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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Get him started on the Acela Corridor.
Oh, goody goody. Just another Leftist turd of a different color is all.
If people in the U.S. “fought to free Black slaves” they did so unnecessarily. The original constitution provided an amendment process to emancipate slaves peacefully. It should have been used, or better yet the slaves states should have voted to exclude slavery from the U.S. Constitution from the start.
The slave states were: New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland.
Also North and South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia were
slave states. Don't ever forget to cast 4/13ths responsibility in that direction.
My son removed his application too
You believe the fake history you are taught in the same way brainwashed liberals believe the fake news they are taught.
No kidding...
Stuck on that I see. Pray tell, what do you know about the "Acela Corridor", and why is it called that?
Stonewall Jackson would approve after giving them the bayonet!!!
No Jackson did not either.
Amen.
Disgraceful wimps erasing U.S. history to appease the commies.
It was about whether or not a bunch of Union soldier could take a tourist trip down the Shenandoah Valley to visit the town of Staunton. Ten VMI cadets died there and 48 were wounded.
https://www.vmi.edu/archives/civil-war-and-new-market/battle-of-new-market/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Market
Goods good, but I’m darn near the end of my rope retreating.
If? You lost me right there.
Thank you Nimrata Randhawa
This is exactly right
Slavery wasn’t abolished in 1861
The Union was
I’ll take it.
“VMI cadets fought there in 1964 and it is an hour’s drive north of campus.”
What was that fight about?
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Wasn’t 1964 or so when they started ‘integrating’ the schools in ‘the South’? HA HA....
Well, when you get un-lost, ask yourself this question: If the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?
Quite honestly, you lost me at if.
Later.
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