Racist Post in Alumni Facebook Group Condemned by Citadel, Latest in String of Incidents …

The Citadel is condemning a fake news release posted in an alumni Facebook group that made racist comments falsely attributed to the historic military college’s administrators. The fake news release mimicked the look of the school’s own press statements, using The Citadel’s logo with the headline “Achieving Racial Equity: The Citadel to install African-American Water Fountain in the lobby of Mark Clark Hall.” It included a photo, underneath the headline, of two water fountains, with a sign over one reading “African-American Cadets Only,” emblematic of Jim Crow-era policies levied against Black Americans. Read Next: ISIS Leader Detonated Suicide Bomb Killing Family as Troops Closed In, US Military Says The post was shared in “The Citadel ‘Old Corps'” alumni group, which is open only to cadets who graduated from the historic military college in Charleston, South Carolina, prior to 2000. Promoting a historical inaccuracy, the group says that moderators “will not tolerate the glorification of the hypocritical northern aggression that started the Civil War.” Immediately, the post drew strong criticism from other alumni and was deleted. A screenshot of the fraudulent news release was shared with Military.com. The fake release featured three fraudulent quotes attributed to the Citadel’s president, the president…
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