Robert E. Lee was one of the finest Virginians to have ever lived.
One of the few to go through West Point without a single demerit.
Severed honorably and with distinction in the Mexican war.
After the Civil War, when a black man knelt at the communion rail in a church in Richmond, creating a stir, it was Robert E. Lee who joined him and defused the situation.
These people protesting are not Virginians and they can go back to wherever they came from. We are not taking down our statues.
Probably not as uncommon as you might believe. According to Douglas Southall Freeman's biography of Lee, there were five other cadets in his class alone who also graduated without a single demerit.