@huju
Hanging behind my office desk as I type is a framed $1,000 Confederate States of America Bond bearing coupons for six percent interest. Issued in late 1864, the purchaser was only able to redeem 2 interest coupons ($30 each) before the war was lost and so was his investment.
I don’t think of this as a tribute to the racist south, but an interesting piece of American political and banking history.
As for the statues, I believe that states are entitled to have statues of their sons who donned uniforms and fought to protect their states. This is fine from a historical perspective, but when they become rallying points for a return to a system of discrimination, their misuse is the problem, not the statues themselves.
