I never really thought (and still do not think) of most historic statues as being celebratory. It's just a way of denoting events and those who participating in those events. What we are seeing now is no less alarming than what the Taliban and ISIS is been doing to centuries old statues and buildings in Afghanistan and Iraq, and it's exactly how history gets 'lost'.
By the same premise, how long before some snowflake or blizzard of snowflakes decides the Alamo should be razed by bulldozers since that was a battle that was lost..or that long black wall in DC with all those Vietnam veterans' names inscribed should be torn down since we lost that war? How far in the future will it be, before the same frame of mind decides all the statues of historical figures that ever owned slaves should come down? Goodbye Washington, Jefferson, and a slew of others, including this one:
General Sam Houston.
Far fetched you say?
Think again.
http://kxan.com/2017/05/30/campaign-sta ... n-houston/