Corrik7 posted... A lot of these Confederate statues were also statues of people who served within the United States of America prior to the war. Robert E Lee was one of the most admired military men in the entire country and Lincoln's first choice to be the union general itself.
Most of those statues were put up to intimidate black people. Let's not re-write history and pretend most of these monuments are well-intentioned. They were not. When you look at who had them put up, and why they put them up, and when they put them up as well as where they put them up -- most of which were during the Jim Crow era, and often in states that either didn't exist during the period of the American Civil War or were in fact Union States -- you see that they weren't put up in remembrance of the past, but in an attempt to embrace a white supremacist future. And let's not forget that neo-nazis have co-opted these symbols as part of their 'heritage' (which is nothing more than a code word for White Supremacy)