I like what you said.
However, some seem to be focusing pretty heavily upon the reason for the addition/removal of statues rather than the content of the statues. Anyone who studies history empathizes with the people of the times they study, because those people are like us.
Imagine you were a casualty of the Civil War on the side of the Confederates. You and several thousand other hundreds of thousands of Americans died or were wounded in the conflict. Now imagine what you would think if people from 2017 tell you that your presence in public offends them, and that it must be removed.
Taking down a statue of Robert E. Lee, for example, is like taking down a statue of Erwin Rommel. Lee had military prowess like his German counterpart.
A similar thing happened to Vietnam War veterans when they returned home. They were ostracized for the war that they fought in, as if they had any say in the matter.
It seems that in all of this ideological bantering, someone forgot that actual people died, and it wasn’t necessarily the fault of the military men.