I think it’s problematic that so many people frame this as something only for the Black community rather than just simply being about the fact that we don’t need to honor people who fought to leave the USA over the right to own other human beings. The confederacy were not the good guys. Too many Americans— white Americans, even — glorify them because we’ve tried to honor “both sides.” Nobody in Europe felt a need to honor Nazis after WWII, or make history seem fairer to the concept of antisemitism. America never should have felt the need to memorialize these people in the first place, and they only did so at the beginning of the 20th century as a way to encourage segregation.

Stop making this a black vs. white thing. All people have been done a great disservice by acting we should memorialize any aspect of the Confederacy, and act like there’s some sort of “alternate history” here. People are now being spooked just learning about the realities of American chattel slavery and colonization among Native Americans and call learning that accurate history “critical race theory” even though it’s… not.