Wealthy UT Donors Threaten to Pull Support Over Removal of “The Eyes of Texas” Fight Song
InsideHook,
by
Evan Bleier
Original Article
Posted By: Gobbledyg00k,
3/2/2021 11:55:45 AM
Wealthy University of Texas at Austin donors are threatening to pull their support of Longhorn athletics over the school’s ties to a song that takes its name from a quote from Confederate General Robert E. Lee which was first played at minstrel shows.
Thing is, the donors aren’t calling on the school to scrap the song; they want to keep it.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 3/2/2021 12:07:16 PM (No. 712526)
I imagine it's more than just the wealthy donors. But in typical leftist fashion, the only complaints that are respected are the ones with money attached.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/2/2021 12:17:28 PM (No. 712546)
Did anybody notice perhaps that UT is not teaching anymore. Just trying to collect tuition.
Hard to pay the football players when your cash flow sucks.
8 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 3/2/2021 12:47:30 PM (No. 712593)
If my experience with two colleges is any guide, this will roll off UT like so much water off a duck's back. I got no response from one college, and got a letter from the college president after another hot letter (which I answered and told him "too late.") For the record, I was not just someone off the street, but an alumna of the first, and my family had a history of donations with the second.
5 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
DARling 3/2/2021 12:52:11 PM (No. 712607)
The musicians who refuse to play the school's fight song should be kicked out of the band. The band members who are attending school on a music scholarship should have their scholarships revoked. Time for the warden to direct the inmates.
21 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
patriot99 3/2/2021 12:52:21 PM (No. 712608)
Enough is enough.
9 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
gop_guys 3/2/2021 12:55:53 PM (No. 712615)
Typical liberal fake news narrative. “Rich white men” objected. No, successful, hard working, UT alum donors unwilling to surrender to the idiotic woke movement! They grabbed our statues in the middle of a Sunday night with no discussion. Now this. Conservatives had better reign in education or our country is lost forever. Orwellian!
11 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/2/2021 12:57:47 PM (No. 712618)
You need to pull your support from all these schools. They have become nothing but leftist indoctrination centers. I don't think wealthy capitalists should be donating to them.
5 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
wakeupcall 3/2/2021 1:08:21 PM (No. 712641)
The eyes of Satan is upon all Marxist Communist democrats, rinocrats, making certain they are serving him doing his bidding.
I AM THAT I AM is not happy with them. They know it. But his filthy lucre payments are to great for them to refuse.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 3/2/2021 1:31:29 PM (No. 712659)
My school went far left when it changed from a private college to a public university. I suppose they had to do it to receive government money. The liberal arts college was already full of leftoids. Thank goodness that, after the freshman year, I didn't have to stray far from the science building.
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/2/2021 1:56:22 PM (No. 712671)
Why are parents/grandparents still sending ANY kids/grandkids to these leftist indoctrination centers? Seriously. This problem would be fixed overnight if there was a mass boycott of every single college/university that anti-free speech, anti-conservative policies and practices. It's ridiculous that families are going into debt to pay these $50,000-$60,000 a year tuitions to these schools that continue to indoctrinate their young people and heap scorn on the values and culture of the parents and this country. STOP sending them your kids and your money!
4 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
snakeoil 3/2/2021 2:11:05 PM (No. 712677)
Decades ago Dixie was the de facto song of many universities in The South. It was known as the National Anthem of The South. Nowadays if you whistle Dixie on a college campus you will be surrounded by the swat squad in 5 minutes. Face it. The War is over and we lost. At my Alma Mater we now have a Professor of Hip Hop Studies.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Omen55 3/2/2021 4:55:16 PM (No. 712821)
Hit dem in the wallet & make it hurt!
2 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
AGGW 3/2/2021 4:56:31 PM (No. 712822)
Easy solution for the perpetually offended: If you don't like things at a certain school, don't go there!
2 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/2/2021 5:04:58 PM (No. 712828)
Thanx Don for this one
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field
The marching band refused to yield
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
kono 3/2/2021 5:47:16 PM (No. 712875)
It's a classic; keep it.
It quotes Bobby Lee; keep it.
The woke hate it; keep it.
Just keep it.
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