By Ian Shapira November 13, 2020 at 5:50 p.m. EST
Under fierce attack over racism in its ranks, the Virginia Military Institute has appointed a Black man to lead the school for the first time in its 181-year history, VMI officials announced Friday. [Why is it that things have to be completely f*cked up before we get an opportunity to lead? And as interim, no less.]
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, who graduated from VMI in 1985, will serve as interim superintendent until the Board of Visitors appoints a permanent chief to oversee the country’s oldest state-funded military college. He takes over from the school’s longtime superintendent, retired Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III, who resigned after Black cadets described startling bigotry in a Washington Post report. Read HERE.