"This is about the control of the narrative and a destruction of historical recognition."

Oh, good grief!  I certainly don't want to agree with Laura Ingraham about anything but I do, in a way.  It is about "control of the narrative".  But I think we need to realize there is another perspective to the narrative white people have bought into - that their narrative is all there is to know and shows a complete truth.  It has taken a very long time for many white people to realize that their narrative is a perspective but not the only perspective.  

What we need to recognize is that those statues of Robert E Lee et alia only tell one side of the story.  There is a story to be told from the perspective of those freed from slavery and their descendants.  That story does not glorify the white race, does not think the Civil War was about States Rights.  That story needs to be told, needs to be reflected in public spaces, needs to correct "historical recognition" that is distorted.