Here's a photo that I would like made into a statue.   https://consortiumnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/slavery_scars.jpg   

This is history.   This is actually far more representative of the history of the south than the absurdity of creating monuments to people who started a civil war to keep slavery legal.  Slavery was already more than 200 years old when the war began.   It continued another 100 years to a great degree through legal segregation under Jim Crow laws.  Do we need photos of what the south looked like under Jim Crow?   There were more than 4,000 lynchings of southern blacks from the beginning of the 20th century through the 50s, some people say 20,000, until Emmett Till.   Maybe a statue of Emmett Till in his open casket would make a good statue.  I like it.  

Those confederate monuments were part of Jim Crow intimidation of black people, who were repeatedly murdered, tortured, burned out and robbed for 100 years.   Our proud history.