I kind of agree, except for one viewpoint
You can't just say people rebelled against the US and leave it at that. If you were from Georgia in 1860 and your entire state, including all of your friends and family, decided to leave the US and join the CSA, would you really consider being a member of the army of the CSA an act of rebellion? I don't think you would. You also probably wouldn't view slavery the way we do today, even if you didn't own slaves. You're viewpoint would be built by the experiences you've grown up with and wouldn't have the perspective that we have today.
History should never be judged by today's viewpoint. You should try to understand why a member of the CSA, even the Generals, would have felt the way they did about their home and their allegiances to protecting that home. We should also strive to understand the view of the slave to better comprehend the hardships they had living in that time.
History is in the eye of the beholder. How would you feel if in 30 years, your Grand kinds are asking why you were such a bad person for driving a car that polluted the environment? Would their viewpoint 30 years from now make you a bad person for doing what everyone is doing today? This is not to make excuses for those that take no action, but everyone's viewpoint is based on where they are in time and society.
Should people take down the statues? Sure, if that's what the City wants to do, that's the City's right to do it. If they don't, that's their decision as well. The citizens of the City should have the right to decide that even if it's only by supporting the elected officials that make those decisions by their votes or not. There really are way more important things to worry about than statues and monuments being taken down or not and I doubt either action will change the status of race relations anytime soon.
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Posted: 06/05/2020 at 3:33PM