Idiots. I noticed the story doesn’t even contain the old lyrics and the new. They must be so ashamed of their own progressivism. To hell with them.
Here is another account.
https://forward.com/culture/471056/oregon-racist-state-song-jewish-teacher/
Thankfully, as of Tuesday, there are new lyrics. Amy Donna Shapiro, an Oregon resident and musician specializing in traditional Jewish music, has updated the words while keeping the original tune. “Land of Majestic Mountains,” it now opens, and “blood of martyrs” is now “land of freedom.”
Few Oregonians today know the song, but it still led government meetings and made occasional appearances at sports games and other similar events; Shapiro told me she hopes it will be taught in schools again, now that the words are no longer offensive.
Shapiro first encountered the song when she was asked to teach it to her students 30 years ago, at the Portland Jewish Academy, where she was the choir director. She felt uncomfortable with it at the time, and has been pushing for years to change the words.
“I did not want to teach the children to sing about the blood of martyrs,” Shapiro said in a podcast interview with OregonLive. “It’s especially difficult in a Jewish school when there are martyrs all over the world who call themselves martyrs for attacking Jews.”