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Judi Lynn

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Thu Sep 14, 2017, 04:11 PM Sep 2017

UVA to donate money in symbolic repayment of KKK pledge

Source: Associated Press


Updated 1:15 pm, Thursday, September 14, 2017

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The University of Virginia is donating to a medical fund for people injured during last month's white nationalist rallies, in a rebuke of a donation the Ku Klux Klan pledged to the university nearly a century ago.

Local media report UVA President Teresa Sullivan says the donation of $12,500 is roughly equal in today's dollars to the $1,000 the KKK pledged in 1921.

It's not clear if the KKK made good on its pledge, but Sullivan says the university wants to acknowledge it, in a way that's "as disagreeable as possible" for any remnants of the hate group.

The repayment is among the demands student groups have made since the August violence.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/education/article/UVA-to-donate-money-in-symbolic-repayment-of-KKK-12198176.php



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UVA to donate money in symbolic repayment of KKK pledge (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2017 OP
Meanwhile at VMI (another state school) they are keeping their statues underpants Sep 2017 #1

underpants

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1. Meanwhile at VMI (another state school) they are keeping their statues
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 04:25 PM
Sep 2017

Not that this surprised me

http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/vmi-leaders-say-military-college-will-keep-confederate-statues/article_1112d889-859c-53e5-a51b-cdcabbaa3a1d.html

Leaders of Virginia Military Institute said Tuesday that the school will keep its Confederate statues and consider adding more historical context in the aftermath of last month’s violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.

At a VMI board of visitors meeting Tuesday, VMI Superintendent J.H. Binford Peay III defended the school’s traditions while declaring that “there’s no place for discrimination” at the state-supported military college. The school, founded in Lexington before the outbreak of the Civil War, has continually evolved since it was racially integrated in 1968, Peay said.

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