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Books...who even has a library card today? My great grandkids will have no idea who those people were unless they are very academic and have a need to research history The internet where most people get their historical information (well there and Disnneyworld) will change peoples knowledge of their own history.

Canadians on this site have seen statues of John A. Macdonald be taken down one not very kindly in Montreal where it was pulled down. He is one of the Fathers of Confederation the first Prime Minister of our country. Some say he had slaves well no he married the daughter of a slave owner in Trinidad but he is concidered the architect of Residential Schools in Canada for indigenous kids. (US had them along with Mexico) That is a very black eye in the history of Canada and should be condenmed and appologized for but that does not mean we should wipe out the memory of our first prime minister and all the good things he influenced.

So should all those statues of Confederate leaders be melted down and recast into only people that did good (by todays standards) or should some of them remain so that youth can be educated as to some of the wrongs they did and the true history of the south?

Statues don't educate. Teachers do. We don't glorify traitors, seditionists or insurrectionists (unless you're a Republican MAGAt cult follower). I think the likenesses of Confederate generals carved into Stone Mountain in Georgia also needs to be removed just like so much trashy graffiti. (I'm not too keen on Mount Rushmore, either, but that's a different story.)