I think they decided to take down that statue knowing there would be a reaction, and they got a reaction. And now a young woman is dead, a young man will be incarcerated for life, and the predictable and totally pointless flames of hysteria have been fanned into life.
It's all a total waste of time of energy, and as a newspaper, you should be ashamed of jumping on the bandwagon and doing what you can to feed the fire.
You need to adopt a more detached and even handed approach to this subject because it's deeply destructive.
The constant racist this, racist that - it's too much. You overplay your hand, and undermine your point. And you discredit yourself as a responsible publication that can be relied upon to conduct yourself responsibly when the wind is up.
Trump may very well be racist. He may also be up to something else. Who knows. 
If it were up to you we'd have no chance of finding out, would we. We'd just be left with these horrible, stupid old tropes, more ugliness, more hate.