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Governor Who Wore Blackface Demands Investigation Into Alleged Racism At Virginia Military Institution

Ashe Schow
Governor Who Wore Blackface Demands Investigation Into Alleged Racism At Virginia Military Institution
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Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA), along with other top state officials, have called for an investigation into alleged racism at Virginia Military Institute.

The Hill reported that Northam and others sent a letter to VMI’s Board of Visitors announcing an “independent, third-party review” of the college after reports of racism surfaced in The Washington Post. Among the allegations are “structural racism,” an accusation that a professor described her family’s history as Ku Klux Klan members in positive terms, and alleged threats of lynching.

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