its history and motive is nai:ve at
The administration has asked the State Bureau of Investigation to become involved and assures that '\ve will use the full
it as well.
Jemlifer E. Arnold, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
David J. Baker, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Enlily Baragwanath, Associate Professor, Department of Classics
Arum Bartlone-Cone, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Deboral1 Barrett, Associate Professor, School of Social Work Department of Psychiatry
Clare L. Barrington, Professor, Department of Health Bel1avior
John P. Bowles, Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History
Elyse Crystall, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Eric Downing, Weinberg Distinguished Professor, Departments of Gennan and of English & Comparative Literature
Carol E. Golin, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Health Behavior
Dorothea Heitsch, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages
Kevin J effay, Gillian Cell Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science
Christopher Jones, Guthridge Distinf:,'Uished Professor, Department of Mathematics
Deborah J. Jones, Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Thomas Kelley, Paul B. Eaton Distinf:,'Uished Professor, School of Law
Lisa Lindsay, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Tenn Professor, Department of History
Noreen McDonald, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor, Department of City and Regional Plarming
Joseph Me gel, Artist in Residence, Department of Communication
Inga Pollmann, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literature
Della Pollock, Professor, Department of Conununication
Daniel J. Shemian, Lineberger Distinguished Professor, Departments of Art History and History
Bland Simpson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of English & Creative Writing, Department of English & Comparative Literature
Todd Taylor, Nonnan and Dorothy Eliason Distinguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of America Honors Distinguished Tenn Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative
Literature
Karolyn Tyson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Tenn Professor, Department of Sociology.
Joseph Visco mi, James G. Kenan Distinf:,'Uished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Harry L. Watson, Atlanta Distinguished Professor in Southern Culture
Deboral1 M. Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Erika K. Wilson, Reef C. Ivey II Tenn Professor, School of Law
Message
Sent: 8/25/2018 1:17:28 PM
CC:
Subject: Facu lty Letter Concerning Confederate Statue
August 25, 2018

(Chancellor@unc.edu; Bob Blouin't.1;uncedu)
'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable."
Monday night, the confederate statue was removed. The means \Vas not the most desirable, but the horror it represented,
that accompanied it - was to enforce and sustain racism. To assert anything else about its history and motive is nai"ve at
The time is nmv for leadership. Surely a means might be found to recognize the sacrifices of UNC graduates and friends
priority." What about the safety and security of the African American woman \vhose beating \Vas celebrated in the
it as well.
The time is now for the university administration to shmv leadership, not bureaucratic obfuscation. Show us that you and
Amia Bartlone-Cone, Bownian and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Jan Chambers, Professor, Department of Draniatic Art
Mimi Chapnian, Professor, School of Social Work.
Hans Christianson, Associate Professor, Department of Matheniatics
James Colenian, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Altlia J. Cravey, Associate Professo, Geography Department,
Mariam1e Gingher, Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Th01nas Kelley, Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Sherryl Kleinn1an, Professor Emerita, Department of SociolOf:,'Y,
M. Ben Major, Associate Professor, Departments of Phannacology and of Computer Science
Joseph Me gel, Artist in Residence, Department of Conununication
Inga Polhnann, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literature
Michele Rivkin-Fish, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropolof:,>y.
Margaret Sheridan, Assistant Professor, Department of PsycholOf:,'Y and Neuroscience
Daniel J. Shennan, Lineberger Distinf:,'Uished Professor, Departments of Art History and History
Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of America Honors Distinguished Term Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative
Literature
Joseph Visco mi, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Tin Wegel, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Lanf:,1uages and Literatures
August 25, 2018

(Chancellor@unc.edu; Bob_Blouin@unc.edu)
Monday night, the confederate statue \Vas removed. The means was not the most desirable, but the horror it represented,
that accompanied it - was to enforce and sustain racism. To assert anything else about its history and motive is nai:ve at
it as well.
Jemlifer E. Arnold, Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Enlily Baragwanath, Associate Professor, Department of Classics
Arum Bartlone-Cone, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Deboral1 Barrett, Associate Professor, School of Social Work Department of Psychiatry
Clare L. Barrington, Professor, Department of Health Bel1avior
Christopher Jones, Guthridge Distinf:,'Uished Professor, Department of Mathematics
Thomas Kelley, Paul B. Eaton Distinf:,'Uished Professor, School of Law
Joseph Me gel, Artist in Residence, Department of Communication
Inga Pollmann, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literature
Della Pollock, Professor, Department of Conununication
Daniel J. Shemian, Lineberger Distinguished Professor, Departments of Art History and History
Todd Taylor, Nonnan and Dorothy Eliason Distinguished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Jane F. Thrailkill, Bank of America Honors Distinguished Tenn Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative
Literature
Karolyn Tyson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Tenn Professor, Department of Sociology.
Joseph Visco mi, James G. Kenan Distinf:,'Uished Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Deboral1 M. Weissman, Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor, School of Law
Erika K. Wilson, Reef C. Ivey II Tenn Professor, School of Law
Message
From: Glatthaar, Joseph T [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=5ABCED8D7CA04B78B82A7579617FF31C-JOSEPH T GL]
Sent: 9/1/2018 11:07:30 AM
To: haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com
Subject: Silent Sam
Mr. Haywood,
I have been teaching courses on American military history at UNC for a long time now. Not surprisingly, I get quite a few
veterans in my classes. In recent years these veterans have voiced strong opposition to Silent Sam on our campus. The
statue not only reminds them, as it does most of us, that Silent Sam is a product of the Jim Crow South, but it also
honors people who seceded from the United States and whose actions resulted in the death of 360,000 United States
soldiers and sailors. They find insulting (in fact, many find it absolutely outrageous) that we would honor people who
killed United States service men and women after they devoted years risking their lives on behalf of our country. They
see Confederates as traitors to the United States and believe there should be no place on state or University grounds to
honor that conduct. I write this because I believe their voices need to be heard at the decision-making table.
I am not a fan of destroying statues, but I also do not support having Silent Sam greeting people as they encounter
campus grounds. I propose that we move it to the Wilson Library with explanations about the racial atmosphere when it
was installed and even its destruction, so that faculty, students, and visitors can use Silent Sam as a teaching tool. I also
urge UNC and the state not to prosecute students who pulled down the statue. If U.S. Grant could allow Robert E. Lee's
soldiers to go home unpunished at Appomattox after their actions took resulted in the death, wounding, injury, or
debilitation of hundreds of thousand of United States soldier and sailors, surely we could give the students who
participated in pulling down Silent Sam a stern warning and let them return to their studies unpunished.
Sincerely,
Joe Glatthaar
Joseph T. Glatthaar
Stephenson Distinguished Professor of American Civil War Studies
Department of History, CB 3195
504 Hamilton Hall
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From: Goldstein, Bob [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
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haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com; Duckett, Chuck [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: the Confederate Monument
To Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees,
I urge you to present in November the strongest possible case for relocating the Confederate Monument to a museum. I
have taught at the university for 19 years, and I have a deep love for the state of North Carolina and for this university. It
has long pained me to think of students of diverse backgrounds having to pass by the monument while walking to classes.
And that pain has only intensified as confederate statues have become rallying points for white supremacists .
As is now well known to many, at the 1913 unveiling of the Confederate Monument, Julian Carr announced that near the
site of the monument, "I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this
quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady .... "
Monuments glorify selected aspects of our shared history. And in the view of many reasonable people, monuments to the
Confederacy belong in museums, where their complex history can be appreciated in the rich context that they require.
Sincerely yours,
Bob Goldstein
James L. Peacock Ill Distinguished Professor
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Jju liagrumbles@gmail.com; jeffbrown@mvalaw.com; Caudill, Walter Lowry [/o=ExchangeLabs/ou=Exchange
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Subject: Opposition to Silent Sam
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I am one of the 320 faculty members who signed the recent letter regarding Silent Sam.
I agree wholehartedly with the strong opposition to the return of the Confederate memorial known as Silent Sam to its
original location in Mccorkle Place. I am greatly concerned that the return of the statue will undermine the moral and
physical security of all members of our community.
I am very concerned with the conflict around Silent Sam and how Carolina looks in the nation's (and world's) eyes.
I urge you to please take seriously the request of Carolina students, faculty, and staff and to please find another location
for this statue.
Thank you,
Penny Gordon--larsen, PhD, FAHA, FTOS
Professor, Nutrition
Associate Chair for Research, Nutdtlon
Gillings School of Global Public Health
Fellow, Carolina Population Center
Past President, The Obesity Society
UNC--Chapel Hill
123 W Franklin St, Building C, Suite 210

Phone: 919-962-6110
Message
From: Grant, Sarah R [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=4AF9644FED964207 A74B228855F8C5F8-SARAH R GRA]
Sent: 8/22/2018 9:24:32 AM
Subject: Leave Si lent Sam down
Flag: Follow up
Now that Silent Sam has been toppled, I urge you not to restore the statue to its original place. It is too dangerous for
the university, the cost of protecting it is too high and returning it to its original place will be an incentive for more
demonstrations and more violence. Someone may get hurt next time.
In my opinion, the statue should be moved to a museum location and should not be replaced by anything. Let's leave
the space open.
Thank you,
Sarah R Grant
Research Associate Professor
GSB 4258 Department of Biology CB#3280
Chapel Hill NC, 27599-3280
Tel: 919 962 -4470
Web page: http://bio.unc.edu/people/faculty/grant/
Message
From: Hahn, George [GHahn@towson .edu]
Sent: 8/23/2018 10:29:13 AM
Subject: FW: Chapel Hill Monument
You may be interested in the following.
From: Hahn, George

Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 10:17 AM
To: 'andy.thomason@chronicle.com' <andy.thomason@chronicle.com>
Subject: Chapel Hill Monument
Andy,
When they wrecked art in the Middle Ages, they were Vandals. When they wore black shirts (ur antifa) and
intimidated and wrecked, they were Mussolini's fascists. Now these anti-intellectuals find sanctuary at many
U.S. universities. Your piece about Silent Sam's wreckage at Chapel Hill recorded yet another instance.
Granting UNC and other universities the fallacy of presentism on which they stand, when will they ban teaching
Aristotle because he defended slavery, Shakespeare because he was a monarchist, and Marx because he
preached Marxism? One could go on indefinitely with a contemporary Index Prohibitorum thick enough to
satisfy both thin-skins and thick-heads alike--and fill Orwell's memory hole.
And I ain'tjes' whistlin' lhe Valkerie.
Best,
George Hahn
Professor of English
Towson University
Message
From: Herman-Giddens, Marcia Edwina [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=757C8FCD0F8845F09D72105400FC743E-MARCIA E HE]
Sent: 9/5/2018 9:15:24 PM
Subject: Re: Silent Sam- it needs to be off of our beautiful campus
Flag: Follow up
Dear Dr. Falt,
My great-grandfather graduated from UNC in 1854 and fought in the Civil War. I have a cousin who was the
model for a Civil War statue in another county in North Carolina. I have two degrees from UNC and two
children with degrees. I am adjunct faculty. I believe this history gives some weight to my opinion.
Please do not put the statue anywhere on our campus. It belongs at a Civil War site where it can be balanced
with information about the several hundred-year struggle of the enslaved people in this country.
Thank you for your consideration of my comments.
Sincerely,
Marcia E Herman-Giddens, PA, DrPH

Adjunct Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health
University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Public Health
Chapel Hill, NC
Message
From: Hilary Green
Sent: 8/28/2018 9:28:26 AM
Subject: A Request to Relocate Silent Sam to. New Location from a UNC History Ph .D. Alum
Flag: Follow up
Chancellor Falt and the current UNC Board of Governors,
I am writing as a concerned graduate over the handling of the Jim Crow era memorial erected by the North
Carolina chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
As a historian who received my doctorate from the History Department, I have been teaching Carr's 1913
dedication speech since its 2009 recovery by fellow UNC Ph.D. alum Adam Dom by in my undergraduate and
graduate courses at Elizabeth City State University and currently at The University of Alabama.
I am a firm believer of education. Knowing the history of the destruction of African American sites of the Civil
War for highways and urban renewal efforts, I am typically reticent of the removal of markers and advocate
recontextualization and the addition of new inclusive monuments to balance out the racial history silenced by
the UDC display. However, when a site becomes the site of the white supremacist logic originally imbued by
the Jim Crow era monument builders by a present generation and a source of violence against the diverse
campus community, the only solution is to removal to an archival space or museum.
I have watched from Alabama neo-Nazis, fascists, and even neo-"Heritage and Not Hate" outside agitators
invade and attack current students physically, rhetorically, and virtually. I watched in horror from my Alabama
home this weekend on WRAL.com and Daily Tar Heel coverage, individuals draped in CSA battle flags claim
that no African Americans have a place on the campus. I watched in horror as a real outside agitator walk up
and punch in the face a student desiring the maintainance of the UNC mission to diversity.
I have also read the heightened rhetoric of Thom Goo ls Iby which both emboldened these true outsider
agitators and encouraged continued violence against a community of students, faculty, alumni, and
administrators who have been speaking as one Tar Heel voice for the removal of the memorial to an alternate
site. By promoting the views of outsider agitators and not the true UNC community, the ghost of Julian Carr's
boast of horse-whipping a Negro wench grows louder and all efforts since the desegregation of the campus
becomes moot.
At this time, the only thing that will rectify this sad chapter in UNC history is leadership.
A suitable home for the toppled Sam would be in Wilson Library, specifically the North Carolina Collection,
with interpretative panels of Carr's speech and the long history of protest of the monument included. Silent
Sam must not be replaced. If so, I fear that a Charlottesville-like incident will occur by true outside agitator. At
this point, more blood caused by white supremacist logic intended by the UDC members and Julian Carr's
1913 dedication speech will be spilled.
For the past two years, I have suspended my financial contributions to the University. If the Jim Crow
memorial is restored to its empty pedestal, I will take it as a reminder of my race, gender, and place by the
current UNC administration. I am not and will not be a silenced "a horse-whipped a negro wench" whose
"skirts hung in shreds." Rather, I will continue to employ my UNC training to good use to counter
those who wish that UNC was the campus of pre-integration.
Sincerely,
Hilary Green, Ph.D. '10

Associate Professor of History
Department of Gender and Race Studies
University of Alabama
Author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865-1890 (Fordham
University Press, 2016).
Message
From: Hill, Kimberly [Kimberly.Hill@utdallas.edu]
Sent: 8/31/2018 6:27:29 PM
Subject: Response to Recent Campus Protests
Flag: Follow up
To Chancellor Carol Falt:

Greetings from Dallas, TX. I am an assistant professor of history at U.T. Dallas and a 2008 Ph.D. graduate of
U.N.C. Chapel Hill. Thank you for your statements this week regarding the possibility of relocating the Silent
Sam statue permanently. The recent upheaval on the campus concerns me, particularly the use of a campus
building for temporary police detention and the targeting of student protesters with pepper spray.
While living in Chapel Hill for six years, I watched the town celebrate the university's victories and mourn its
losses. Likewise I believe that continued arrests and the use of coercion will impact other students, citizens,
and bystanders negatively. News of the turmoil has already influenced the image of U.N.C. in the minds of my
current undergraduate students in Dallas. I have been asked recently whether the university remains a good
option for graduate school.
I ask you to help restore the climate of academic focus at U.N.C. by resolving the controversy over the Silent
Sam statue based on public scholarship proposals. The debate need not be silenced, yet the debate and the
statue can be moved into a museum setting where its historical context and significance will be presented
using the expertise of faculty and students. Several senior faculty members and alumni from the History
Department have weighed in on the topic based on years of academic research. A few of these alumni have
also expressed their willingness to withhold further donations until a resolution is reached, but the greater
loss is that they feel ignored in their efforts to use their degrees to serve their alma mater. Events of the past
week can become an opportunity to spotlight the Center for the Study of the American South, the Southern
Oral History Program, the Institute of African American Research, and other unique strengths of U.N.C. Please
do not let the controversy fester as a series of arrests, litigation, campus warnings, and expulsions. In the long-
term, these pictures suggest to prospective students and faculty that the institution lacks stability.
Sincerely,
Kimberly Hill, Ph.D.
"Umuntu akalahlwa"/ 'no human being is a throw-away'

-- Zulu proverb
Kimberly D. Hill, Ph.D.

