Posted on 09/07/2021 12:10:17 PM PDT by DFG
A group of University of Texas at Austin students are suing the school for creating a 'hostile environment' by forcing members of its marching band to play in a separate group because they refuse to play the school's spirit song, 'The Eyes of Texas', at football games.
'The Eyes of Texas' was first sung in 1903 at a student-organized minstrel show, a popular form of entertainment in the early 20th century that featured white performers in blackface, in downtown Austin.
It's been a source of campus-wide debate for more than a year after a summer of Black Lives Matter protests amid the killing of George Floyd - but the university stood by the song in a recent report affirming that it had 'no racist intent' and that it 'remains our alma mater.'
The lawsuit, filed Friday with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights on behalf of an anonymous group of students and the Texas chapter of the NAACP, claims the university failed to respond to the harassment of black students who opposed the song.
At games last fall, members of the marching band refused to play it and some players refused to sing it.
The lawsuit also alleges that the school is violating the equal protection rights of students after it created a separate marching band for students who refused to play the song last fall, according to the Texas Tribune.
Students in the Longhorn band are required to play the song.
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Go to school elsewhere then. Simple solution.
Perhaps these students should be banned, expelled, thrown out on their collective ears. Tell me why this would be more irrational than their own absurd demands to date? Wokeism is insanity, don’t fall for it, and don’t tolerate it.
That’s the most difficult thing for Leftists to do: Just leave.
we’re really living in an insane society nowadays
some people are nuttier than fruitcakes
“A group of University of Texas at Austin students are suing the school for creating a ‘hostile environment’
Kettle meet pot. The ones creating a “hostile environment” are these woke wimp fags. Shut your vaginas and go to a lefty school of your convenience.
Including any judge who doesn't dismiss this lawsuit as frivolous nonsense.
It fits well in Austin.
The city is full of nutty people.
Stinkin’ hippies. The flies of Texas are upon you.
UT brought this on themselves by simply not kicking them out of the band when this first came up. (and also from decades of supporting every leftist they could find)
Eyes of Texas--University of Texas Longhorn Band (1928)
Inmates attempting to run the asylum.
Lift Every Voice, the “black national anthem” was written during Jim Crow. Is it racist too?
understood.
it is a shame Austin has so many nutty people\\
it is, or was, a nice city for its size
quite nice, imho
we wouldn’t go near the place now.
too many commies and other sociopaths
I would bet that some liberal lawyer group funded by Soros or such is behind this. Like students have money to file a suit.
According to wikipedia: “...The lyrics are said to be intended to poke fun at University President William Lambdin (Colonel) Prather. Prather had attended Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, whose president was Robert E. Lee. Prather was known for including in his speeches a similar admonition, “The eyes of Texas are upon you,” meaning that the state of Texas was watching and expecting the students to go out and do great things. Prather enjoyed the song and promoted its usage....”
These nuts can make anything racist.
agreed!
The lyrics of the so-called “offensive” song:
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day.
The Eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away.
Do not think you can escape them
At night or early in the morn —
The Eyes of Texas are upon you
Til Gabriel blows his horn.
When I was at UT the campus voted for Reagan, and Phil Gramm for Senate. Gramm actually beat Lloyd Doggett, an Austin liberal. The campus sure wasn’t hostile back then. Seems as though institutions don’t become hostile until the commies show up.
Freak’n snowflakes.
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