So you know how we’ve been covering this shady-ass deal in which UNC’s Board of Governors, for no discernible reason, gave the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Silent Sam and $2.5 million to care for it? Well, you’ll be shocked to learn that a certain kind of reader is very unhappy with us. 

Joseph B. Longino Jr. writes: “‘Confederate fetishists’ and ‘white supremacist insurrection.’ Come now. Journalism? You’re no more interested in truth and honest public discourse than the McCarthyists of the 1950s.” 

Lisa Rudisill was certain that we wouldn’t publish her comments: “I am certain that with your obvious total support of the anarchy party, antifa, and the mob action at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, you will not print my comments on the settlement reached with the Sons of Confederate Veterans. I just want you to know that you do not provide a news service, but a brainwashing service to the public if you don’t give plain-old news. At Chapel Hill, the school of journalism teaches to report objectively, don’t they? So why doesn’t anyone do that anymore?”

She was so certain we wouldn’t publish her letter that she left a much longer comment on our website, which we’ve excerpted here: “You are obviously full of unfair venom for what you do not understand. Are you a North Carolina native? North Carolina did not want to join in the war, but when Lincoln asked them to kill their brothers to the north and to the south in Virginia and South Carolina, they chose not to help him but to draft their own sons to oppose his will. Believe me, friend, at least one hundred men both North and South died for every single slave who ever died under slavery. 

“Grow up, people! Quit bellyaching about alleged injustices. The price has been paid over and over and over for whatever injustices you believe were done to you. I support leaving Silent Sam in its very place. Reaching a deal is unacceptable to me. Keep the money. Put the statue back where it rightfully belongs. Control the crying babies.”

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