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Colin Campbell
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Randomly flipped through the 1979 UNC-Chapel Hill yearbook today just to kill some time, and found this photo on one of the fraternities' pages. Holy shit.
Full page from the 1979 yearbook, for those curious about which frat, etc.
Probably isn't surprising, then, that #SilentSam was a popular part of fraternity yearbook photos at UNC in the 1970s
UNC system interim president Bill Roper on the photos: "That’s a horrific part of our past, one that I think has no place then or now in our university system." newsobserver.com/news/local/art… #ncpol
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Brian Cates
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So 1979 UNC-Chapel Hill yearbook...

Northam *might* be able to float a defense that as reprehensible as it is now, this behavior was widespread at fraternities in the colleges of that time.


This might actually be coordinated by the Northam team to show "yes it's bad but let's be honest, a whole lot of other people just like him were doing this stuff at the time."
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James Johnston Pettigrew, #UNC Class of 1849. Born 1828 to Ebenezer and Ann Shepard Pettigrew. Pettigrew Hall on UNC’s campus is named for him (building adjacent to where #SilentSam stood). His family’s involvement in the slave trade is deep and well-documented. #samsreckoning
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Three of Charles’ parishioners started the Lake Company, land venture to buy up 100,000 acres of swamps around Lake Phelps and convert to usable land. To do this they needed (free) labor. They sailed a slave ship from Boston to Africa, captured 100 people, transported back to NC.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
@MuslimIQ
This is wrong. Germany doesn’t build Hitler statues to “tell about their long & complicated history.”

Public square or private square, there is no good in glorifying white supremacy terrorism. Leave it in the history books.
I looked it up

The @UNC Board of Trustees has 13 members:
•11 white men & women
•2 men of color
•0 women of color

What a shocker that a Board that’s 85% White w/0 WOC voted to spend $5.3M + $800K/year on a statue to celebrate white supremacy terrorism😑
Right Wing: Don't blame us for the KKK & White Supremacy. The Democrats built them.

Democrats: Hmm ok, let's tear down all Confederate white supremacy monuments

Right Wing: What?! How dare you tear down our heritage!
#UNC
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Today is the 6th Friday of the #GreatReturnMarch. Last Friday there was a more organized attempt to reach the #GazaFence & Israeli army promised to respond harsher. Israel also declared human rights laws do not apply to the protesters. 48 killed & ~7,000 wounded so far in Gaza
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Roshi CBG-san
@OnlyNakedTruth
Today's thread

Measurement of time.
How current calendars can't match ancient Hindu timekeeping.

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