About the time those children rebuilt the klanNow, let’s look at when the monuments were erected
Not post cIvil war when soldiers and families honored the dead but early 1900s during the resurgence of the KKK and during the civil rights era
About the time that those who were children during the war, and lost fathers, would have become the elders and leaders of the community.
Your assumption of a connection, or even overlap, is unsupported.
The normal reasons for a monument, ie to celebrate heritage, to remember historical and/or respected figures,
seems far more likely and reasonable.
If Trump said he wanted to build a statue of, say, some famous US/Mexican war General, and place it on the border to "remind" Mexicans they were not welcome,
under the belief that a statue would "remind them of their place" or some such shit,
you would be laughing your ass off and rightfully so.
Yet you are claiming that is what the statues in question are about.
YOur case is weak as shit.