{"id":108988,"date":"2023-02-22T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=108988"},"modified":"2023-02-22T02:49:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:49:10","slug":"at-vmi-two-classmates-one-black-one-white-war-over-schools-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=108988","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;At VMI, two classmates \u2014 one Black, one White \u2014 war over school\u2019s future&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2023\/02\/21\/vmi-cedric-wins-matt-daniel-dei\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Months into the new superintendent\u2019s tenure, Daniel, now 60, and other 1985 graduates launched a political action committee called the Spirit of VMI. The group has been pushing back forcefully against Wins, 59, and his\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vmi.edu\/about\/governance\/administration\/chief-diversity-officer\/inclusive-excellence\/\" target=\"_blank\">diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives<\/a>, which are intended to attract more minorities and women to campus and make them feel valued and respected as cadets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReject the woke assault on VMI,\u201d one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiritofvmimission.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PAC\u2019s websites&nbsp;<\/a>blares in all-caps. \u201cClose ranks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 183-year-old school, whose cadets fought and died for the Confederacy during the Civil War, did not admit African Americans until 1968 or women until 1997. VMI remains mostly White and male, with Black students making up about 8 percent of the 1,500 corps of cadets<strong>,<\/strong>\u00a0and women accounting for 13.5 percent. It received $29 million from the state for this academic year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Months into the new superintendent\u2019s tenure, Daniel, now 60, and other 1985 graduates launched a political action committee called the Spirit of VMI. The group has been pushing back forcefully against Wins, 59, and his\u00a0diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, which are intended to attract more minorities and women to campus and make them feel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108989,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108988\/revisions\/108989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}