The statue’s removal is part of a series of major changes at the school, including the resignation of the institute’s longtime superintendent Gen. J.H. Binford Peay III and the call for an investigation by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, another VMI alumnus. Peay was replaced by Cedric Rims, the first Black superintendent to lead the school. VMI also pledged to create an office of diversity, eliminating its status as the lone state-supported college or university in Virginia without an office of inclusion or diversity.

VMI’s student body of 1,698 is six percent Black, according to the State Council of Higher Education For Virginia.

The school will need a lot more time to remove actual white supremacy from the campus.

Source: VMI Removes Stonewall Jackson Statue