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Report finds ‘no racist intent’ behind song
‘Eyes of Texas’

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 3/9/2021 11:01:31 AM

Austin, Texas The University of Texas' long-awaited report on “The Eyes of Texas” has found that the school song has “no racist intent," but the school president said athletes and band members will not be required to sing or participate when the song is played at games and campus events. The 58-page report, released Tuesday, was commissioned last year by school President Jay Hartzell after a group of Texas athletes, most notably football players, demanded the school drop the song as part of racial injustice protests. The issue erupted into a tempest of fan outrage when football players chose to leave the field instead of

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Reply 1 - Posted by: EQKimball 3/9/2021 11:12:53 AM (No. 718969)
This reminds me of an environmental lawsuit against an electric utility about 40 years ago. The environmental group maintained that even if community residents maintained an unfounded fear of power lines, that should be sufficient to require the utility to reroute them. Fortunately, the court disagreed, but the same kind of thinking persists on the left.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Toby Ten Bears 3/9/2021 11:16:46 AM (No. 718974)
Part of Agenda 2030... Insidious.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: reefdiver 3/9/2021 11:25:12 AM (No. 718989)
Expect "White Christmas" to be cancelled if this madness continues. Projection of what others are thinking is a very dangerous thing to allow unchallenged.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Son of Grady 3/9/2021 11:25:46 AM (No. 718992)
The only Racist thing about this entire event were the actions of the Texas Athletes. They had to conjure up a lot of racist thoughts that only existed in their minds. So basically the football team needs to be disbanded for racism.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: volksford 3/9/2021 11:26:19 AM (No. 718993)
Set to a rap beat and they will be happy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 3/9/2021 11:39:44 AM (No. 719025)
Obviously true, but EVERYTHING is called racist, today. No truth to 99.999% of it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Skinnydip 3/9/2021 11:52:11 AM (No. 719041)
A 58 page report? Should have just told those Texas players to pound sand.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: earlybird 3/9/2021 12:01:04 PM (No. 719050)
Silliness to the nth degree. Don’t they realize that instead of unifying the country, they are drawing very strong red lines between the 13% minority and the rest of us. And they are on the wrong side. We are fed up.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: SALady 3/9/2021 12:04:12 PM (No. 719055)
How about "You were given the opportunity to attend this prestigious university (which thousands are turned away from every year), you may even have gotten a scholarship, so you will play or sing the school song or you will be out on your butt!!!!". Hey, I can dream!!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: MattMusson1 3/9/2021 12:10:17 PM (No. 719063)
I personally took a class at the University of Texas under Professor Emeritus Joe Franz who had several Graduate students write thesis on the history of the Institution. I have a copy of one that gives the date, time, place and singer for the first performance of the Eyes Of Texas. It was a student talent show and the performers were not dressed in black face. Some are actually arguing that the tune "I've Been Working on the Railroad" was performed at minstrel shows. So, because the tune was occasionally performed by performers in black face, on subsequent performance of a variation is racist. Uhm, sorry. No.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: PlayItAgain 3/9/2021 12:56:55 PM (No. 719101)
This is how not to handle students, or rather, children. The University of Texas had severely diminished itself. Their Board or Regents should promptly fire President Jay Hartzell and clarify their position on the privilege of playing football at their school. Play by our rules, respect our school, or play for someone else.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: kono 3/9/2021 1:55:50 PM (No. 719143)
It has no racist intentions. We didn't need a stinkin' report to tell us that, either. Thanks, American Pravda, though -- for deigning to tell us something we already knew. Because the sun wouldn't rise tomorrow if you didn't declare it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: LLAMA 3/9/2021 2:08:17 PM (No. 719158)
This is an easy one! The football coach should bench or remove from the team any player who doesn't stand on the field for the ritual singing of "Eyes of Texas", and all band members who refuse to play it should be removed from the band. These actions should take place immediately - no fuss, no studies, no argument. Tough love is needed. We are dealing with children here, plus a significant contingent of marxist professors of the type who proliferate on most campuses. In either case, you can't argue with immature, irrational minds.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bobn.t 3/9/2021 2:14:32 PM (No. 719166)
At what point in time will society require whites to undergo melanin treatments to darken the skin. Much akin to requiring neutralizing puberty in schoolkids. Gotta force them into some gender identiification. It's coming, you can bet on it. You gotta be black. You heard it first right here.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Luandir 3/9/2021 2:55:31 PM (No. 719207)
Isn't that special?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: oldmagnolia 3/9/2021 3:07:49 PM (No. 719214)
Don't be surprised. Today I heard by a brain dead snowflake professor that highways are racists. No, I am not making this up.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Foghorn 3/9/2021 3:34:57 PM (No. 719235)
Sounds like an old farm joke, Lisa, get out that tater patch in that dress, you know them taters have eyes. Same here, get out of Texas 'cause you know the Texans have eyes. Everything the left doesn't like is racist, therefore all Americans are racists, except those crossing the borders illegally, they are just undocumented citizens.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: FunOne 3/9/2021 7:20:41 PM (No. 719384)
Racist here. Racist there. Racists, racists everywhere! Another dose of that "White Guilt" remedy, please.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623 3/10/2021 1:19:26 AM (No. 719560)
Every time the demands start, I think of Nikki Haley.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: toddh 3/10/2021 10:47:06 AM (No. 719927)
"after a group of Texas athletes, most notably football players, demanded the school drop the song as part of racial injustice protests." Our "universities" are run by stupid people. Why are these idiots even allowed to be students? Because they can retrieve a ball from some other guy's crotch and throw it. Wow. Congratulations. College is worthless.
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