They need to exist in museums, alongside the chains, shackles, whips of slavery.  They should include the ropes used to by the KKK and others in extra-judicial hangings, along with pictures of the dead hanging from a tree while white men stood around laughing. The museums should include some of those statues being removed now from places of public esteem and honor  so we remember that we were too cowardly to admit our mistakes and so tried to make heroes out of men who fought and killed and died so they could continue to keep slaves.  In making them heroes, we continued the attitude that white people were superior to other races and continued to abuse and look down on people of other races.

We don't want to and should not wipe out our history. We do need to remember all of it and we need to admit the parts of it that are horrific.   We cannot honor and glorify the bravery with which men of the South fought the Civil War without glorifying the cause - slavery and white man's privilege.