Let's change our school song simply because it was written during a time when racism was much more prevalent. Fight! Quit caving in to ridiculous threats. Thank you for this opportunity for engagement. AUSTIN, TX - A controversy is growing at the University of Texas over a school song that dates back more than 100 years. He was president of UT when an African-American man named Heman Marion Sweatt applied for entrance to the university. They belong in history books as a reminder of what was lost during the secessionists attempt to destroy democracy. AUSTIN, TX — Before they will participate in recruiting or alumni events, players on the University of Texas Longhorn football team want their school to retire their fight song, “The Eyes of Texas.”. • Get the Android App. Husband George held the rank of major in the Confederate States Army and suffered an injury in battle. We can confirm that the latest generation of useless drones has very thin skin and is offended by the sight of even their self. Make whatever excuses you feel like you have to make so you can feel better about yourself. Shout out praises to the sky. ! Robert Lee Moore Hall, built in 1972, is the tallest building on the UT campus. The Eyes of Texas was once the fight song of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). However, his sin was that while he pushed for anti-lynching legislation, he also supported a movement to segregate railroad passenger cars in Texas. The University of Texas made headlines earlier this week after the Longhorn marching band decided not to play its fight song … "Texas Fight," is the official fight song of The University of Texas and is played following touchdowns and extra points at football games, as well as many other occasions. Mavericks we’re gonna fight. Fight! And we'll put over one more win. Not that the song has racist lyrics. AP. Each content-packed edition has weather, the popular Top of the Email opinion and rumor mill column, news around the state of Texas, news around west Texas, the latest news stories from San Angelo LIVE!, events, and the most recent obituaries. Texas Fight! The Texas fight song, Fight Texas and Alma mater, The Eyes of Texas, are both recognizable parts of Texas football. Longhorns athletes request changes at Texas, from building names and statues to ‘The Eyes of Texas’ spirit song The song, which dates back to the early 1900s, has a checkered racial history. The song, apparently, is racist. Hail, Hail, the gang's all here, And it's goodbye to all the rest! Hogg, a former governor of Texas, was too young to serve in the Civil War, but his father died as a Confederate general during that war. With multiple band members refusing to play “The Eyes of Texas” due to the song’s ties to blackface and minstrel shows, the University of Texas Longhorn band won’t play the song this weekend due to a lack of “necessary instrumentation,” according to The Daily Texan. The Eyes of Texas are upon you, boys. Could the University of Texas ditch “The Eyes of Texas” fight song? It's not about people being sensitive themselves. How about some new policies for football players? Yea White! (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) The "Eyes of Texas" will reportedly remain the school song of the University of Texas despite the controversy surrounding such a decision. There are more if you care to look. Its successful implementation is far from being an inevitability and not everyone is just going to just sit back let that authoritarian gulag start springing up around us. Systemic racism still exists in this country whether you see it or not. “I am always willing to have meaningful conversations regarding any concerns our student-athletes have. The football players stated on Twitter that while the UT administrators decide to meet their demands or not that they will continue to practice and workout. These structures, along with traces in the landscape, remain poignant testimonies to this tragic history. The overall length of fencing supported by concrete poles is more than 13 km. So done with all of this shallow b.s. This started back in 2010 when the university began removing statues and names of the treacherous dogs. Turn those universities into community gardens. Fight! (YELL) Yea Orange! Have you never heard of Auschwitz-Birkenau Miri? Advertising here can transform your business. And it's goodbye to A&M. Student Government debated on Tuesday about whether to continue singing the University’s fight song “The Eyes of Texas” at its weekly meetings, amidst student and faculty criticisms that the song has a racist history. The official alma mater song and unofficial fight song is currently in the center of controversy because of its racial undertones. While The Eyes of Texas will still be sung as the school song … Yea, White! UT Athletics Director Chris Del Conte responded within an hour of the players’ demands being posted on Twitter. FIGHT SONG. The song has been the center of a controversy that has divided the UT community over its ties to minstrel shows where performers wore blackface. Yea, Orange! Daily is the "newspaper to your email" for San Angelo. There are also ruins of gas chambers and crematoria in Birkenau, which were dynamited in January 1945. AUSTIN, TX — Before they will participate in recruiting or alumni events, players on the University of Texas Longhorn football team want their school to retire their fight song, “The Eyes of Texas.”, According to the UT school newspaper, The Daily Texan, in April 2018, “The University of Texas, at least originally, had very clear minstrel connections,” vice provost for diversity Ted Gordon said. What Texas college is next to fall for this type of foolish false sense of their little warm and fuzzy feelings. “This is definitely about minstrelsy and past racism,” Gordon told the Daily Texan in 2018. The SCV attempted to sue UT in 2015 for secretly removing Confederate statues from campus. We've come to the point that Aaron McGruder talked about years ago, when White Americans are no longer moved to sympathy over the issues of Black America the way they once were because of collective guilt about slavery. The most controversial of the letter’s demands was for Texas to stop using “The Eyes of Texas.” The song is sung at nearly every organized campus event, and players in all sports gather as a … He was denied admission because of his race. The human race must face the facts of our collective history and of our biological differences squarely or we will face the consequences of our collective stupidity and, possibly, the full destructive power of the weapons we've created. V-I-C-T-O-R-Y. Texas "Texas Fight" Texas Fight! It's about finally being considerate of those whose feelings we have ignored too long. Because they don't fight, they just explode and shred to pieces everything they touch. That's a solution, just get players that fall in line, not the "uppity" ones. As a branch of the University of Texas, the song automatically became TCM's fight song. Houston's News, Weather & Traffic Station. Quit catering to the cry-babies. Yea Longhorns! Now people are just digging for issues to shame and inflame, reveling in the power and glory of being heard. One question is whether it can be both those things or whether it can be one or the other.”