[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by geofitz13

Let's see. The leadership of the Confederacy, including the senior military officers, all served the Union prior to the Civil War. Could it be that they read the Declaration of Independence, and read that our forefathers said it was right for the people to change what they perceived as a bad government? Okay, they lost the war. They seem to have exercised their rights, and after the war, apparently were good citizens. So erase them from history because of a four year period?
The people who are taking down these statues are anarchists who only act on their own narrow beliefs. Who knows what those beliefs will be next week? What's next?

Don't "erase" traitors and those who saw nothing wrong with owning other human beings...from our history.

In fact, let's ensure that every school kid...knows ALL about them.

Just don't idolize them...on public property.

Especially since most of these statues/monuments were erected decades after the end of the Civil War and were primarily meant as a means of continuing Jim Crow laws...and intimidating black AMERICAN CITIZENS.