>>>Erase history, rewrite history, forget history, repeat history
So what lessons did we learn by the presence of Confederate statues? We still had Jim Crow laws, we still had lynchings, and 100 years after the Civil War folks were still marching to secure the blessings of liberty for Black Americans.
Apparently, we pretty much repeated history for several generations despite these helpful teaching instruments.
Even more could be learned by storing the monuments—but leaving the empty pedestal!