Honoring history’s racists is not the right thing to do

I’m writing in regard to the Feb. 11 letter “Taking down U.S. statues is running from history, too.” Taking down statues of traitors who attempted to destroy our nation to keep one race in slavery is not running from history; it is doing the right thing. Why should we honor traitors?

If you don’t believe that the Civil War was about slavery and not states’ rights, read the “Corner Stone” Speech from the vice president of the Confederacy wherein he states: “Not so with the negro. Subordination is his place. He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system.”

Please quit this bull about honoring traitors and racists being the right historical thing to do. They also lost the war.