Suddenly these Statues offend people?

[Damuri_Ajashi]

@Acsenray

For the purposes of deciding whether to keep a monument in a person’s honor, I don’t care about their values in the past. I certainly don’t care about their grammar.

The words indicates a difference between what people considered the state then versus today. Its not grammar policing

Before the civil war people referred to “these United States” after the Civil war people referred to “the United States”