Campaign at Clemson University Says Football Players are Slaves
From what I can suss out of A.D. Carson of the See The Stripes Campaign’s arguments, anything you do on a former plantation without saying something along the lines of ‘Slavery Was Bad’ is racist. Or slavery. Or something.
I don’t know why I’m trying to make sense of this, because there is absolutely no sense to be made.
Dave Huber at the College Fix reports:
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.
“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 Student Campaign: Members of Football Team Are ‘Slaves’ (The College Fix)
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I note that A.D. Carson has the proper Plantation upbringing and mindset.
College sports has become the state subsidized gladitorial games of the US. The participants are not college students who also play sports, they are vocational athletes who have to take college courses in order to play. The colleges make money. The media make money. The politicians get the support of the church of the state (i.e., academia). If the athletes are successful, they go on to be free atheletes (in state sudsidised professional sports). If the athletes are lucky, they might get an education.