I know I don't want to change history, but really who doesn't know that the North won the war. That is very well known. I don't believe removing a statue is going to make people forget who won the war.
That's is far from the point. History must record mistakes as well as successes, especially since we learn more (or should) from our mistakes than our successes.
Once you start brushing inconvenient history under the rug, you are becoming Orwellian.
Where in the constitution does it say that everything must please everybody or it has to go?
Point #2: If those statues are interfering with their learning process, those students have a much bigger problem. Perhaps they need something to blame so they can be victims.
They want to replace the statues with union leader Caesar Chavez, Ghandi and others. I saw Chavez speak once. I fail to see the comparisons some try to make likening him to MLK.
What next? The NEA teacher's union leader getting a statue?