School of Arts and Humanities
The University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Rd. JO31
Richardson, TX 75080
(972) 883-6908
kimberly,hill(wutdallas.edu
Message
From: Hynson, Rachel [rhynson@middlebury.edu]
Sent: 8/30/2018 11:09:55 AM
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Dear Chancellor Folt and the Board of Trustees:
I received my PhD in Latin American History from UNC Chapel Hill. I am currently Director of the Creating
Connections Consortium at Middlebury College and formerly Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at
Dartmouth College.
It urge you to take the removal of Silent Sam as an opportunity to show Carolina's commitment to racial
inclusivity and social justice. Do not restore the statue, a monument to hate and segregation. Drop the charges
against activists involved in toppling the statue and removing a symbol of white supremacy.
To my friends and colleagues at Middlebury College and Dartmouth College, this is an illustration of how
Carolina continues to sustain the racist ideas on which so many revered colleges and universities were built. I
and many other history alumni are unwillingly to donate to Carolina as long as Silent Sam remains on campus.
Restoring the statue and punishing activists will also surely reduce the number of out-of-state applicants to
Carolina, particularly promising students from underrepresented backgrounds.
Make your legacy at Carolina one of inclusivity and representation. There is no honor to be found in reinstating
Silent Sam.
Sincerely,
Rachel Hynson
Message
From: ivan hernandez
Sent: 9/1/2018 4:13:18 PM
Subject: Township and Campus Group Voice
chancellor Folt,
I hope this email finds you in good spirits, I know you are a busy person. I am currently about to
retire from the military and have been living in chapel Hill for a few years now. Part of my reason for
emailing you is to receive some guidance from you and hope you can educate me on some of the issues that
have arose as of lately. I know that the civilian structure and culture is nothing like what the military
holds, to me this is all new. My question to you is; can Leaders be influenced by Faculty and Towns
people? If so what is the proper way to address any issues? With the present events happening within our
town and on campus, I think we can all agree it has had a negative impact on everyone that has been
introduced to the latest events happening around the confines of our area. what can we as the people
(Towns people and Faculty) do to change our sphere of influence towards something positive? How can we
come together and create a safer place for our students as well as us to not allow any type of hate from
outside organizations having any influence on campus? Would creating an event that of a townhall meeting
with you to sit down and present future risks that we may avoid down the road, like that of the silent
Sam events? I understand that this isn't like the military chain of command and its troops coming
together to make changes, I know the process here takes longer than in the service. But as I stated in
the beginning, I am seeking some guidance and as well as being able to educate myself on what type of
process this takes. chancellor Folt, Thank you so much for your time and I hope to hear from you soon
Ma'am.
Go HEELS! ! ! !
v/r
Ivan Hernandez
Message
From: James Allred
Sent: 9/18/2018 11:01:20 PM
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Subject: Letter Regarding Silent Sam Decision
Attachments: Allred Letter September 2018.pdf
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As you consider your recommendation to the Board of Governors concerning the Silent Sam statue, I ask that
you please consider my views as expressed in the attached letter. Thank you for your careful consideration and
your leadership on behalf of Carolina.
James Allred
UNC Chemistry '07 I Emory MTS '10 I UVA Law '13
September 18, 2018
As you are aware, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors has directed
you to present a plan "for [Silent Sam]'s disposition and preservation" by November
15. I am writing to urge you to present a plan that will not return the statue to
monumental display, and that will only allow the statue to be seen in a setting that
makes evident its historical purpose of promoting white supremacy. This cannot
include returning Silent Sam to its former location or any other place of honor or
prominence on campus.
Silent Sam Was Erected to Serve a Particular Historical Purpose
The circumstances under which Silent Sam was erected explain the purpose and
meaning of the statue and underscore the reasons that it cannot be returned to its
former location. Much has been written about the specific words spoken by Julian
Carr at the statue's dedication. However, even more revealing is the historical
context surrounding the installation of the statue. In short, Silent Sam was erected
to make a specific political statement in opposition to African American political
power and African American education.
Following the Civil War and the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the US
Constitution, African Americans gained the right to vote in North Carolina for the
first time. Through the remainder of the Nineteenth Century, African Americans
exercised their political power, at times in concert with white yeomen, to bring
about a series of economic and political democratizing reforms. 1 The zenith of
African American political power came in 1894, when white populists unified with
African American voters to form a "Fusion" ticket to advocate for a more equitable
economic system, greater local government control, and greater education funding.
By 1896, the black-white Fusion ticket controlled the governorship, both US Senate
seats, 94 of 120 state House seats and 43 of 50 state Senate seats in North Carolina.
The white supremacist opponents of the Fusion coalition responded with violence,
election fraud, race-baiting, intimidation, and, finally, a coup d'etat in which they
killed black citizens and overthrew the city government of Wilmington at gunpoint.
Once they regained control of state government, the white supremacist political
coalition proceeded to systematically disenfranchise African Americans between
1This history is more fully explored in Paul D. Escott, iVlany Excellent People: Power and Privilege in
North Carolina, 18.50-1900 (Univ. of North Carolina PnJss 1985).
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1900 and 1904 - a change that would last until passage of the Voting Rights Act in
1965. At the same time, the white supremacist political coalition began installing
Civil War memorials across North Carolina. Although only six such memorials had
been erected before 1902, 59 were standing by 1926. 2 Silent Sam, planned in 1908
and installed in 1913, was an integral part of this campaign. At the time, the
message was unambiguous: Silent Sam was erected as a celebration of the white
supremacists' triumph and as a direct threat to African Americans to stay out of the
political and white educational systems of North Carolina.
The Statue is in Conflict with Carolina's Values
The stated purpose for erecting Silent Sam in 1913 was to celebrate and maintain
white supremacy over political and educational affairs in North Carolina. In
contrast, Carolina has established itself as a leader in promoting diversity and
inclusion in higher education. As catalogued in the annual Diversity Plan Reports, 3
Carolina has committed significant institutional resources and efforts to increase
the diversity of its student body; improve academic achievement among historically
underserved students; enhance diversity among university leadership, faculty, and
staff; improve the cultural competence of the university community around issues of
diversity; engage in research that deepens our understanding of issues critical to
improving the lives of underserved populations on campus, across the state, and
beyond; and celebrate and promote the achievements of minority students, staff,
and faculty. As you are aware, this list only scratches the surface of the efforts and
achievements of Carolina to benefit historically underserved populations. Carolina
has rightly concluded that it cannot be a successful public university unless it
achieves excellence in diversity and serving historically marginalized groups.
Simply stated, the ongoing presence of Silent Sam was anathema to the values of
the university and undermined the efforts of university faculty, staff, and students
to embrace its mission as the university of the people. Returning Silent Sam to its
original position, or to any place of prominence, would contravene the significant
expense and effort the university has undertaken to promote diversity and the
benefits that diversity bestows. What good is it to put "[e]normous effort" into
training for faculty, staff, and students to identify and reduce implicit biases and
prejudices 4 if students of color are then asked to walk to class under the shadow of a
monument erected to promote white supremacy and to challenge their presence at
2 James Leloudis, History Speahs on Intentions Behind Confederate Statues, NEWS&OBSERVER,

Aug. 23, 2017.
3 Previous Diversity Plan Annual Reports are available at:
http s: // diversity. unc. edu/resources/best/reports/.

4 See, e.g., UNC Diversity Plan Report 2014-15 at 5, 24.
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the university? What is the benefit of identifying, recruiting, and enrolling
historically diverse incoming classes, and establishing academic support for first-
generation and historically underserved students, if these students' sense of
inclusion will be undermined by a prominent demoralizing message in their
physical environment? 5
The juxtaposition between our stated values and this physical monument is not lost
on potential faculty and students. Carolina's listed top priorities include recruiting
and retaining world-class faculty and attracting and enrolling outstanding students
from North Carolina and beyond. 6 Returning a symbol of white supremacy to a
place of prominence on campus will undercut faculty recruitment and retention
efforts and will dissuade meritorious students from enrolling at Carolina. Carolina
can no longer say that Silent Sam is merely a legacy of white supremacy if its
leaders make an affirmative choice to put it back. As leaders, you must not ignore
the risk that returning the statue would communicate to faculty and students of
color that they are unwelcome here or that Carolina is uninterested in their
concerns and unsupportive of their success. Restoring the monument could also
hamper recruitment of faculty and students who are not themselves people of color,
but who are nevertheless repelled by the return of a monument to white supremacy.
The Statue Should Neither Return, Nor Be Placed on Similar Display
Your recommendation will communicate the values of the university. If Carolina is

to be true to its stated vision and values, its leaders cannot recommend returning
Silent Sam to its former location on McCorkle Place. But its presence would be no
less destructive to Carolina's priorities in similar display in some other place on
campus, where the inference of its history and purpose would be no less acute.
There is no better rebuke to the white supremacy that created the statue, the
history of which has been well documented, than to remove the statue, fully and
permanently, from the university's grounds.
Preventing the return of Silent Sam should be your goal and your recommendation.
If this course proves impossible, then any future reinstallation must make explicit
5 Silent Sam has contributed to perceived differences of experience and a lower sense of belonging
among African-American students at Carolina. Research has ckJmonstratrnl that a lower sensfl of
belonging is correlated with greater perception of stm·eotype vulnerability and the potential for
decreased academic achievement. See Loren W. Thompson, Perceptions of Stereotype Vulnerability,
Belonging and Campus Climate by African Americans Attending a Predominately White Institution
(2017) (unpublishfld Ph.D. dissm·tation, University of North Carolina at Cha pd Hill), available at
https://cdr.lib. unc.edu/indexablecontent/uuid:c8c4e8f5-dea 7 -4f2 l-9a06-8 739e36abd64.
Co See, e.g., Campaign for Carolina: Our Priorities,
https://campaign.unc.edu/#campaign_stories_grid_2_column_3.
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(1) the full history, the circumstances, and the intentions of those that erected the
statue to exclude people of color from political and educational life in North
Carolina, including- the shameful words that accompanied its installation; (2) the
effects of the white supremacists' campaign on the citizens of North Carolina,
including- the exclusion of many from the benefits of the university; and (3) a
statement decrying- the history of the statue and publicizing- Carolina's commitment
to diversity and to promoting- the achievement of Carolina community members
from historically underserved groups. Even this path imposes costs on people of
color by asking- them to tolerate the return of a statue erected to promote white
supremacy, and it risks undermining- the priorities of the university. It also risks
any future display becoming- a flashpoint for demonstrations that disrupt the vital
work of the university. It is not clear whether it is possible to sufficiently
contextualize the statue, but any attempt to do so must be judged on whether the
display advances Carolina's mission of fostering- a productive educational and
research environment and supporting- the cohesion and mutual growth of students,
staff, faculty, and guests at Carolina. For this reason, I recommend removing- Silent
Sam from the university campus completely. But if you see fit to return it, any
display must include these steps or it will unacceptably risk Carolina's mission.
I recognize that making- such a recommendation could engender reluctance or

resistance, even from people of good intention. Yet the statue's history is as
inescapable as its ramifications for the university's priorities and future. If, indeed,
Carolina's values are what its leaders have said they are, then its leaders must hold
fast to them, even in the face of adversity. If Carolina is to enhance access to
learning- and to foster the success and prosperity of the entire rising- generation of
North Carolinians, if Carolina is to remain a great public university and a priceless
gem to North Carolina's citizens, and if Carolina is to secure access to light and
liberty for all people in the State, 7 then it cannot tolerate the restoration of the
statue to any place of honor, prominence, or uncontextualized display on campus. To
do so is an unacceptable threat to the very mission of our university.
I thank you for your careful consideration of this letter and for your stewardship of
the university of the people.
Respectfully,
James Allred
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Mission and Values, https://www.unc.edu/about/mission/.
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Message
From: jill gabel
Sent: 8/24/2018 7:41:30 PM
Subject: truly educate yourselves.
Flag: Follow up
I wish my father James Shumaker was still alive and not only still professor at the J School but editor of the
Chapel Hill Newspaper, he would have been appalled at this heinous destructive act re: Silent Sam. We used to
have lunch around the base of Sam many times. These damn 20 yr old children that come into our town to go
to school have no right to destroy public property and its disgusting that nobody stopped this. I am so
ashamed of this university and the administration for allowing this to happen.
PUT HIM BACK UP and have a news conference stating that anyone who destroys anything in the Town of
Chapel Hill (MY HOMETOWN) or on the UNC campus will be arrested and EXPELLED. That will put and end to
this insane behavior. And for that matter, any professor that urges these mass mob events will be terminated.
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/confederate-supporter-says-flag-si lent-sam-arent-race-
related/83-586688118
Confederate Supporter Says Flag( Si lent Sam

1
Aren t Race Re lated
''People come and say, I feel so sensitive walking past that
monument' I don't believe one of them pass a lie
detector test," he said.
Message
From: John Tucker
Sent: 9/18/2018 4:07:54 PM
To: Dibbert, Douglas Steven [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/ en=Recip ients/en =365d96a2f3d94d5eb948d4c lc9d7668f-Douglas Ste]; Chancellor
Subject: Non-renewal of GAA membership
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Dear Chancellor Folt and Mr. Dibbert,
I received my renewal notice today for the UNC General Alumni Association. I am not going to renew and I
wanted to share with you why ...
I am a Carolina grad (1975) and have (almost) always been very proud of that fact. However, when the scandal
of the "paper courses" surfaced, it was hard for me to believe. I resigned from the GAA at that point but I was
encouraged to see Chancellor Thorp take ownership of the issue (I think he probably had little, if any,
knowledge about what was going on -- but a LOT of other people certainly did). I subsequently rejoined the
GAA and continued making what donations that I could afford to the University on a yearly basis.
Now, Carolina has been in the news again for not only the football team members selling their equipment
(something Coach Fedora says they are well aware they should not do and about which they sign a form stating
their understanding) but most recently for the destruction of the statue affectionately known by students as
"Silent Sam".
This statue was not a tribute to "white supremacy" as the press and students would want us to believe. It was a
commemoration to the students of the University who lost their lives in the Civil War. Were most of those
students fighting for the Confederacy? Almost certainly most of those who fought would be on the same side as
the State of North Carolina since it is the state university of North Carolina. But the statue was not a statue
supporting the Confederacy or any white supremacy movement. I cannot understand how the University would
allow that kind of destruction to occur.
I am from the North (Illinois and Wisconsin) and would probably have fought against those same students ifl
had been alive in 1861-65 (my grandfather did, in fact, fight for the Union at Gettysburg) but I know that the
loss of each of those student's lives was as heartbreaking to each of their mothers as it was for every member of
the Union army's mothers who lost a son. There is no reason their commemorative monument should be
removed or destroyed.
I really don't think college students should be destroying or trying to re-write history. I think it is incumbent
upon the University to teach and lead these young people and hold them responsible when they make these
choices.
Sincerely yours,
John F. Tucker '75
I
Message
From: Julie Dixon
Sent: 8/21/2018 9:24:18 PM
Subject: Sweet Carolina Blue Vibes
Flag: Follow up

You~ and our beautiful University~ have been on my mind and heart- all day/night. I recalled the
conversation that we had in your office in February. (Again- loved my time with you! )
Sending you beautiful vibes as I know it has been a stressful day at home in chapel Hill.
Just wanted to send you a note and wish you well - and let you know that you are in my thoughts/prayers.
1,;'ps~ LOVED the social media pies of you with the students last week/this weekend as they were settling
in for the new semester.
My best Tar Heel regards- always,
Jules
Julie Dixon
NC Hall of Fame Publicist/Journalist
Senior Communications Strategist
Message
From: Justin Young
Sent: 8/29/2018 10:16:39 AM
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Subject: UNC Petition & Comments for Permanent Removal of Silent Sam
Attachments: 082918 Petition Silent Sam Removal.pdf; 082918 Comments Silent Sam Removal.pdf
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August 29, 2018
Chancellor Carol Falt, Ph.D.

103 South Building
Campus Box 9100
UNC - Chapel Hill
carol. fol t(al.unc. edu, chancell or(a)unc. edu
Phone: 919-962-1365 Fax: 919-962-1647
Attached is a petition with nearly 2,000 signatures of students, alumni, and concerned community members who
wanted to express their support of permanent removal of Silent Sam. Collected over the last few days, and still
growing, we've also included the associated comments from those individuals who have signed. The supporting
letter that accompanies the petition explains our hope for the decisive resolution of this matter. Like you and the
Board of Trustees, we share the priority of guaranteeing student safety, but would further emphasize the
University should be clear that it will not tolerate or support white supremacy in any form or anything that seeks
to make students feel unsafe, unwelcome, or unrepresented based on their race, gender, sexual orientation,
religion, or socio-economic status. We, too, call for historical accuracy and contextualization over complete
erasure of the troubling aspects of our University's past, tempered with civil discourse on a path to true tangible
reconciliation. In order for any of this to happen, it is our firm belief that the statue's removal must be
permanent.
Please see the accompanying petition.
Hark the sound,

Proud UNC Alumni
Letter That Accompanies the Petition:
Dear Chancellor Carol Falt,
On the night of August 20, 2018, members of the Carolina community brought down the institutionalized
monument to Jim Crow known colloquially as "Silent Sam." Since its installation in 1913, Silent Sam has
served as a sentinel not of "states' rights," but rather of nostalgia for the slavery of Africans that built our
University; of racism, violence against Black women and men, and resistance to true integration of Carolina's
student body and curriculum. For years, aspiring Carolina students were paraded past the statue as tour guides
revised its history and heralded one of a number of legends of lore about what the statue symbolized. To be
clear, Silent Sam was never a monument to the Confederacy. It was a permanent stain on our shared Carolina
history, negatively impacting our collective Carolina future.
Last year, as the nation reeled from the events in Charlottesville, the Carolina community watched as cities and
colleges began a long overdue reckoning with the dishonor of these latter-day "monuments" to the
Confederacy. As we saw statues come down in Memphis and Richmond, at the University of Texas at Austin--
and even Duke University, we wondered why our Chancellor chose not to pursue removal of Silent Sam,
particularly after Governor Cooper indicated his support for its removal out of concern for the community's
safety. Now that Silent Sam has been removed from a place of honor on our campus, it is our hope that you,
Chancellor Folt, take decisive action to keep Silent Sam down. Further, as the University begins the new school
year, we encourage you to take steps to assure safety for students by making it clear that Carolina is not a
community where white supremacists are welcome, particularly those who would seek retaliation against the
students and activists helping the University turn the page to a more positive future that honors historical truth.
Finally, we, the undersigned alumni members of the Carolina community, encourage Carolina to reject entirely
the revisionist history that supported Silent Sam's installation. In its place, we encourage Carolina to live up to
her motto, "Lux, Libertas," by dedicating sufficient institutional resources to research, teach, and learn from the
reconciliation of the rich and truthful history of people whom the University enslaved and excluded, people
whose unsung and uncompensated labor forms the very foundation of our University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned Carolina Alumni and Concerned Community Members
Proud UNC Alumni
Chancellor Carol Folt
Greetings,
Dear Chancellor Carol Folt,
On the night of August 20, 2018, members of the Carolina community

