My main goal is to educate people on the true history of the Confederacy. I am the Ohio Division Adjutant of the SCV (Sons of Confederate Veterans), a descendant of Robert E. Lee and many other Confederate soldiers. The South was NOT fighting for slavery. They were fighting a tyrannical government (taxes, tariffs, and state rights) similar to what we are dealing with today. Less than 4 percent of people in the South owned slaves. And there was more freed blacks in the South than there was in the North. The Confederacy was the American Revolution 2.0 - They were defending the constitution and protecting their families and land from invasion. You will find no greater Patriots than the brave Confederate Soldiers. This is NOT what they teach in liberal run schools. That is the yankee lies. History was re-written by the victors of the war. I recommend getting the book "Defend Dixie". Its short, to the point, and full of facts and sources.
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Ha, yeah just seeing that. So the problem is, and being from the south I've always subscribed to states rights and still do. Now I argue that idea the war wasn't about slavery is dumb. It absolutely was, just isn't made out to be the good versus evil that's taught in schools. It was about economics. Both the north and south needed it, but the north needed it less. Also, this notion that it wasn't about that as identified by the OP is "fake news." This idea didn't start to actually surface until well after the war more around the turn of the century, which is why you have mostly confederate statues in southern states. Most confederate statues were built in the early 1900s. Although BLM would try to argue it's to suppress the black man, it's actually there because the south needed to recreate it's identity as to why it seceded to begin with, i.e. it wasn't about economics and slavery, it was about patriotism
Edit: just FYI, I don't believe in removing statues if anyone took that from my comment claiming it was about rebranding.
Interesting. Thanks for the reply.