text: Spewing hate is not helpful from any quarter.   However, I hope you don't think it hateful just that I disagree with your emphasis.   I have roots in the South and have great affection for my dead relatives who fought for the Confederacy.   However, I also despise the cause they fought for and the institution of slavery itself.
  
  Most of the statues came along as the white supremacists (used to be southern Democrats now Republicans) wanted to cancel the progress of Reconstruction and enforce Jim Crow.  They rewrote a lot of our history to make sure that fair minded whites knew they would be violently accosted in the South (if they didn't keep quiet) and that blacks would keep their place or be assaulted, killed, or prevented from working or getting credit.
  
  Those who wish to keep some of the statues as history could position a slave cabin next to the statue and have a historical marker explaining secession, treason, the institution of slavery, etc.