Most of the requests -- and there are more than the ones listed above -- are necessary and easy enough to implement.
Posted on 06/12/2020 3:10:22 PM PDT by Zakeet
Athletes across multiple sports at the University of Texas released a statement through social media on Friday requesting a series of changes that would significantly alter some of the traditions on campus as well as build more awareness of black history at the school.
"We aim to hold the athletic department and university to a higher standard by not only asking them to keep their promise of condemning racism on our campus," the statement said, "but to go beyond this by taking action to make Texas more comfortable and inclusive for the black athletes and black community that has so fervently supported this program."
The letter, unsigned but released "on behalf o the UT student-athletes", asks that the following issues be addressed "through the implementation or a plan for implementation at the start of the fall semester."
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Most of the requests -- and there are more than the ones listed above -- are necessary and easy enough to implement.
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Most of the requests -- and there are more than the ones listed above -- are necessary and easy enough to implement.
Perhaps ... But why?
Turn the Longhorns into steers.
And the Teasips will probably go along with whatever ridiculous, infantile and out and out stupid demands that are put on them. Why? Because they are Teasips!
How are any of those necessary? or even desirable?
Uh NO! and by the way, we are abolishing All Athletic Programs effective immediately.
Looks like they already turned into queers.
What “racist undertones”?
The Eyes of Texas
Hank Thompson
I once did know a President,
Away down South, in Texas.
And, always, everywhere he went,
He saw the eyes of Texas.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the live long day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
You can not get away.
Do not think you can escape them
At night or early in the morn
The Eyes of Texas are upon you
‘Till Gabriel blows his horn.
Sing me a song of Prexy,
Of days long since gone by.
Again I seem to great him
And hear his kind reply.
Smiles of gracious welcome
Before my memory rise,
Again I hear him say to me,
“Remember Texas’ Eyes.”
In Austin it is Steers and Queers. Let’s be honest about this, shall we?
As a long time devotee of college athletics, I'm at the point of saying that would suit me fine.
Replacing “The Eyes of Texas” as the school’s alma mater with “a new song without racist undertones”
What racist undertones?
HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .... ah, no they won't. They'll demand donations and scholarships so that the Asian workers living on $2 a day can help Black Americans get free college.
Wow, the whole frickin’ state is all hat and no cowboy. This is a sad day
No.
But where’s the diversity?
I guess the lyric “Away down South,” which is also present in the song Dixie causes triggering.
Are they going to end Athletic Affirmative Action?
Jackie Sherrill did that for years.
“Replacing “The Eyes of Texas” as the school’s alma mater”
How about switching to that other famous Texas song about a Woman of Color?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GztxvlQglSc
Wasn’t Sam Houston the President of the Republic of Texas?
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