Just like the coming eclipse so has political correctness and these people wanting all Confederate statues removed. These were Americans also and many were not fighting to keep men enslaved but for the individual rights of various states to determine their own direction. It isn't that far removed from what many Californians are wanting now since Trump's election.
You study history to learn from it as well as appreciate it. What's next burning certain books because we don't like some of their content. Racism is wrong but the media and many on the left are making an existence off of it. You don't go select one form of racism then condone and celebrate another depending on its source and the group from which it comes.
Black lives matter groups were filled with racial hatred yet were celebrated and given status by the media and even by the then President as he invited them into the White House and the Democrats have them legitimacy by putting them on their convention. Some in the media, some advocates and some politicians thrive on racism and desire it and promote it. Democrats falsely assigning racism to Republicans when their party is replete with racism in its history but today they use it to secure minority votes.
Where would people like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton be without people being stirred up in a frenzy? The media calls out some racism while ignoring other depending on the source. The way you stop racism is to condone it all no matter the source. What is happening now though is depending on the source some racism is tolerated, used, manipulated, condoned and even celebrated depending all on who the source is and upon whom the racist acts are against. All racism does not belong to white Americans, there is no patient on it. If racism is wrong, which it is, then ALL racism is wrong and should be seen negativity.
To ignore history or what's going on just because it's uncomfortable is to set up a scenario to repeat the mistakes of history. The moves by some to totally eliminate anything to do with the Confederacy only serves to inflame many and sets a dangerous precedent. Slavery is and was wrong, to use people like that for the profit and gain of a few but what many don't report is there is slavery, of a kind today in America, with the use of and abuse of illegals from Mexico and South America many who are nothing but modern day slaves for many land owners and rich who use and abuse them as maids, housekeepers who work for very little and are kept enslaved to their employers by fear of their immigration status.
Who is their voice today? Where is the outrage over that form of slavery or the women who are slaves in the sex trade so prevalent today. I'm sorry but selective outrage and any allowed racism is wrong and should be recognized as such. Why do we tolerate a NAACP organization yet decry as racist a similar organization if it is for white people? Why is allowing and creating college groups and homes, clubs for one race not racist but it's racist if a white group does exactly the same? All racism is wrong and you don't fight the problem by feeding it and promoting it when it happens to feed your political and or economic needs. I fear for the future when sanity is a victim and bigotry is condoned and celebrated depending on the group it is sourced to. But that is just my own opinion and some would call that biased purely and only because of the subset group I'm assigned to.