The Latest: Former governor compares activists with Nazis

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Updated 2:37 pm CDT, Tuesday, August 21, 2018

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the toppling of a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (all times local):

3:30 p.m.

Former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is comparing the protesters who helped topple a statue of a Confederate soldier with Nazis.

The Charlotte Observer reports that McCrory asked Tuesday if the protesters are any different from Nazis who tore down statues and burned books in the 1920s and 1930s. McCrory made the comments on his morning show on WBT radio.

On Monday, protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill brought down the statue known as "Silent Sam" that had stood on campus for more than 100 years. They had decried the statue as a symbol of racist heritage.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/The-Latest-UNC-leaders-condemn-Confederate-13171266.php

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Gov. Pat McCrory

[Lucky Luciano]

1. He has the opposite idea on what Nazis are. nt

[Fred Sanders]

4. Yes...how is knocking down the statue of the first American Nazis make you a Nazi?

Fascists always project...it is in the propaganda toolkit.

[mn9driver]

2. Here's an excerpt from the dedication speech by Julian Carr when this statue was erected in 1913

The present generation, I am persuaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the welfare of the Anglo Saxon race during the four years immediately succeeding the war, when the facts are, that their courage and steadfastness saved the very life of the Anglo Saxon race in the South – When “the bottom rail was on top” all over the Southern states, and to-day, as a consequence the purest strain of the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States – Praise God.
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One hundred yards from where we stand, less than ninety days perhaps after my return from Appomattox, I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds, because upon the streets of this quiet village she had publicly insulted and maligned a Southern lady, and then rushed for protection to these University buildings where was stationed a garrison of 100 Federal soldiers. I performed the pleasing duty in the immediate presence of the entire garrison...

http://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html

The reference to the "four years immediately succeeding the war" is speaking of the founding of the KKK and their reign of terror. It should have been torn down long ago.

[Fred Sanders]

5. You should email that to this Nazi ex-Governor...ask him if he agrees with the dedication words.

Good work!

[marble falls]

12. I thought the horse whipping section was some sort of literary liberty ...

The SOB really did it. And the Federal troops stationed to prevent civil discord stood by and watched.

Thanks for posting that.

[mpcamb]

3. I'd compare it to when Prague citizens chanted "Russia go home!" and pulled down Stalin's statue.

during the 1956 revolution.

[The Liberal Lion]

6. An idiotic question posed by a complete fool

and agreed with by absolute morons.

[canetoad]

7. One image to shut him up

?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

8. McCrory, you racist bastard, you were roundly rejected.

Go crawl back into that bog of eternal stench where you are currently residing and stay there.

[rwsanders]

9. Nice Labyrinth reference

[Haggis for Breakfast]

10. I'm tickled that you caught that.

One of my favorite movies. Still.

[Aristus]

15. Yeah, I caught it, too.

One of the best movies ever...

[Dave Starsky]

11. Here are some other activists defacing a monument...

[marble falls]

13. Yeah, commie Russians did it. Dammit. Right monument, wrong demo crew.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Big Loser Says What?

Pat, you're yesterday's news. Buh bye!