Board rejects UNC recommendation on Silent Sam, citing concerns about public safety and cost

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A statewide panel did not endorse the recommendation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Board of Trustees to build a $5.3 million education and history center to house a controversial Confederate monument.

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Ohhhh nooooo somebody’s gonna have to find another statue honoring traitors who tried to destroy our country 150yrs ago because they wanted to own black people as slaves. “Liberals disrespecting our heritage nooo 😭 quick somebody call the Waaambulance”

What a travesty of history , those who forget our past heroes are condemed to fall prey when there not remembered lol.

I have a solution. It involves a sledgehammer and an angle grinder.

Watch WP big government fall

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