Posted on 10/30/2020 4:08:28 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The Virginia Military Institute’s Board of Visitors has unanimously voted to remove the school’s Stonewall Jackson statue from campus.
The move comes after Kaleb Tucker and other black alumni started a campaign for the statue’s removal, citing racism at the institute experienced by black cadets. The board concurred on forming a diversity office and diversity and inclusion panel, The Washington Post reported.
Tucker co-created a petition five months ago which urges the school to “acknowledge racism” and remove the statue. It has received over 1,000 signatures, according to Change.org. (RELATED: Virginia Military Institute Superintendent Resigns After School Faces Racism Allegations)
“If something or someone is in place that does not signify equality and justice for all, then VMI is not the place for it,” Tucker said, WaPo reported. “Each step towards equality and justice at my alma mater touches my heart dearly.”
Tucker expressed his elation on Thursday when he heard the news and hopes the statue will go to a museum, WaPo reported. Tucker said the statue discomforted too many students.
“Yes, the intention of the board of visitors is for the statue to be relocated. VMI owns the New Market Battlefield as well as the home that Stonewall Jackson owned in Lexington which is now a museum,” Bill Wyatt, colonel, Virginia Militia director of communications & marketing, FOIA officer told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Both locations are potential options for relocation though a final decision has not been made. Also, there is no decision on what might replace the Jackson statue, if anything,” Col. Wyatt continued.
Officials, including Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, announced an investigation concerning “the clear and appalling culture of ongoing structural racism at the Virginia Military Institute,” following a WaPo story
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Get woke... Go broke...
“The Virginia Military Institute’s Board of Visitors is gutless.”
So is the University of Virginia’s. It has voted to “contextualize” the statue of Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University, that stands in front of the Rotunda which was designed and built by Jefferson. The UVA Board also approved the removal of the George Rogers Clark statue. It would not be surprising if in 10 years every aspect of Thomas Jefferson has been remove from the university.
Kaleb Tucker had better hope he gets a cooperative platoon sergeant when he gets out into the Big Army. Otherwise, Lt. Tucker will never make it.
Speechless.
Progressives are offended by the Scriptures too.
Disgusting
I imagine my son will drop his application
Like I said
We’re in Knoxville for his rugby tourney
I sent him this thread
His immediate response was we can do navy marine rotc somewhere a whole lot cheaper
Just pathetic
Wish I could get my dads seven figures bequeathment back
I could use it
With five kids
UVA is removing the statue of George Rogers Clark. Who I think is America’s greatest battlefield commander. Why do I say that? No one has done the most with the least. During the Revolution he took an army of 175 men and seized control of the Old Northwest - from the Ohio River to Indiana ! Just look at a map to see how incredible that was ! The campaign was so arduous that many of the survivors ended up having damaged health for life. Remember this is in age of no veterans benefits or medical care. All you got for your effort was maybe some land and a chance to be thanked on subsequent 4th of Julys. Now Virginia is tossing his memory aside !
Might as well
Just presume who the board of governors are
PC SLUGS AND CORPORATISTS
I’ll tell you who killed VMI
long ago it was Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Dick Thornburgh and George H W Bush
When they forced women on them with the threat of stripping ROTC
It’s been downhill since
Look who’s on the board
Three women
Several blacks
Over half are litigators
The others are corporate lifers
It’s a joke
Woke commissars
You can strip every man from West Point or Annapolis or Colorado Springs too
99% were racist by today’s measure
Makes no difference who’s army they fought for
My dad and his ‘55 classmates like Johnny Morgan and Troy Carter and Royce Jones .. all RIP ...would weep ....and men like that never cried in public anyhow
I just pulled my sons app....he’s disgusted
I’m disgusted
My dad left a ton of money to them......I’m so pissed
I wonder how the old school sorts like Margaret Jones....she was a big part of the alumni affairs for many years ....I was fond of her...I think she’s around 85 now
Btw....we have a cadre here who love this stuff....just for the record
I remember when they took Dixie from Ole Miss...my alma mater....courtesy Trent Lott’s son
“His immediate response was we can do navy marine rotc somewhere a whole lot cheaper”
Are USMA USNA out of the question? Other than a few years obligation that’s even cheaper.
Those require an appointment
Unlikely
Just as PC
they’ll strip White men from there too soon enough
Hope our resident assholes are happy
They’ve whistled past the graveyard here for 20 years
JR should have zotted them long ago
So? Today's teacher's unions, such as the NEA, follow the same policy and they don't need some steekin' law to make them do so.
Yep,
Gov Ralph ‘black face’ Northam !
Thomas J Jackson did it anyway in his Sunday School class at the Lexington Presbyterian Church. From 1855 until the war interrupted it.
Not only that but allowed them in ranks of the army not just as cooks or servants either but fully armed fully equipped infantry.
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