brought down the institutionalized monument to Jim Crow known
colloquially as "Silent Sam." Since its installation in 1913, Silent Sam has
served as a sentinel not of "states' rights," but rather of nostalgia for the
slavery of Africans that built our University; of racism, violence against Black
women and men, and resistance to true integration of Carolina's student
body and curriculum. For years, aspiring Carolina students were paraded
past the statue as tour guides revised its history and heralded one of a
number of legends of lore about what the statue symbolized. To be clear,
Silent Sam was never a monument to the Confederacy. It was a permanent
stain on our shared Carolina history, negatively impacting our collective
Carolina future.
Last year, as the nation reeled from the events in Charlottesville, the
Carolina community watched as cities and colleges began a long overdue
reckoning with the dishonor of these latter-day "monuments" to the
Confederacy. As we saw statues come down in Memphis and Richmond, at
the University of Texas at Austin--and even Duke University, we wondered
why our Chancellor chose not to pursue removal of Silent Sam, particularly
after Governor Cooper indicated his support for its removal out of concern
for the community's safety. Now that Silent Sam has been removed from a
place of honor on our campus, it is our hope that you, Chancellor Folt, take
decisive action to keep Silent Sam down. Further, as the University begins
the new school year, we encourage you to take steps to assure safety for
students by making it clear that Carolina is not a community where white
supremacists are welcome, particularly those who would seek retaliation
against the students and activists helping the University turn the page to a
more positive future that honors historical truth.
Finally, we, the undersigned alumni members of the Carolina community,
encourage Carolina to reject entirely the revisionist history that supported
Silent Sam's installation. In its place, we encourage Carolina to live up to
her motto, "Lux, Libertas," by dedicating sufficient institutional resources
to research, teach, and learn from the reconciliation of the rich and truthful
history of people whom the University enslaved and excluded, people
whose unsung and uncompensated labor forms the very foundation of our
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned Carolina Alumni and Concerned Community Members:
Message
From: Karen Weyler
Sent: 9/1/2018 7:48:35 PM
Subject: Relocating Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
Dear Chancellor Holt and Members of the Board of Trustees--
I write you as someone deeply invested in the educational system of North Carolina, particularly the UNC
campus.
I am tax payer; a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MA, 1990; PhD, 1996); and a
tenured full professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Given its undeniably racist history, Silent Sam has no place on the campus of a modern state university.
Why would we memorialize a statue whose express purpose at the time of its installation was to degrade and
warn black people away from a college campus?
It's our duty to educate and welcome ALL the students of our state.
The shame waste of tax dollars to protect this monument to racism last year amounted to just under
$400,000. May I remind you that would have paid the tuition of at least 42 low income students? Our duty as
members of the UNC system is to use our resources responsibly to educate students--not protect outdated
memorials to racism.
Although my preference would be to see the statue completely removed from campus, if a building can be
found to house the statue where it can be historically contextualized, then that seems like a reasonable
compromise.
Sincerely,
Karen Weyler
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Karen A Weyler
Professor of American Literature and Internship Coordinator
Department of English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
3143 Moore Humanities Bldg.
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170
Telephone: 336.334.4689
FAX: 336.334.3281
Email: KAW eyler(a),uncg.edu
Message
From: Karl Bauman
Sent: 10/3/2018 8:18:09 AM
Subject: Silent Sam
Flag: Follow up
October 3, 2018
There are many reasons Silent Sam should be removed from The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. The reason that supersedes all for me is that it is a blatant symbol of racism. I hope UNC is better than
that.
Karl E. Bauman
Professor Emeritus
Message
From: Kathryn Whetten, Ph.D. [k.whetten@duke.edu]
Sent: 9/1/2018 4:23:32 PM
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58827-wkeyes87e]; Allie Ray McCullen [mccullenre@aol.com]; Ed McMahan [emcmahan@littleonline.com]; Hari
Nath [Hnath45@yahoo.com]; Stevens, Richard [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
Subject: UNC Alum 1994 - Support for Moving Silent Sam
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I am a proud UNC-CH Alumni who is proud to always argue for, and support, UNC in my role as a
Duke Professor. I came to NC after 4 years in Central Africa to attend the School of Public Health
because I believe it to be the best in the country. I received my PhD in 1994 and employed at Duke
University as population health researcher. In 1996, I wrote the first grant proposal on which I was the
Principal Investigator and was proud to have my UNC colleagues from the Schools of Public Health and
Medicine on this intervention grant. Since that time, the Center of which I am now Director (the Center
for Health Policy and Inequalities Research) has not gone a single year without grants on which we are
collaborating with UNC either as the Prime recipient or the subrecipient to UNC. I firmly believe that
UNC-CH provides one of the best educations in the country.
I have also maintained my residence in Chapel Hill/Carrboro since moving to the State in 1990 to enter
the graduate program.
As both a local and state tax paying resident of 28 years and one who has brought, as Principal
Investigator, more than $50,000,000 in Federal grants to the State, the previous refusal to move the
statue was the first time that I have been ashamed of my University. Given the foundation of our country
in slavery and successive policy documents going even back to our Constitution and continuing through
Jim Crow and through to today with redlining policies and targeting of people of color for bank loans
that do not allow the borrower to accumulate wealth, we must work hard to uncover and undo these
wrongs.
I fully support the Chancellor's statement yesterday about moving Silent Sam to another location. Now
is the time to do the uncovering and undoing of past suppression and oppression and Colleges and
Universities, as places of learning and pushing our societies fo1ward, must take the lead in this endeavor.
Silent Sam could be put in the Wilson Library with plaques and document describing how confederate
memorials were put up as a way to impose Jim Crow and enable suppression, oppression, continued
structural mechanisms to keep black people down and allow violence against them to continue.
Thank you for reading this email and considering alumni recommendations,
Kate
Kathryn Whetten, PhD, MPH

Professor of Public Policy and Global Health
Director, Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Program
Research Director, Hart Fellows Program
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From: Keil, Alex [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=F78E8F75CE23410DA5AA22E82C58AB1F-ALEX KEIL(]
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Subject: Against Silent Sam
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Dear Trustees,
While I agree with the Chancellor's stance that unlawful actions should not be supported, the deed is done. I do
not support reinstallation of the Silent Sam statue on the UNC-CH campus. This event is an opportunity to heal
some wounds of the past, but is instead being used as a chance to reinforce our institution's support of racism.
As the statue is an historical artifact, it should be displayed in a place that puts it in a proper historical context,
much like we may show pictures of lynchings in a museum but we do not display them in places of honor.
Thank you,
Alexander Keil
akeil@unc.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
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From: Ken Smith
Sent: 9/1/2018 10:51:42 PM
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Subject: Please do NOT return Silent Sam to campus
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Memorial Hall does a perfectly fine job of memorializing those lost.
Silent Sam would remain an endlessly divisive symbol, attracting external troublemakers.
Ken Smith '84

Chancellor's Philanthropic Council (2016 - present)
UNC Graduate Education Advancement Board (Chair, 2016 - 2018; Member 2008 - present)
Board of Visitors (2014 - 2018)
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From: Killgrove, Kristina [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/CN =RE Cl Pl ENTS/CN =8B5BFF4 7CE04429 DA8B26A3E660E4109-KRISTI NA Kl]
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Subject: Do not re-erect Si lent Sam
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Every Monday and Wednesday, I teach introduction to anthropology in Alumni, just steps from the pedestal of
Silent Sam. I began the course last week by talking openly about the evolution of this social science and the
ways it was misused to further scientific racism, particularly in the Jim Crow era. I promised these young Tar
Heels that I would continue to call out problematic science and scientists of a bygone era as I teach them the
context of where we are today. After class yesterday, two students of color lingered and told me they loved my
lecture and appreciated my honesty in confronting my discipline's racist past.
Silent Sam should not be re-erected in McCorkle Place. The history of this monument is quite clear, based on
the research by UNC's own faculty and graduate students, which contextualizes the statue in the Jim Crow era
as a symbol of white supremacy. Silent Sam's presence at a major public access point to UNC's campus gives
the message that people of color do not belong at Carolina, which does not mesh with our motto. Carolina
provides the light of knowledge to all, but Silent Sam is a tangible representation of the lack of liberty afforded
to large segments of the American population, both now and in the past.
As an alumna and as a current professor at Carolina, I wrote an essay for Forbes on last week's protests and the
removal of Silent Sam. UNC had multiple chances to do what is morally right and remove the statue, but
unfortunately abdicated that responsibility.
I urge you to consider what is in the best interest for campus and our students, and to move Silent Sam to a
museum where he belongs. We can learn from the past, but forcing our students to be confronted daily by a
statue erected in the Jim Crow era by a group that also advocated for the KKK is not what UNC stands for.
I hope that you will lead Carolina in appropriately recognizing our problematic past and remedying it for our
current and future Tar Heels.
Sincerely,
Kristina Killgrove
Teaching Assistant Professor
UNC Department of Anthropology
PhD, Anthropology, UNC - 2010

MA, Classical Archaeology, UNC - 2005
Email: killgrove@unc.edu
Website: http://www.killgrove.org
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From: Lange, Marc B [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=47F003D98F2E4C7591B7B2AA27C6F96B-MARC B LANG]
Sent: 9/3/2018 5:47:29 PM
Subject: Thank you -- and idea for possible new location of the Confederate Monument
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This is just to say how glad and relieved I was to see your message on
Friday expressing your determination to find a safe, legal, and
alternative location for the Confederate Monument. I wanted to write to
wish you well in this effort.
I'm sure that you are rece1v1ng plenty of advice(!) regarding a possible
location. One possibility, it seems to me, is in the NC Historical
collection Gallery (or in the hallway just outside of it) in Wilson
Library. The monument would then be placed in the context of other
historical relics. It would be in an enclosed, quiet, somewhat scholarly
space, where crowds would find difficulty gathering in great numbers and
where historical information could easily be posted. I'm sure that the
Keeper of the NC Historical collection would be able to find other
objects from the collection to display that would enhance the Monument's
educational value.
There may well be better ideas (and I have not measured to ascertain
whether the Monument would fit!). But in the spirit of your message, I
wanted to offer a constructive suggestion.
Very best wishes,
Marc Lange
Marc Lange
Philosophy Department chair
Theda Perdue Distinguished Professor
Message
From: Lindsay Jaacks
Sent: 8/30/2018 3:06:51 PM
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Subject: An Absolute Shame on UNC to Reinstate Silent Sam
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Dear Board of Trustees:
My name is Lindsay Jaacks and I am an Assistant Professor at Harvard and proud UNC alum - I graduated from the
Gillings School of Global Public Health with my PhD in Nutrition in 2014. The 5 years I spent in North Carolina are my
fondest memories - it will always feel like home to me. And so you can imagine my disappointment when I heard from a
colleague at UNC that the Board of Trustees is even considering reinstating "Silent Sam" back at Mccorkle Place. I
entirely agree with the Faculty of Government's statement that, "Returning the statue to any prominent location would
reaffirm the values of white supremacy that motivated its original installation. Moreover, to do so would undermine the
moral and physical security of all members of our community." The inaction of the past was disgrace enough. To
reinstate the statue now would be an absolute shame.
Instead, this could be an opportunity to do something profound. For example, as suggested by Dean Rimer: "In place of
Sam, there could be erected a statue to a person or group who furthered the causes of peace, equity and prevention. It
could become a symbol of hope and healing, a visible commitment to move forward with intention." Now that is
something to be proud of.
Sincerely,
Lindsay
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From: Lowery, Ma linda Maynor [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=9453AD2754DC4B6BA28168BC91FE8464-MALINDA MAY]
Sent: 8/30/2018 4:41:30 PM
Subject: Thank you/yesterday's statement
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I know that safety and security are your top priorities at this moment, and that messaging is understandably farther
down on the list. But I wanted to say thank you for not using the words "honor" and "prominence" in yesterday's
written reaction to the Board of Governors' directive about the statue. Though your oral statement at the press
conference promised to afford the statue a place of honor and prominence where it would be protected, I think our
students and faculty simply need to hear that the University community will be included in a process to "preserve the
monument and its history," as you said in your written statement. Many of us are glad to see it down from its previous
place of honor and prominence, and now I think more people understand that we will have a voice as the future of the
statue is decided.
Thank you again for taking us in the right direction at this moment.
Take care,
Malinda Lowery
Malinda Maynor Lowery, PhD

Associate Professor of History
Director, Center for the Study of the American South
UNC-Chapel Hill
410 E. Franklin St CB# 9127
http://malindalowery.web.unc.edu
Author, The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle (forthcoming from UNC Press, September 2018);
https://\V'-N\v.uncpress.org/book/9781469646374/the-lmnbee-indians/
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From: Lye, Suzanne [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=6632F539A4BE41F79FB9E5C089D6FF85-SUZAN NE LYE]
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Subject: Thank you
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I am writing to lend my support to your efforts and your recent statements. I know you are in a difficulty
position as you try to find a way for our university to honor tradition, heal old wounds, and move towards its
ever brighter future.
Since I arrived on campus as a new faculty member in July, I have felt welcomed and encouraged to thrive in
both my research and teaching. My colleagues in the Department of Classics send me this message on a daily
basis as they help me navigate my new position - from how to use the copy machine to where to apply for
grants. They themselves are the best evidence to me of the inclusive environment that you and this
administration have been trying to foster college-wide. Although I have only been here a short time, I already
feel at home. I know this is due to hard work by you and many others, and I just wanted to say how much I
appreciate your continued efforts to promote and support our diverse community.
Regards,
Suzanne
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Suzanne Lye, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Classics Department
slye@unc.edu
Message
From: Magee, Carol L [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=9E3AF9F70D5641 129DDC6878B2298732-CAROL L MAG]
Sent: 8/31/2018 1:55:28 PM
Subject: Board of Trustees and Silent Sam
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I wanted to share with you the email that I have just sent to each of the Board of Trustee members. I feel very strongly
that Silent Sam should not be replaced on our university now that it is down. I hope that you will work with them t o find
an appropriate place for the statue where it can be historically contextualized that is not on our campus as I do not
believe such a site exists here.
As a faculty member concerned both with the emotional and physical well-being for those whom UNC-Chapel Hill is a
place of work, study or visit, I am writing to strongly urge you to work with the campus' administration to find a home
for the Confederate memorial known as Silent Sam in a History Museum. There the textured story of this stat ue's
commission, installation, celebrated and contested presence on campus and toppling can be told in the fullest and most
appropriate manner. The values of white supremacy that it represents run counter to those of the educational mission
of our University and any action that even implicitly supports those values sends a message to our public that we are a
racist institution; with that our actions lack moral integrity and harm everyone.
Sincerely,
Carol
Carol Magee
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Art & Art History
CB 3405
cmagee(@uncedu
919-962-0720
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From: Maxwell, Rahsaan Daniel [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/CN =RE Cl Pl ENTS/CN =25BE02 FBC92D422FAEEA24940FF3A44F-RAH SAAN DAN]
Sent: 8/30/2018 8:35:00 PM
Subject: No More Silent Sam
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I am writing to express my sincere hope that you treat Silent Sam the way it deserves by keeping it off of
campus and acknowledging the horrible racist legacy of the Confederacy. I cannot imagine any legitimate
reason for honoring the Confederacy in the year 2018 and I truly hope that you agree. Of course this does not
mean that we should attack all people who ever lived in the Confederacy, but as a political regime the project
was horrendous and should be acknowledged as such.
Best,
Rahsaan Maxwell
Rahsaan Maxwell
Associate Professor
http://rahsaan.web.unc.edu
Message
From: Mayer-Davis, Elizabeth Jane [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/CN =RE Cl Pl ENTS/CN =F01D4B978862453D82EEA2018B 7B 1B8C-ELIZABETH J]
Sent: 9/22/2018 4:09:12 PM
To: Blouin, Bob [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
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Subject: Silent Sam -- input from Dept of Nutrition
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Dear Carol and Bob,
At the Department of Nutrition faculty meeting yesterday (including student reps), we spent some time discussing Silent
Sam, including the impact of this issue on our faculty, staff and students, and views regarding the disposition of the
monument. Recalling your comments at the recent FEC meeting that input would emerge both formally and informally,
I am writing today to briefly summarize the consensus that emerged from our faculty meeting.
1. Students have appreciated time to talk about Silent Sam and surrounding events in class, and along with our
Assistant Dean for Inclusive Excellence, we are planning 2 open forums this semester, and likely again next
semester, to ensure there is a time and place for respectful discussion (apart from taking more class time).
2. Safety continues to be a concern among students of color, as well as faculty of color. This is playing out through
occasional (but apparently fairly regular) alerts on social media regarding the potential for white supremacists
who may be on, or coming to, campus. This includes informational messaging regarding how to identify these
individuals, via tattoos etc.
a. Personally I will tell you that, previous to this discussion, I had not fully appreciated what does seem to
be an ongoing undercurrent of concern about safety, apart from specific protests.
3. The student rep for our masters degree program (a woman of color, Yale undergrad and Harvard Law grad who
is now getting training in nutrition) noted that women of color are also dealing with the impact of the Julian Carr
speech, with the brutal, racist comments made specific to black women. This is an important, additional layer
of psychological impact to consider.
4. Students in particular are concerned that the Silent Sam phenomenon will hurt (and has already hurt) the
reputation of UNC Chapel Hill. They hear from their peers at other institutions on this point.
5. Regarding the disposition of Silent Sam, the clear consensus was that there was no place on the Chapel Hill
campus that would not have the same impact as the Mccorkle Place location. All very much appreciated your
comments, Carol, stating your position against the "front door" of our campus. The concern is that, due partly
to the physical size of the monument, the same argument could and would be made anywhere on our campus.
I'd be happy to discuss or expand by email any of these points if that would be useful. I can't imagine how much time
this is taking for both of you; thank you.
Beth

Ph: 919-966-7218
eimaver-davis(oJunc.edu
b.tt.P._;!/.;;ph. unc.edu/nutr/unc- nutrition/
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From: McGowan, John [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=51D94BD77784442F95C49EDF39409E5E-JOHN MCGOWA]
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Subject: Thank You
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Dear Carol:
Just a note of thanks and appreciation for your work with the Board of Trustees this week to forestall any
hasty command to place the Confederate statue back on its pedestal. I firmly believe that you will have the
support of 90% of the faculty if the BOT opts to place the statue, with signage that explains its history (with a
full spectrum of views about its meaning), in a safe, indoor location.
Sincerely,
John
John McGowan
John W. and Anna H. Hanes Professor of English
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From: Mclaughlin, Richard M [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=554502A052584AE6887CFEBE5B6D66EB-RICHARD MM]
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Subject: Letter from Chairs of the College of Arts and Sciences
Attachments: CouncilofChairsSilentSamletterFinal .pdf
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Attached please find a letter signed by 41 chairs from the College of Arts and Sciences stating our opposition to any
attempt to restore Silent Sam. We hope that this may be useful to you in any upcoming discussions on this issue.
Rich McLaughlin and Andy Andrews

Chairs, UNC Council of Chairs
Carolina Center for
office: 919-962-9816
fluids labl: 919-843-8900
fluids lab 2: 919-843-3483
rmm@email.unc.edu
NfJRTL! CAROLINA
College of Arts and Sciences Council of Chairs
August 28, 2018
We, the undersigned department chairs of the College of Arts and Sciences of UNC Chapel Hill, strongly
oppose the return of the Confederate memorial known as Silent Sam to its original location in McCorkle
Place.
Returning the statue to any prominent location would reaffirm the values of white supremacy that motivated
its original installation. Moreover, to do so would undermine the moral and physical security of all members
of our community.
The values that the statue represents are inherently opposed to the principles of light and liberty that guide
the educational mission of UNC Chapel Hill.
Richard M. McLaughlin, Mathematics

James Rives, Classics
Nadia Yaqub, Asian Studies
Patrick Conway, Economics
Kerry Bloom, Biology
John D Stephens, European Studies
Jeffrey Johnson, Chemistry
Misha Becker, Linguistics
Kenneth T. Andrews, Sociology
Allen Anderson, Music
Kevin Jeffay, Computer Science
Paul Leslie, Anthropology
Mary Floyd-Wilson, English and Comparative Literature
Carol Magee, Art & Art Hi story
Elizabeth Engelhardt, American Studies
Noreen McDonald, City & Regional Planning
Elizabeth Olson, Geography
C. Margaret Scarry, Archaeology
Lisa Lindsay, History
Amarjit Budhiraja, Statistics and Operations Research
Milada Vachudova, Global Studies
Sharon L. James, Women's and Gender Studies
Eric Downing, Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures
Barbara Ambros, Religious Studies
Hassan Melehy, Romance Studies
Mark Crescenzi, Political Science
Patricia A McAnany, Anthropology
Harvey Seim, Marine Sciences
Brent McKee, Marine Sciences
Marc B. Lange, Philosophy
Adam Verseny, Dramatic Art
Daniel P. Gitterman, Public Policy
Wayne E. Lee, Peace, War, and Defense
Darin A Padua, Exercise and Sport Science
Eunice Sahle, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Richard Superfine, Applied Physical Sciences
Donald T. Lysle, Psychology and Neuroscience
Christian Iliadis, Physics and Astronomy
Patricia S. Parker, Communication
Louis A Perez, Jr., Institute for the Study of the Americas
Jaye E. Cable, Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program
Message
From: McReynolds, Louise [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=CDAAA0F205C04282B5D7D7023FCCDA29-LOUISE MCRE]
Sent: 9/7/2018 12:07:02 PM
Subject: "Vociferous" Sam
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As a member of the Carolina community, I am deeply concerned about

threats to the safety of everyone should any attempt be made to return
the statue to a place of prominence on a campus where it is clearly not
welcome. As an award-winning historian, I sincerely appreciate the need
to historicize the statue, and what it has meant to whom over the years
and why. As a patriotic American and North Carolinian, I am appalled
that anyone would celebrate the return of white supremacy for which it
stands.
Louise McReynolds, PhD

