Mr. Red wrote-"Give them the standing statue and put your rewriting of history on it. Then we can read the stories. Blacken the face and it hits home, destroy and it has no ammunition."

Many of the most offensive of these Confederate statues, that were designed to send a message of intimidation and white supremacy, were strategically placed in high traffic areas where the vast majority of those who see them are zipping past in autos or, in an earlier era, autos and horse-drawn vehicles. I'll wager that of all the folks that encounter them a very small fraction of them ever actually read what's inscribed on their base.