This is in reply to both you and deadsmoke907.  Only in the interests of clarification:

(1)  I wasn't referring to "white supremacy," which refers to a legal-social doctrine that whites of right control all institutions, governmental and otherwise.  This is an ideology finally died in the 1960s.  There may be residual racism in American society, but it doesn't represent "white supremacy"; that term means something else.  I was referring to the Civil War monuments, which were accepted as unobjectionable from whenever they were put up to a few years ago.  I take it that avoiding flashpoints is generally good for a society.  Who made these monuments flashpoints?

(2)  You don't correct one asymmetry by creating another.

(3)  That's as each chooses.   I choose historical accuracy above all.  A book I most highly recommend on the general subject is Edward Bishop's The Half Has Never Been Told, the best history of American slavery that I know.