All this over a statue of a general that was an enemy of the United States. It's ridiculous that there are monuments to and even counties named after separatists that fought against the union.
It's almost as though people feel a meaningful historical connection to entities other than the nation as a whole.
There is a difference between historical entities
other than the US (celebrating Cinco de Mayo, belonging to the Sons of Norway), and historical entities that were
at war with the US (the Confederacy, Imperial Japan).