Cary c. Boshamer Distinguished Professor
Associate chair, Department of History
(919) 962-3968
Message
From: Meg Cohen
Sent: 8/21/2018 8:51:42 PM
president@northcaro lina.edu; public@bog .northcarolina .edu; haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com;
dth@dailytarheel.com
Subject: Silence and Complicity.
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Chancellor Falt, President Spelling, and Mr. Smith and Mr. Cochrane;
I received the email from the four of you tonight regarding the
Universities actions and reactions to the toppling of the "Silent Sam" monument on campus. Thank you for
your communication.
and as an alum, I am writing to you tonight to express my utter outrage with the entire incident. I
am furious.
But not with the protesters. With the four of you.
Anyone who didn't sense that this moment was coming has not been paying attention. It would have been
nice if the statue had never been erected. It would have been wonderful if it had been removed during my
tenure as a student, when many were already speaking out about the shameful past that it represents.
And it would have been late, but the right thing to do, if it had come down last summer after the protests both
in Durham and on our campus. After the terror of Charlottesville. After the millionth, billionth, ad infinitum
request to remove it.
You've hidden behind laws that were written rapidly to protect these symbols of a horrible chapter in our
country. Even when the mayor of Chapel Hill asked for you to remove the statue, even when the governor
gave you a loophole that would allow a statue to be removed to "protect" it, you insisted that the damn thing
remain.
I blame you.
Thank God that no one was harmed last night. Thank God that you have no current blood on your consciences,
such as they may be. My son is a Junior at UNC. He was at the protest last summer (as was I); he was not at
the one last night, but could have been. I'm proud of him for sticking up for what he believes is the right thing
to do. But I am furious at you all for allowing this situation to escalate to the point that anyone could have
been hurt. I cannot believe that you would put ANY monument of metal and concrete, even if it did not carry
the heinous baggage that this one does, over the flesh and blood of your students.
And please don't insult my intelligence, or my degree in History, by claiming that the statue is merely to honor
dead soldiers. There IS a place on UN C's campus to honor those who fought for their country: it's a couple of
hundred yards away from that wretched monument, and is called Memorial Hall. Catchy name for a ...
memorial.
No, this statue was erected for one reason - to instill fear in former slaves, to remind them that even if they
had won legal freedoms, their lives were still worth nothing to certain people. To remind them who held
power. Actually, I suppose there may have been another; for the racist, white supremacist Southerners to
bolster their egos, and let them revel in the power they still held.
And you allowed it to stand.
I am so utterly proud of my fellow Tar Heels who brought that monstrosity down yesterday.
And I have never been more ashamed of this University's leadership.
Regards,
Margaret (Craddock) Cohen, AB '89
Message
From: Megel, Joseph Lawrence [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=9933AAEF4DF54228961C11DAAD94ECOB-JOSEPH LAWR]
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58827-wkeyes87e]; Jefferson W. Brown [jeffbrown@mvalaw.com]; Allie Ray McCullen [mccullenre@aol.com]; W.
Edwin McMahan [emcmahan@littleonline.com]; Hari H. Nath [Hnath45@yahoo.com]; Stevens, Richard
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Subject: silent sam
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I want to express my full fledged agreement with this statement from the Chairs of the CAS. In my 15 years
teaching at UNC, I have personally experienced the hurt and sense of alienation that the statue has
caused students, faculty and staff It has made me uncomfortable to work at an institution that supports a
representation of white supremacy. To be clear it is not read as history or celebration of culture, rather than an
assertion of white supremacy. (one need only look at the Confederate flags and the statements that "the South
will rise again" - as seen and heard by our Alamance County visitors to understand what the message of the
statue is). And I know it has deeply affected the sense of "belonging" and "welcome" that African American
students have felt on campus for decades. From the original African American graduates from 1952 on, the
statue has been a contentious and insulting presence. I also feel that the act of taking it down was "not mob"
action, but rather an inevitable reaction to years of "inaction" by administration - based upon years of
expressed opposition to its presence on campus - a literal tipping point. There is no space for Silent Sam to
return on campus. It can not stand!
I support this statement by the CAS chairs ...
"We, the undersigned department chairs of the College of Arts and Sciences ofUNC Chapel Hill, strongly
oppose the return of the Confederate memorial known as Silent Sam to its original location in McCorkle Place.
Returning the statue to any prominent location would reaffirm the values of white supremacy that motivated its
original installation. Moreover, to do so would undermine the moral and physical security of all members of our
community.
The values that the statue represents are inherently opposed to the principles of light and liberty that guide the
educational mission of UNC Chapel Hill."
Joseph Megel
Artist in Residence
Director, Process Series
Department of Communication
Office: 919-843-7067
Message
From: Michael Thomas
Sent: 8/27/2018 12:58:04 PM
Subject: ACTBAC is coming Thurs. to sucker punch
ACTBAC fully supports Barry Brown's sucker punch of a citizen on Saturday and has advised its membership
that punches like Brown's are appropriate immediate reactions to someone touching your possessions.
They are coming to Silent Sam Thursday night.
There has not been a single comment out of hundreds on their Facebook Barry Brown posting criticizing
Brown's actions. Many call for more violence -- both that Brown's Saturday incident should have concluded
with the victim suffering greater injury, and that there should be a greater magnitude and variety of violence,
including gun violence, in future incidents.
This is from the most recent post: "WE DO NOT PROMOTE VIOLENCE. But at any of our events that someone
puts you in a sotuation to where you or your property is threatened, then you have a legal right to protect you and
yours. And we will back you as long as the threat is real. In his case, the threat was real and justified."
Are you going to allow this group on campus on Thursday?
Michael Thomas
B.S. Mathematical Sciences, UNC, 1995
Message
From: Miles, Kim S [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=68941C40B7A8444491EA1D64D91F6F18-KIM SMILES]
Sent: 8/30/2018 2:48:51 PM
Subject: No statue
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To the Trustees and Chancellor Falt,
I would like to add my voice to those of the many who I expect have written you to say that the statue should
not be restored to its place of honor on Mccorkle Place.
Thank you .
Kim
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Ms. Kim S. Miles

Student Services Manager
Classics Department
Office Hours 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM

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Message
From: Mitchell, Charles E [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=BBD1E8A5A484442C84027BD8EFDC68A6-CHARLES EM]
Sent: 8/30/2018 3:48:00 PM
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Subject: the statue known as Silent Sam
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Dear members of the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Falt,
Please do not return the statue known as Silent Sam to its former location. To do so would be an affront to the
university's values. The statue's purpose, as described by Julian Carr at its unveiling, was to intimidate people of color,
and it was allowed to achieve that purpose for far too long. It should be placed inside, in a museum, where its history
(including its ongoing value to some citizens of our state) can be properly contextualized. Contextualization in its
previous setting would not be adequate because that prominent outdoor location, in combination with the size of the
statue, would visually overshadow the contextualization, rendering it largely ineffective, and allowing the statue to
continue to intimidate.
Thank you for your work on this issue, and more generally to making our campus a better place.
Sincerely,
Charles Mitchell
Professor of Biology
http://bio.unc.edu/people/faculty/mitchell/
Message
From: mnneal [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=8AEC39AAA1FF40FEBF64ABD34B507D38-MNNEAL]
Sent: 9/3/2018 5:22:30 PM
Subject: Life-long resident and long-term employee opposed to Silent Sam
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Dear UNG Board of Trustees and Chancellor Folt,
I am a native of Chapel Hill and long-time employee of the University of North Carolina and
I strongly oppose the reinstatement of Silent Sam. Historical context and Julian Carr's words on record, make it
impossible to gloss over the fact that the statue was erected to instill fear in the lives of non-whites and remind them that
they are considered "less-than". Unfortunately, that hideous message reverberates loudly today and has been felt deeply
and painfully by hundreds of people every single day for the last 100 plus years as they crossed Mccorkle Place on their
way to work, class or on a tour of campus. By not reinstalling the statute, the University of North Carolina has a chance to
correct a wrong and show the world that ALL members of our great community are important, valued and
respected. Please, do not bring Sam back to our campus.
Sincerely,
Madeline Neal
Director of Special Programs
Message
From: Necochea, Raul Antonio [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/CN =RE Cl Pl ENTS/CN =CF26D149809B482E9AF57 E1FD5467719-RAU LANTON I]
Sent: 9/2/2018 12:07:03 PM
CC: Chancellor [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Adm in istrative Group
Subject: re-locating Silent Sam
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Dear members of UNC-Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees,

my name is Raul Necochea. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine, at the UNC
school of Medicine. I write to express my strong support for chancellor Folt's position, expressed in her
message to the Carolina community last Friday, that "silent Sam has a place in our history and on our
campus where its history can be taught, but not at the front door of a safe, welcoming, proudly public
research university."
Like most at UNC, I do not want to see the statue returned to its pedestal on Mccorkle Place. Instead,
the North Carolina Gallery in Wilson Library ought to be considered as a suitable place for the display
of silent Sam. It is a dignified space, accessible and secure, where it could be surrounded by other
historical artifacts that the university has acquired. There, the statue can be accompanied by an
appropriate exp l anation regarding the origin of the statue, including that infamous 1913 speech by Julian
Carr, and the different meanings that distinct sectors inside and outside the university have ascribed to
it.
Thank you for your consideration. Raul Necochea
Raul Necochea, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Social Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of History
u. of North Carolina, chapel Hill
Message
From: Nelson, Christopher T [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=731B6D77E9EE491CAC15812550A51B19-CHRISTOPHER]
Sent: 8/30/2018 11:25:07 PM
Subject: CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL
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I am writing to urge you to keep the confederate memorial from returning to its pedestal. It is an invitation to
conflict, an unwelcoming symbol of discrimination, and an indicator of a willful refusal to practice critical
history. It is an embarrassment to a globally prominent university to be embroiled in this debate. Let us move
on to the future and consign this statue, and its unhappy legacy, to the past.
Sincerely,
Chris Nelson
Christopher T. Nelson
Editorial Collective, Cultural Anthropology

http://culanth.org
Director, Triangle Center for Japanese Studies

http://trianglelapan,org
Associate Professor
ctnelson(@uncedu
http://anthropology,uncedu
Message
From: Oberlander, Jonathan B [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=33D5D5D1B7FF4E4BB1EC5701744ED966-JONATHAN B]
Sent: 9/10/2018 4:07:32 PM
Subject: Stat ement on Silent Sam from Basic Science Cha irs, UNC Schoo l of Medic ine
Attachments: Silent Sam 9-10-18 basic science chairs.pdf
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Dear Chancellor Falt and the Board of Trustees,
Please find attached a letter on the future of Silent Sam from the chairs of Basic Science departments at the UNC School
of Medicine.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Oberlander, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Social Medicine
Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management
September 10, 2018
Dear UNC-Chapel Hill Board ofTrustees,
We, the undersigned department chairs of Basic Science departments at the UNC School of Medicine,
are writing to express our strong support for relocating the Confederate monument known as Silent Sam
away from Mccorkle Place. We wholeheartedly support Chancellor Carol Folt's efforts to "identify a
safe, legal and alternative location for Silent Sam" that ensures its "history can be taught, but not at the
front door of a safe, welcoming, proudly public research university." A new location should be chosen
that maximizes public safety, allows the monument to be put in historical and educational contexts, and
assures that all UNC students, staff, and faculty experience our campus as an inclusive environment.
We also wish to express our gratitude to the Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees for initiating
a process that will maximize diverse input and community engagement. Based on Chancellor Folt's
leadership, we are confident that she and the Board of Trustees will put forth a positive solution which
will bolster and highlight our University's national reputation as a leader in public education and
innovative social engagement.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Caron, Cell Biology and Physiology
Bob Duronio, Microbiology and Immunology
Henrik Dahlman, Pharmacology
Charles Jennette, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Jonathan Oberlander, Social Medicine
Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Genetics
Leslie Parise, Biochemistry and Biophysics

Message
From: O'Hara, James J [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=BF9AF020CDSA44B3BF0BEF8294203EFB-JAM ES J OHA]
Sent: 8/30/2018 1:48:30 PM
To : Haywood D. Cochrane Jr. [ha ywoodcochrane@yahoo.com]; Ducket t, Chuck [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange
Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=d429 15aef8014bc4896b876cf0d6ecf0-Mr Cha rles];
Subject: The world is watching
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To the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Folt,
I have written to you about the statue before, and will be as brief as possible now. In sum: please do not bring
shame and disgrace upon our beloved university before the eyes of the country and the world by restoring the
statue to a place of honor on McCorkle Place. I am as noted below the president of an international
organization devoted to the study of the poet Vergil, and at our conferences in Italy we have participants from
all over North America and Europe, with many of whom I maintain contact throughout the year. The world is
watching us now, and our reputation will suffer irreparable harm if you do the wrong thing. I understand that it
may have been possible in earlier decades for some to look at the statue with pride, and that during your years
associated with Carolina it may have taken on associations that you look back on with wistful pleasure. But the
evidence that the monument was meant to and in reality did serve to promote white supremacy is now
overwhelming, and cannot in good conscience be overlooked. I hope there are many of you who, like me, have
changed your view of the statue over the years as you learned new information about it: openness to change in
the face of new information like that is the essence of the kind of education and research we stand for. And I'm
sure you must know that this problem with never go away unless that statue is put in a museum or library. I do
thank you for your service, and I understand the challenges that you face in responding to a diverse
constituency. But there is only one choice here: please listen to your students and especially your learned and
devoted faculty, and do the right thing.
Yours sincerely,
James J. O'Hara
President, The V ergilian Society
George L. Paddison Professor of Latin, UNC-Chapel Hill
319 Murphey Hall
jimohara(@unc.edu
vergiliansociety. org
surface mail:
James J. O'Hara
Classics Dept is (919) 962-7191, fax: (919) 962-4036
Message
From: Paige Hanks [phanks@thechapelofthecross.org]
Sent: 8/31/2018 8:54:54 AM
Subject: Silent Sam: Clergy Response Letter
Attachments: Chapel Hill Interfaith Clergy Letter.doc
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Dear Chancellor:
Please find attached a letter signed by a group oflnterfaith Clergy from Chapel Hill in response to the issues
surrounding Silent Sam. We respectfully request your consideration of our intentions.
The Reverend Paige Hanks

Deacon for Vocational Discernment
304 E. Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919-929-2193
phanks@,thechapel ofthecross. org
Facebook: @cotcchapelhill
Twitter: @cotcchapelhill
Instagram: @thechapelofthecross
August 31, 2018
To the Chapel Hill and University of North Carolina Community:
We are faith leaders in Chapel Hill. Though we come from diverse traditions, we share
the belief that every human being is created in the Divine image, and an attack on
another's humanity is an affront to God.
We have come together to consider "Silent Sam," and the activities around it; and we ask
that you consider its history and context as well:
During the period of Jim Crow, over 700 Confederate monuments were erected over the
American South; 51 of these were erected in North Carolina. They were put in place
specifically to promote white supremacy. At the dedication of Silent Sam in 1913, Julian
Carr, a confederate veteran and UNC Trustee, stated the statue was dedicated to all
alumni who fought for the Confederacy - the living as well as the dead, and most
especially to the veterans who waged the postwar campaign to reestablish government by
and for whites only. Those men, he said, "saved the very life of the Anglo-Saxon race."
There are monuments to honor fallen soldiers, and there are monuments to causes and
beliefs. Those two purposes are entwined and embodied in Silent Sam. We support
efforts to establish monuments in memory of all soldiers and veterans; we also believe
that monuments created to idealize and promote white supremacy deny the humanity of
people of color generally, and African Americans specifically.
While members of this group differ regarding the action which brought the statue down,
we all hold that returning Silent Sam to its previous location furthers the goal of those
who originally put it there: venerating white supremacy, and denigrating people of color.
We encourage our local and state governments to find new ways to recognize the
complex nature of our history, to honor those who died fighting -- but not the profane,
dehumanizing cause for which they fought.
Sincerely,
The Rev. Sarah Ball-Damberg

Church of the Holy Family (Episcopal)
The Rev. Cameron S. Barr

Senior Pastor
United Church of Chapel Hill
Rev. Thom Belote

The Community Church of Chapel Hill, Unitarian Universalist
Rev. Hillary Bergman Cheek
University Presbyterian Church
The Rev. Daniel Childs

University United Methodist Church
Pastor Maythel Clemons

Abundant Life Faith Ministry
Reverend Justin Coleman

University United Methodist Church
Dr. Rodney L. Coleman

First Baptist Church
Dr. Michael A Cousin

Pastor
St. Paul AME Church
Reverend J. Mark Davidson

Pastor
Church of Reconciliation
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Rabbi Jen Feldman

Kehillah Synagogue
Reverend Kate Fiedler

The Rev. Lisa G. Fischbeck

The Episcopal Church of the Advocate
Rev. Heather Thomas Folliard

Associate Pastor
HillSong Church
The Rev. Dr. Clarke French

Church of the Holy Family (Episcopal)
The Rev. Paige Hanks

Rev. Kristen Hanna, Associate Pastor

Christ United Methodist Church
Bishop Gene Hatley
Senior Pastor
Barbee's Chapel Harvest World Church and Ministries
Rev. Suzanne Hultman

Associate Pastor
The Rev. Nathan E. Kirkpatrick

Priest Associate
The Episcopal Church of the Advocate
The Rev. Tambria Lee

The Rev. Dr. Marcus McFaul

Senior Minister
Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church
Ian Carr McPherson

Minister for Youth and Young Adult Initiatives
Rev. David Mateo

The Rev. Elizabeth Marie Melchionna

The Rev. Dr. William H. Morley

Rev. Maria T. Palmer

Binkley Baptist Church
The Reverend John B. Rogers

Pastor Will Rose

Holy Trinity Lutheran
Mike Shannon
Pastor
Chapel Hill Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Dr. Mitchell Simpson, Pastor
University Baptist Church
Rev. Susan Steinberg

Bishop Brian D. Tolbert Jr.

