Thanks, Monica. Unfortunately, it is easier to tip over a statue than it is to cure cancer. 
We too easily forget that the fervent wish of many abolitionists and Unionists, back in the day, was that having defeated the confederacy, Blacks would be deported. That measure  being impracticable, it was morally proper that Blacks be controlled and managed. There were no integrationists  in power. The premise of White superiority was endemic, North and South. Lincoln's successor, Johnson, was happy to strip emancipation of most of its too-generous benefits, for the sake of mending fences with the Southern gentleman.  Segregationist and Black-management policies and laws have been coming out of D.C. without pause ever since, the language and justifications evolving to suit the White sentiments of the times. Every one of us, as Whites in America, has a stake in the baked-in White supremacist ideology that formed and continues to form this country. As you suggest, we should topple that.