Tuesday, April 26, 2022

So VMI Isn't Structurally Racist After All


The Washington Post’s Ian Shapira and his social justice allies in Richmond and Lexington, Virginia, must be worried, big-time. For nearly two years running, their Axis-Against-VMI has enjoyed remarkable success: forcing an honorable VMI superintendent to resign; removing Lt. Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson’s statue, and his name from Jackson Arch; renaming buildings and recontextualizing the past; inserting divisive ideology into courses; and establishing a diversity office at the school. To explain all of this, and the sheeplike climate that has permeated a once-willing-to-stand-apart-from-cultural-faddishness military school of high reputation, one must return to the previous, disgraced governor of Virginia. Ralph Northam came within the proverbial gnat’s eyelash of being forced from office in 2018 when his own racial insensitivities as a younger man came to light. But the VMI 1981 alumnus and former President of the VMI Honor Court – he included this on his official stationery – apparently experienced a change of heart. He embraced the demands of neo-Marxist-based, Critical Race Theory (CRT) devotees within the ranks of Richmond’s political powerbrokers, and he kept his job. In September 2019, he hired Virginia’s “first cabinet-level Chief Diversity Officer. . . . also the first [position] of its kind in the nation.”[1] In the aftermath of Northam’s insensitive behavior years earlier, one year after it had come to light he established a powerful new office – one previously unknown to the cabinet-level apparatus of any state in the country. This was astounding.

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1 comment:

  1. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is as obnoxious as they claim. Our Nation lays dormant benieth their spewed fertilizer. We are nearing the end of their Reign of Evil and Distopian Drivel. They have very few nasty tricks left in their bags. Joe Bidens latest escapades in Isreal and Saudi Arabia are proof of their eminent demise. Their figurative blood will nourish the Freedom Forests, and Orchards, of thus Great Land. Spring will be Glorious! Here is a Great article, and wrapup for ole Jobama, from Kunstler for you entertainment my Friend. Get Well Soon.

    https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-last-days-of-joe-biden/

    Cheers.

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