The history obscured in this conversation is that these monuments, statues, whatever, weren't built in the 1700s, or even pre-Civil War, they were built in many cases in the decades after the Civil War. They celebrate, in a very menacing way, the legacy of the Confederacy. If I'm an African American person living in the shadow of those monuments, I doubt I'd be pleased that my government is venerating these men. It ain't revisionist history to call it what it is, and always has been, it's what actually happened. To be sure, history is written by the victors, but we've moved past colonial times and slavery. Why must Native Americans and African Americans continue to endure the specter of those tragedies imposed by the very governments meant to represent their interests? As for Egypt, it can do whatever it wants with the Pyramids, but nobody is denying they were built by slaves.