. No, Miri, it is you who have failed to comprehend the situation. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, And we'll put over one more win. In 1920, UTEP was known as College of Mines and Metallurgy of the University of Texas (sometimes referred to as "Texas College of Mines," or "TCM"). The LIVE! As protests continue across the country for racial equality and an end to police brutality, conversations on the same subjects have given way into concrete action at one college campus in the South. Otherwise, the story that has played out so often in history will again repeat itself, and though our descendants may look back at the present day as a golden age of the West, our present liberties will have failed them in their future bondage. Controversy over the song grew over the summer as Texas athletes called for the school to stop playing it, citing a history tied to racism. Now, the interim president of the University says he will meet with student groups to talk about possible changes. Texas Fight! Not everyone is going to buy into the Marxist theoretical framework when it comes to resolving the country's social issues, racial or otherwise. Aggies have been telling you for better than 100 years that song sounds like hell and finally you listen to the texas university diversity provost>? I want my reparations for being white trash all my life'. email. We've been kissing your asses for fifty years. Fight! We are a pure-play, indie web and mobile news platform with a local audience larger than all the San Angelo TV stations, radio stations, and newspaper combined. Covering West Texas from San Angelo, TX © 2020 Copyright • All Rights ReservedContact Us • Terms of Use and Privacy Policy • Advertising Information The new fight song does not have any controversial lyrics. Go big Maverick. UTA Mavericks Fight, Fight. Support your school the way it is or make another choice. By Herb Scribner @HerbScribner Oct 26, 2020, 5:00am MDT. No matter how far from the facts they may be, I respect your right to hold the beliefs that you do, though I do not personally agree with the dialectical materialist elements of your belief system and accept no responsibility when those beliefs are invalidated. Texas Fight! It might be time to take classes totally online and test at a testing center that verifies. The Auschwitz Birkenau camp complex comprises 155 brick and wooden structures (57 in Auschwitz and 98 in Birkenau) and about 300 ruins. On Sundays, subscribers receive the West Texas Real Estate LIVE! Really shouldn't be to surprised this coming from little snowflake hurt feelings libturd Austin. Fight! Fans pay good money to enter Darrel K Royal to watch tackle football, not patty cake. The football players have more demands, including that the school administration rename four buildings, Robert Lee Moore Hall, Painter Hall, Littlefield Hall, and James Hogg Auditorium. This is Texas; have we lost our backbone; our Texas pride? Not that the songwriter was a noted racist. I'll bet there are plenty of up-coming players who would be happy to take their place. After the football team’s latest loss, the coach and most of his players are at odds with the athletic director and many fans and supporters over the university’s controversial spirit song. The rich history of The Aggie War Hymn, the official war hymn of Texas A&M (Texas A&M does not have a fight song), dates back to World War I.The lyrics to the iconic song were scrawled during 1918 on the back of a letter from home by J.V. Hook 'em Horns is the chant and hand signal of The University of Texas at Austin.Students, alumni, and fans of the university employ a greeting consisting of the phrase "Hook 'em" or "Hook 'em Horns" and also use the phrase as a parting good-bye or as the closing line in a letter or story. University of Texas football players and other athletes are pushing for the school to replace 'The Eyes of Texas' as its official song because it originated in … Blue, white we’ve got the might. The Aggie War Hymn. Painter (1889-1969) was a zoologist whose most famous work was in the study of chromosomes. The University of Texas’ fight song has been challenged due to its racist connotations. Yea, Longhorns! The list of changes put forth by the Texas athletes includes the renaming of on-campus buildings and removing statues with ties to racism, however, the … If that's what they want, then let them go play somewhere else. Texas athletes request changes to building names, statues and school song, plus contributions to Black Lives Matter and other causes. How about this? The bottom of the email contains the most recent rants and comments. Texas Fight! There are many successful Blacks in the United States, and there has even been a Black president. Members of the University of Texas Longhorn Band perform during the NCAA football game against Rice Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010 in Houston. The town of Littlefield is named after George and the Sons of Confederate Veterans named their Austin camp after him. Texas Fight! No one has made any promises, but UT Interim President Jay Hartzell says he will listen. • Get the iOS App for iPhone/iPad Houston's News, Weather & Traffic Station. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, And it's goodbye to A&M. Named for a UT mathematics professor, Robert Lee Moore (1882-1974), history reveals he was against desegregation and refused to admit African-American students into his classroom after UT was desegregated. There are plenty of football players waiting to replace the demanders. The New South Creed aimed to eliminate the attitudes of the pre-Civil War antebellum South. We will do the same in this situation and look forward to having those discussions,” he tweeted back. The Red River Showdown logo is shown on the field of the Cotton Bowl, prior to an NCAA college football game between the University of Texas and Oklahoma, in Dallas, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. I'm thinking we need to talk reparations to the real University of Texas. “It’s also definitely about school pride. Major changes sought by Texas football players and student groups in the name of racial equality are coming to the Austin campus. One would think that knowing this they would never leave the house or moms basement. I have never in my life known such privilege, such a sense of entitlement, as I have witnessed in the most recent weeks. daily is emailed 5 days per week. Governor Hogg was an outspoken follower of the New South Creed, a populist southerner movement in the late 19th century. Texas Fight! According to the UT school newspaper, The Daily Texan, in April 2018, “The University of Texas, at least originally, had very clear minstrel connections,” vice provost for … Demands at this point only exacerbate the tension caused by the many concessions that White Americans have largely, collectively made out of a sense of moral duty and which are increasingly ignored or deemed to be insufficient by a minority of activists and political agitators. We can leave this Civil War stuff where it belongs: in museums. The LIVE! Hail, Hail, The gang's all here, And it's good-bye to all the rest! “The Eyes of Texas” school spirit song. 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