Thread by @originalspin

Please note: the reason Dems are fucked in VA isn’t that “woke purity” has created a “circular firing squad,” it’s that Dems have repeatedly elevated men, especially white men, to power for expedient reasons, even if they weren’t the best and most thoroughly vetted candidates.

Just nominate women of color for everything for a generation

Both sides of the aisle.

Republicans can try with their Nikki Haleys and Mia Loves and maybe Candice Owens or whatever.

I’m confident that the women of color on the left can thoroughly outshine and outdo whatever the right can come up with.

https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1093625871783604230?s=21

💯 💯 💯 !
VMI had its origins in an arsenal kept “in event of invasion or *slave revolt*.” Stonewall Jackson was a faculty member and during the Civil War, the Confederates called up cadets to serve in their ranks!

https://twitter.com/jamaicandale/status/1093626399229923329?s=21

In 2017, a bunch of VMI bros were in the news for winning a Halloween contest dresses as Trump’s Wall, with the words “NO CHOLOS” spray painted on their costume
wset.com/news/local/vmi…

In 2012 VMI cadets were found to be populating a Quickmeme page full of wildly racist and sexist content (note: women were only allowed at VMI beginning in 1997, after a six-year fight that cost the college millions of dollars)
washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-…

Please remember: VMI IS A STATE SUBSIDIZED MILITARY ACADEMY. But it’s 89% male, 80% white, and half of cadets are from families making more than $110K a year.

@jamaicandale is absolutely right: Don’t sleep on VMI’s role in shaping whole generations of racist white male leaders.