So @RepValDemings just gave best answer yet re confederate monuments. I’m paraphrasing, but: “African Americans have been hung, beaten, tortured, marginalized for 400 years... I don’t really care what happens to a statue of a guy who committed treason to defend slavery.../1
...ok, you don’t have to destroy them. Put them in a museum. Explain what they are. But it’s time to move some stuff around and consider the values we want to see in our government buildings everyday.”