Holy f@#$%^& sh^t. Is this a f@#$%^& joke? Are these motherf@#$%^s really trying to strong arm the University of Texas? Threatening non-participation if their demands are not met? Kick every one of these sorry *** c@#$suckers off the team and start over. F@#$ them.
The song first came out during a minstrel show but the concept of the song was pride in university and that Texas is looking to you to do great things. It came from another university where the students were told “the eyes of the South are upon you”, implying the same thing (civic duty). No one that sings that song at a football game are thinking “oh yeah down with black people”. A good friend I still keep in touch with from my UT days after three decades (And is black) told me Amazing Grace was written by a slave ship captain and “churches aren’t going to stop singing that song” just because of the person who wrote it. I’m all about making sure there are better laws and rules for police that help keep these deaths from happening, but doing away with a 100+ year old beloved school song that has zero to do with keeping anyone down does nothing for anyone. Unless the goal is to simply jack with anything traditional that white people put in place.
Amazing Grace was written by an ex-slave trader. Just sayin.
Hmmm, the history of the donators getting erased certainly complicates matters if the families are offended. Ugh
You need to read Wescott Ebert's well researched piece on BoN about the etymology of the song. It opened my eyes as to why any black person may look at it it as oppressive. It is not a pretty picture.
Sorry, I meant 5 Star safeties on the field simultaneously.
John Newton found Christ, gave up the slave trade and became one of England's great preachers and a leading abolitionist. His personal story of Grace and redemption is one of history's best. It may be one reason I love that hymn so much. Grace, forgivess and redemption are so marvelous it amazes me you hardly see lip service for them except in church.
Sorry, but 20, 50, 85 young athletes don't over
I'm puzzled how a 100+-year-old song has become more of an issue to these players than the hundreds of black Americans killed by other blacks in our major cities each year. Be outraged over something serious.
There are so many logical infallacies in that article it is hard to count. So, someone said the eyes of Lee are upon you in Virginia (not Texas) but someone changed it to eyes of Texas (also it was a common thing to say) and then there was minstrel music that had racist music which became working on the rail road and then and then and then? Sorry, this is paranoia.
Well researched? LOL. That read like an op-ed piece in the NY Times.
It was written to justify the players and others not to sing The Eyes by referencing past racism totally unrelated to the song and then on a rather random basis attempted to connect The Eyes to said past racism. Bizarre. Also, it reads unhinged to me.
I'm sure they are outraged by Black on Black violence; and many, I'm sure, have made a difference in their communities. Now, they are doing more by being an athlete at UT where they join with their White brethren to go to hospitals, schools, etc. They see another problem and they want to see it get fixed. I was totally ignorant of the song's origin. If I had known all along what I know now, I never would have stood for it, much less sang it.
What exactly is it that you know now re: the song's origin?
You simply do not get it. Try again or move over because American society is changing.
Read Wescott's well researched article I linked above then return and rephrase your question.
I did read it, and as I've previously stated, it read like a leftist BLM support op-ed one might find in the NY Times. Are you incapable of answering my question? Or perhaps doing so will clearly reveal the author's (and your) weak attempt to tie the song to overt racism. Now go back and reread the article, discount all instances of baseless emotional drivel, create a list of facts that demonstrates how The Eyes of Texas is overtly racist and return with your explanation.
It's the minstrel show in blackface that bothers me the most. I'm done on this topic. I've been a fan since 1962 and season ticket holder since 1977 and I can adjust to the necessary changes.
And what exactly do you propose be done to accomplish that? Will you abolish rap music for its black raci
You're right, I don't get it. There are so many race-related (not racist) issues that could benefit from the passion and energy of these athletes. A 117-yearr-old song hardly seems like one of them. If the players don't want to sing the song, fine, don't sing. But they don't have the standing to demand eliminating "The Eyes," they simply don't.
But when the game is over and the athletes are walking back to the locker room they will feel the lack of unity and disconnect with the fans when they should be singing with them. This won't feel good.
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