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jbouie Apr 23, 2023

there is without question a vocal group of UVA alumni who are essentially still mad that the university is integrated https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/us/uva-diversity-board-bert-ellis.html

At U.Va., an Alumnus Attacked D.E.I. Programs. Now, He Is on the Board.

As D.E.I. programs come under attack, a plan at the University of Virginia for “more diversity, less Confederacy” enraged some alumni, who started organizing against it.

The New York Times

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BrayingBoozehound

@jbouie Ever since Governor Vest rode to power on "parent's rights" it's been clear to me that the children of Massive Resistance, indoctrinated when young on United Daughters of the Confederacy curriculum, are in a blind rage that that indoctrination is now being challenged and their kids might find out that their relatives endorsed closing public schools rather than integrating and that portrait of Robert E. Lee hanging in their house signifies a lot of very ugly things.