First Church of God Christian Fellowship Inc.
The Rev. Margaret LaMotte Torrence

Interim Pastor
Dr. Charlie Williams

Hickory Grove Baptist Church
Pastor Ben Williams

Message
From: Pamela Grundy
Sent: 8/29/2018 2:53:37 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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I received my Ph.D. in history from UNC in 1997. The years I spent in the UNC history department were some
of the most important of my life. Maintaining a strong, independent university is essential to our state's future.
Silent Sam must not be returned to the UNC campus, other than in a museum with appropriate historical
context. Returning the statue to a position of prominence would violate the University's charge to fully and
effectively educate the young people of our state. I would be willing to travel from Charlotte and engage in civil
disobediance in order to prevent that from happening.
I realize that the University faces tremendous political pressure. But it is in this kind of situation where staying
true to one's ideals is most important. I urge you to stand firm.
Sincerely,
Pamela Grundy
Message
From: Pasek, Daniel A [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=BF7DD14ADD0B45CF947D0DA9DEBC503B-DANIEL A PA]
Sent: 8/22/2018 2:55:53 PM
president@northcaro li na.edu; haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com
CC: opinion@dailytarhee l. com
Subject: Monument
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Carol L. Folt
Chancellor
Harry Smith
Chair, UNC Board of Governors
Margaret Spellings
President, UNC System
Haywood Cochrane
Chair, UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees
Those in authority have condemned the actions of the protesters for toppling the Confederate Monument
(Silent Sam), but have failed to accept their responsibility for decades of inaction about student, faculty
and staff, and community members' concerns with the monument. Not only were no actions taken to
move the monument to a more appropriate location (e.g., a cemetery, museum, or battleground); the will
of protesters was countered by the state legislature in the form of legislation that made legally moving the
monument much more difficult. Enacting legislation that, in effect, suppresses opponents' ability to unite
against perceived injustices, is relatively common in NC and USA laws, but even if it is law, that does not
make the law right or just.
Now authorities are pursuing policies (e.g., asking the SBI to assist the police) intended to punish those
who committed the vandalism. Yes, vandalism is wrong, but also wrong was the failure to act and moving
the monument. Now those in power are seeking to punish people who may have felt that they had no
legitimate options for resolving the issue other than to take matters into their own hands. This is, in
effect, having those in autho rity seek to punish the proteste rs for the inaction (and inappropriate
legislation) of those in authority!
The mentions of safety, given in the Message from Carolina email, shows a bias against the protesters
since a concern with safety should have led to actions directed at moving the memorial, rather than
attempting to maintain the status quo. There seems to have been a racist backlash against the historic
presidency of Obama, and current times have heightened the racial tensions in this country. Authorities
should have been aware of this, and should have known that protests over the monument would not go
away and could escalate. Was maintenance of the status quo really expected/anticipated? After decades of
protests that failed to produce changes, and in a time of heightened conflict and heightened sense of
injustice, was the status quo really expected?
Mentioning "This protest was carried out in a highly organized manner and included a number of people
unaffiliated with the University" also shows a bias against the protesters in that it emphasizes outside
influences rather than acknowledging that most of the protesters and organizers over the decades were
affiliated with this University. My impression is that, whether or not the actual vandalism was done by
persons not affiliated with this University, the removal of the monument was the desire of many members
of the UNC and Chapel Hill communities.
Mentioning "mob actions" also reveals the bias against the protesters since the protest was actually very
peacefully carried out! There was NO "mob", only protesters that were fed up with the inaction of those in
authority and who actually had the power and capability of making, or at least attempting to make,
changes. Those in authority have never demonstrated a willingness to act on the concerns of the
protesters. It is easy for those in power to slow potential progress, but it is difficult to totally prevent
eventual change.
Even your professed support of the right to protest peacefully rings hollow. You have not praised the
peaceful nature of the protest, instead condemning the protest as a whole because it included (organized
and peaceful) vandalism. You should praise the protest and condemn the vandalism as separate actions.
Not all of the protesters participated in the vandalism, and they should not be lumped together, and
especially not implying that they were a mob. It is as if your support of protests is conditional: as long as
the protesters remain powerless to have an impact or to effect change; as long as you do not really even
have to listen to them; as long as you are not required to respond and make changes ...
I feel that, while vandalism is wrong, also wrong was/is the actions/inaction of those in power. Authorities
should attempt to determine what is best to do now, and learn from the incident with this monument (as
well as protests in Charlottesville, Durham, and elsewhere), rather than seeking to punish those involved;
there is plenty of blame to go around. Actions may be prosecuted, but inaction and injustice (even if legal)
are also to blame. Enacting and/or using laws in order to suppress opposing opinions, and to punish those
with whom one disagrees with, is wrong, even if they are legal.
Sincerely,
Daniel Pasek
Staff, Biochemistry & Biophysics Department, UNC-CH

Message
From: Perrin, Andrew J [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECI Pl ENTS/CN=1133F5F4956F4F379BBE4E8B07 A0A761-AN DREW J PE]
Sent: 8/29/2018 1:47:11 PM
Subject: Input on BOT decision on the Confederate monument
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Dear Members of the Board of Trustees:

I am wr1t1ng as a dedicated educator and devoted member of the Carolina
community. I respectfully request that whatever decision is made about
the confederate monument known as "silent Sam," the monument never be
returned to its original location, nor to any other spot of honor or
reverence.
As the history of the monument over the past 100 years shows, it was
conceived and erected in racial animus. It has been a consistent
indicator to many students that they are not fully welcome at Carolina,
and there is simply no way to reconcile reinstalling the monument with
the democratic ideals of inclusion, mutual respect, and educational
opportunity that are the core of Carolina.
I'm sure you regret, as I do, the way this matter has come to a head. I
believe the current crisis is in large part the result of failing to
take seriously the monument's presence as a truly moral and educational
question instead of only a bureaucratic one of treatment of state
property. It is not too late to correct that failure. I very much hope
you will attend to the lessons of history, acknowledge the moral
importance, and permanently remove silent Sam from any position of
prominence.
Thank you for your service and dedication to Carolina, our students,
and our state.
Sincerely yours,
Andrew J. Perrin
Professor of Sociology
Carolina "Bell Ringer," 1793 Society
Message
From: Price, Adam [/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/CN=RECIPIENTS/CN=C8C0328E84A441A3810AAEC42DC61DB6-ADAM PRICE]
Sent: 8/30/2018 1:09:41 PM
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Dear Members of the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Falt,
I've been a teaching assistant professor in the Department of English at UNC for the last two years, and I'm
writing to urge you to leave Silent Sam down. However you may feel about the way the statue came down, to
put it back up would amount to resurrecting a Confederate monument in 2018. Perhaps there would be some
students and alumni pleased with this outcome, but it would be devastating to the school's significant
minority population and to UNC's national reputation (which has already suffered a great deal due to this).
I feel like the fact that this is even a question is a failure of empathy. Please try, for just a second, to imagine
how a black student might feel walking past a statue erected to honor men who wanted them enslaved. Can
you do that? Have you tried? I teach them every day, and I know how they feel about it. Here is something
one of them wrote for a class exercise I gave them a few days ago:
Silent Sam has a special place in the hearts of every black student at UNC, and I think most would agree it
should stay down. The statue wasn't inherently racist and made many feel proud to be from these southern
states. I can understand people who love their southern heritage and only want to respect those who died for the
country we all love. That being said, when I looked at Silent Sam, I saw a statue that gave praise to a potential
future where I might still be in chains. Seeing the statue toppled down, honestly felt like winning the civil war
all over again. I may be a little dramatic, but in the black community every small thing feels like a huge victory.
Note that this student is trying hard to see both side, but note the fear in this--the fear that the statue
provoked on a daily basis. If you can imagine this, you cannot in good conscience work to re-erect Silent Sam
in Mccorkle Place.
Best,
Adam Price
Message
From: R Schoch
Sent: 8/29/2018 4:07:53 PM
CC: amy_hentel@unc.edu; Canady, Joseph R [/o=Exchangelabs/ou=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDI BOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=3c1281d74 7c444c08 lf833b0fec9944f-M r Joseph R]; amy-hertel@unc.edu;
amy.hertel@unc.edu
Subject: Certain Remedy for Monumenta l Madness
Attachments: MONUMENTAL MADNESS Ed. 1112 17.docx; Transm ittal to NC Hist Com 8 23 18.doc; IMG_0797.JPG
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I am founder and chairman of a N.C.- based foreign policy think tank (the "B.E.A." stands for
"Barristers et al").
Months before Silent Sam was felled by that loosely-knit amalgam of putatively-well-
intending miscreants, we sent to your trustees and the NC Historical Commission and the
Daughters of the Confederacy a proposal which--had they deployed it-- would have certainly
averted the events which have ensued. We sympathize and empathize -and want-with you--
to synergize with what has happened and what you elect to do by way of remediation (and
prevention) from this point forward.
In short, because the monument was criminally destroyed by vandals (setting asside the
diverse makeup of the stealthy crowd ), it should clearly be restored and the cost of
restoration taxed to the offenders by way of criminal (prosecution) restitution. But, much
more-by degree of importance-is what is to be done concomitantly with said restoration to
insure against future replications of the same potentially-catastrophic form of civil
disobedience?
The totally-failsafe answer(s) are outlined in the proposal we submitted previously to the
South Carolina legislature, the UNC Trustees and NC Historical Commission. The proposal
captioned "Monunental Madness" was widely published (AP), shared with select chapters of
the DAC, but despite its impeccably flawless tenets and features (as the optimum among all
generic modes of remedial options), it has not reached the authoritative desk that counts.
Presently foremost of which would be yours.
It is our guarantee to you that our proposal will eventually become the paradigm resolution
across the nation. It is our hope that you will take the time to read and consider it in time that
will enable my alma mater (I am a 1964 Chapel Hill grad, finishing a JD in law in Tuscaloosa, the
home of my forbears including the illustrious Confederate General (my namesake) Robert
Emmet Rodes. (I am Robert Rodes Schoch). Please do not surmise from that any leftist or
archaic leanings; I am descended from slave plantation owners in DNA only. That is not to say
my name was not on the bridge joining Tuscaloosa and neighboring Holt Alabama, separated
by the Black Warrior river. And that is not to say that the blog of the
B.E.A. www.Declaringlndependents.com) was not instrumental in getting NC to vote in our
first, partially-African American president.
While time is flying, as is your need for resolving your present and future problems as keepers
of the controversial monument, I implore you and your staff (whom I have CC'd the present
communication) IMMEDIATELY to read our proposal, affirm (as you instantly will) its
incomparable efficacy as the optimal resolution for our national (and local) dilemma in
managing these valuable ancient artifacts in our collective midst and keepings. Destroying
them in today's still
ethnically and racially diverse and still-melting pot of potential anarchy is the wrong approach.
The remedy is in the proposal. It is the only remedy which could work to quell the ancient
misplaced anger and angst on all sides (and there are far more than two). The Silent Sams of
U.S. antiquity are presently prone to catalytically become catastrophic by the opportunistic
machinations of every form of extremist our nation harbors--too numerous to list.
When you finish your read of the proposal, "Monumental Madness", please contact me so
that I can share the nature (content and aesthetic composition) of the plaque memorials we
only briefly sketch in the proposal. My personal vision includes--ancillary to the Universities'
central proclamation--bronze-relieved images of R.F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King,
underscored by carefully-chosen words of civil and racial peace and accord, such that any and
all future on-lookers would be able to quote only something from Karl Marx to justify further
assault on a monument clearly designated as one representing and celebrating what our
Nation has become, in spite of what it came through in the process of becoming what it is-
the freest nation on planet earth. (To garner some PR-positive media launch and affirmation,
we've also envisioned your replacing fallen Sam IMMEDIATELY (within 2 days) with a weather-
proof composit digital image of the fallen statue virtually identical to its bronze predecessor at
a distance of 20 feet. A temporary stand-in at best, but what an astoundingly resilient
immediate [albeit interim] retort to the abrupt/criminal toppling of Silent Sam. After all, the
message and image are the same. What could possibly militate against Sam's representation
being a modern poly composit while his bronze avatar is recovering in our monumental
recovery rooms? I can hear the national uproar of praise and ... light-hearted approval for
this ancillary gesture of determined enforcement of the law and homage to a democracy
subject only to voluntary the rule of law.) Yes, I'd like to be on the writing teams for all the
proposed plaques. I've said as much to the Daughters of the Confederacy in Tuscaloosa who
have (when I attended law school there) paid me honors in respect for my "heritage". I fully
believe that if General Rodes were alive today, he'd approve of what I am proposing to you.
Our proposal is our first attachment hereto and it is attached both in the form initially drafted
and the edited form appearing in the newspapers. Also attached you will find our letter of
transmittal to the individual members of the N.C. Historical Commission.
I ask you, Chancellor Falt, to telephone me at earliest convenience so I can share with you
further visions on the implementation of the proposed plan to silent your problems with Sam
and at the same time serve to make our University's solution of this national nemesis
paradigmatic as the natural exemplar of monumental remediation.
Best,
Robert Schoch *
PS: I put a call into you today; my cell is
Cc: Amy Hertel, Senior Advisor

Joe C
*Robert R. (Dusty) Schoch
Robert R. (Dusty) Schoch (www.Robe1trschoch.com) is a writer, attorney, inventor (author of Milton Bradley's "Crack the
Case"; "CROSS EXAMINATION - The Mystery Game That Improves Your Brain" (available on Amazon.com this link:
http://www.amazo11.com/Cross-Examinatio11-Mvstery-Improves-
Brai11/dp/l493744755/ref=sr 1 1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=l41357060 l&sr=l-
l&kevwords=cross+examination+the+mysterv+game+that+irnproves+vour+brain ) .Most recent environ mental patent
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6048407 .html; designer (United Features Syndicate-licensed "Snoopy's Dream
Machines") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFbflVI922jQ and manufacturer (D.C.S. International, Inc.), inventor's
representative and broker of novel inventions (President and C.E.O. of I.D.E.A.S. , "Invention Design Enhancement And
Sales") and writer (novels, essays, screenplays) living in High Point, N.C. Melding of legal/writer/cinematic arts illustrated
in on-line composition "Search for Excellence" at: http://www.iatl.net/files/public/78_search_i4a .pdf BA (English) degree,
UNC Chapel Hill, JD (law) U. of Ala., Tuscaloosa. Dusty is founder and scribe of the B.E.A. ("Barristers et al") a N.C.-
based, politically-independent, peace-oriented foreign policy think tank. He is also co-editor (foreign policy) of
www.Declaringlndependents.com , through the contact link of which readers are invited to correspond with him. His recently
published novel, screenplay and soon-to-be-released movie, "EX MACHINA" are the story of an environmental hero who
succeeds in saving the world from ... us. "Ex MACH/NA-A Revolution of One" now available on Amazon .com.
https://www .amazon.com/Ex-lVIachina-Revolution-Robe1t-Schoch/dp/l 49927 6869
MONUMENTAL MADNESS
Shameful lack of leadership in solving

Simple Problems like Silent Sam
The fighting and racial strife sweeping the Country regarding statues of Civil War soldiers and
other icons is insanity, and the blame for it must fall on our pathetic present leaders. The most
recent racial rant in the news is (Durham Herald-Sun's) report of protests of "free speech"
violations by a cop doing undercover Tweeting to tap into the intentions of those demanding the
demolition of Silent Sam--the UNC Statue of a lone rebel given UNC (Chapel Hill) by the
Daughters of the Confederacy in 1913 to honor the UNC boys who (among 260,000 others)
forfeit their lives in America's darkest-of-all historic annals.
Why even consider the current arguments!? Sure it's rational to claim that the statue--in 1913--
constituted a symbol of Confederate Pride, nostalgia for the "lost cause" and respect for the
Southern sons who perished following the orders of their warrior leaders. Sure it's correct to say
there was a racial issue in the Civil War-which along with arguments over state's rights to
secede will be debated forever (if you actually lack that much to do).
But then again, look to Egypt: There is zero debate over the fact that the great pyramids were
built by slaves under the threat of death by demagogic nutcases claiming to be gods in need of a
place to sleep for all eternity. And no one is demanding we demolish those mounds of
monumental madness. Ditto for China's Great Wall all and Trump's planned anti-Mexican one.
So far, our puny putative "leaders" have permitted Dylan Roofs madness successfully to spawn
more bigots to rekindle Civil War emotions and mentalities that have wreaked havoc---from
Charleston through Charlottesville and now to Chapel Hill.
What should our leaders have done? It's so simple it's shameful. Statues don't "speak" for
people who are living today. Like pyramids in the sand, they speak for the archaic mentality
which existed at the time they were conceived and chiseled. That's why they're called
"monuments" -- the root of the term implying "memory" (L: "moneo''-"to remind"). What we
don't remember in history--sages teach us-we're most apt to repeat. Yeah, let's tear that statue
down until enough of us forget the 620,000 American boys sacrificed by their foolish elder
leaders so we can revive that insanity and have another war based on the beliefs and bigotries of
Americans 156 years ago.
Again-instead of toppling our "monuments" (Confederate and/or Union), what could our
leaders have done to prevent the past and brewing racial tension and violence? Simple: Review
the facts and change the plaques and leave the monuments (statues) as they are. The plaque
under Silent Sam on Franklin Street could (and should) tell the "true/new story" about the people
who erected the monument and what they were feeling and implying when they decided to
memorialize those poor innocent and obedient boys led to their deaths by orders of officers and
statesmen too stubborn and stupid to negotiate a peaceful resolution of political and economic
differences between friends, cousins and citizens of the most blessed nation on earth.
I made one mistake in writing this op/ed: I implied that times have changed since the real Silent
Sam was blown off his horse in battle by union shrapnel. They really haven't. The leaders who
led us to that monumental madness in 1861 were no more foolish and inept than the ones today
who can't "detox" our archaic art with fresh plaques which remove the taint of old bronze and
paint.
After all-just like the mummies in those pyramids of Egypt-UNC's celebrated rebel, Sam is
quite silent-and thoroughly dead. So let's put the fighting and fiction behind us-- Let's put a
plaque under his statue saying-among other things-- "Sam, we're so sorry our leaders got you
involved-and killed at such and early age-for such a cause as secession from our great Union.
But we're all grateful for your sacrifice because, since you and your 259,999 (southern)
companions fell, there hasn't been another Civil War, and slavery went away as a result of the
conflict in which you gave your life.
A challenge to our wannabe leaders out there: Why not end the conflict with truth and fact:
Leave the monuments intact-by putting facts on the plaque? How could any hyper-righteous
racist claim that Silent Sam is facing North in an offensive pose of defiance when the plaque
beneath him is telling us the whole truth (including the fact that his ammo belt is gone). The war
is over, people. Please forward this message to any actual leaders you know and insist they put
up the necessary plaques that put our ancient monuments into temporal (and temperamental)
perspective. Let monuments stay where they are in the context of a new era of enlightenment as a
reminder of how heroically we have emerged from our era of monumental madness.
Dusty Schoch*
Robert R. Schoch is a High Point writer and lawyer who can be reached on his website
www.RobertRSchoch.com
ROBERT R. SCHOCH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TRANSl\fITTAL MEMO
TO: N.C. Historical Commission
DATE: 8 2318 FROM: R. Schoch
NO. of PAGES
RE: Confederate Monuments " :Monumental Madness"
Dear Commissioners,
As founder of the B.E.A. (a North-Carolina based foreign policy think tank;

website: www.Declaringindependent's.com, ) , I wrote for media publication
and to assist the UNC Trustees in solving their "Silent Sam" conundrum, the
attached article, sent herewith both in typed document form and a (blurry) copy of
the published news feature.
We gave advanced copies of the article to the UNC Trustees (directing same to
Julia S. Grumbles on 11-12-17), in ample time for her Board to have averted the
recent vandalism (the toppling of Silent Sam).
I read in the news today your Commission's inchoate plans to change the
messages on (or contiguous to) the Civil War monuments. That is the essential
gist our earlier proposal made through the media.
In moving forward, it is our hope that some of the logic and suggestions in the
forwarded article ("Monumental Madness") may assist you in gaining support for
the continued course of remediation your Commission appears to be espousing.
As the great-great grandson of Alabama's (Confed.) General Robert Ermnet

