For 150 years, Black journalists have known what Confederate monuments really stood for

According to many of these writers, the statues were never designed to tell the truth about the Civil War. Instead, the monuments were built to enshrine the the myth of the "Lost Cause," the false claim that white Southerners nobly fought for states' rights – and not to preserve slavery...

https://theconversation.com/for-150-years-black-journalists-have-known-what-confederate-monuments-really-stood-for-217895