Another Columbus statue vandalized, bringing the count to six – five on the east coast (Astoria, Baltimore, Buffalo, NYC, Yonkers) and one in Houston – since Charlottesville. Not the first and presumably not be the last. Beheading, defacing … symptoms of American iconoclasm, promulgated by the removal of Confederate monuments?

Personally, I am against the destruction of historic symbols (good, bad, or ugly), yet I understand the action and reaction of Americans, a people living through a current, political, social and cultural climate that resonates some of the most negative aspects of this country’s relatively young history.