They graduated together in 1985. Now VMI’s first Black superintendent, Cedric T. Wins, is under fire from “brother rat” Matt Daniel.
the 2012 death of Black classmate LaMont Toliver, the president of the Promaji club during their senior year. Daniel and Wins, he wrote, were among the 1,500 people who attended a memorial service in Toliver’s honor.But two years later, on Nov. 25, 2014, Daniel took to his public Facebook page to denounce rioters in Ferguson, Mo. They’dafter a grand jury’s decision not to indict White police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown.
Below the post, in a comment, Daniel added: “Let’s hope all of these destructive animals go home and build a plan to become law-abiding contributors instead of the arsonists, looters, muggers, rapists, drug addicts, pimps, whores, gangster a-----e cowards that they obviously are.” He called the child’s death tragic, but also noted that CNN and other news outlets had reported on it and that the perpetrator would be “punished to the full extent of the law.”
Daniel replied: “I looked for it yesterday and posted his name solely because of media neglect. Period. Since then, Fox has picked it up and I guess CNN May have too. They were too slow. Media coverage is criminally slanted Left and will contribute to the undoing of this Republic … I would hardly call this post a rant.”By the end of 2020, Daniel said on Facebook that he opened an account under the username @EggBoyRises on Gab, a social media platform, neo-Nazis and other far-right figures.
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