CABARRUS COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) A North Carolina library is at the center of controversy by many who say it displays a Confederate flag, soldiers, Native Americans and images of slavery. I think now is the time for Cabarrus County to be a leader in this fight for justice, and righting the wrongs of the past, Jerl Hyman-Green, with the Cabarrus County Library System, told WSOC.
The mural is currently out of sight to the public due to the pandemic. When I saw the mural, it was such a visceral reaction, Hyman-Green said.
A state chapter president of the NAACP, Amos McClorey, called the mural shocking at first.
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February 12, 2021
CONCORD, NC – There is a new push to remove a massive mural at the Cabarrus County Library, that many say contains offensive imagery.
The North Carolina NAACP is now involved calling for the mural’s removal despite county steps to limit the public’s access.
“What it does is it degrades the African American portrait of whatever that artist was trying to say,” said Amos McClorey, the local representative of the NAACP.
He says he’s asked the county to remove the 50 foot mural in the Cabarrus County Library auditorium, saying it shows dehumanizing images of slavery and a prominent confederate flag.
Pastor Benjamin Sloan
There is no such thing as a neutral account of history. How we mark our history matters. Weâve come, all too often, to confuse neutrality, balance, and objectivity with a lack of emotion. But when we speak of lives lost, land desecrated, and ways of life destroyed, unimpassioned facts cannot adequately convey reality. The German journalist, Kurt Tucholsky said, âThe death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic,â but can you write that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust without also pointing to the horror of that fact? Can you say that 17 million people were ripped from their homes in Africa and forced into slavery without sadness and anger finding their way into your voice?