So "we" is the people of Charlottesville + you, OK I understand 
Regarding your comparison, we're talking about General Lee, not about Van Gogh and we're talking about removing a statue of a general and not raising a new one for a painter. So I don't see the connection you're trying to make and I don't see why you call my position illogical. If anything is illogical it's you're story of trying to compare the two.
Whether you (or I) like everything he did or not, Lee is still a historical figure and the support for removing the statue is not unanimous. I find it a stupid decision to remove it, but I understand many people don't agree with me, and that's fine.
I could possibly agree with this on the grounds that we need to keep relics to remember our history, until I found out that the name of the park is Emancipation Park.
I do not think that a statue of a man who fought vigorously to keep slaves slaves should be in a park named after the freeing of slaves. I find it quite perplexing that the person to developed the park thought that a statue of Lee would be a good fit there.
Anyway, for those of you arguing that we should be keeping these statues to remember history, I could agree with this on an intellectual level. However, these are not one-off relics in a museum here and there. The South is peppered with these things in public parks.
On top of that, many of these monuments were not erected during the civil war or shortly there after. They were erected in the 1920s, during a time of great social, cultural and religious change in the USA due to an influx of immigration. They were put there by other white supremacist as a symbolic rejection to other cultures.
