UNC alums: What did Silent Sam mean to you?
The Fayetteville Observer wants to hear from UNC-Chapel Hill alumni from different generations about what the Silent Sam statue meant to them when they were students.Did you consider the Confederate monument on campus a symbol of institutional racism? Or simply a relic in the quad?Do you remember the statue as a focal point for activism, civil rights protests, vandalism or vigils? Or are your memories of Silent Sam more about the whispered legend of him firing his weapon […]