You demand the removal of memorials of those that fought for slavery and accept the memorials of those who owned and embraced slavery...that's a fact.
There you go again, I demanded nothing. I said 'why' they were targeted to be taken down. It's hard to discuss something when you keep insinuating what you think my opinion might be.
At the center of the “Unite the Right” rally that
turned deadly in Charlottesville last weekend was a protest of the city’s plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee. White supremacists, neo-Nazis and others have made monuments to the Confederate commanding general a flashpoint — at times marching to keep them standing.
But Lee himself never wanted such monuments built.
“I think it wiser,” the retired military leader
wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, “…not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.”
The retired Confederate leader, a West Point graduate, was influenced by his knowledge of history.
“Lee believed countries that erased visible signs of civil war recovered from conflicts quicker,” Horn said. “He was worried that by keeping these symbols alive, it would keep the divisions alive.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments