Posted on 12/07/2020 6:22:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LEXINGTON, Va. - - The Virginia Military Institute began work Monday to remove a prominent statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, an effort initiated this fall after allegations of systemic racism roiled the school.
A crew was inspecting the statue at the public military college in Lexington, poised to haul away the statue of Jackson that some cadets were required to salute until several years ago.
VMI’s board voted to remove the statue in late October after The Washington Post published a story that described an “atmosphere of hostility and cultural insensitivity” at VMI. The piece detailed incidents such as lynching threats and a white professor reminiscing in class about her father’s Ku Klux Klan membership.
Founded in 1839, VMI says it is the oldest state-supported military college in the U.S.
The Post’s story also led to the ouster of VMI’s superintendent, retired Army Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, and prompted state officials to commit to hiring an outside firm to investigate the students’ allegations.
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History? What’s that?
Do, VMI goes and practices racism against whites??
Hopefully, they’ll be able to find some artifacts from The Field Of Lost Shoes, so’s they can burn those, too.
Jackson was a teacher at the school and anti-slavery. But I guess history must be erased or rewritten to better mold modern minds to accept the Party Line. (Orwell arrives, just a few decades late...)
Jackson was never President of America that’s just whitey spouten hate.
Oh - it’s just the Washington Post, lying about sh*t again.
The first word of the title is Virginia.
Virginia is a leftist entity that has seceded from the nation by tacit gubernatorial actions.
If the governor was dead, the state might return to being normal
Cowards...all who are responsible for this.
Systemic racism stays as long as VMI practices affirmative action.
How about closing the school entirely?
Who the Hell wants some namby-pamby, lying, tradition-hating, alumni-denying, gay-friendly, gender fraternizing, sin-fostering “institution” forming kids and teaching them how to fight?
These people don’t have one one thousandth of the honor, integrity and faith that General Thomas J. Jackson had. This is what happens when white guilt infects America.
They need to change the name of their “Institute” to the Virginia Chickensh** Prostitute.
Wow
What a bunch of A-Holes
Thank You Nimrata Randhawa
It’s not her history, that’s why she doesn’t care.
Please post from a reliable source. The AssPress is not
News.
They are replacing it with a statue of Barney.
Probably much of Virginia’s problems due to the growth of the Federal government beyond its Constitutionally permitted spending & regulating, and the proximity of DC.
Et tu, VMI?
...or Colin Kaepernick
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