Vice President Pence is set to speak to cadets Thursday at the Virginia Military Institute, the country's oldest state-supported military college and a campus that takes pride in its Confederate past.
Tucker, who was a starting cornerback on VMI’s football team, launched
“You feel downgraded as a person, belittled when you walk past the Jackson statue,” said Tucker, a business data analyst in Hampton, Va., who tried to ignore the memorial but said he felt like a “coward” for doing so. “I’d be walking back happy from lunch and then I’d go past this statue of a slavemaster, and suddenly I was just like, ‘Wow, I am really here.’ I was disappointed in myself, but I couldn’t do anything about it. I was forced to live this reality.
“The problem is that Black Americans think that heritage is full of hate,” she said. “We don’t think you should celebrate defenders of slavery.” saying the school was committed to improving the experiences of minority cadets and creating an “equitable institution beyond reproach.”, a Class of 2015 graduate and Army captain based in Colorado who complained that the “core” of the school was “under attack by those who seek to destroy these noble ideas that have made VMI cadets an ‘honor to their country and state.’”“Yes, Jackson owned six slaves. No, he was not a perfect man, however he must be judged through the context of his age.
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