There would be no  need to make protest regulations and proposals if you’d take them down in the first place!! THERE IS A CIVIL WAR MUSEUM IN RICHMOND TAKE THEM THERE GIVE THEM A HOME OUTSIDE THAT MUSEUM!!!. THE CONFEDERACY IS DEAD! THEY LOST! Lee himself did not want to be recognized as a great general he was ashamed and embarrassed!! There are historical documents proving that!! These  statues were eradicated many years after his death!!!! For what!?? I don’t think the general you guys praise so much would want these statues around after stating “ I think it be wise 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.” 
Everyone wants to say the confederate is history and yes it is. A very dark, twisted, and racist history! The civil war was fought over slavery!!! The south did not want to eradicate slavery because it benefited the economy and it would affect the southern way of life back then! Poor southerner farmers who didnt own slaves fought in the war to protect their way of life!!!! Protect white supremacy! So to everyone up here that is making a historical arguement...... this is your racist history and the least you could do is sympathize and empathize with the black bodies that helped built this damn country!!!! 

DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!!!