Saturday, August 1, 2020

Virginia Military Institute says it won't remove Confederate statues or rename buildings

Via Angie

 The Virginia Flaggers: Lee-Jackson Day 2014: Honoring Gen. Jackson ...
We do not *currently intend to remove any VMI statues or rename any VMI buildings. 
*Currently is the key word

 Virginia Military Institute's superintendent announced this week that the school won't remove Confederate statues or rename any buildings named after Confederate leaders.

In a seven-page letter written by the school's superintendent on Wednesday, Ret. Gen. J.H. Bindford Peay III said some of the college's African American cadets and alumni have expressed that parts of the VMI experience did not live up to their standards.

More @ ABC

10 comments:

  1. Dont know why it would take 7 pages to say, "no".

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    1. Guess he was a 4 star and thought that should be the minimum.......:)

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  2. Instead of currently, how about never?

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  3. i'm sure he wanted to cave to the pc crowd, like always, but the corp and rest of the alumni would lynch him. he wanted to bring lord northam for commencement this year. the corp and staff balked. of course that was back before the covid hoax.

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    1. Then I assume he spoke last year. Almost as bad as when Dee$ spoke and it was mandatory.

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    2. no. it was back in feb. for the may,2019 graduation. he brought it up and everybody balked big time. though the statues will remain, they will realign the entrance/exit to the barracks away from the Jackson arch/statue to downplay that part. makes me wonder what statue they will put up in front of the new entrance. probably oprah.

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  4. Good to see there is at least who still the stones the Good Lord gave them.

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