re: SEC Teams as Presidents

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and you call yourself a south carolinian

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Any Southerner who doesn't think it wasn't about slavery is just trying to make us seem like the "good guys". You can say it was about state's rights, but state's rights to keep slaves.

Slavery is a part of American history, especially in the South, and allowed South Carolina to prosper in its early history. So doing my best to not look at history through hindsight I am aware of the importance slavery was to the South and South Carolina and that fighting to keep slavery wasn't a bad decision, at least short term.

With that said I am also aware countless Southerners who had no slaves fought for the Confederacy for the sake of defending their home from an invader, and those should be honored, but not at the expense of ignoring why the war was fought in the 1st place.