Littlefield Hall is named after Alice Littlefield (1846-1935), wife of Texas businessman and philanthropist George W. Littlefield. Blue, white we’ve got the might. The human race must face the facts of our collective history and of our biological differences squarely or we will face the consequences of our collective stupidity and, possibly, the full destructive power of the weapons we've created. Fight! As a branch of the University of Texas, the song automatically became TCM's fight song. HOUSTON — "The Eyes of Texas," a University of Texas song meant to inspire school pride, is facing renewed criticism after student-athletes requested it … AP. (YELL) Yea Orange! Disgusting! These structures, along with traces in the landscape, remain poignant testimonies to this tragic history. One question is whether it can be both those things or whether it can be one or the other.”. George Littlefield had commissioned the statue of Robert E. Lee that formerly was on display on campus. He was president of UT when an African-American man named Heman Marion Sweatt applied for entrance to the university. One would think that knowing this they would never leave the house or moms basement. Major changes sought by Texas football players and student groups in the name of racial equality are coming to the Austin campus. This is Texas; have we lost our backbone; our Texas pride? “(‘The Eyes of Texas’) was first sung and played at a minstrel show which featured performers in black face.”. They belong in history books as a reminder of what was lost during the secessionists attempt to destroy democracy. We've been kissing your asses for fifty years. No matter how far from the facts they may be, I respect your right to hold the beliefs that you do, though I do not personally agree with the dialectical materialist elements of your belief system and accept no responsibility when those beliefs are invalidated. Individual structures of high historical significance, such as railway sidings and ramps, food stores and industrial buildings, are dispersed in the immediate setting of the property. AUSTIN, TX - A controversy is growing at the University of Texas over a school song that dates back more than 100 years. Each content-packed edition has weather, the popular Top of the Email opinion and rumor mill column, news around the state of Texas, news around west Texas, the latest news stories from San Angelo LIVE!, events, and the most recent obituaries. daily is emailed 5 days per week. Mavericks we’re gonna fight. Yea Longhorns! I hate to say it but i dont think i will be visiting my friends in the states until the authorities get the violent protesters, looters and radicals under control. Aggies have been telling you for better than 100 years that song sounds like hell and finally you listen to the texas university diversity provost>? Advertising here can transform your business. • Get the Android App. Sweatt v. Painter became the precursor to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that led to desegregation of all U.S. public schools. No, Miri, it is you who have failed to comprehend the situation. Longhorns athletes request changes at Texas, from building names and statues to ‘The Eyes of Texas’ spirit song The song, which dates back to the early 1900s, has a checkered racial history. The University of Texas’ fight song has been challenged due to its racist connotations. The University of Texas made headlines earlier this week after the Longhorn marching band decided not to play its fight song … The Auschwitz Birkenau camp complex comprises 155 brick and wooden structures (57 in Auschwitz and 98 in Birkenau) and about 300 ruins. Fight! Shout out praises to the sky. Otherwise, the story that has played out so often in history will again repeat itself, and though our descendants may look back at the present day as a golden age of the West, our present liberties will have failed them in their future bondage. By Herb Scribner @HerbScribner Oct 26, 2020, 5:00am MDT. There are more if you care to look. That's what dozens of current Longhorn athletes are demanding. The Eyes of Texas was once the fight song of the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The overall length of fencing supported by concrete poles is more than 13 km. He was denied admission because of his race. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, For it's Texas that we love best. The song has been the center of a controversy that has divided the UT community over its ties to minstrel shows where performers wore blackface. So done with all of this shallow b.s. “This is definitely about minstrelsy and past racism,” Gordon told the Daily Texan in 2018. I have considered your opinion. Systemic racism still exists in this country whether you see it or not. “I am always willing to have meaningful conversations regarding any concerns our student-athletes have. Robert Lee Moore Hall, built in 1972, is the tallest building on the UT campus. University of Texas football players and other athletes are pushing for the school to replace 'The Eyes of Texas' as its official song because it originated in … The rich history of The Aggie War Hymn, the official war hymn of Texas A&M (Texas A&M does not have a fight song), dates back to World War I.The lyrics to the iconic song were scrawled during 1918 on the back of a letter from home by J.V. Leaving a bunch of Confederate