I have a problem with this sort of political correctness too, and I have been trying to figure out exactly why. I think it's because, to me, this action somehow makes the monument *less* universal, not more. If I saw a statue commemorating an event, and the statue showed three white guys, or three black guys, or three vaguely humanoid stylised arty weird things of indefinite race, I would think "it's symbolic of a whole bunch of guys who did this thing." But if I saw a statue showing a white guy, a black guy, and a Hispanic guy, I would think "it's a soap opera with all the required token characters except they left out the Asian woman. And one of those guys should look more gay."

I don't know. Somehow when people try to be inclusive, the Big Inclusiveness Effort is all I see, and it takes something away from whatever they were trying to be inclusive *about*.

Since I've been through that great bastion of modern political correctness, university education, I know they would say this view is based on an evil ethnocentric "white=generic, white=normal" standard. Maybe so, and maybe that's only my view because I'm white myself. But I just think it demeans the firefighters who worked Ground Zero to say "Look! There were white guys involved here, and black guys, and Hispanic guys. Isn't that SPECIAL?" As far as I could tell by the news footage over the last four months, the colour of most of these guys was Soot, Concrete Dust And Other People's Blood and I couldn't have figured out their ethnic group underneath if you'd paid me ten times what they probably earned for it.

And *that's* what made them special.