Here's the problem Mr.Goldberg, and you would do well to flesh things out a bit more, before you write. These southern statues represent a government that led a war for the principal purpose of retaining an economic block built almost exclusively on forced slavery, and all the violence, torture, terror, and rape that made it possible. How about we all think about what would happen if a Muslim University erected a large Statue of Osama Bin Laden at a busy intersection in a major U.S. City, and held him up as a hero?
That is EXACTLY what you are advocating for Mr. Goldberg.  I am sorry to say that you have gone far awry in your intellectual equivocations here. You,  Mr. Goldberg, are going far beyond a simple thinking error, and make me wonder what hubris may be lurking under your cap.