Rodes, I would consider it a privilege to assist you in fashioning the verbal
etchings in the monument bases installed to preserve history, pay due respect and
honor to the fallen warriors, and deal with our culture's evolution at the same
time. Bigotry-always on both sides of these situations-is ubiquitous, but can be
dealt with. My favorite (auto-aphorized) is-"What do sane folk do when the
ROBERT R. SCHOCH
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Klan threatens to exercise their Constitutional rights to march through the streets
of your town? Answer: Don't go. Don't watch. Don't "oppose". Do urge all you
know to do the saine.
The gentleman with whom I spoke said that he would circulate this document with
attachments to the Commissioners at large, with my compliments for the measures
they have already initiated to instill a modicum of remedial moderation and sanity
in the process of dealing with an X-generation's reaction to a 19th Century social
expression. It is certainly a situation which must be dealt with, but as certainly not
a problem difficult to solve. So far, across the country, from the fiscal side, the
racial side and the governmental standpoints, there has been predominantly a
protracted succession of ... Monumental Madness.
Thanks for what you are attempting. Your work so far smacks of promise that our
State may become the paradigm for efficacious resolution of this mounting
monumental madness.
Best,
Robert Rodes Schoch*
*Robert R. (Dusty) Schoch (www.Robertrschoch.com) is a writer, attorney, inventor (author of Milton

Bradley's "Crack the Case"; "CROSS EXAMINATION- The Mystery Game That Improves Your Brain"
(available on Amazon .com this link: http://www.amazon .com/Cross-Examination-Mystery-lmproves-
Brain/dp/1493744755/ref=sr_ 1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413570601 &sr=1-
1&keywords=cross+examination+the+mystery+game+that+improves+your+brain ).Most recent
environmental patent http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6048407.html; designer (United Features
Syndicate-licensed "Snoopy's Dream Machines") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFbfM922jQ and
manufacturer (D.C.S. International, Inc.), inventor's representative and broker of novel inventions
(President and C.E.O. of I.D.E.A.S. , "Invention Design Enhancement And Sales") and writer (novels,
essays, screenplays) living in High Point, N.C. Melding of legal/writer/cinematic arts illustrated in on-line
composition "Search for Excellence" at: http://www.iatl.neUfiles/public/78_search_i4a.pdf BA (English)
degree, UNC Chapel Hill, JD (law) U. of Ala ., Tuscaloosa. Dusty is founder and scribe of the B.E.A.
("Barristers et al") a N.C.-based, politically-independent, peace-oriented foreign policy think tank. He is
also co-editor (foreign policy) of www.Declaringlndependents.com , through the contact link of which
readers are invited to correspond with him. His published novel and soon thereafter to be released movie,
"EX MACHI NA" are the story of an environmental hero who succeeds in saving the world from .. . us. "Ex
MACH/NA-A Revolution of One" now available on Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/Ex-
Machina-Revolution-Robert-Schoch/dp/1499276869
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Subject: Appropriate placement of statue of Silent Sam
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To the Board of Trustees and the Chancellor of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
In appreciation for the Chancellor's call for open discussion by faculty, staff, and students of this university
around the issue of the Confederate monument known locally as "Silent Sam," and in cognizance of the events
of the last few weeks regarding the controversies that swirl around the monument, I send this message as a
concerned citizen and resident of North Carolina and as a committed faculty member of this institution with a
decade of service in teaching and scholarship.
I strongly support the initiative to place the statue in the North Carolina Gallery in Wilson Library, where it
should have appropriate museum-quality citations to explain the origin of the statue and the different
meanings that distinct sectors inside and outside the university have ascribed to the statue, as the Chancellor
made clear in her message to the campus community of August 31, 2018.
I oppose with equal conviction the notion of returning the statue to Mccorkle Place, because it is not
acceptable for a monument that undeniably recalls the racism and violence of slavery to be accorded a
pedestal and place of prominence on the campus square that welcomes visitors as well as university students,
staff and faculty to our public university. Such a symbol, even if it recalls the fallen sons of Confederate
families in the bitter history of the Civil War, is an affront to the principles of social justice, political
democracy, and educated citizenry for all, which sustain the life of this, the oldest publicly supported
university in the country
In summary, I believe that the statue should not be destroyed, but that it should be preserved in the North
Carolina Gallery, where its meaning can be properly contextualized for the history of our institution.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Radding
Cynthia Radding
Gussenhoven Distinguished Professor of History and Latin American Studies
Hamilton Hall 513
Campus Box 3195
John Carter Brown Library Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellow
President, Americas Research Network
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Dear Board of Trustee Members UNC-CH:
As a faculty member of this university I wish to express my concern that the Silent Sam statue may return to a
place of prominence on our campus. The statue could be placed in a museum where its disturbing historical
significance could be elucidated. I concur with the recent statement from the Faculty Executive Committee:
"We strongly oppose the return of the Confederate memorial known as Silent Sam to its original location in
Mccorkle Place. Returning the statue to any prominent location would reaffirm the values of white supremacy
that motivated its original installation. Moreover, to do so would undermine the moral and physical security
of all members of our community. The values that the statue represents are inherently opposed to the
principles of light and liberty that guide the educational mission of UNC Chapel Hill."
I also find words from the Southern Poverty Law Center of value in this context:
"The Civil War ended 153 years ago. The Confederacy, as Mitch Landrieu said, was on the wrong side of
humanity. Our public entities should no longer play a role in distorting history by honoring a secessionist
government that waged war against the United States to preserve white supremacy and the enslavement of
millions of people.
It's past time for the South - and the rest of the nation - to bury the myth of the Lost Cause once and for all."
Best regards,
Edward V. Rankus
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
201 Bingham Hall
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Dear Board of Trustees and Chancellor:
I write to request that under no circumstances you authorize a return of the statue known as Silent Sam to its
former pedestal. My office is located nearby, and I can assure you that for the last year it has proved a
significant and continued distraction, even as the increased security around it constitutes a needless expense at a
time of continued austerity.
For anyone who reads original documents, the historical purpose of this, and the wave of similar statues erected
in that period is really not in doubt. Would any of us would want this fine university associated with the cause
of racial supremacy today? I think not. If preserving the past is the goal, then please find a quiet, educationally
appropriate venue like a museum that can house it in a proper context for the future, not a high pedestal on
Franklin Street.
Yours sincerely,
pr
Peter Redfield, Professor

President, Society for Cultural Anthropology
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Subject: UNC Chapel Hill Confederate Monu ment
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Dear Members of the Board of Trustees,
I write to express my concern about the Confederate Monument that until recently stood on the UNC Chapel
Hill campus. I regret the manner of its removal and wish that it had taken place in some other way, but I am
glad that it is gone. Although I am aware that some people regard it merely as a tribute to the Carolina students
who fought in the Civil War, it is abundantly clear that it was intended from the start also to endorse the cause
for which those students fought, namely, the subjugation of African-Americans and the affirmation of white
supremacy. It has also become increasingly clear over the last decade or that many students and other members
of the Carolina community perceive that message all too well and that it has served as a constant and painful
reminder of their marginalization. It was long past time for it to be relocated.
As the son of a World War II veteran, I am strongly in support of honoring all those Carolina students who
sacrificed their lives through their military service, regardless of the cause for which they fought. The
emphasis, however, should be on their service and sacrifice. There is already on campus a wonderful memorial
to all such students, which records the names of all 684 Carolina alumni who died while in the armed forces,
with quotations from those who served in all US wars from the Civil War to the first Gulf War:
https://docsouth.unc.edu/commland/monument/l 78/. I find this a very moving and inspiring memorial.
As for the Confederate Monument, it remains an important work of art with crucial historical value. The
monument, both the statue and the associated plaques, should be preserved and contextualized in some
appropriate location such as a museum, either on campus or off, where people can learn about and appreciate its
complex history and meaning. The University is fortunate to be able to call on wide range of people with
relevant expertise to help determine an appropriate location and mode of display (historians, art historians,
curators). Such a display would be entirely in keeping with the educational mission of the University. To
endorse, or even appear to endorse, the morally reprehensible cause that the monument was intended to uphold,
however, is completely at odds with that mission and with our values of lux et libertas.
Yours sincerely,
James B. Rives
Kenan Eminent Professor, Department of Classics
James B. Rives
Kenan Eminent Professor and Chair

212 Murphey Hall
Cam pus Box 3145
department tel: 919-962-7191
fax: 919-962-4036
jbrives@email.unc.edu
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Dear Board of Governors and Chancellor Falt:
I write to express my sincere hope that you will seek, and support, a resolution to the crisis of the Confederate Statue in
a way that explicitly recognizes the history of racism it represents. The statue was erected not merely to honor soldiers
who fought and died in the Civil War, but also, explicitly, to instill terror in the hearts of Black Americans and anyone
who challenged society's domination by white people. Preserving the statue is important, and recounting its history,
along with the history of the University, is essential. But we can do this, and we can also respectfully remember soldiers
who fought and died in the Civil War, while also rejecting the racial hatred that has always been part of this statue's
symbolism.
I share your concerns that this crisis not end in violence. To help achieve a peaceful resolution, we need clear statements
from the University's leadership that go beyond calls for safety. We need you to recognize the multiple concerns and
commitments at stake in the different perspectives on what to do with the statue, and we need a moral vision for how
our University can deal honestly, fairly, and comprehensively with its history. We need you, our University's leadership,
to model civil conversation and moral courage in paving a way forward that recognizes and respects different views, but
that also draws the line at any tolerance of racism. Putting the statue in a campus museum or similar setting, where it is
historically contextualized and presented as an opportunity for learning, is what I support. Such an exhibit could include
not only historical narratives about it, but also the perspectives of those opposed to its removal at present, which can be
recognized and represented by those espousing this view in their own words. Creating such an exhibit could become a
community project and learning experience for UNC and Chapel Hill, a way of actively creating a new, positive phase in a
troubled history. Let's turn this crisis into an opportunity for increasing understanding and respect across deepening,
and troubling, social divides.
Respectfully yours,
Michele Rivkin-Fish
Associate Professor, Anthropology
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Hi Dr. Falt,
It seems from your university-wide announcements that the administration has received a lot of negative feedback re:
the Silent Sam event. The second announcement that promised to never condone"mob actions" seemed to imply that
most of the feedback has been critical of police and university for not protecting the statue. Just wanted to send my
support to the way the police did not use force against the protesters to protect the statue, as I would much rather see a
statue memorializing intolerant policies get hurt than the protesters. I look forward to a more inclusive and unifying
memorial at the site in the future.
Thank you,
Tracy Rose
Tracy L. Rose, MD MPH

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Division of Hematology/Oncology
tracy rose@)rned.uncedu
Phone:919-962-8561
Fax: 919-966-6/35
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To the Trustees and Chancellor Folt,
I would like to add my voice to those of the many who I expect have written you to say that the
statue should not be restored to its place of honor on Mccorkle Place.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
P.A. Rosenmeyer
George L. Paddison Professor of Classics
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As a native of Texas I grew up around the symbols of my state's racist past. Over time I learned to treat them as
relics of history that were not relevant to me except as a reminder of a past not to be repeated. It is only in the
last few years that I have come to realize that view is not only naive but also diminishes the very real pain and
fear that many of our African American students feel every time they walk by Silent Sam in his current site on
the doorstep of our University. It is time for Sam to be moved to a museum that seeks to explain but not glorify
the racist history of our state and country. I strongly urge you to NOT allow Silent Sam to be restored to his
former place or to any venue at UNC that glorifies the racism he represents. This is not an issue of rule by the
mob. It is an issue of redressing the mistakes of our past.
Respectfully,
Gwen Sancar
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I signed the letter from the chairs of Arts and Sciences opposing the
return of silent Sam to the pedestal on Mccorkle Place. I continue to be
strongly opposed to putting him back in the original location. I know
that you are and have been in very difficult position constrained by the
law and by passionate and diametrically opposed demands. I want to
express my appreciation and support for your efforts to find an ethical,
safe, and legal solution to his disposition.
Regards,
Margaret Scarry
c. Margaret Scarry
Professor of Anthropology
chair, curriculum in Archaeology
Director, Research Laboratories of Archaeology
Mailing address:
Research Laboratories of Archaeology
CB 3120 Alumni Building
tel.: (919) 962-6574
fax: (919) 962-1613
email: scarry@email.unc.edu
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Dear Members of the BOT and Chancellor Folt:
I wanted to make sure that you have the statement signed by 41 Chairs of Departments at UNC, Chapel Hill
(attached, with list of signatories). The statement reads:
oppose the return of the Corifederate memorial known as Silent Sam to its original location in McCorkle Place.
Returning the statue to any prominent location lt'ould reaffirm the values ofwhite supremacy that motivated its
original installation. lvforeover, to do so would undermine the moral and physical security of all members of
our community.
17-ie values that the statue represents are inherently opposed to the principles of light and liberty that guide the
educational mission of UNC Chapel Hill.
I am disheartened to see that the chancellor has used the words "prominence" and "honor" to describe a plan for
Silent Sam. This disregards the origin, history, and context of the Confederate statue, as the 41 chairs and so
many other faculty (particularly historians) have pointed out in the mass media, including the New York Times,
Washington Post, and News & Observer (among many others). In addition, bringing the statue back to a place
of prominence and honor will no doubt lead to clashes on campus and a dangerous place for us all.
Sincerely,
Sherryl Kleinman
Professor Emerita of Sociology
UNC, Chapel Hill
NfJRTL! CAROLINA
College of Arts and Sciences Council of Chairs
August 28, 2018
oppose the return of the Confederate memorial known as Silent Sam to its original location in McCorkle
Place.
Returning the statue to any prominent location would reaffirm the values of white supremacy that motivated
its original installation. Moreover, to do so would undermine the moral and physical security of all members
of our community.
The values that the statue represents are inherently opposed to the principles of light and liberty that guide
the educational mission of UNC Chapel Hill.
Richard M. McLaughlin, Mathematics

James Rives, Classics
Nadia Yaqub, Asian Studies
Patrick Conway, Economics
Kerry Bloom, Biology
John D Stephens, European Studies
Jeffrey Johnson, Chemistry
Misha Becker, Linguistics
Kenneth T. Andrews, Sociology
Allen Anderson, Music
Kevin Jeffay, Computer Science
Paul Leslie, Anthropology
Mary Floyd-Wilson, English and Comparative Literature
Carol Magee, Art & Art Hi story
Elizabeth Engelhardt, American Studies
Noreen McDonald, City & Regional Planning
Elizabeth Olson, Geography
C. Margaret Scarry, Archaeology
Lisa Lindsay, History
Amarjit Budhiraja, Statistics and Operations Research
Milada Vachudova, Global Studies
Sharon L. James, Women's and Gender Studies
Eric Downing, Germanic and Slavic Languages & Literatures
Barbara Ambros, Religious Studies
Hassan Melehy, Romance Studies
Mark Crescenzi, Political Science
Patricia A McAnany, Anthropology
Harvey Seim, Marine Sciences
Brent McKee, Marine Sciences
Marc B. Lange, Philosophy
Adam Verseny, Dramatic Art
Daniel P. Gitterman, Public Policy
Wayne E. Lee, Peace, War, and Defense
Darin A Padua, Exercise and Sport Science
Eunice Sahle, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Richard Superfine, Applied Physical Sciences
Donald T. Lysle, Psychology and Neuroscience
Christian Iliadis, Physics and Astronomy
Patricia S. Parker, Communication
Louis A Perez, Jr., Institute for the Study of the Americas
Jaye E. Cable, Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program
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I write to convey my complete opposition to restoring the Confederate monument to its previous location, and I believe
it should have no place on the UNC Chapel Hill campus.
I am a Jew. If I had to attend classes each day on a campus with a monument to a World War II German soldier, I would
be certain that I had no place at the institution. Even though one could say that the soldier was simply a young conscript
without any ideology, whose own behavior he had been powerless to control, whose monument was intended to
represent nothing but sacrifice, for me, his presence would signify hatred of me and people like me.
As a result, it is not difficult for me to imagine the rage that our African -American students, colleagues, and staff
experienced each time they were forced to walk past a monument to a cause that had insisted on their own
enslavement. If UNC Chapel Hill insists on presenting itself as an inclusive institution, a monument to slavery has no
place.
Moreover, the resources (both financial and in terms of good will) that this administration has expended to protect this
symbol of racial hatred has been staggering. Many have written about the economic costs. I have been struck by the
effect your protection has had on my students and my colleagues. African-American faculty friends have talked about
their growing anger, frustration, and alienation. It is not simply the existence of the statue, but the lengths to which
your administration is willing to go to insist that a symbol of segregation must remain on our campus. Our graduate
students, who have done extensive research on the history of the monument and the circumstances of its erection on
campus, have been in the forefront of opposition. Your administration's use of brutal force to silence them has resulted
in physical injury, and the loss of any respect for campus police. As Director of Graduate Studies in my department, I am
increasingly hesitant to recommend that our outstanding African American applicants attend this university. How can
they belong at a place where your administration spends so much to keep in place a symbol of the worst degradation
and inhumanity that their forbears had to experience?
I have long been committed to public education, and to UNC in particular. I value my colleagues and my students. I hate
to watch as your administration's policies create bitterness and anger, discourage students of color from feeling they
have a place on this campus, and light a fire under the kind of racial animosity that has been growing in this community
as a result of your actions.
Sincerely,
Sarah Shields, Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Sarah Shields, Professor

Director of Graduate Studies
CB 3195
http://history,uncedu/people/faculty/sarah-d-shields/
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Good morning, Chancellor Falt!

