History has to be taken in the time it happened. To remove a statue because you are an idiot asshole that just wants to destroy, then you need to go to jail. Now there is push back. Author Ash a black tennis player had Whtie life matters on it. The black lies murder are going to start to see MLK statues and others defaced.
Most people who are very ignorant don't under stand the civil war and what it was about. Slavery was a part but not all that big a part. Lincoln said if I could preserve the union and keep some slaves and others free I would do it, If I could keep the union and and keep all slaves I would do that. The North pushed the South around for years because they had the votes and population.
In the end this is not about history or statues its about the useful idiots being used such as black lies murder, who are being used as puppets to push the country to socialism and Marxism. The youth of today have been brain washed by the liberal retarded radical professors in colleges.