VMI alumni push to reverse diversity reforms, invoking critical race theory

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VMI alumni push to reverse diversity reforms, invoking critical race theory

One White alumnus launched a petition drive and another filed a lawsuit to stop VMI’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
 
By Ian Shapira
April 16, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
 
Conservative Virginia Military Institute alumni are using a petition drive and a lawsuit to challenge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the nation’s oldest state-supported military college, ignoring the priorities of VMI’s first Black superintendent.

Though VMI’s leader, retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, has been increasingly vocal about the need for diversity initiatives, a network of older, White alumni upset with the school’s reforms is ratcheting up their attacks on the college’s new agenda. The group — irate over a state-ordered investigation last year that concluded the college suffered from a “racist and sexist culture” — appears emboldened by the election of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), who banned teaching “critical race theory" in K-12 schools and purged the word “equity” from Virginia’s education system.

VMI’s first Black superintendent blasts White critics of diversity and equity reform

The disgruntled alumni are homing in on a specific target: NewPoint Strategies, a Northern Virginia consulting firm whose clients have included the Defense Department, Fortune 500 companies, federal government agencies, universities and nonprofits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/04/16/vmi-critical-race-theory-equity/

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First of all, the problem isn't the people who object to CRT, the problem apparently is VMI hired a black racist who own "diversity" view is ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACIST.   I haven't seen anything that indicates the objectors are racist.  In reality they are more for diversity than the leader at VMI since they at least can see CRT is racist and not positive from an equality point of view.