VMI cadets attack Black students, women on anonymous chat app as furor over racism grows
Source: Washington Post
VMI cadets attack Black students, women on anonymous chat app as furor over racism grows
By Ian Shapira
10/27/2020, 8:00:00 a.m.
The cadets were angry, venting on an anonymous chat app widely used at the Virginia Military Institute.
The target of their rage: Black cadets and alumni who publicly detailed in a Washington Post story the relentless racism they had encountered at the nations oldest state-supported military college.
On Jodel pronounced Yodel the reaction from VMI students was filled with exactly the kind of bigotry that prompted Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) and other state officials to order an independent investigation of VMIs culture last week. On Monday, the schools superintendent, retired Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, resigned, saying hed been told by the governors chief of staff that Northam and other state legislators had lost confidence in my leadership and wanted him out.
While a VMI official assured Northam that systemic racism does not exist here and a fair and independent review will find that to be true, students on Jodel offered an unfiltered glimpse of the sometimes virulent atmosphere on the Lexington campus. The app, which does not require users to register by name, is popular at military colleges and service academies.
Im sorry but to the cadets (who) reported to the Washington Post you are the reason we are more divided. You decide to be a professional victim and bitch and complain, one student posted. Someone is making a racist joke. GET OVER IT. Comedians can make them. Why cant I. Everyday in Crozet VMIs dining hall black cadet(s) separate yourselves by sitting in the corner of crozet and sometimes acting foolish.
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a kennedy
(29,744 posts)electric_blue68
(14,978 posts).... besides white people currently working on being anti racist; each generation of white kids are becoming more and more anti racist.
As those enter working life etc they will help to further dismantle institutional racism.
Unfortunately individual white racists (without institutional power) will still be around, but hopefully also less, and less of them as well!
hatrack
(59,596 posts)atreides1
(16,100 posts)Show that these cadets are cowards, just like the former school superintendent! He could have fought, but chose to turn and tuck tail...
appalachiablue
(41,187 posts)Aristus
(66,487 posts)when reacting to being called racist...