Rosa Parks' legacy

Dallas Morning News | Jacquielynn Floyd:

"Contemporary excesses of correctness (and there are plenty) don't hold a sputtering candle to the outright abuses that were then enshrined in law."

Contemporary excesses of correctness. Excellent phrase, that. If society has overcorrected and the pendulum has swung a little past center, it's understandable. If. For now, society deserves the benefit of the doubt to keep the "outright abuses" of the past from making a comeback.