Posted on 12/07/2020 4:19:22 PM PST by Enlightened1
The Virginia Military Institute removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson on Monday morning. A small group watched as the bronze figure was hoisted off its pedestal in front of the VMI barracks.
The historic figure is being relocated from the campus in Lexington, Va., to its future home at the Virginia Museum of the Civil War and New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.
The statue was sculpted by Moses Ezekiel, a member of the class of 1866, and donated to VMI in 1912. And after standing for more than a century, VMI's board voted in favor of its removal in October.
Confederate statues across the U.S. came under attack over the summer as the nation wrestled with issues of racial injustice. VMI, the oldest state-supported military university in the country, was thrust into the spotlight after a Washington Post article alleged Black cadets and alumni endured "relentless racism."
The university was reluctant to remove the statue. Jackson was a professor at VMI before joining the Confederacy in 1861. Many of the institute's cadets served as drill instructors at Camp Lee when the Civil War started and others served and died in the name of the Confederacy.
The school's former superintendent, retired Army Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, resigned shortly after an investigation into the allegations was announced. The interim superintendent, retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, is the first African American to assume the position, The Associated Press reported last month.
"VMI does not define itself by this statue and that is why this move is appropriate. We are defined by our unique system of education and the quality and character of the graduates the Institute produces," Wins, a 1985 VMI graduate, said in a news release. "Our graduates embody the values of honor, respect, civility...
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“What Civil War? What do you mean Whites fought to free
Black slaves. No they didn’t!”
You know it’s coming.
I’m actually OK with it being moved to a battlefield ...
The end result of back when they were forced to let in that female.
You’ll know why I pinged you when you read the article...
I would be ashamed to go to school there now....
By tomorrow black IQ will increase 15 points, their crime rate will drop 50 percent, and their illegitimacy rate will drop 50 points. It’s them damn Confederate statues that have been holding them back all these years.
“What Civil War? What do you mean Whites fought to free
Black slaves. No they didn’t
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Yes but Not Stonewall Jackson. He fought for the exact opposite.
I suspect that will really help alumni donations... /S
I called a VMI graduate friend of mine. He lamented the decision. I asked him to name a couple of people to erect statues of to “replace” LTG Thomas Jackson. He recommended 3 VMI graduates:
LTG John A. Lejeune, USMC, Graduate and VMI Commandant during the Depression, who kept the school open during those lean years.
General Leonard T. Gerow, US Army
General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., USMC
Virtually all universities in the United States have been radicalized by the socialist-left.
If folks would quit sending these indoctrination centers their money, and their children, the United States would be a far better, and more sane, place.
(*sigh*) Faster than I ever thought possible.
I concur with moving the statue to the New Market Battlefield, in lieu of leaving it at VMI. And my VMI graduate friend I mentioned in my post #10, also that that New Market is a good alternate location. VMI cadets fought there in 1964 and it is an hour’s drive north of campus. It has a nice museum and the grounds, on both sides of interstate I-81 are open for walking.
The American Taliban win, again, as they plow through every institution that does not bend to their will. Truly pathetic display of cowardice by VMI.
This erasing of visible history is vile. If people think they are going to stop at just removing Southern history...then I have a bridge to sell you.
The North was not fighting to free slaves, they were fighting to make slaves of the Southern states. The South wasn't fighting to keep slaves, they already had the legal right to keep slaves under USA law. The South was fighting for independence from the Washington Deep State corruptocracy that we are all fighting against now.
“VMI cadets fought there in 1964 and it is an hour’s drive north of campus.”
What was that fight about?
Sorry but your comment is not serious and laughable.
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Commies.Dirty stinkin rotten ones at that.
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