When is it enough?
Although we understand the stated reason for removing statues of Confederate army personnel from public buildings, parks and streets across the South – that they are symbols of the region’s slave-holding past – we wonder where it will stop.
We’ve never heard an answer to that – not by leftist protesters, not by politicians, not by pundits.
That answer has never been given because there is no “enough.”
We fool ourselves to think the argument is about a statue or statues. Most advocates of removing a particular Confederate statue would not have been able to tell you who the figure cast in bronze is or what his role in the Civil War was unless they were told. For that matter, they aren’t likely to know the name of the vice president of the United States. But anything for political correctness, man. We’re all in.