GEORGETOWN, Del. - Delaware officials have removed a whipping post that was historically used to hold people as they were publicly lashed for committing crimes.The Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs will bring down the 8-foot (2.4-meter) concrete post located outside the Old Sussex County Courthouse in Georgetown on Wednesday and place it in a Dover storage unit with other historical artifacts, according to a statement issued by the agency Tuesday.Officials said the post would be removed in response to calls from the community and “in recognition of the violence and racial discrimination that its display signified.”MORE: City to ask art commission to approve removal of Columbus statue in South Philadelphia, mayor says“Such.