Obviously I too am uncomfortable with the erasure of history, and pretending things didn't happen. I don't think that taking down a statue need be either of those things. As I said, put it in a museum, write about it in books, teach it in schools, make TV documentaries, the more the merrier as far as I'm concerned. We shouldn't have to rely on statues as teaching aids. More importantly, though, keeping Rhodes in a place of honour means continuing to honour him. (Kitchener maybe deserves his statue though, because he did invent a very useful knitting stitch.)

As for the money, I didn't call for that to be repatriated in my post, but in fact I don't think it would be very difficult to find ways to spend money to benefit people in the parts of Africa that Rhodes plundered, and who are living with his (other) legacy.

The clever men at Oxford
Know all there is to be knowed
But they don't know how the compensate
The victims of Cecil Rhodes.

If that's the only reason they're not doing it, I'd be happy to pass on the names of several excellent charities. (But it's not.)