A Statue of Grant

On Juneteenth, demonstrators in San Francisco toppled a statue of Ulysses S. Grant. Grant had once become the most famous American in the world by defeating the Confederacy twice. First, as a general, he won the Civil War, which freed the enslaved. Second, as President, he sent the American army back into the South and pounded the original KKK into particles of dust. 

As far as I can tell, no one has come forward to claim credit for toppling the Grant statue. We have to guess. 

I suspect that Grant was toppled by white descendants of Jefferson Davis. That means there are too many suspects. In the South, nearly all white males named Davis automatically get the first name of Jeff. And some Jeffs have never forgotten the way President Grant signed the 15th amendment, which gave black men the right to vote. Grant had pushed the amendment through. When it was adopted, he ordered a 100 gun salute in Washington, and he wrote: "The adoption of the 15th Amendment . . . constitutes the most important event that has occurred, since the nation came into life."