The New American
For the second time since early October, vandals in Chicago have defaced a statue of Abraham Lincoln.
Last month, it was the statue of President Lincoln in the park that bears his name. This time, it was a statue of young Lincoln in the city’s Edgewater neighborhood. In both cases the vandals used paint, with graffiti calling the 16th president a “colonizer.”
Details aside, the attack on Lincoln’s effigy is hardly a surprise. Once anti-American leftists succeeded in attacking and pulling down Confederate statues and battle flags, other symbols of the nation’s past had to follow as night follows day.
For the war against Southern symbols was never a war solely against the South or the Confederacy. It was always a war against the nation’s past and its founding white Christian settlers and their descendants. Thus, the attack on Lincoln was not only predictable but also logical…
