And you know that is not true. The left is doing the same for everything that was related to slavery. It has NOTHING to do with the Confederates at all. It is solely based on the idea of eliminating certain details of history. The details that are considered embarrassing aspects today to the left. Eliminating tokens or items of such history will not eliminate historical facts. You can't erase history. I do not like the Confederate battle flag or the African-American flag but I would not mandate the outlawing of those flags. They mean something to some Americans and I consider it to be a form of free speech. Statues were set up by the citizens of those states as a reminder of a part of history.

I suppose that a statue of a couple and their children in a park would be deemed inappropriate also, if it is one male and one female. After all, it would disenfranchise a gay couple.

And NO, my family did not own slaves. My family arrived in the U.S. AFTER the civil war. Besides, the first slave owner in America was a black man from Virginia, so get over it.