Jerry Wilson (right), doctoral student in Policy, Leadership, and School Improvement, wore nooses to the Faculty Executive Meeting on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018 with peer Cortland Gilliam a doctoral student in Cultural Studies and Literacies. “We decided we would wear the nooses around our necks for 2 reasons, we wanted to symbolize the violence of white supremacy to which that Silent Sam monument. But secondly as a manifestation of the pain that black members of the Carolina Community carry around with them all of the time knowing this university doesn't care enough about them to remove open symbols of white supremacy", says Wilson.