As a staff member at UNC, I would like to add my voice to what I am sure is a long list of emails and letters you have
received in the last few days. I want to say that I appreciate your thoughtfulness in this whole mess and not rushing to a
conclusion just to silence those who are pressuring you to do so.
I am dismayed and upset by the actions of those who oppose Silent Sam - the obvious hatred and propensity for
violence towards those who support the monument make me afraid to speak out as a conservative and a southerner.
am even more discouraged by the faculty, both individual and departments, who support the anarchy and hostility on
display at Carolina. This is a black eye for the university, and it's becoming more like a UC Berkeley with the attacks and
intolerance of any view other than their own. When the student body president and the Undergraduate Senate publicly
stand against Sam, that speaks volumes about the climate here at Carolina. I can imagine the families who are writing
off the University as a possibility because they don't want to deal with that kind of atmosphere. I know that Chapel Hill
is in a liberal bubble and the University is part of that, but up until the election of Donald Trump as president, I still felt
that diverse opinions were welcome, as was open discourse. That's not the case anymore.
Just because some people view Silent Sam as an endorsement for slavery doesn't make it true - they overlook the real
sentiment and remembrance of those who gave their lives in a war that was over so much more than that.
I hear every day about how the University wants to be a more diverse place, but when everything is so obviously one-
sided and intolerant, the whole diversity thing is nothing but lip-service. I always thought faculty should teach how to be
critical thinkers, not to encourage violence and narrow-mindedness. I don't know why they aren't held accountable for
publicly endorsing their hateful rhetoric.
I'm so saddened by this whole thing, but I plan to stand with Sam for as long as I can. I pray that you and the Board will
come to a peaceful resolution - but I can almost guarantee you that any solution that includes putting Sam back up, no
matter where, will not satisfy them and you'll be right back in this same predicament in the future.
Thank you for letting me share my thoughts.
Carolyn Shomaker
Carolyn Shomaker
Federal Documents Coordinator/Microforms Supervisor
UNG-Chapel Hill
CB# 3912
Chapel Hill NC 27514
919-962-8041
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Dear Chancellor Falt-
As a member of the History Department faculty, I was relieved to read your message the other day saying that
you did not think it was a good idea to return the Confederal Memorial statute to McCorkle Place. I agree that
the symbolic entrance to our campus is no place for a memorial so characterized by a history of violence,
racism, and segregation.
I understand that a location in the North Carolina Gallery in Wilson Library is being contemplated, and I would
like to say that I think that could be a good solution, providing an opportunity to preserve the memorial, show it
the respect it is due, and explain its history and context.
Yours sincerely,
John Sweet
John Wood Sweet

Associate Professor
sweet@unc.edu
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Dear UNC Board of Trustees:
Although I am an emeritus professor of medicine and infectious diseases, I continue to work with UNC students and young
faculty on global health issues, helping them write their first grants and advising them on career choices. Due to that, 1 know
intimately the depth of feeling on campus about the Silent Sam issue. I also was present at the confrontation at the Silent Sam
pedestal this past Thursday.
In tenns of any future decision about what should happen to the statue, I want to make sure you understand the depth of feeling
on campus, among students, faculty, and younger alumni. 1 found the fury at the protest alanning. We have seen what happens
when opposing sides gathered at Charlottesville: two dead policemen and one dead member of the community. It would be an
enonnous tragedy if someone was injured or murdered over this issue. It would not be hyperbole that people would hold each
member of the Board of Governors and the Chancellor responsible for any incident, both morally and legally.
North Carolina is a concealed cany state. According to the statute, although guns are not allowed on campuses, they can be
stored in cars in campus parking lots, for instance at the UNC General Administration Building parking lot. Allowing the Silent
Sam issue to remain front and center detracts from the real purpose of this university and puts people at risk
In my 36 years of affiliation with lTNC, this is a pivotal moment. If the statue is moved to another location and full context is
given, including quotes from Julian CaIT's speech at the dedication and the fundraising letter sent out at that time, I believe
people would understand.
You are charged w·ith ensuring that the students and faculty have a safe working environment. The fact that you had an
extensive and prolonged discussion behind closed doors suggests that you are ashamed of w·hat you are doing. Please do the
right and responsible task and settle this issue no,v.
Sincerelv 0 '
Charles van der Horst, MD, FACP

Emeritus Professor of Medicine
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I urge you not to return the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam to its former pedestal on Mccorkle Place. For the
thirty years that I have taught and created theatre on the Chapel Hill campus its presence has violated all we hold dear
as an institution by celebrating white supremacy and creating a threatening environment for wide swathes of the
University population amidst students, faculty, and staff.
We in the theatre know the power of gesture and symbol. Julian Carr's speech at the statue's dedication makes clear the
gesture and symbol it was meant to present. We need to preserve that history as well by placing the statue in a
museum-like setting where it can be contextualized, explained, and the hateful ideology it represents be countered. We
already have an excellent model for this in the display created on the first floor of Carolina Hall. I urge you to follow that
model.
Sincerely,
Adam Versenyi
Professor and Chair
Department of Dramatic Art
Senior Dramaturg
Editor, The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review
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Dear Members of the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Folt,

As a member of the UNC Department of History and a scholar of modern American politics, I strongly urge you to reject any
proposal to reinstall the Confederate soldier statue at Mccorkle Place or any other place of "honor."
The statue represents exactly two things: the well-documented and unabashed white supremacy of the people who erected it,
and the illegal rebellion against the United States government-and the violence it caused-done to preserve slavery. There
are no legitimate values, traditions, or memories reflected in the statue-just excuses and apologies for racism. It has no place
in our society or on our campus.
Yours sincerely,
Benjamin C. Waterhouse
Associate Professor of History and Grauer Scholar
473 Hamilton Hall, CB#3195
919-962-2373
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Now that you have become part of the decision-making process regarding silent Sam, I would use whatever
influence you have to keep him from being placed back on campus. It is unfortunate that it took an act of
violence to bring him down. However that is partly the State's fault. r' m sure they knew that if they
did nothing, someone would resort to violence. Now is the time to do the right thing. Place him in
storage, in a museum, somewhere where the context will be appropriate.
I know whatever you do will be bring more protests to campus, but that being the case, it is better to
remove the offensive statue and do the right thing.
Best wishes,
Ellen R. Weiss, PhD
Department of cell Biology & Physiology
CB# 7090, 5340B MBRB
111 Mason Farm Rd.
919-966-7683 (office & voice mail)
919-843-9648 (lab)
erweiss@med.unc.edu
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I write because I think this moment is an opportunity not just to discuss the fate of a single statue and not just an
opportunity to talk about historical context, but also a moment to proclaim the University's values in a way that is as
much about the future as the past. The arc of history bends towards human rights and better lives-and universities play
an irreplaceable role in that arc. Thus, I wanted to explore the ways that we could create a positive and forward looking
statement in the place where Silent Sam once stood. I can see this taking three possible forms: 1) a welcoming plaque,
sculpture, or monument to the University's values, the role of universities, and the unfinished work ahead, 2) a
gathering circle to invite all University folks into the place that formerly felt exclusionary, and 3) an empty stretch of
lawn within that beautiful quadrangle, returning it to the pre-Silent Sam conditions and conveying the sense that this
was always a place to walk through on the way to class, library, meeting, or laboratory, the places that are a reflection of
the University's values.
I can't think of a way to retain the Silent Sam statue on campus, even if accompanied by the story of the historical
context. When I imagine this, I keep thinking that you would need the Silent Sam statue placed among other statues or
monuments that would show the historical development of which Silent Sam is a part, including North Carolina slaves
and civil rights figures. To develop the historical context in text only (whether on plaques, brochures, or the web) while
Silent Sam is so prominent as a physical statement feels unbalanced. Perhaps Silent Sam can go to a museum or civil
war battlefield where many other statures and monuments have already been placed and the historical context for the
Civil War, slavery, and racism is the established purpose.
Peter
Peter White peter.white@unc.edu

Department of Biology, Campus Box 3280
919-962-6939
http://bio.unc.edu/people/faculty/white/
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7 September 2018
Dear chancellor Folt, chair of the Board of Trustees Haywood Cochrane,
and All Trustees,
I urge you to plan a future for a modified silent Sam in a new context
that has a broadened significance for the University.
The University should present a prominent message, without
rationalization or equivocation, that our University is welcoming,
inclusive, and instructive for all people -- all students, faculty, and
staff, from North Carolina and beyond, in the past, now, and in the future.
This statue should thus not be returned to its previous position and to
its previous context, where it explicitly represented an overtly racist
program to enslave and to terrorize many North Carolinians.
An alternative, one I would find hopeful, is to find a new context for
this statue or a variant, one that can provide an opportunity to reflect
on the lives of so many individuals sacrificed in such an inexcusable
effort.
If the University moves forward with enthusiasm, yet without neglecting
the toll on so many diverse individuals behind us, then the University
can look forward to celebrating a final victory over attitudes so narrow
and inexcusable as those represented until recently by silent Sam.
I trust that the University will promptly advertise, simply and clearly,
with neither rationalization nor equivocation, its purpose to serve all
individuals who now, and always, compose our University.
R. Haven Wiley
Professor Emeritus of Biology and of Environment, Energy, and Ecology
R. Haven Wiley (office) 919-962-1340
Department of Biology (fax) 919-962-1625
University of North Carolina (email) haven_wiley@unc.edu
chapel Hill, NC 27599-3280, USA (www) http://rhwiley.bio.unc.edu/
(amazon author page) http://www.amazon.com/author/havenwiley/
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From: William Haden
Sent: 8/21/2018 12:41:48 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Dear Madam,
My name is William Haden Jr, MD a 1971 graduate of UNC and 1975 graduate UNC Medical school. I have two
daughters that are UNC Graduates. It is my understanding silent Sam was torn down while UNC police And
chapel Hi 17 Police did nothing.
My great, great, great grandfather fought for and gave his life for the confederacy.
UNC is one institution that was very close to my heart. It is no longer.
I've bought season football tickets for 28 straight years. These will be on Stubhub this afternoon. I
have also been a Ramsclub member for 33 yrs, no longer!! My will designates $250,000 to UNC, no longer.
I will speak to my lawyer this afternoon to have the will amended.
Please do not send me any solicitation for money again
Sent from my iPad

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From: Yael Rice [yrice@amherst.edu]
Sent: 8/29/2018 1:26:39 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
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I am an alumna of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (B.A. Anthropology, 1998), as is my father
(B.A. Spanish, 1962) and my mother (M.A. Arts Education, 1962). I am a tenure-track Assistant Professor of
the History of Art & Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College in Massachusetts, where I teach
and research the role that images and objects (including memorials) play in society. I am also a U.S. citizen.
I write to express my dismay that the University has not yet made a conclusive decision with regards to Silent
Sam. This Jim Crow-era memorial to the Confederacy, erected in 1913, has no place on our campus, let alone
on any public space in the state of North Carolina. As the original dedicatory speech delivered by Julian Carr
suggests, Silent Sam was designed to function as a reminder of the brutality inflicted upon people of color
during and after the Reconstruction Era. It continues to serve as a reminder of North Carolina's-and the
University's-complicity in the efforts spearheaded by the Ku Klux Klan and White Supremacist organizations
to intimidate Black Americans and other minority groups. As such, Silent Sam deserves no presence on a public
university campus, let alone one that regards itself as a place where "diversity and inclusion are about building
understanding across differences, creating conditions to ensure the equitable educational and social benefits of
diversity and cultivating an inclusive and supportive environment for undergraduate, graduate and professional
students, faculty and staff' (https://vvww.unc.edu/diversity/).
I refuse to give any money to the UNC-Chapel Hill until the statue is removed permanently from the campus. I
know many other alumni who will do the same, including my father, who, over the past number of decades, has
given regularly and generously to UNC.
I know that UNC-Chapel Hill prizes its national reputation, but I can tell you that the situation looks very bad to
my friends and colleagues here in Massachusetts and elsewhere. I cannot in good conscience recommend
graduate study at UNC to any of my present and former Amherst College students, as long as Silent Sam has a
presence on the campus. Unless this situation is finally resolved-with Silent Sam's conclusive removal-, I'm
afraid that UNC's national ranking will suffer irreparable damage and that out-of-state applicants (as I was
myself) will be discouraged from applying for admission. The continued presence of Silent Sam will no doubt
discourage promising students of color from enrolling.
I hope to see Silent Sam removed from the campus once and for all.
Sincerely,
Dr. Yael Rice
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Sent: 11/21/2018 11:50:25 AM
Subject: FW: The Courage to Remember & Silent Sam
Amy Locklear Hertel

Cell 919-448-8949
From: "Duckett, Chuck" <duckettc@email.unc.edu>

Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 9:24 AM
To: "Allegra L. Jordan" Haywood Cochrane
<haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com>, "juliagrumbles@gmail.com" <juliagrumbles@gmail.com>, Jeff Brown
<jeffbrown@mvalaw.com>, Walter Caudill <wlcaud@email.unc.edu>, "Hopkins, Kelly Matthews"
<hopkinsk@email.unc.edu>, Bill Keyes <wkeyes@email.unc.edu>, "mccullenre@aol.com"
<mccullenre@aol.com>, Ed McMahan <emcmahan@littleonline.com>, Hari Nath <Hnath4S@yahoo.com>,
"Stevens, Richard" <richardstevens@unc.edu>, "Stone, Dwight David" <ddstone@email.unc.edu>, "Putnam,
Savannah Kate" <sakate@live.unc.edu>, Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>, Public BOT <publicbot@unc.edu>
Cc: Tiane Mitchell Gordon
Subject: RE: The Courage to Remember & Silent Sam
Thank you for this thoughtful input Allegra. Best, Chuck Duckett
From: Allegra L. Jordan

To: haywoodcochrane@yahoo.com; Duckett, Chuck <duckettc@email.unc.edu>; juliagrumbles@gmail.com;
jeffbrown@mvalaw.com; Caudill, Walter Lowry <wlcaud@email.unc.edu>; Hopkins, Kelly Matthews
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Hnath45@yahoo.com; Stevens, Richard <richardstevens@unc.edu>; Stone, Dwight David <ddstone@email.unc.edu>;
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Cc: Tiane Mitchell Gordon
Subject: The Courage to Remember & Silent Sam
Dear UNC Board,

cc Tiane Mitchell-Gordon
We can honor the dead without insulting the living. We can re-build community without inflicting pain on one side.
Please do not return Silent Sam to its current pedestal. Please consider the words of your regular visitor, the late Rev.
Peter J. Gomes, in the matter of what to do about Silent Sam.
You have an opportunity to create a new legacy for UNC - a beautiful one that widens the narrow vision the statue
represents.
I live in Chapel Hill. I wrote a best-selling novel about war memorials and community building at Harvard - yes, the same
Harvard that Julian Carr cites for having people on both sides of the Civil War but excludes them from Memorial Hall.
Peter said that was wicked - though he was descended from slaves. Peter says you must include everyone to move
forward.
My grandfather was one of the last actual son's of a Confederate veteran. My other grandfather - in Ohio - owned the
house that was part of the Underground Railroad.
I am mixed tribally- but I am not mixed up about what a beloved community needs to flourish. You have the power to
build that community in a way that will echo through the ages with its kind, beautiful voice.
At Harvard Peter Gomes opened my vision about what can be done with a war memorial. And he was no liberal - for
much of his life he was a staunch GOP member, giving the prayer at a GOP president's inauguration.
The Courage to Remember 1991 by Rev. Peter Gomes, Harvard Memorial Church
Over on the North Wall (of the Memorial Church} in the far back is a plaque in Latin, which most of you will be unable to
read. In translation it says this, "Harvard University has not forgotten its sons, who under opposite colors also gave their
lives in the Great War." And then there are listed four German members of the University who died in the service of the
Kaiser in the First World War. This is one of the more extraordinary memorials in this church. You will notice that it is
separated by a vast acreage from the memorial to the war dead of the first War in the Memorial Room. This was a
controversial matter in 1932 when this church was built. And the University authorities said that they could not in good
conscience include the war dead of the enemy in the same place as the war dead of the Allies. And it was my
predecessor, the Chairman of the Board of Preachers, Willard Sperry, who with his colleagues said this is wrong. "We
cannot contravene the President and Fellows of Harvard College, who are we against them?" But we could improve upon
their narrow vision and in this church we shall remember them. And we did and we do and there they are. A reminder of
the fact that humanity transcends the sides and there are no victors ultimately; there are only those to be commended to
God.
Consider commending us all to God in ways that invite the community to heal. That vision moves you forward in this
contentious debate.
Sincerely,
Allegra Jordan
Author of THE END OF INNOCENCE
Co-author of MY SOUL IS NOT SHREDDED with Tiane Mitchell Gordon
Photos of the shredded dress at Silent Sam's pedestal and poem here:
My co-author and I have written a poem to give voice to the person Julian Carr bragged about torturing which he
bragged about at the dedication of the statue. It's called MY SOUL IS NOT SHREDDED.
https://reconciliationpoetry.com/original-poems/my-soul-is-not-shredded/
Message
From: Lisle Crayton
Sent: 11/21/2018 5:38:42 PM
Subject: RESTORE SILENT SAM TO HIS ORIGINAL LOCATION !
RESTORE SILENT SAM TO HIS ORIGINAL LOCATION !
What you are doing is a disgrace

Whoever it was who decided that nothing would be done to stop this destruction of Silent Sam
should be fired and any UNC students who were involved should be expelled.
Does the rule oflaw still function in Chapel Hill or has mob rule replaced the law?
Law enforcement and UNC officials should be held accountable for the hate crime of pulling
down of Silent Sam.
That is what it was .... a hate crime.
We Tar Heels are ashamed of you, the university and law enforcement who stood back and
failed to do their job.
If you do not want to do your job resign now!
Better yet they all need to be fired !

Polls by Civitas and Public Policy Polling last year found that more people support the
monuments than oppose them.
Our left wing radical Democratic Governor Roy Cooper and our Attorney General Josh Stein
are also to blame for this.
They are left wing liberals who will do anything to hang on to power.
Just as you are.
You and the governor and all liberals only enforce the laws they like.
All these people who attacked Silent Sam must be arrested and prosecuted.
Maybe funding cuts to the university may be the answer.
North Carolina General Statute 100-2.1," which he says requires the statue of Silent
Sam be replaced in 90 days.
Objects of remembrance' must be placed back in their original location after 90 days if
they are removed temporarily for a project.
We will make sure that the laws of our state are enforced.
vVe ,,vill not allow mob rule, criminals and anarchy to reign on our campuses.
The North Carolina Historical Commission voted maintain three Confederate monuments that sit on
the grounds of the state Capitol building in Raleigh.
RESTORE SILENT SAM TO HIS ORIGINAL LOCATION !
Lisle Crayton
Mount Pleasant, NC
Message
Sent: 11/23/2018 2:39:25 PM
Subject: FW: silent sam
T: 9.19--962-1586
From: Randy Davidson

Sent: Friday, November 23, 2018 12:46 PM
To: Chancellor <chancellor@unc.edu>; UNC Board of Governors <public@bog.northcarolina.edu>
Subject: silent sam
Chancellor and Board,
Silent Sam must be returned to a place of equal

prominence by law. He stands for the basic
Confederate soldier, who was fighting to protect his
family and his land, and to defend his state and
country. I ask you once again, to return Silent Sam to
his rightful place at your university. Everyone must
learn to respect the other's beliefs, or this will never
end. Simple as that.
R. Davidson
Nashville
Message
Sent: 11/23/2018 2:42:32 PM
Subject: FW: gift
Attachments: Sister Jetta!.docx
Elizabeth A., Williams

T: 919-962-1586
From: Ev Dove
Subject: gift
Chancellor Falt,
I meant to mail you a hard copy of this creative piece I wrote called "Sister Jetta."
I have performed it at Tryon Palace, the Kinston Library, and the Kinston Civil War Museum .
I decided to email it to you.

