Someone below asked why is there this push to get rid of the Confederacy statues/symbols now and why this did not start under Obama. In fact, it did. This person has forgotten that the current push to get rid of Confederate symbols was a direct response to the Charleston mass murder in (I think) 2015 that resulted in 9 people being murdered by a white supremacist in a Church. After that, many people began demanding that these symbols come down and many cities/states began to comply. The particular statue in Charlottesville was coming down because of a petition, but the killings in South Carolina changed the nature of this discussion in the US. Let's face it - the US celebrating the Confederacy is like Germans celebrating Nazism. It's amazing these things are still there.