Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 21:48:54 -0400
From: Joe
Subject: Government censorship of images in Chatham County & the Soviet Union
No Dorothy, we’re no longer in Chatham County.
It appears that the Chatham County government has decided to follow the pattern of the Soviet union and censor images on the official Chatham County web site.
Censorship of images was widespread in the Soviet Union <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union>. Visual censorship was exploited in a political context and took measures which included altering images. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Soviet_Union
In a news release posted on March 23, 2019 about a documentary on the histroic Chatham County courthouse the accompanying picture of the courthouse picture is missing something. Can you guess what it is.
Take a look at https://www.chathamnc.org/Home/Components/News/News/7174/ and you will see that the statue that stands in front of the courthouse is missing. Hmmm, when i drove by the courthouse circle it was still there.
Is the current Chatham County Democratic leadership trying to bury their racist past? After all, it was the Chatham County Democrats that ereccted the statue.It’s hard to blast others about their supposed racist when you have a constant reminder in the middle of Pittsboro that it is your party that is the party of racist.
Best to follow the examples of the Sovit commnists and just erase history.
So basically when some people in Chatham County refer to the democrat commissioners as a bunch of communists they aren’t that far off.
Alfred L. Brophy, the Judge John J. Parker distinguished professor of law at UNC Chapel Hill, warns against the rush to rid the country of these tactile reminders of Jim Crow and the codification of white supremacy.
“My initial thought is that removing these monuments leads to forgetting,” says Brophy. “We need to be aware that people in power at that time thought it was appropriate to celebrate slavery and Jim Crow.”
Brophy believes that making these artifacts disappear allows certain people to rewrite history, whereas, keeping them in place stands as a salient reminder of the times.
The question also remains – What do the Chatham County commissioners plan to erase after they complete doing it with the statue standing in front of the historic Chatham County courthouse in Pittsboro?
Joe