Alrighty, then.
I see the removal of Civil War statues as equal to schools banning “Huckleberry Finn”, changing lyrics to songs to be PC, etc. Much of the content is not socially acceptable by today’s standards. Some of it is downright ugly. But all of it is part of America’s history.
As for Obama statues, it won’t be a case of cities opting to have them or not. We WILL have them. We won’t have choices.
If you're talking about retaining the Civil War monuments as a way of never forgetting what happened in the same way as preserving the concentration camps in Germany as a reminder of what we must never allow to happen again, I agree with you. However, that's not what we're talking about here.
As for Obama statues, it won’t be a case of cities opting to have them or not. We WILL have them. We won’t have choices.
Chicago is not going to build a statue of Obama in some red county in North Dakota. The only way this happens is if this country elects another Obama or Clinton, in which case we're screwed anyway.