Clemson Student Campaign: Members of Football Team Are ‘Slaves’

A campaign dubbed See The Stripes is miffed at Clemson University, in particular its football program, for “fail(ing) to properly encompass the history of the school.”

See The Stripes’ A.D. Carson elaborates, making comparisons between the Tigers’ football squad and … slavery.

Campus Reform reports:

“The ‘Most Exciting 25 Seconds In College Football’ is literally the Clemson Football Program running downhill, away from the university’s slaveholding past and a relic standing as a symbol of it, onto the field that generates significant amounts of money for the school and a large part of it’s [sic] reputation,” the student, who identifies himself as A.D. Carson, says.

“And, yes, to be clear, I am making a connection between the fields the slaves worked for Master Calhoun and the field on which student-athletes give their time, talent, blood, sweat and tears for The Program,” Carson continued.

Carson added that “he wishes he would have known he was attending a ‘school on a plantation.’” If you’re wondering how a supposedly bright individual had absolutely no inkling of the region’s/state’s history, check it:

… he says that even had he been more aware of the southern history of South Carolina school, he still would have chosen to attend the university after he explained his decision to his friends and family.

Whew! Thank goodness!

Clemson political science professor Dr. J. David Woodard says Carson is misguided: