The Mayor of Charlottesville will campaign for repeal of the Virginia law that prohibits removing monuments to the Confederacy.

It is better not to call them "Confederate monuments" because term suggests they remain from the Confederacy itself. In fact, most of them were erected by white supremacists long after the Civil War, mostly after 1900, and some in the 21st century.

While the law prohibits removing the monument to Lee, an alternate way to deal with it is by erecting another monument nearby, perhaps depicting some of Lee's slaves after they were freed.

Was there a regiment of freed slaves from Virginia? That regiment could be honored in Emancipation Park.