Feel free to share it with your board or others.
Kind regards,
Evelyn
'75, ;78
Sister Jetta: A Slave Perspective c2013 Evelyn Dove-Coleman
My name is Sister Jetta. They say the war-between-the-

states is all about freedom.
Didn't we already gain freedom from the British? And

didn't we form these states to be united?
It is called the Civil War, but what's civilized about

fighting each other? That's what I wonder.
Seems kind of strange to me, but what do I know? I am

self-educated from a little book a preacher passing
through gave to me.
I had to keep it hidden, but I read it from cover to

cover over and over again. Reading it made me feel
free.
And it gives me hope, also, about this war they are

fighting. Who would not want to live free? I feel in my
heart that one day, there will be a pure statue to
stand for liberty.... A pure statue!
If those young men who are fighting could sit down at a

table and eat some of my good biscuits with apple
butter while they talk, maybe they could come to an
understanding.
My biscuits are famous for bringing out the best in

folk. They need to sit down and talk to each
other. And eat some of my famous biscuits!
I know what it means to have deep beliefs. But when

people disagree, the best thing to do is talk about it,
and work it out like decent human beings.
That's what Miss Sallie and I did. See, she didn't

want me to take any home to my children after I had
baked a great big pan of biscuits for her family.
I told her plain as day that I love my children the
same as she loves hers. I love hers too to tell the
truth. She told me to take two of the biscuits home
and divide them with my family. Two biscuits.
That seemed fair to her because sometimes she would

even ask me to cook up a pan for her friends if they
asked her for some. My biscuits are just that good.
I might share my special secret ingredient with you

before I finish telling you my story. I don't know.
Many people have asked me for it, but I didn't tell
them because then it wouldn't be a secret.
I even told Miss Sallie that I might just forget my own

secret recipe from catching so many colds from all the
cracks in the walls of the shanty my family has to live
in.
We pack the cracks with rags and paper, but the cold
wind just blows right on through anyway. I know that
the holes in my shanty will be fixed someday to keep me
from forgetting. Someday.
Someday, I just want to be free. I want to be able to

feed my family chicken and pastry with the good parts
of the meat, not just necks and feet.
I dream of living in a home with a cozy fireplace and

no holes in the floor or roof. I want to have to go
outdoors to see the outdoors.
I want my children to be able to go to school and not

just work all day in the fields for no pay. If they go
to school and have new books to read, they can learn to
write and do basic arithmetic and be good citizens of
these states that were formed to be united.
I want to be able to work and earn a good wage so my
family can eat fruits and vegetables and nuts and
berries and tuna and mackerel cakes.
They call that the food for excellent health and better
brain-matter too; not the pig's feet and pig's ears and
the pig's intestines, I mean, uh, chit-ter-lings.
I want my children to be able to walk around town

freely and safely from the inhumanity that sometimes
happens here.
Now I have to keep them close. Nobody wants their

children mistreated. You know how that is.
I learned in church that God commanded us to love ye

one another if we want to ever travel on the highway to
Heaven. Some people act like they don't even believe in
Heaven.
They better not take the chance and be wrong. Ha, ha,
ha. That ain't no joke, no siree. Because the end
result will be for all of eternity.
Back to the civil war, they say I will be free to leave

here. That will be hard to do since I love Miss Sallie
and her children just like they were my own. We have
always been together.
But, just maybe we will learn to live side by side as

God's children. Maybe we will learn to go to school
together and go to church together. After all, we all
have one Heavenly Father and that makes us all brothers
and sisters, just different shades of beige.
If we could live by the golden rule, we could see the

beauty in each other. Lord let us learn to get beyond
the color of skin. Some good old humanity would be
sweet, like my good biscuits. Yes indeed.
I might as well tell you my secret ingredient in Sister
Jetta's famous biscuits. All this talk about
brotherhood has made me want to act like I talk. Hee,
hee.
When you are mixing up a batch of biscuits, with the

flour and milk in the pan, melt a spoon of sugar in
your butter. Shhh! Keep it secret.
Mix it nice and slow in the melting pot until you can't
make out the grains. Then pour that on in. It will
make something special.
Yes, special like these states that were formed to be

united, like a melting pot. I better stop this talking
now and get to working.
This floor ain't gone sweep itself. But before I leave

you, I beg you to tell everybody you know that the good
book says for us to love one another unconditionally.
What's that you say? The 13 th Amendment has finally put

an end to slavery? We're really free? Glory be. Let's
celebrate with pans of my good biscuits! And let's
decide where do we go from here.
Sister Jetta swept with a straw broom.

Message
Sent: 11/23/2018 2:53:59 PM
Subject: FW: Si lent Sam Options
Attachments: gr_visitor-map, Oakwood.jpg
T: 9.l9-962-1SB6

Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 5:25 PM
Subject: FW: Silent Sam Options
From: Charl es Hughes

Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018
To:
Subject: Silent Sam Options
I would like to encourage a compromise in the Silent Sam controversy which addresses the
UNC Board of Governors (BOG) criteria and offers concessions to all points of view.
campus or frankly any location because the monument reiterates and celebrates the civil
war cause articulated by Julian Carr at the 1913 dedication ceremony. Others, such as the
organization from Alamance County, have stated in press interviews that Silent Sam is a
memorial to confederate dead, of whom they have ancestors. They want the statue returned
to its pedestal in Mccorkle Place to honor those dead.
However, a plan which accommodates either of these positions will not meet the objectives of
the BOG:
1. A location on campus including Chancellor Moeser's suggestion of Playmakers Theatre
will not ensure public safety. It will only change
the site of ever escalating conflict and risk a tragic event. To think
otherwise ignores human nature.
2. We already know the monument and it's history can not be preserved
on campus without significant security expense even as a museum
piece. Placing it in storage will not satisfy this requirement either.
3. UNC's core mission of education. research. economic stimulation and
creating the next generation of/eaders will only be hindered by
returning the monument to a campus with a diverse faculty and
student body who were/are understandably offended by its presence/
return. Losing prestigious faculty and prized scholars, both existing
and future, to a continuing controversy will not aid the University's
core mission nor will it sustain the excellence which is required of a
public ivy.
The UNC General Alumni Association has a memorial to all alumni war dead between
Memorial and Phillips Hall. Of those enshrined on the wall, 287 died in the Civil War, over
half in Virginia with 23 at Gettysburg, 63 across the south including 26 in North Carolina
and 48 undetermined. This would argue that a monument to UNC Civil War veterans should
be located where they primarily fought and died. Given that we would not likely find
agreement to move Silent Sam to Gettysburg, I would suggest two alternative locations in
North Carolina.
The Battle of Bentonville,foughtfrom March 19 to March 21, 1865 for control of the railroad
hub in Goldsboro, was the last battle of the Civil War. Fourteen NC regiments were involved
in the battle and three known UNC alums died there:
Lt. Col. Edward Mallett, Class of 1849, 61 st Regiment
Sgt. John Holmes Dobbins, Class of 186t 36th Regiment
While there are three monuments at Bentonville including one which honors Texas troops
who fought there, there are no statues. This historic site is 60 to 70 minutes from Chapel Hill.
Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh was started as a confederate cemetery in 1865 and
has some 1400 dead buried in that section, some moved from local sites and others from
Gettysburg and Arlington to be reinterred in their home state. The Oakwood staff offers a
tour of UNC Alumni buried there with a focus on Civil War dead among whom are:
Brig. Gen. George Burgwyn Anderson, Class of 1852, Antietam
William Adams, Class of 1858, Antietam
Junius Cullen Battle, Class of 1860, Maryland
Lt. Col. John Thomas Jones, Class of 60, wounded Gettysburg, died
wilderness Virginia
Iowa Michigan Royster, Class of 1860, Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg
Other notables buried throughout Historic Oakwood include seven NC Governors,four US
Senators and three additional Civil War Generals.
I visited Oakwood on October 22 nd to compare their confederate burial records with the UNC
Alumni War dead and to tour the grounds. The curator indicated an interest in Silent Sam as
a monument to join the Gettysburg, Anderson and Burgwyn Memorials in the confederate
cemetery, noting the restricted hours, gated security and extensive police surveillance of the
entire cemetery. As at Bentonville, none of the current memorials are statues.
My apologies for the rather expansive presentation of my argument. This is, however, a
complex situation which can not be properly addressed without due consideration for
context. Placing a 1913 monument back on campus, anywhere on campus, to honor a cause
long gone in total conflict with the 2018 inclusive campus sentiment 'Jar all kind" defies
rational thought. Placing the monument at a battlefield where UNC alums fought and died or
a cemetery where they are buried is the reasonable, appropriate tribute. Honor the men, not
the cause.

Sent from Mail for Windows
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Area Map
701 Oakwood Avenue R.aleigh, NC 27601 Phone: 111... 132 .. 1111 f 1114132,.51.11
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Message
Sent: 11/23/2018 2:55:21 PM
Subject: FW: The Si lent Sam Saga
Attachments: 2018-10-24 UNC S Sam Reflections.docx
Elizabeth A.. Williams

T: 919-962-1586
From: William W. Mclendon

Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 4:37 PM
Subject: The Silent Sam Saga
I am writing to express my genuine appreciation for your leadership in facing the challenges in regard to this
conflict. As the old saying goes, "you have been caught between a rock and a hard place."
I especially appreciate your forthright and positive approach to the history, the current situation and the possible
resolution of this issue in your University Day address, which unfortunately I was unable to attend due to a
conflicting commitment.
Attached are my reflections on the Silent Sam Saga based on my experiences at UNC for 56 of the last 70 years
as an undergraduate and medical student, resident in the original Memorial Hospitall, and then later as a faculty
member in the medical school and now as a retired faculty member. If it would be helpful, please feel free to
share it with others.
With gratitude and best wishes.
Bill McLendon
William W. McLendon
REFLECTIONS ON THE SILENT SAM SAGA
th
On October 12, 2018, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill celebrated its 225
birthday as the nation's first state university and as an institution whose founding and early
years closely paralleled those of our new nation. This celebration was overshadowed by an
ongoing and polarizing debate about the removal of the statue of a Confederate soldier
(Silent Sam) from its pedestal at the "front door" of the university campus and about its
future location.
I once advocated leaving Silent Sam in its place to remind students that they should not let
their elders send them off to an unjust war. Now I am swayed by the accounts of many
students, staff and faculty of the great emotional distress this statue causes them. I suspect
that they cannot believe that their university would be honoring the Confederacy, which was
described in 1861 by its Vice President, Alexander Stephen, as having as its "cornerstone
... the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man (and) that slavery,
subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition." Stephen elaborated
that slavery "was the immediate cause of the late rupture [secession] and present revolution
[the Civil War]." This Confederate rebellion (that included some of my southern ancestors)
led to the deaths of well over 600,000 Americans- - North and South -- in a total population of
then some 30 million. This is the equivalent to a wartime loss of some 6 million Americans in
our current population of well over 300 million persons.
Furthermore, having this prominent Confederate statue at our institutional "front door" is
analogous to a faculty member inviting prospective minority students or faculty members to
his or her home and then welcoming them with a Confederate flag prominently displayed in
the entrance hall.
I thus now fully support the view that Silent Sam should not be relocated anywhere on the
UNC campus, and especially not in a university library as some have suggested. Such a
library location - with the resulting protesters -- would jeopardize a matchless and
irreplaceable collection of millions of documents, books, recordings and artifacts about the
American South, while intimidating and endangering the loyal library staff who are
committed to making these resources readily available to students and researchers here and
now around the world.
th
Those of us who were students at UNC in the mid-20 century were fortunate to have had
very able and dedicated professors. Only afterwards did I fully appreciate the fact that we
had lived and studied in a university community with an ambiance that bore little
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REFLECTIONS ON THE SILENT SAM SAGA
resemblance to the real world we would later encounter. Then at Chapel Hill white males
were in the majority and were the leaders, the relatively few women students and faculty
members were expected to always be ladylike, and the people of color were in the
background cooking and serving food or providing cleaning services.
Since returning in 1973 to the UNC campus as a faculty member I have witnessed sustained
and ever-increasing efforts by the university to change this ambiance by promoting diversity
in its students and faculty and by achieving racial and gender equality in its community.
Now as a retired faculty member in a 21st century world, where we can communicate around
the world in minutes and where much of our world could become uninhabitable in hours
from nuclear warfare, I am excited to see a UNC community that more closely resembles the
world in which most of our students have lived and wm live.
Today this vibrant mix of diverse peoples and ideas is essential for a university that is
fundamentally committed to educating and preparing its students for the universe of peoples
and of knowledge they wm encounter during their lifetimes, while also committed to
discovering new knowledge that wm better their futures.
In conclusion, relocating the Silent Sam monument anywhere on the UNC campus would be
an unacceptable obstacle to achieving our fundamental goals as a university. It is essential
that we !earn from the mistakes and successes of the past, but we are facing far too many
urgent challenges to the existence of our unique democracy and to the very existence of the
human race to waste time and energy on fighting again old battles.
William W. Mclendon, BA '52, MD '56

Professor Emeritus, School of Medicine
October 2018
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Message
Sent: 11/23/2018 2:55:49 PM
(FYDI BO HF 23SPDLT)/cn=Recip ients/en =34ade93d61564ff19c6bf3 7492 72a 75b-South _ com on]
Subject: FW: Solution to Silent Sam
Elizabeth A. Wil li ams

T: 919-962-1586
From: Clint Johnson -
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 6:22 PM
subject: solution to silent Sam
Built a small brick building around silent Sam (returned to his
pedestal) with no windows. Dedicate the building to Fallen UNC Alumni.
Inside on the wall s around silent Sam, create panels for the UNC dead of all wars. Create a panel
describing how UNC's students left their classrooms for wars to defend their nation and state. Control
access with a guard. Put up security cameras. No one can be offended by something they cannot see.
Clint Johnson
Message
From: Powell Fisher
Sent: 11/25/2018 11:18:27 AM
Subject: Put Silent Sam back in the original place and stop the liberal b/s
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Message
Sent: 11/25/2018 7:25:50 PM
T: 9.19--962-1586
From: John Gaul

Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2018 11:50 PM
Subject: Silent Sam
Chancellor Folt:
Please Excuse this hastily written note but I find that my tendency to write a excellent letter takes too much time
away from just getting the job done .... and I just wanted to make an initial contact with you rather than
procrastinating while searching for more elegant prose.
I fully support you in your effort to deal with the challenge of "Silent Sam". As a proud graduate from UNC
and UNC medical school, I have many fond memories of many campus icons: Silent Sam, The Old Well,
Wilson Library, Venable chemistry labs and the Arboretum .. But of course Silent Sam is a lightning rod for
forces that our society hasn't really understood (yet),
Like many, I grapple with the issues that a confederate statue represents and how to support their removal and
proper resettlement. How do we move forward?
Well, I don't know. I am a bit irritated by unjustified criticism you have received from our UNC Board and I
find something must be done but I don't know how out to help.
So I recently wrote to Professor Leutze, one of my favorite history professors at UNC and have asked for his
advice, as he has written and studied some of the issues and may offer some advice. I get riled up about this on
an emotional level but realize that education on the issues may be a key to understanding. Of course, you have
to be open to learn ....
I haven't figured out how best to help but in the meantime, especially on this Thanksgiving weekend, I wanted
to Thank You for your excellent (and often thankless) work on behalf of all of us. Please don't give up! We
appreciate the complexity and admire your work!
Sincerely,
John Gaul '78/82

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From: kynita Stringer-Stanback [atinyk@ucsb.edu]

Good evening Chancellor Folt,

Dear Dr. Folt,

Thank you and best regards,

From: Don Baker

Thank you for your time,

From: Parker, Rob

Dear Mr. Dibbert and Dr. Folt,

Dr. Monica M. Eiland, PhD ('95)

From: Judy Edwards

Please see attached letter

Dear Chance llor Folt and Vice Chancellor Crisp,

As an Armenian-American, my parents and grandparents often reminded me of the

We look forward to the opportunity to meet with you.

l,.,..-v - ;.r 1.,v . . .t.-,F - -

Yet, such accomplishments are meaningless to those that find

The University of North Carolina and its board of governors may

With 'Silent Sam' gone, what he represented should not be

A memorial should be erected, fitting for lives given. Whether the

Dear Chancellor Holt and President Spellings,

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Dear Chancellor Folt:

I'm proud to be a Tar Heel today.

Dear Dr. Folt:

Please let me know your thoughts.

The Sad Silent Sam Saga needs to end.

Dear Chancellor Folt,

Dear Chancellor Folt:

Dear Mr. Cirillo,

Again, thanks for your service and best regards.

Dear Chancellor Folt,

On another note, I think Dean Smith would be a nice statue.

Scott Aycock, class of '93

Dear Chancellor Folt,

Dear Dr. Folt,

Dr. Folt, Dr. Hertel, Mr. Canady;

Dear Chancellor Falt,

Best of luck in this challenge.

Stephen E. Deal MD '82 & '86

Please respond ....

Dear Chancellor Folt,

Elizabeth P. Harper, Ph.D.

Sent from my iPad

Dear Chancellor Falt,

please find attached a proposal for your consideration .

The statue of Silent Sam is anything 'but silent'.

Dear chancellor Folt,

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From: Joe Austin

---------- Forwarded message---------

Thank you for your response.

Dear Mr. Austin,

Thank you again for calling.

Sincerely, Carol Folt

Office of the Chancellor

Dear Chancellor Folt

Thank you for your consideration.

Dear Chancellor Folt,

Nancy Gray Schoonmaker, Ph.D.

Dear Chancellor Folt,

Dr. Joy Reeber

This is a proposal for change.

i\-1y sculpture is an abstract interpretation of the Statue of Liberty. It was in-

My name is George i\-1itchell. I am an artist/ sculptor, a UNC Alum, Graduate

I was one of the first African-Americans to receive a MF A Degree in Sculp-

George I'v1itchell, Artist