You are completely off base. Everything you said is a smokescreen and a retroactive narrative built by the KKK and white supremacists between the 1920s and 1960

You are completely off base. Everything you said is a smokescreen and a retroactive narrative built by the KKK and white supremacists between the 1920s and 1960s. The case is very simple: the South fought to keep Black people as slaves. The leaders of the confederacy lead the movement to keep black humans as enslaved property. They lost. The South put up statues of them during reconstruction and Jim crow as part of a system of legalized white supremacy to subjugate Black Americans through systematic terrorism, rape, torture, and brutality. Monuments to these leaders are celebrations of the rape, torture, and enslavement of Black people. It's really quite simple.