Ironically located in the centre of Emancipation Park, this statue of the confederate general Robert E. Lee, riding atop his horse sits prominently in the middle of the green space. The site of a protest and rioting that made national headlines the previous summer featuring torch wielding white supremacists, it forced a painful re-examination of the racial divides that still exist in the United States. The park was quiet when I arrived on a Saturday evening, and the statue, still slated for removal seemed more like an uncomfortable afterthought than the centrepiece of the park.