Statues of leaders in parks have less to do with history and more to do with celebrating certain ideologies and causes. A statue doesn’t tell you much about history, but it does honor the person in stone, and it honors what they are known for. Confederate leaders and soldiers are known for using deadly force in rebellion against the United States of America for the primary cause of keeping most black people in the south as slaves. These acts were traitorous, anti-freedom, racist, and anti-democratic because the south only seceded because they lost an election to an abolitionist named Lincoln.
Such statues should be removed legally.
“the National Park Service says it’s obligated to restore the Pike statue by executive orders issued by President Donald Trump”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/confederal-statue-reinstated-washington-00493394