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VMI Board Votes No on Extending Wins’ Contract. Race Card Played. Now Will They Replace Him With an A-SB 2.0?
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The Virginia Military Institute voted 10 to 6 today against extending the contract of Superintendent Cedric T. Wins. His current contract expires June 30. Board members gave no explanation.
Wins has been embroiled in a knock-down, drag-out fight for four years with conservative alumni unhappy with changes he has made to the VMI culture, most notably the purging of the Stonewall Jackson statue and inscriptions from post, the watering down of the Honor Code, and implementation of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
National media are already making Wins’ race an issue. The New York Times headline reads, “The First Black Leader of Virginia Military Institute Is Ousted.”
The Times quoted state Senator Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William, a Black VMI alumna, as saying an interview that the chair of the VMI board of visitors, John D. Adams, told her the board no longer wanted a Black superintendent.
I flat-out don’t believe that, and not just because Adams denied through a spokesman that he ever said such a thing.
I have been conversing with dissident VMI alumni for years, and I have never once heard Wins’ race raised as an…
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