How many Black people would there be in the country if the US did not have slavery, I wonder. Maybe best that they did remove the statue.
Just about every African American alive today owes their very existence to slavery. Without slavery, as detestable as it was, it did bring their ancestors together to procreate. People forget that we as unique individuals are only here today because of the actions and interactions of those that came before us. If any step in that process had not of happened, someone else would be standing in our place.