Wente writes (apparently without irony):
"Next in line is Christopher Columbus, the heroic explorer of my childhood, who sailed the ocean blue and opened the west to conquest, disease and genocide. "

Not quite sure why you would want a statue to honour that?
And let's be real - statues do honour the past.
They also justify the way things are in the present and "should" be into the future. Things like oppressive race relations.

According to Wente, we should ignore the past and work to build a better future. I look forward to her ever doing either.