University could not thrive without multiculturalism

TO THE EDITOR:

Sam is no longer silent; he roars seeing victory ahead. His statue should be turned around poised ready to charge and invade. The Old South has new defenders: Youth for Western Civilization .

Gazing out from the South Building above the front page fold The Daily Tar Heel tells us that Riley Matheson must be one of those sacrosanct white men who have greatness thrust upon them. And humble! He never sought the spotlight. Really DTH? The founder of a firebrand student organization is the kind to be mum when the conversation drifts to politics?

This well-funded national organization that according to the Southern Poverty Law Center is connected to white supremacy at the top gets to play the victim and the DTH intends to pick them up dust them off and hand them the mantle of the defenders of free speech. This is truly an affront to liberty; the right to live free of discrimination sacrificed for the vitriol of the powerful.

The powerful once said that because of your language or skin you are weak. Through fighting for rights the people of this country affirmed that because of our culture we are not weak and in the face of prejudice in our culture we may find strength.

If you believe that is all a lie imagine a UNC that abandons the project of multiculturalism. Imagine a university that tells some of its students that because of their parents they are culturally deficient that they owe this country the abandonment of their history that they are not Americans like Youth for Western Civilization are Americans.


Domenic Powell
Senior
History