Opinions aplenty over former president’s game day visit to Williams-Brice Stadium | Opinion
Game day politics?
Leave politics out of football games.
Both universities are responsible for educating young adults for the future but our governor parades Trump out on the football field – a man who says there were airports in the Revolutionary war, stealth jets cannot be seen when you are standing next to them, windmill noise causes cancer and the windmills on the South Carolina coast are killing whales, ultraviolet light and bleach cures COVID, and Puerto Rico is an island with “big water’ around it.
Our universities admit students of all races, genders and religious beliefs but this man degrades and name calls anyone who doesn’t agree with him from a military general to a handicapped person.
To the business majors, are you saying it is okay to have numerous bankruptcies with unpaid workers and companies and it is okay to commit tax fraud?
Trump is not an example of a man who should be paraded in front of our college students at a football game.
I did not come to the game to support the Gamecocks and have this man disrupt my enjoyment of the bands performing at halftime. Politics do not belong at a football game.
Pamela Powell, Little River
Searching for truth
If anyone is still wondering why readership of The State has plummeted in recent years, they need only read Issac Bailey’s editorial “Trump shows weakness as he sullies the South Carolina-Clemson football game.”
Following a morally condescending harangue against all-things Trump, the article provides what appears to be a succinct summary of what the owners of The State newspaper think of the people of South Carolina.
Apparently, if South Carolina voters do not reject Trump, McMaster and Graham, they are not among “…those of us with eyes, and a functioning brain…”, [who] “…know the truth….”
Blind and brainless, readers search for the truth. Just not in The State.
Walter Rolandi, Columbia
Walk on field insulting
Note: The writer is a 1981 USC graduate now living in Texas.
I’m have always been proud to be a Gamecock, but allowing a man who has been indicted on 91 counts, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women and ordered to pay $5 million for rape and defamation brought shame upon our university.
It’s a slap in the face, especially to USC ‘s female students, staff and alumna.
Let me be clear: Trump’s attendance wasn’t the problem.
USC insulted a huge portion of its fan base by letting Trump walk onto the field.
I hope Republican donors can fill the gap left by Democrats who, like me, are for the first time ashamed to be Gamecocks.
Ronda Templeton, San Antonio
Balanced view
Thank you for your balanced report about Mary Wood and the controversy over her teaching of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book “Between the World and Me” that appeared in your Nov. 28 edition.
I was very saddened to read previous articles about the controversy over teaching this book. It, as Ms. Wood states, is well-written about a topic that is important for students to learn about in a nonpartisan way.
Ms. Wood led the discussions but was also willing to listen to and read students’ pros and cons. This is what education is about, learning to be able to hold an educated debate and not being “protected” from real world concerns.
I, too, am very worried about the S.C. Dept. of Education’s proposed regulations that allow the state to censor what is taught in our schools. South Carolina has always fought for home rule, but when a controversy erupts within the state, they want to quash it.
How is that democracy?
Anne Mellen, Lexington
