Also, nearly all of them were put up in the 1950s and 1960s as a direct and unsubtle “fuck you” to the civil rights movement and anti-jim crow efforts.
Why should we keep around monuments that only exist because white people wanted public space dedicated to the idea that black people are second-class citizens?
Imagine if it were the other way around. What if there were numerous black panther monuments all over the south celebrating someone like Malcolm X? I’m pretty sure the white hicks would want to get rid of those, even though Malcom X wasn’t a traitor to his own country.
