Grow a friggen backbone and stand up to protect our history. These "offended parties" are trying to push bounderies to see how far they can get. Stand firm and tell them to f#ck off instead of catering.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/10/2...must-come-down

So what if he was a slave owner. It was commonplace in that era by both euro-americans and the African nations that sold their fellow African slaves to the Europeans.

Go ahead and remove the symbols, and eventually you lose the history and your reason for grieving will be long gone and forgotten. Then you will be called lazy bums instead of repressed since no one would know what slavery was or that it even existed.