Church George Washington Often Attended Removes Plaque Honoring First President — Here's Why

When the dollar bill offends them, They can send them to me. I am not offended by George Washington.

When you are conditioned to be offended by EVERYTHING, you are going to live a very unhappy life! That is my feeling about most of them. I also blame the scared of their shadow politicians and lawmakers that don't stand up to this. Appeasement never works (Chamberlain)! And I will say that the really sad thing is that most of them have no idea why they are upset, nor why this should be taken down, and it doesn't even bother them...

Removing statues, plaques, or whatever does not remove or change history. I think this is wrong, same as the removal of statues. One argument against them was that they were emplaced after Reconstruction as a symbol of control or supremacy. Unfortunately the pendulum of change always overswings before achieving equilibrium - if it ever does. I believe that is what we are now seeing. It's unfortunate and mostly unwarranted IMO, but doesn't change our history. I'm not for it except in extreme cases such as a monument to a hate group or similar, and don't know that any even exist on public land. The Civil War leaders have fallen suspect due to the slavery debate, and even more so in the case of Gen Nathan B. Forrest due to his linkage with KKK. This was still a period in our history and we should learn from it rather than try to simply put it out of our sight.