Ask yourself some honest questions about Tillman

Jan 15, 2015, 3:55 PM

1. Do you love Clemson University more than you love Ben Tillman?

2. Is being associated with Ben Tillman's name in any way shape or form good for Clemson or bad for Clemson in 2015?

3. Is his association doing more harm than good?

The more I read about Ben Tillman, the more embarrassed I become that he had anything to do with our university. I really hope the powers that be change the name of Tillman Hall. I don't care about Mr. Tillman, or his soul. I care about the university I love. Mr. Tillman made his choices from a position in which he had all the advantages. He could have done a lot more good for the world than he did. He chose to do evil things. His legacy was ruined by his doings, not anyone else's. Please don't make excuses for him by saying it was all about the times that he lived in. The Ten Commandments had been handed down long before Mr. Tillman drew his first breath, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is kind of a biggie. Not to mention the "golden Rule" of, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Clemson needs to disassociate completely form any visible connection to this man, particularly anything that honors him.

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The name on the building was not indtended to nor does it honor Tillman's political views.

The building bears his name because without his efforts to lobby the South Carolina General Assembly to create a school as an agricultural institution for the state, there would be no Clemson University.

If you were to research it, I suspect you would find that the founding members of many colleges and universities throughout the country have some sort of racist history. Take the University of South Carolina as just one example. Rutledge College, DeSaussure College and McCutchen House all of whihc are located in USC's Horseshoe, are all named after people who strongly supported the protection of slavery. The McCutchen House even housed salves.

Some other schools like Brown, Emory, Yale and Harvard benefited greatly from their relationship with salvery and were built by the manual labor of slaves and with money made from the salve trade. Are similar name changes to be made at those schools as well?

It’s not the name on the outside of a building that negatively affects the attitudes of the students inside.

Ask yourself some honest questions about Tillman

I said it before and I will say it again....

Any chance USC has a building named after OJ Simpson?***

Hey man, OJ did a lot of great things too

Yeah, he proved there are still Americans that believe that

No but the Fighting Gamecock where they derived their

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