Cockburn can't help but feel this victory for the Ivy League revisionists means almost nothing. The statue of Whitefield is not even in public view: it is tucked away in the courtyard of a residence hall.

Penn also announced a new 'Campus Iconography Group', which will be led by the school's 'Chief Diversity Officer'. The group will 'move forward expeditiously this summer', presumably to virtue-signal by erasing some more history.

To rewrite the present, the mob has rewritten the past. They have forced upon us a distorted and grotesque version of American history. With the support of corporations and education boards, school textbooks and curricula tell of an unredeemable America founded not on the promise of human liberty but human bondage. What's more, this history discounts the transformative progress on racial equality for which Americans--black and white--have given their lives.

The British order of chivalry, founded in 1818 under King George III, is awarded to ambassadors, diplomats and senior Foreign Office officials who have served abroad in a non-military capacity and is personally bestowed by the Queen. Encircling the image is the Latin motto Auspicium melioris ævi (Hope of a better age).

"COVID-19 has highlighted why these services are so important for communities in need," said Elena Marks, president of the foundation, in a statement. "And at the same time, many of these organizations are battling severe financial issues plus increased demand for their services."

But Planned Parenthood is not primarily a health care provider. Its main focus is abortion, and its actions during coronavirus crisis made this even more clear.