Since they did not have to get up for work the next morning, the next afternoon or the next evening for the rest of their lives, white and black racists showed up for a sadly historical passage one night last week in Memphis.

After a ranting and panting campaign to remove statues of Confederate heroes, the boys and girls were ordered by their betters to witness the final round.

Tennessee law forbade the act. A state historical commission affirmed the refusal.

The lesson for their fellow racists, of course, is the more volubly profanely you cavort like bullies in the streets, the more you will succeed in destroying remnants of any historical act that offends your delicate, well-rested minds.

The 4-hour, 45-minute removal of two Confederate statues strategically was scheduled under cover of darkness so as only to draw loons and other recent releasees.

The Unemployables, because of their numerous cerebral achieves, are not to be confused with, or compared to, Hillary’s ill-spoken Deplorables.

Fresh from their latest academic exercise en route to their formerly elusive doctoral degrees, the upper-strata crowd stunned learned passersby with their uniquely resounding grasp of grandfatherly grammar.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reported that the lucky witnesses cheered and then broken into a scholarly chant:

“Na na na na.”

Repeating the line before they forgot, they articulated, “Na na na na.”

To illustrate their enviable versatility, they closed with the following historic observations as the last statue was loaded onto a truck:

“Hey, hey, hey, goodbye.”

The reverence with which history cradles Mr. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address does not appear to have been imperiled.