Ok, I’ll bite. Offensive? No, it’s mostly a hunk of metal/stone I can ignore fairly easily. I take no offense, but what is odd about the monuments is the historical inaccuracy that “the South” had a war victory. They did not.
No, the real victory came when a whole mess of powerful white men colluded to curtail reconstruction that was supposed to help African slaves become full citizens. Payment for how many years of unpaid wages?
Then there were the subsequent victories of Jim Crow, and jail houses full of young black men who had done little to nothing wrong. Later, much, much later, during the middle of the 20th century Confederate battle flags were raised on state capitals to deter the struggle of civil rights movement. Many believed it was overdue.
The fact remains that the statues are there to remind everyone that “white” people have a supremacy here in the US.
I don’t know about you, but I believe that is a history that needs to be erased from everywhere, except the books meant to teach the fallacy of this delusion.
