That's all true and in reality I'm far from advocating removing it, however I do have issues with the blotting out of aspects of history and the legacy they leave.
Where does it stop? James Penny, a slave-ship owner, had a street named after him in Liverpool, which some band then used as a name for a track of theirs.
History is often signified by how relevant it is in the human consciousness or today's zeitgiest; this is why places like Auschwitz are maintained or other memorials.
If you travel around Eastern Europe, there's multiple relics of a system that is now defunct and quite often despised, but they're left as a mark to remember.
Most are good but some are bad, but they're a part of the fabric of history. For me, the statue isn't a celebration of slavery but an artefact or source linked to it.
@Tubey mentioned it earlier that people now look back on history and believe that our morals inherently match those of the time, when in reality they do not.
