Confederate Nomenclature Compromise

Not a total victory for justice, but I don’t really mind how Alexandria, Virginia is dealing with its plethora of streets and statues named for Confederates. Basically, it’s renaming Jefferson Davis Highway, which is a gross name for a road, not tearing down its Confederate stuatue, but supposedly contextualizing it, and basically leaving all the other streets named for various Confederates alone because it would cost a lot to change it.

I’m basically OK with this for now, although it very much depends on what the contextualization of Confederate statuary actually looks like. Yes, I would like the American version of the Nazi Party to be demonized to the extent that anyone would be embarrassed and shamed to have anything named after them. And the defense that people come to Alexandria for its Civil War history is a ridiculous argument because it’s just not true. But it’s not like these fights are final. They never are. For now, it’s a step in the right direction. More fights will lead to more victories. I hope those fights happen.