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Virginia Military Institute To De-Person Stonewall Jackson, Re-Attribute Quotes in Soviet-Style Purge
May 9th 2021, 5:40 am
Stonewall Jackson s name will be forgotten, and his quotes will be attributed to people who did not say them.
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VMI, the famed Virginia Military Institute that employed Confederate General Stonewall Jackson and played an integral role in America’s Civil War, has moved to de-person the General in a Soviet-style purge of the school’s Confederate history, going as far as to rip Jackson’s name away from his own quotes which emblazon a portion of the school and re-attribute them to someone else.
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VMI has been at the center of controversy after cadets alleged a system of racism at the school and for its veneration of the Confederacy. Gov. Ralph Northam, a member of the VMI class of 1981, ordered an investigation into systemic racism at the school. (Kristi Blokhin/Shutterstock)
LEXINGTON, VA The Virginia Military Institute s Board of Visitors voted to remove the name of Confederate General Thomas Stonewall Jackson from Memorial Hall on the grounds of the Lexington school.
The board of visitors also voted to remove Jackson s name from a quote inscribed on the Old Barracks at VMI. Because research has shown that Jackson did not originate the phrase, his name is being moved from underneath the quote, VMI said.