It is a civil war monument..and no, many people do care about the history and it's not that they are agreeing with racist policies. it's because that history, good or bad, belongs to them, and by association, all of us.
Frankly, I am a transplanted yankee. I have lived the bigger part of my life in the south and 11 years in and about New Orleans.
The resentment of these attempts to overwrite, hide or otherwise destroy southern history no matter where it is, is becoming palpable and deepening.
If you use your sense that God gave you, you will realize the a second round of reconstruction via carpet bagging yankee doodles is not the answer to race relations. ,
Race relations, that in my experience are better in the South then they are in the North. And that goes back to pre civil war days..
One thing we agree on is race relations in the South are better than in the North.