I disagree, in part.  Some statues need to be removed, as I fail to see why a Confederate statue is needed in Helena, Montana, for example.  But not everyone goes to a museum, so I think society should try and contextualize the remaining statues on site.

In certain cities in the South, these statues are part of the past.  The idea of removing the statues is a feeble and futile attempt to pave over racist problems, but the racist problems don't go away with the removal of the statues.  

Far better to make moves to contextualize the statues in place, and then tackle underlying racial problems that are leading to the divisiveness.  Removing statues at this point of the discussion only causes each side to become more militant and hardline... time to step back and look at the real problem, which is NOT the statues, but rather the racism that is endemic through much of North American society.  To law-makers, perhaps voting rights and laws to deal with economic inequality would be a start.