Student senators sit down during Pledge of Allegiance

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from Campus Reform,
9/27/17:

More than 10 student senators on Clemson University’s student government sat in protest during the Pledge of Allegiance at a Monday session.

According to a video of the meeting obtained by Campus Reform, a cohort of senators is seen taking a seat just prior to the Pledge of Allegiance, though most senators remained standing.

“These divisive comments are the antithesis of what America is all about. We are not a nation that ostracizes their own simply due to a difference of opinion,” CUSG senator Willie Webb wrote in the chat, referring to President Trump’s controversial comments on the protests sweeping the NFL.

Webb went on to declare that he and “many other senators will sit” in order to “show that we stand with our fellow Americans that choose to respectfully exercise their rights as an American citizen,” even encouraging “any and all to join” them.

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