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Based on the timing and the author, that article is written for two reasons.

#1 with Sapakoff is to figure out any way possible to slander and try to dirty anything related to Clemson University. He is a hack writer. Look no further than him blaming CTE and insinuating that CJ Fuller's death was self-inflicted to realize the despicable lengths that he will go to in an attempt to bring down anything related to Clemson.

#2 It is a deflection piece. He is trying to start conversation about anything other than the actual game that will be taking place this Saturday. He can't figure out a way to pump up his coots or bring down the Tigers on the field, so he is trying to stir up negative conversation about the university.

If the score is lopsided in favor of the Tigers on Saturday, you can look for some type of follow up article trying to spin something else in a negative way about Clemson next week.

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Nov 25, 2019, 2:13 PM

Hey Gene...how about report it both ways;

Located in The Horseshoe at uof5c, the area of campus that they highly tout and brag about, you will find Rutledge College (1805) named after John Rutledge. John Rutledge was one of very few of our founding fathers in support of slavery and was a slave holder. He was an "American legislator who, as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, strongly supported the protection of slavery.

Another building located in the famed Horseshoe is DeSaussure College (1809) named after Henry William DeSaussure. DeSaussure and his brother-in-law, Timothy Ford, were powerful Charleston lawyers and of course owned many slaves. Henry William DeSaussure was among the first pro-slavery intellectuals to publicly reject the prevailing definition of equality and to identify planter interest with an expressly non-egalitarian conception of the polity. Nature itself has "instituted almost every gradation, from the confines of inferior animals to the state of superior creation." The "unavoidable conclusion is that inequality of condition is one of nature's laws." Writing under the pseudonym "Phocian," DeSaussure argued that equality as a natural condition would lead inevitably to emancipation and that "inevitable ruin would follow both to the whites and blacks, and this fine country would be deluged with blood, and desolated by fire and sword." In locating slavery within a network of unequal relations, Ford and DeSaussure were able to defend it as a positive good, and argue for its necessity for freedom and independence".

In addition to these two remarkable examples of popular USC buildings named after racists and slaveholders we also find the McCutchen House (1813) located in USC's Horseshoe. It is named for Professor George McCutchen, who lived in the house from 1915 to World War II. In this case it cannot be proven that this house was named after a racist but instead we find that it actually housed slaves!!! During the Horseshoe renovation project in the 1970s, evidence of slave quarters was found on the third floor. You heard that right...Slaves were living on the University of South Carolina campus.

And Governor John Drayton, who founded South Carolina College in 1801, his family owned Magnolia Plantation near Charleston. And yes, it was built by African slaves

I won’t even get into $CU closing its doors in the late 1800's rather than admit black students as mandated by reconstruction

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Slavery at South Carolina College, 1801–1865:
The Foundations of the University of South Carolina
1815–1816: Jack, the First College-owned Slave

The period of 1815–1816 was significant because it included the college’s first experiment in slave ownership. In 1808, the board of trustees hired one slave to work exclusively for the college at the rate of $100 per year. Several years later, the board hired Jack to work in this capacity. He possessed special skills that made him an excellent asset to the chemical department, where he served as a laboratory assistant. The college purchased Jack in 1816 for $900.

In addition to Jack, many other hired-out slaves worked on campus at this time. Various building contractors and the steward hired the majority of these slaves. Contractors used slave labor to make bricks, build fences, and to construct and maintain the college buildings and grounds. The steward supervised slaves working in Stewards Hall. Records dating from November 1816 indicate that the steward employed fifteen slaves who produced, prepared, and served student meals. This group included a butcher, a baker, four female kitchen workers, a wagon driver, and two additional laborers who “cut wood, [worked] in the garden, and [went] to the mills.” The steward hired additional slaves to make students’ beds and sweep the tenements and public spaces. In addition to paying for tuition and board, students paid an annual fee to defray the cost of hiring and caring for the slaves who performed these services.

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James Marion Sims (the Sims College) used slaves as experimental subjects. Sims operated on at least 10 slave women (some on multiple occasions) from about 1845 to 1849 without anesthesia (although anesthesia was available)

It is rediculous that USuCk fans and morons like Gene Sapakoff, continue to imply that Clemson is somehow a racist school based on Tillman's views. Racism was predominant in SC in the 1800s. However, some JockStraps (c0c# supporters) refuse to move into the 21st century.

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I saw this and hoped it would fall on deaf ears

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Oh the hypocrisy and the irony...

Just hush now. They aren't winning national championships

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