Season 4 Sneak Peek

Sounds Like Hate

Southern Poverty Law Center

Documentary, Society & Culture, News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.6 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

This exclusive trailer for season four of Sounds Like Hate (coming June 14) takes you inside the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, where an independent investigation exposed a longstanding culture of systemic racism. Alumni and students demanded change – including the removal of memorials glorifying the Confederacy. Now, for the first time in 182 years, a Black superintendent has been appointed to lead at VMI. Will he be able to implement real change?

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0:00.0	The Virginia Military Institute, or VMI, has been described by state investigators as a school run by white men for white men.
0:14.2	VMI freshmen, better known as rats, like Ingrid Joseph, an 18-year-old track star, a young black woman, was forced to carry
0:24.7	a rifle and pretend she was a Confederate soldier fighting to keep black people enslaved.
0:31.6	They're like, run, Ingrid, run. And I was like, I'm not running. I didn't come here to learn
0:36.0	about the Confederacy. In the spring of
0:38.4	2020, VMI, located in Lexington, Virginia, was unprepared for the racial reckoning it was about
0:46.8	to face concerning its past and its future. A group of alumni and students were demanding change, and they were not afraid to fight for it.
0:57.8	A new report finds systemic racism and sexism at Virginia Military Institute. An investigation exposed
1:04.3	the ugly truth. Virginia Military Institute is removing a symbol of its history.
1:09.7	VMI was urged to remove offensive Confederate iconography and end the systemic racism at the school.
1:17.6	Will Major General Cedric Wins, the first black superintendent,
1:22.6	appointed to lead VMI in 182 years be able to implement real change?
1:29.4	We have weathered many storms.
1:31.4	Our foundation is solid and not easily shaken.
1:34.3	Coming up in season four of the podcast series sounds like hate,
1:38.6	available June 14th, 2022.
1:41.9	Brought to you by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
1:45.2	I'm Yvonne Laddie.
1:46.4	And I'm Jamila Paxima.
1:48.2	Listen and subscribe.
1:49.9	Anywhere you get your favorite podcasts.

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