A families position on the issues with Clemson Helmets

Sep 17, 2020, 6:39 AM

My family has been supportive of Clemson University for three generations. My father and five of his brothers attended Clemson as did I and many of my first cousins. A photo of my Uncle Scott hung in Fike Fieldhouse for years as he was co-captain of his football team and an all ACC tight end at Clemson. We have loved and supported Clemson academics and athletics. My wife and I jokingly call our former homeschool/playroom the Clemson Room where we hung and placed all of our Clemson memorabilia.
However, today I am sorely disappointed and ashamed of my alma mater. You all probably know why as the pictures of Clemson helmets made the rounds on social media. It is unclear to me whether the stickers on those helmets were actually on them during the game, but it doesn't matter – the damage is done. Of course, some people have attempted to rationalize the athletes applying those stickers and some just don't think it is a big deal, but I have been troubled by it.
Now I'm pretty sure Coach Swinney does not support Marxism nor do many, if any, of his players. Nevertheless, by allowing the Black Lives Matter logo to be applied to a helmet at a tax-payer-funded school smacks of capitulation. He is capitulating to the social pressures of the day along with his student athletes who are being swept away in the tide of political correctness.
No doubt they would not allow the students to put a Christian symbol on the back of their helmets, which would make the vast majority of Clemson supporters extremely happy, nor would they allow the rebel flag to be put on the helmets, which would also make lots of southerners happy.
So why should they allow the symbol of an organization co-founded by Patrisse Cullors, who called herself and the other founders "trained Marxists" in 2015? Indeed, Cullors is the "protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and she spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview."
OK, so we saw the pictures of Trump holding up his fist as a symbol of triumph (I've done the same thing), and the other pictures we can all find on the internet of the upheld fist (including the Olympic athletes in 1968 and the Black Panthers, also a socialist organization founded by Marxist college students), but let's not fool ourselves. Black Lives Matters purposefully chose the "black clenched fist of 'Power to the People' symbolizing the mob violence of international Marxism." In recent weeks we have had ample evidence of this violence, wholesale destruction, and terrorism, and now we're honoring them by putting their symbol on college students' football helmets??
Clemson – you can do better. Institutions of higher learning like Clemson should be committed to teaching the truth about history and political organizations like BLM.
All of us are opposed to injustice of any stripe involving any ethnic group, including that perpetrated on the unborn. However, BLM which is anti-nuclear family, anti-Christian, anti-American, and anti-Constitution does not fairly represent any true American of any ethnic group. It only represents the socialists who are intent on destroying the things that most of us hold dear.
The symbol of BLM has no place on any item of a tax-funded state institution and is the very antithesis of freedom. In fact, we would go so far as to say nothing belongs on a college football helmet except the college logo.

This was forwarded to me from another social media platform. I am only sharing this individual's view on this issue.

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Like you or whomever wrote this message, I am from a Clemson family as well. My Clemson roots go back to the 1890's when my grandfather was one of Clemson's first students. My father and 3 of his brothers attended Clemson, not that this really matters much. BLM was founded as a group in opposition to the wholesale serial slaughter of black men by police officers all over the country which has largely been captured on cell phones. Prior the the popular use of cell phones, God only know what went on, but I would guess that this practice was more widespread, and possibly a helluva lot more widespread. Now the references to Marxism, Communism, Socialism or what have you are trappings which right wing commentators have attached to the movement along the way, but that doesn't matter either. The movement was a response to the widespread murder of persons detained by police. Here in south carolina we have tape of an officer shooting a black man in the back and then rearranging evidence rather than rendering aid. This is a big ####### problem and, the failure to see this, indicates to me that the observer is being guided by preconceived views which have nothing to do with the rule of law.

I applaud those players who made the decision to incorporate BLM onto the helmets. These guys have realized that they are not just football players, but members of a society in need of change. Once again our program is leading the country in more ways than one. If this position causes us to lose some fans who don't like it, then I say good riddance. You won't be missed. Adios.

A families position on the issues with Clemson Helmets

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Total disregard of white privilege.

My family's position........

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