No, it is too bad right-wing white supremacists murdered a woman over it...
We don't build monuments to Hitler (despite Trump's praise of him), we don't celebrate Bin Laden... yet we remember what they did.
The statue had nothing to do with remembering an ugly history... it was about remembering an ugly history fondly, and continuing the sins of the past.
The same people that fought for the statue are fighting against the history being taught. They are the same people actively restricting the abilities of African Americans to vote. They are the same people undermining our democracy.
They are the GOP.