Some of these statues were erected during the Jim Crow era to flaunt the memory of the old Confederacy. Erecting monuments to celebrate slavery and secession and honoring people who took up arms against the country is about as ass backwards as it gets.
Why not a statue for Timothy McVeigh who took up arms against his own country.
Oh wait, a blogger on the Daily Stormer website has already suggested building a memorial to a man many see as the most notorious American-born terrorist of all time.
http://buffalonews.com/2017/08/14/alt-rights-new-hero-oklahoma-city-bomber/