Suey - 3/5/2019 08:06

At first...  I was  leave them be,  they are part of history,   Who was offended by them for the past 50+ years?  

Then  I found out that many of these statues were built after the carpetbaggers left the south.   This was the way the old confederacy used to assert that THEY  were still in charge.   That  the South  was still controlled by the   "white people".   That the southern states were not going to change and  you can't make us.   They built statues  thinking it would intimidate the   blacks so they would remember how it use to be.     When  I found that out I became more conflicted.   I don't think those  statues should be destroyed... but maybe moved to a  Park or Garden  owned  by the daughters of  the Confederacy...  or some other similar group.    Stone Mountain,   I don't want it destroyed either.     Maybe a second carving on another nearby mountain of  Black men and Women that changed America.