The very foolish woke challenge to the University of Texas fight song – “The Eyes of Texas” – is heating up again, with faculty members making threats. They’re factually wrong and UT needs to call their bluff.
When I first got to the UT, I was charmed by the song, “The eyes of Texas.” First, it was sung to the tune of “I’ve been working on the railroad,” so it had a nice familiarity. It was sung at football games, with its vaguely menacing promise to the other team that “The eyes of Texas are upon you…You cannot get away. Do not think you can escape them…The eyes of Texas are upon you, ‘til Gabriel blows his horn.” It was a good fight song........Recently, though, woke scholars went digging and, based upon scant and misinterpreted evidence, concluded that the song was deliberately racist.............however, recently released a detailed report challenging that “scholarship.” Almost everything it asserted was wrong..................
However, that finding hasn’t stopped the woke faculty. In addition to students rioting as usual (they seem to think it’s the 1960s all over again), 180 faculty members have refused to attend graduation if the song’s not banned................ Unless university administrators want today’s struggle sessions to end up with Maoist bloodshed, they need to put a stop to this madness. That means having every college and university across America present a united front: All woke demands will be denied and faculty and students who continue with those demands will be escorted off-campus........To Read More.....
My Take - Another good reason to stop funding higher education.
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