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Posted on 01/24/2026 6:08:33 AM PST by C19fan
Virginia Democrats in the state’s House of Delegates introduced a resolution on Tuesday that would establish a task force to investigate the Virginia Military Institute and determine if the historic military college should continue to receive funding.
The move is the latest of Virginia Democrats’ efforts to reinvigorate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policy in the state after much of the DEI mandates and policies were revoked after President Donald Trump was elected in 2024.
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That makes her no different than any other ‘supposed’ moderate democrat. There is no such thing!
The Leftists in Virginia control the House of Delegates, the Senate, and the Governor’s Mansion. They are striking while the iron is hot to advance their communist agenda in the Commonwealth. I predict bad things ahead.
Detailed discussion of current Virginia issues here:
Democrats know how to play hardball.
Reward your friends.
Punish your enemies.
All that “democracy” and “rule of law” stuff is for the Sunday talk shows.
Then they go out and get real.
Sue every step backwards they take
Very, very bad things are in store for Virginia. Not just this DEI violation of the Civil Rights Act.
It’s that whole “Erase the Confederacy” thing. While liberals think it is the #1 priority for Black people, even if they aren’t intelligent enough to realize it.
Move VMI to West Virginia.
President Trump should announce that any graduates of a college that indoctrinates students with DEI will not be eligible to join the U.S. military as an officer.
That should settle the governor’s hash.
WIKI (”I know, I know....”)
VMI alumni include more than 285 general and flag officers, including the first five-star General of the Army, George Marshall; seven recipients of the highest U.S. military decoration, the Medal of Honor; and more than 80 recipients of the second-highest awards, the Distinguished Service Cross and Navy Cross.
In 1834, the Franklin Society, a local literary and debate society, debated, “Would it be politic for the State to establish a military school, at the Arsenal, near Lexington, in connection with Washington College, on the plan of the West Point Academy?” They unanimously concluded that it would. Lexington attorney John Thomas Lewis Preston became the most active advocate of the proposal. In a series of three anonymous letters in the Lexington Gazette in 1835, he proposed replacing the arsenal guard with students living under military discipline, receiving some military education, as well as a liberal education. The school’s graduates would contribute to the development of the state and, should the need arise, provide trained officers for the state’s militia.
Virginia Military Institute was the last public college in Virginia to integrate, first admitting black cadets in 1968, but interracial problems persisted long afterward. According to The Washington Post, even in 2020 “Black cadets still endure[d] relentless racism [in an] atmosphere of hostility and cultural insensitivity”.
In 1990 the U.S. Department of Justice filed a discrimination lawsuit against VMI for its all-male admissions policy. While the court challenge was pending, a state-sponsored Virginia Women’s Institute for Leadership (VWIL) was opened at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, as a parallel program for women. The VWIL continued, even after VMI’s admission of women.
After VMI won its case in U.S. District Court, the case went through several appeals until June 26, 1996, when the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7–1 decision in United States v. Virginia, found that it was unconstitutional for a school supported by public funds to exclude women. (Justice Clarence Thomas recused himself, presumably because his son was attending VMI at the time.) Following the ruling, VMI contemplated going private to exempt itself from the 14th Amendment, and thus avoid the ruling.
Assistant Secretary of Defense Frederick Pang, however, warned the school that the Department of Defense would withdraw ROTC programs from the school if privatization took place. As a result of this action by Pang, Congress passed a resolution on November 18, 1997, prohibiting the Department of Defense from withdrawing or diminishing any ROTC program at one of the six senior military colleges, including VMI. This escape clause provided by Congress came after the VMI Board of Visitors had already voted 9–8 to admit women; the decision was not revisited. VMI thereby reluctantly became the last U.S. military college to admit women. Superintendent at the time Josiah Bunting III called this a “savage disappointment”.
In August 1997, VMI enrolled its first female cadets. The first co-ed class consisted of thirty women, who matriculated as part of the class of 2001. In order to accelerate VMI’s matriculation process, several women were allowed to transfer directly from various junior colleges, such as New Mexico Military Institute (NMMI), and forgo the traditional four-year curriculum required of most. The first female cadets “walked the stage” in 1999 for graduation, although by VMI’s definitions they are considered to be members of the class of 2001. Initially, these 30 women were held to the same strict physical courses and technical training as the male cadets, and even were required to shave their heads. In a July 2021 Washington Post article, it was alleged that derision, misogyny, sexual assault were continuous issues at VMI.
In 2021, the VMI Board of Visitors appointed the first black superintendent, Cedric T. Wins, who was expected to lead diversity efforts. In October, the board also announced several diversity-related decisions: a diversity officer would be appointed, a diversity and inclusion committee would be created, and diversity initiatives created to include a focus on gender and the adoption of a diversity hiring plan. Nine months later, a report into racial intolerance charged by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia was delivered. The independent report concluded that VMI “maintained and allowed a racist and sexist culture that, until recently, it had no appetite to address”. The authors, employed by the law firm Barnes & Thornburg, also accused the institution’s leadership, including its governing board, with an “unwillingness to change or even question its practices”.
On February 28, 2025, the board voted not to extend Wins’ contract.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Military_Institute
Patriots, Call Congress
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Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
TTY/TTD Comments: 202-456-6213
Send a letter to the White House
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Message: Democrats in Va’s House of Delegates introduced a resolution establishing a “tax-subsidized task force” to investigate the Virginia Military Institute to determine if the historic military college should continue to receive tax dollars. funding.
This is the latest Democrat effort to reinvigorate DEI policy in the state after much of the DEI mandates and policies were revoked when President Donald Trump was elected in 2024.
Patriots, Call Congress
US Capitol switchboard
(202) 224-3121.
Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
TTY/TTD Comments: 202-456-6213
Send a letter to the White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500
Message: Democrats in Va’s House of Delegates introduced a resolution establishing a “tax-subsidized task force” to investigate the Virginia Military Institute to determine if the historic military college should continue to receive tax dollars. funding.
This is the latest Democrat effort to reinvigorate DEI policy in the state after much of the DEI mandates and policies were revoked when President Donald Trump was elected in 2024.
Thank you for posting that
I hope VMI does not cave to the haters
Spamburger campaigned as a pragmatist, fighting for “An affordable Virginia.”
Immediately upon taking office...
“Her party opened with bills to impose softer sentencing, sanctuary for illegal aliens, gun restrictions, higher taxes, and election rules that lock in power.”
VMI should be mothballed until sanity returns.
What it cranks out under DIE is worthless.
Spanberger is being referred to as a ‘deranged bitch’ in some circles...spot on, I say. 19th Amendment strikes again.
Elon Musk could completely undercut all of this. I mean, I know it’s not his responsibility, but if I were as rich as he is, my hobby would be privately funding conservative entities just to enrage liberals. It would be fun! LOL!
“ Spamburger campaigned as a pragmatist, fighting for “An affordable Virginia.”
Immediately upon taking office...”
Hopefully the RNC will produce some very strong campaign commercials to reinforce the concept that there are no moderate Democrats. Just show side-by-side pictures of how Spanberger campaigned compared with what she did on her the first day in office. For decades, Democrats have lied during their campaigns.
The people of Virginia, sadly, will get what they voted for.
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