Masters in Justice: UT-Austin Grads Walk out
of Commencement Over 'Anti-Black' School
Song
Red State,
by
Alex Parker
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/24/2021 6:57:55 AM
Graduation should be a time of celebration. But in Texas, Saturday night was set for an uncomfortable scene.As reported by The College Fix, a group of students planned to walk out of the commencement in protest.The reason for their revolt: the school’s use of 1903-penned song “The Eyes of Texas.”According to opponents of the tune, it’s downright racist.More specifically, it’s anti-black.The folks’ Facebook page laid it out: After years of protesting the usage of “The Eyes of Texas” for its anti-Black racist history and months of concentrated efforts on the part of students and allied faculty to replace the school song,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/24/2021 6:59:52 AM (No. 795035)
How about "Take the Money and Run?"
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/24/2021 7:31:17 AM (No. 795060)
Minstrel Show Tune...... De Camptown Races
Camptown ladies sing dis song, Doo-dah! doo-dah!
Camptown race-track five miles long, Oh, doo-dah day!
I come down dah wid my hat caved in, Doo-dah! doo-dah!
I go back home wid a pocketful of tin, Oh, doo-dah day!
Gwine to run all night!
Gwine to run all day!
I'll bet my money on de bob-tail nag,
Somebody bet on de bay.
Have the Woke killed this one too?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MattMusson1 5/24/2021 7:32:19 AM (No. 795061)
The Eyes of Texas is not a song about color. And, the Constitution of the United States is not a document institutionalizing White Supremacy.
I refuse to be Race Shamed by people who know nothing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/24/2021 7:37:54 AM (No. 795062)
But they didn’t care about it for 4 years while they were students? All theater
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/24/2021 7:45:52 AM (No. 795069)
It must be miserable to be offended by damned near everything!
I'm offended by that girl interviewer on CBS who fouled up the awards ceremony at the PGA tournament, and I was annoyed by the loudmouthed idiot spectator who shouted 'in the hole!' on every shot.
But being offended by a song sung one hundred years ago by some kids in blackface?
Sweet Jesus! If those fragile snowflakes want to protest a song about slavery, go to the Kentucky Derby.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HPmatt 5/24/2021 7:45:56 AM (No. 795070)
Shoulda sicc’d the cop dogs on em, and firehosed them, then beat them before hauling them to jail.....what those were democrats that did that....nevermind....Kids looking for a cause - sorry, that one was won two generations ago....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
keep_right 5/24/2021 7:56:49 AM (No. 795077)
I bet they walked out because they wanted to beat traffic!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/24/2021 8:19:27 AM (No. 795107)
They really want to be first at the keg party because the keg runs out after a half hour. Looking for an excuse so the loser dweebs invent this big lie.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/24/2021 8:21:27 AM (No. 795111)
There were going to walk over something; might as well be a song.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/24/2021 8:31:30 AM (No. 795121)
We regret to inform you that since you did not complete the graduation ceremony, your degrees will not be issued until next year.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chumley 5/24/2021 9:08:45 AM (No. 795156)
I suggest The Yellow Rose Of Texas as a replacement. Not the modern lyrics, the original ones. Here is a cut/paste of the first two lines...
There's a yellow rose in Texas, that I am going to see,
No other darky [sic] knows her, no darky only me
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I'm torn....I hate U.T. and I hate their enemy. Going to have to side with U.T. here.
I will never forget as a teenager hearing that song and asking my mother, "why are they playing I've been Working on the Railroad when that black woman who is a politician from Texas walked out?"
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
terrywhite 5/24/2021 9:16:42 AM (No. 795164)
They should not be awarded degrees. It is obvious they haven't learned anything.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
red1066 5/24/2021 9:19:01 AM (No. 795166)
I'm with you #12. When that song begins, all I hear is, "I've been working on the railroad." Of course here in Maryland, the state song which is played at every Preakness, is all about the Confederacy and Lincoln as the tyrant in the White House. There was some uproar from people about that several years ago, but they were ignored and the issue went away.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Rather Read 5/24/2021 10:45:30 AM (No. 795252)
There were quite a lot of good songs that got introduced in minstrel shows including some that had nothing to do with race and others that were written by black composers. I'm not a Texan, but I do like the song "The Eyes of Texas". My own state song gets in trouble with the wokesters ever so often - "My Old Kentucky Home". So far, we have been able to keep it and I hope that continues.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
toddh 5/24/2021 11:09:08 AM (No. 795279)
It's a filk of the folk song, "I've Been Workin' on the Railroad." It's entirely stupid, fit only for drunkards and fools.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/24/2021 11:29:14 AM (No. 795309)
New proverb. Do not be easily offended, or you will be perpetually in anger, and unable to think. No one has ever been changed by what someone else says about them. Be stoical, and avoid the BLM and Antifa agitation. They are communists and are using you to get their communist revolution. They do not care a whit about blacks.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Muguy 5/24/2021 11:35:34 AM (No. 795321)
Graduates?
The are nothing buy "sophmores" or 'wise fools' from the Latin.
To quote Master Yoda: 'There is much to learn you still have"
Roman 1:22 "Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools..."
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hershey 5/24/2021 11:45:16 AM (No. 795338)
How about 'Stuff It We Don't Care For Your Pansy Feelings'....
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
SALady 5/24/2021 11:45:46 AM (No. 795339)
Let them have their little hissy fits. If storming out didn't work for my 3-year-ld back in the day, she would sit down and have a crying fit and threaten to hold her breath until she got her way. What she normally got was a spanking and time-out once I let her exhaust herself first. She learned pretty quickly that that wasn't going to get her anywhere with Mommy!!! So let these racist idiot graduates have this phone conversation after a few months of unemployment:
"Gee, we don't know where your diploma or transcripts are. It's like you were never a student here. We'll see if we can find them, but it might take awhile. In the mean time, I wouldn't put that you got a degree at UT, since our system will not verify that for you. Oh, I know it has been 6 months, but this is a big school, and we are having to waste so much time dealing with idiots who insist on protesting against everything!!!"
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 5/24/2021 11:53:38 AM (No. 795353)
Nothing "anti-black" about it. Leftist college idiots.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
dwa 5/24/2021 12:11:20 PM (No. 795372)
Who cares!! So they miss their own graduation, big deal. What the little snowflakes do to their own lives is of no interest to me. Now if they really wanted to make a statement, they would have set themselves on fire, en mass, like the buddhist priests do. Even then it would be of no interest.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 5/24/2021 3:30:14 PM (No. 795524)
UT should take back the degrees. Obviously they learned nothing.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 5/24/2021 3:31:48 PM (No. 795529)
I listened to the song this morning - I really couldn't find anything racist about it.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/24/2021 7:51:57 PM (No. 795745)
I'm sure they were all noticed and missed.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MickTurn 5/24/2021 8:04:22 PM (No. 795761)
No problem, your degree award is CANCELLED!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
mifla 5/30/2021 5:31:51 AM (No. 800595)
Austin, what a surprise.
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