Anyone who would trash the monuments of the Americans is no friend of America. There is no moral, logical or reasonable justification for what is going on. It is indefensible in morals or logic.
Here is a perspective from the era, the thugs claim to be avenging:
Edgar Allan Poe's Insight On Fanaticism
Here is a perspective from the great Negro educator, half a century later:
Hey, I’m with you. But a few thousand people fighting in the streets is not going to win. And I’m not sure you could get a thousand people to participate in a real fight. Just MO