The Virginia governor has ordered an investigation for the accusations of systemic racism at the school following which the Superintendent of that top US military academy resigned from his post on Monday. Retired general JH Binford Peay III, Virginia Military Institute (VMI), has issued a letter. In which he said Democratic Governor Ralph Northam had "lost confidence in my leadership" and "desired my resignation."

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For the past 17 years 80 years old Peay was heading one of the oldest military universities in the country. The death of African American George Floyd during an arrest by police in May, by the US military being one of the country's institutions where minorities represent the most has opened up a major internal debate on race. The VMI graduates and the Black students started to share on social media incidents where the school authorities allegedly indifferent to racist insults from fellow cadets, undeserved punishment, even racist musings of teachers.

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Few students expressed how they were ill-treated based on racism, one student remembered how one  teacher fondly mentioned her father, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, another one how first-year cadets are ordered to salute a statue of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Following the allegations Northam last week ordered a probe into "the clear and appalling culture of ongoing structural racism at the Virginia Military Institute," that receives public funding. However, black cadets say the school's leadership would not acknowledge the racist nature of the institution's culture, instead of calling it "tradition."

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