Judge Strikes Down UNC’s $2.5 Million Settlement with Confederate Group Over Silent Sam Statue

under which the deal was struck. According to the News & Observer, the Sons of Confederate Veterans had first reached out to the UNC system to threaten legal action to force the monument to be kept on campus. The group then offered to erect the monument elsewhere if the university would agree to pay for the “transportation, repair, maintenance, security, and public display of the monument.” The group asked for $5 million, and 19 out of the 20 board members at that meeting agreed .

the deal in court, and nearly 100 alumni and donors filed a brief arguing that the settlement should be abandoned. The brief argued that the deal “seriously damages the reputation of the University, which should be committed to historical truth and opposed to modern-day white supremacy.” UNC had argued that striking the deal was the safest way to ensure that the statue was removed from its campus and therefore guarantee student safety.Silent Sam in 2018, a year after neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate, and other far-right protesters clashed with counterprotesters at a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

After its toppling, UNC placed the statue in storage. A few months later, it announced a plan to erect a $5.3 million “history and education center” to house the statue but backed down from the plan after further protests. The university’s chancellor then resigned,The school remained silent on its plan for the statue—students complained that the university never held a public meeting to discuss options—until November, when it struck its deal with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

It’s not clear what will happen to the statue now. A 2015 state law banned the removal of Confederate monuments from public property, and lawyers representing UNC have said that scrapping the settlement might mean that the system would be legally obliged to return the statue to its original location.

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