Forrest Forrest statue in Memphis handed over to SCV.

OK so I am corrected there is no political intent, but sports history? The confederate flag has no baggage in this scenario?, got it, there is nothing meant by the visuals at all? Does this not send a message ala Jim Crow ? It has come to signify white domimence and is so last century, times have changed since the 1860's....
 
" receives a gift of $2.5 million dollars of University of North Carolina money to establish re-mounting and maintenance of the statue"

serious? I am all for preserving all the monuments as they are all fascinating history, but UNC money?
Only appropriate, if perhaps a bit over-generous; the statue was a gift to the University at a time when it and its student body honored the Past and respected those who had founded and fought for their institution, instead of trying to remake it in a current pandering and Politically Correct mode. It will doubtless take most of this to repair the damage done to it by vandals and relocate it to another appropriate location where it will hopefully be protected from the heroism of the do-gooders edited.
 
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The SCV seems to have become quite the recycler of choice. Another famous Confederate statue, "Silent Sam" has been turned over in December of 2019, this one to the North Carolina SCV (whose Commander Kevin Stone, btw, leads the SCV's national motorcycle-riding wing, the "Mechanized Cavalry").

The SCV chapter, besides agreeing to take the statue off of the University's hands and keep the statue off of any UNC campus counties anywhere in the state, receives a gift of $2.5 million dollars of University of North Carolina money to establish re-mounting and maintenance of the statue, though (unbelievably imho) not required to use all the money that way
Sounds good.

(One has to wonder what candidate UNC scholarship students and their parents think of that !).
They shouldn't have any problem with it. They are now safe and secure from any "harm or mental distress" caused by the statue. :smile coffee:
 
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