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The Eyes Of Texas

For those of you that don't know, it's long been tradition at UT for athletes to sing their alma mater “The Eyes Of Texas” after games. Well, the band has announced that it will no longer play the song because of its “racist roots”. Curious, I went to find out what those racist roots were, and I swear this isn't a joke, this seems to be what they are upset about:

In 1899, the school president addressed the school, and said the following in his speech:

On one occasion in the Civil War, it fell to the lot of a Texas troop to be reviewed by General Robert E. Lee. The officer gave this command, ‘Forward, men of Texas, the eyes of General Lee are upon you.’

I would like to paraphrase that utterance and say to you, ‘Forward, young men and women of the university, the eyes of Texas are upon you!'

So, since this statement referenced Robert E Lee, and Lee was a general for the CSA, and everything about the CSA means nothing more than racism, this statement was obviously a meant to promote white supremacy.

But wait, there's more!

The phrase “The eyes of Texas” took root in the lexicon of the time, and several years later someone wrote the song, setting it to tune of a popular song performed in minstrel shows (and elsewhere) called The Levee Song. (We know this tune today as I've Been Working On The Railroad). Minstrel shows! What other proof do you need, people? This would have been about 1903 or so.

So, from those two facts, it is as plain to see as the sun in the sky that the UT alma mater is a blatant call for white supremacy and subjugation of blacks and other minorities (the song has the line “The eyes of Texas are upon you, you can not get away” which of course means that the master is watching his slaves so they can't get away).

That's it. That's the entire thing. That is the whole plot. There's nothing I'm leaving out. That is the entire proof of the unmitigated structural racism at UT, hidden in the alma mater in 1903 so that only those sneaky white supremacists would recognize it, but everyone else could deny it.

Meanwhile, UT, with this brilliant, hidden-in-plain-sight appeal to racism in is alma mater ( presumably to give them plausible deniability ), didn't admit a black student until 1948. Good Lord these people are terminally stupid.

Related: No, It’s Not Systemic

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So, tomorrow is the TexMoMe. I was going to camp out there tonight, but that plan kinda fell through, I'll be getting up way early to drive over for Weasel's shooting clinic in the morning, so I won't be around long tonight. Tonight's ONT brought to you by milk:

posted by WeirdDave at 10:36 PM

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