I mean... the compromise is easy, so long as someone can pay for it? Or there's... I'unno, enough people willing to volunteer to do the work or somethin'.
Just, y'know. Keep the statues and monuments and whatnot. But move them away from like... main street and shit. Out from in front of court houses and such, even if it's just the old ones kept around for memorial's sake. Maybe have a little bit added on to whatever to highlight the whole you wa shit thing, just to be sure, if there's not already.
Though, so far as I'm aware, nudging confed crap kinda' out of the way isn't really recent, per se. Seem to remember bits and baubles of it bubbling up from the depths of the news every once in a long while for a good two, three decades... probably more before that, too. It's just started getting to the point the efforts aren't as easy to
ignore, both from a "Statue, what statue, you see no statue, now go away, also we'll jail your ass if you try to move that definitely not a statue to somewhere less wang-in-facey" sense and so far as general public awareness.
... part of me just realized there may be a point to wonder, there. We're not too many years off from becoming majority minority, and projections and whatnot have had enough time to sink in. Might explain part of the reason(s) why it's becoming an issue with more public awareness of it. Folks primarily shat on by it is getting a bit more parity in political weight, or at least more able to call in help that wasn't existent or punchy (in the legal/economic punch sense) enough to warrant much attention previously.
@Max
I would build on what you said and say that the vast, overwhelming majority of Southerners are not hatefilled racists. For them and myself, we must have some connection to this past.
A: So let's let that connection not be the stuff racist shitbags used to take a dump on our neighbors in the early to mid 1900s
I don't think we explicitly
need an attack on civil rights sitting down town to keep a connection to the past.
And if we do, we have a helluva' lot bigger problem than some freaking statues. I know our education system down here's pretty rough and humanities endowments few and slender, but damn, come on. If it's that bad sell the things and hire a wandering historian/teacher troop to go from town to town telling us of the kinda' shitty song of our people. They can bring music! The song of our people is kinda' shit but bluegrass and mountain music and all the rest of it is on point.
Also, B: You're fairly accurate saying the overwhelming majority of southerners are not
hatefilled racists, heh. Most of it's much more low key and... atmospheric (?), for lack of a better word. Of course you avoid black neighborhoods, of course the black dude going down the street is probably peddling drugs, of course you're going to take a long and mighty piss on your kids or family if they bring home black/mexican/etc. relationship fodder. Etc., etc. Just part of how things work, lotta' times folks just straight up don't notice they're doing it. Sometimes even when you point it out, there's a half dozen reasons they attribute it to unrelated to race! There's just this oddly consistent pattern in what they entail (various degrees of racism) and what triggers the reactions (not!white people).