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Looks like it's UNC's turn.
Does UNC’s ‘Tar Heels’ name celebrate the Confederacy? Some think it’s time for change.
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“If you call yourself a Tar Heel … you’re cheering for the essence of white supremacy,” Thorpe said. He said it’s like saying “Go Confederate soldiers!” or “It’s a great day to be a Confederate soldier.”
NC history professor Jim Leloudis said the origin of the “Tar Heels” name is complicated and convoluted. He is also co-chair of the university’s Commission on History, Race & A Way Forward, tasked with helping the university reckon with its history. “It’s hard to untangle,” Leloudis said. “The term, at first, is derogatory in terms of race and class, then gets turned into a symbol of Confederate pride and loyalty.”
UNC also mentions the term Tar Heels in connection to the Civil War.
“During the Civil War, North Carolina soldiers flipped the meaning of the term, and turned an epithet into an accolade. They called themselves ‘tar heels’ as an expression of state pride. Others adopted the term and North Carolina became widely known as the ‘Tar Heel State,’” according to UNC’s website.
The thing that may cause this to stall out is the students not being on campus. However with the Silent Sam statue gone, they will need something else to protest about when the students return. It's not necessarily the issue that matters but keeping an element outraged and actively protesting.This one has a long way to go before they actually will change it. The "protest" yesterday had 12 or so people and a professor of history at UNC has already said that history of the nickname isn't racist. It had an association with certain types of jobs and, naturally, some people who held those jobs were Confederate soldiers. It's akin to calling for a boycott of Chevy Silverado pickups because a prominent Klan leader drove one at one point.
Having said that, all of this stuff starts somewhere, and like forest fires it spreads really quickly. Trump was laughed at last year when he said "What's next, George Washington?" and that's exactly what is happening.
Go back to your safe place if you are serious.As a man with a small amount of Irish descent, I believe Notre Dame's problematic nickname requires a change. We Irish are not all angry, fighting, midget drunks and I cannot stand for the injustice of being represented in such a way, especially given the way Irish people were treated around the turn of the 1900s.
One Confederate yelled out, "Hello boys, what’s the matter?" The reply from the disgusted Yankee soldier was, "We have heard of Tar River all our lives but never believed that there really was any such place, but damned if we haven’t found it, the whole bed of it is tar!"[1]
Looks like it's UNC's turn.
Does UNC’s ‘Tar Heels’ name celebrate the Confederacy? Some think it’s time for change.
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“If you call yourself a Tar Heel … you’re cheering for the essence of white supremacy,” Thorpe said. He said it’s like saying “Go Confederate soldiers!” or “It’s a great day to be a Confederate soldier.”
NC history professor Jim Leloudis said the origin of the “Tar Heels” name is complicated and convoluted. He is also co-chair of the university’s Commission on History, Race & A Way Forward, tasked with helping the university reckon with its history. “It’s hard to untangle,” Leloudis said. “The term, at first, is derogatory in terms of race and class, then gets turned into a symbol of Confederate pride and loyalty.”
UNC also mentions the term Tar Heels in connection to the Civil War.
“During the Civil War, North Carolina soldiers flipped the meaning of the term, and turned an epithet into an accolade. They called themselves ‘tar heels’ as an expression of state pride. Others adopted the term and North Carolina became widely known as the ‘Tar Heel State,’” according to UNC’s website.
Thank Obama and the Cambridge police. They all acted stupidity!!!View attachment 293480
i mean good dang grief when is enough is enough,i mean its like folks are just intentionally finding something to whine and cry about just for the of whining and crying.
Have these woke fool never heard of the Tar River?
Tar River - Wikipedia
Of course they haven't... they're fools.
Anyone that claims to be 'woke' is likely highly uneducated, no matter what degree they have. Just look at the things they major in if they do decide to go to college on the taxpayer dime.
The black populations that have low education rates should be blaming their local (largely democrat) governments for hacking away at school funding and doing nothing to improve school cultures in their neighborhoods. In the city I'm in, for instance, our locality is taking a hit on tax income due to COVID.
Q: What did our (again, democrat, with multiple black councilors and a black mayor) government elect to do?
A: Cut school funding to the largely black schools here, and increase funding for their buddies that run literally useless non-profits and 'social' programs.