The VMI community, Virginians – indeed, Americans who care about the survival of their institutions – must reject completely the pernicious and poisonous concept of structural (systemic, institutional) racism under a neo-Marxist based definition.
In May of this year, George Floyd died; seven months later, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) removed its statue of Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson from its prominent position at the nation’s oldest state-supported four-year military college. The two events – one in Minnesota’s largest city, the other in Virginia’s picturesque Shenandoah Valley – had nothing to do with one another. How did this happen; what are its implications?
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