Did you happen to miss the end of my article, which I ended with this quote by Robert E. Lee?

"I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/robert-e-lee-slaves.html

If the white supremacists had listened to him, we wouldn't be having this argument today.