West Point’s Empty Promise of Diversity and Respect
8 min readJun 9, 2020
Written May 2019
As long as Lee Barracks stands, it serves as a permanent barrier to the inclusion of Black students into the Corps of Cadets.
I will continue to feel unwelcome at this academy knowing that in the mid 1960’s, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, West Point dedicated a building to Robert E. Lee as an institutional celebration of…