As with everything in the civil war, historical artifacts have two sides to a story.
IMO, in this case it’s just a obelisk. But it could have just as well been the grave of a southern general or a bust.
If you destroy or remove history without the consent of the public via legal threat or whatever, you have altered history, white washed it, so to speak.
No different then ISIS or the Taliban.
So what therefore is worse....The history or the destruction/removal of it.
This is not a civil war monument.