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VMI will change honor system that expels Black cadets at disproportionate rates
Washington Compost ^ | 2/5/22

Posted on 02/05/2022 5:37:56 AM PST by Altura Ct.

Virginia Military Institute will make changes to its student-run honor court to make the system fairer to cadets accused of lying, cheating, stealing or other transgressions that can lead to expulsion.

VMI detailed the reforms in a progress report Friday in response to a state-ordered investigation into racism and sexism at the nation’s oldest state-supported military college.

The 70-page report, which the college gave to General Assembly members and the Virginia secretary of education, describes initiatives approved, enacted or begun last year, including mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion training for administrators and members of VMI’s Board of Visitors, and changes to the Lexington school’s one-strike-and-you’re-out honor court system.

A Black VMI cadet was threatened with a lynching, then with expulsion Black students at VMI were expelled by the honor court at a disproportionately high rate, according to data obtained by The Washington Post for the three academic years between the fall of 2017 and the spring of 2020. Though Black cadets made up about 6 percent of the student body, they represented about 43 percent of those expelled for honor code violations. Twelve out of the 28 VMI students dismissed in those three academic years were Black. When students of color were included in the count, the number of expelled rose to 15, or about 54 percent of the total, even though minorities made up about 21 percent of the student population in that three-year period.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blacksupremacy; obamasfault
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So it isn't about honor but quotas. How pathetic.

As the Left continues its march through our institutions with little to no resistance.

1 posted on 02/05/2022 5:37:56 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

So more black cadets cheat etc than white cadets ...


2 posted on 02/05/2022 5:39:39 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Altura Ct.

Affirmative Action Racists.

VMI used to be a grand military institute but has become about as woke as the Left in this country has become utter destructive cancer.


3 posted on 02/05/2022 5:41:05 AM PST by cranked
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To: Tennessee Nana

That is one of the correlates of affirmative action and academic mismatch.


4 posted on 02/05/2022 5:41:16 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Altura Ct.

An honor system based on race isn’t an honor system; it’s a dishonorable quota system based on racism.


5 posted on 02/05/2022 5:42:43 AM PST by glennaro (Do not live your life in irrational fear. Live unmasked, unvaxxed, untested; unbullied and unafraid.)
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To: Altura Ct.

More proof the bell curve is real.
I’m not racist rather, resentful.


6 posted on 02/05/2022 5:44:28 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: Altura Ct.
As soon as I saw “black” capitalized I knew what the deal was.There's no more reason for “black” to be capitalized than there is for “white” to be capitalized.
7 posted on 02/05/2022 5:45:31 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: cranked

What would Stonewall think?


8 posted on 02/05/2022 5:45:37 AM PST by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Unless the word “black” appears in the honor code, nothing should be changed!


9 posted on 02/05/2022 5:47:06 AM PST by SunTzuWu
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To: Altura Ct.

So, blacks cannot handle honor, ethics, morals, and commit crimes.


10 posted on 02/05/2022 5:47:13 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Altura Ct.

And they say blacks never got reparations. Yet we see it everyday in things like this, and it’s everywhere. Special treatment constantly, at others expense.


11 posted on 02/05/2022 5:47:54 AM PST by imabadboy99
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VMI, like all “ universities “, are dying of WOKEness.

There is no known magic vaccine for socialism.


12 posted on 02/05/2022 5:47:58 AM PST by BrexitBen
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What would Stonewall think?

His statue was unavailable for comment.

13 posted on 02/05/2022 5:49:15 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: CodeToad

The black cadets were likely in over their heads academically.


14 posted on 02/05/2022 5:49:38 AM PST by Stevenfo
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To: imabadboy99

They’ve gotten half a century of reparations, and most have fallen even further behind. This is not how assimilation will be accomplished.


15 posted on 02/05/2022 5:50:37 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Altura Ct.
The destruction of our institutions continues.

My money $$$ is on China to take it all without firing a shot.

16 posted on 02/05/2022 5:50:44 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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“Though Black cadets made up about 6 percent of the student body, they represented about 43 percent of those expelled for honor code violations.”

Though black males between 15 and 35 make up about 3% of the population, they represent about 50% of those who murder other people.

Sounds about right.


17 posted on 02/05/2022 5:51:17 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Altura Ct.

Two defense contractors I worked for suspended random drug tests because they ONLY failed black workers. (Obviously, as at any large facility, there would be white users as well. However, unlike the blacks, they didn’t go out and do it publicly in the parking lots and thus, probably had a lower level of whatever in their urine.)


18 posted on 02/05/2022 5:51:50 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry.)
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To: Altura Ct.

I would hazard a guess that VMI will not be producing another George C. Marshall or Stonewall Jackson.

Just like the US Military Academies, who have now changed their Honor Code(s) to satisfy or maybe pacify the lowest common denominator.


19 posted on 02/05/2022 5:53:04 AM PST by Tupelo (“Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*ck things up” (Barack Obama))
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To: Altura Ct.
Hey! Why are you arresting for Blacks than Whites?

Because we arrest who we find at the scene of the crime!

Why is 'guilt' not a factor?

20 posted on 02/05/2022 5:54:30 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Who is Ray Epps?)
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