Hundreds of protesters came out once again on Wednesday afternoon calling for the removal of Silent Sam from the UNC – Chapel Hill campus.
Protest in front of UNC’s South Building. Photo via Blake Hodge.
Wednesday’s rally came in response to a rumored white supremacist rally on the campus after a professor was allegedly threatened on campus last week.
The Confederate monument known as Silent Sam has been a lightning rod over the years, and the momentum calling for its removal has been consistent since a rally on the first day of classes last August. That rally came after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a counterprotester was killed.
No white supremacist publicly rallied on UNC’s campus Wednesday.
The protest on Wednesday came a day after Durham’s district attorney announced he would be dropping charges against individuals who were arrested after the Confederate monument which stood in front of the old Durham County Courthouse was pulled down last August.
Wednesday’s protest began in front of South Building – home to UNC’s administrative offices – where students were calling for action from university chancellor Carol Folt.
The group then marched, chanting along the way, to the Silent Sam statue while calling for its removal.
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