Hey Roninmoron, You probably think their should be a statue of Hirohito at Pearl Harbor for the historical perspective.  The losers in a war don't get to make the rules.  The Confederacy lost and was humiliated and a bunch of white racists what us all to pretend like it was a glorious cause.  Yes, we should not erase the history, but we should be honest about it.  And why should the victor glorify the defeated.  Like you, the Confederacy were losers, racists, and traitors, and those who try to claim otherwise are the same.