Do you believe leaving the statues in place will help America come together as one nation?  Please explain how.  There are places in the south where they still yearn for the days when whites were treated with deference simply for their skin color, and could do anything to a dark-skinned person with no penalty. The Civil War was the 'War of Northern Aggression' to them.  If that is your America, I can see why you want to preserve it.