Nikolai Mather, student, Niner Times Opinion Editor
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Title
Nikolai Mather, student, Niner Times Opinion Editor
Description
"Suddenly the entire place is just blanketed with more students than I’ve ever seen on UNC Charlotte’s campus ever. And people have kids, people had brought their parents, people had brought their dogs, people had brought signs….Eventually like it kind of clears in the center of the quad and [Kristine] Slade steps out and she doesn’t have a microphone, she doesn’t need a microphone. She just starts hollering out a speech. Everybody, I don't know if everybody heard her, but it feels like everybody felt her...Just watching Slade go at it and talking about how we would not let their memories die and how we would keep these folks’ memories alive in our communities. That was, I think, one of the most sincere expressions of sympathy, empathy, like, pain, rage all of it throughout the entire experience. And it just means a lot. I think Slade really carried the community through that difficult time. They didn’t need to but they did."
Creator
Mather, Nikolai (interviewee); Howell, Katie Causier (interviewer)
Date
11/15/2019
Publisher
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Source
Niner Nation Remembers Oral History Project, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/index/render/pid/uncc:nr)
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