If you favor keeping Confederate monuments, then I propose we create some addition monuments in America.

(1) A monument to the Native American warriors who slaughtered General Custer and the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

(2) A monument to the Viet Cong, as our destructive war with them is part of our history.

(3) A monument to King George of England, and another to British Generals Gage, Burgoyne, and Cornwallis, with whom we fought to obtain our independence.

(4) A monument to the traitor Benedict Arnold, honoring his valiant service to the British after he betrayed his country.

(5) A monument to the soldiers of Germany, Spain, Mexico, the Barbary Pirates, the Taliban in Afghanistan, ISIS, Osama bin Ladin, and Iraqis under Saddam Hussein and any other groups with which Americans have warred in it's history.

(6) And finally to Mother Russia, with whom we fought a decades long Cold War, but especially to thank them for their interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.

Yes, let's honor these groups because they are all contributors to and a part of our "history" and culture.

Ridiculous? Of course.

Our enemies are not our culture and are not to be honored. Confederate statues honor slavery, racism, rebellion, treason, and the only serious attempt in our storied history to destroy the country that we all profess to love and honor.