Frank Watson: Racial Supremacy

The incident in Charlottesville is a tragedy. Most accounts blame the white supremacists. Their protest has been compared with KKK meetings at the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. It was a white supremacist who drove the vehicle into the crowd. A few reporters, however, attribute part of the blame to the counter protesters who expressed their views forcefully and physically. No one, however, has thought to blame the city leaders who decided to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee. It was a dumb decision.

Lee is a national hero.

He was a West Point graduate and a professional sol...