Nick Anderson: In texts, #Youngkin appointee plots ‘battle royale for the soul of UVA’: Cellphone messages offer unfiltered view of Bert Ellis’s fight against giving slavery too much weight in University of Virginia’s story

"The University squandered taxpayer money in court for six months and illegally withheld these documents from the public because they demonstrate Governor Youngkin’s Board appointees are ignorant reactionaries consumed by hatred and neo-Confederate fantasies" — Jeff Thomas

#UVA #Virginia #LostCause #BertEllis #academicfreedom #foia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/23/uva-bert-ellis-text-messages