This is nonsense. Some people may want to expunge the names of slaveholders from public places, but the whole point of the reaction to the Charlottesville riots is to remove statues that commemorate treasonous rebellion against the United States of America, "Four score and seven years" after its founding by united representatives of both the Southern and Northern states. At this time, the representatives of Southern states and their local governments are removing such monuments to the traitorous insurrection, monuments which had been put in place during the Jim Crow era of Afro-American social, economic, and legal disenfranchisement.

This article is stupid because it misrepresents the controversy - it isn't about who owned slaves, it's about who betrayed the Republic of The United States of America.