text: Gotta love this Lee quote from your linked article( very informative by the way):
  
  “[...]that unless some humane course is adopted, based on wisdom and Christian principles you do a gross wrong and injustice to the whole negro race in setting them free. And it is only this consideration that has led the wisdom, intelligence and Christianity of the South to support and defend the institution up to this time.”
  
  Yeah, we're talking great man here. Even taking into account the overt racism of the period, taking a wrecking ball to his statue wouldn't be an inappropriate act.