I've been thinking about this since your thoughtful post on the deal in New Orleans of a similar nature. You know what this is? It's Democrats attempting to erase their own racist history while pretending it exists because of Republicans. All these monuments they're taking down and highways being renamed were originally established by Democrats. Just like the Rebel flags flying over the statehouses were put there by Democrats, sour about desegregation and civil rights. So now that they want to establish this narrative of the Racist Republicans, they need to erase their own culpability. They smugly and slyly act appalled, offended and outraged, but it was their own party who did this. It was THEIR politicians who stood in the schoolhouse door and defied desegregation. THEIR politicians who enacted and supported Jim Crow laws. THEIR politicians who started the Civil War.
This is their stealthy attempt to expunge the record of their past and at the same time, make it appear that it exists because of the "racist republicans" ....you know... those who mysteriously and inexplicably "changed parties" back in '68 when Nixon ran for president. (Although, no records exist of this mythical transformation.)