references around for black people is like leaving a bunch of Nazi references around for Jewish people. Fans pay good money to enter Darrel K Royal to watch tackle football, not patty cake. Yea, White! By Luis Paez-Pumar. Hail, Hail, The gang's all here, And it's good-bye to all the rest! AUSTIN, TX — Before they will participate in recruiting or alumni events, players on the University of Texas Longhorn football team want their school to retire their fight song, “The Eyes of Texas.”, According to the UT school newspaper, The Daily Texan, in April 2018, “The University of Texas, at least originally, had very clear minstrel connections,” vice provost for diversity Ted Gordon said. At the University of Texas, Longhorns athletes are using a portion of their leverage to enact change around the campus, by requesting both that certain campus buildings get … Quit catering to the cry-babies. Named for a UT mathematics professor, Robert Lee Moore (1882-1974), history reveals he was against desegregation and refused to admit African-American students into his classroom after UT was desegregated. Texas Fight! The New South Creed aimed to eliminate the attitudes of the pre-Civil War antebellum South. There are also ruins of gas chambers and crematoria in Birkenau, which were dynamited in January 1945. The list of changes put forth by the Texas athletes includes the renaming of on-campus buildings and removing statues with ties to racism, however, the … I want my reparations for being white trash all my life'. How about this? Texas "Texas Fight" Texas Fight! The statues, however, should stand. NewsRadio 740 is Houston's Local and National News, Weather and Traffic radio station with political analysis from Michael Berry, Jimmy Barrett, Shara Fryer, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and more! Fight! It's about finally being considerate of those whose feelings we have ignored too long. It might be time to take classes totally online and test at a testing center that verifies. I'm thinking we need to talk reparations to the real University of Texas. AUSTIN, TX — Before they will participate in recruiting or alumni events, players on the University of Texas Longhorn football team want their school to retire their fight song, “The Eyes of Texas.”. Yea, Orange! The football players also demand 0.5 percent of annual earnings from UT athletics programs be donated to the Black Lives Matter movement’s organizations, the Darrell K. Royal Stadium be co-named after the first black UT football player named Julius Whittier, and that a permanent black history exhibit be added to the UT athletics Hall of Fame. The football players stated on Twitter that while the UT administrators decide to meet their demands or not that they will continue to practice and workout. Members of the University of Texas Longhorn Band perform during the NCAA football game against Rice Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010 in Houston. Friday’s statement sparked a debate about the Eyes of Texas that normally lingers around the edges of university discourse. The Aggie War Hymn. Texas Fight! Just say, NO! We've come to the point that Aaron McGruder talked about years ago, when White Americans are no longer moved to sympathy over the issues of Black America the way they once were because of collective guilt about slavery. I may soon be able to sue my flatware manufacturer because I weigh too much. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, And we'll put over one more win. Texas Fight! Painter (1889-1969) was a zoologist whose most famous work was in the study of chromosomes. No one has made any promises, but UT Interim President Jay Hartzell says he will listen. ! Nobody is being hurt by the removal of statues and historic references to racism. If you have a problem with this, you are a racist whether you can admit it to yourself or not, because you're not considering how black people feel about it. UTA Mavericks Fight, Fight. We can confirm that the latest generation of useless drones has very thin skin and is offended by the sight of even their self. Not that the songwriter was a noted racist. That's a solution, just get players that fall in line, not the "uppity" ones. Texas athletes request changes to building names, statues and school song, plus contributions to Black Lives Matter and other causes. V-I-C-T-O-R-Y. Governor Hogg was an outspoken follower of the New South Creed, a populist southerner movement in the late 19th century. We can leave this Civil War stuff where it belongs: in museums. If that's what they want, then let them go play somewhere else. UT Athletics Director Chris Del Conte responded within an hour of the players’ demands being posted on Twitter. And it's goodbye to A&M. On Sundays, subscribers receive the West Texas Real Estate LIVE! FOX 7 Austin's Destiny Chance has more details. Hook 'em Horns is the chant and hand signal of The University of Texas at Austin.Students, alumni, and fans of the university employ a greeting consisting of the phrase "Hook 'em" or "Hook 'em Horns" and also use the phrase as a parting good-bye or as the closing line in a letter or story. We will do the same in this situation and look forward to having those discussions,” he tweeted back. This is a a two way street between the two intertwined communities of Americans, and if the sacrifices of those who have been moved by guilt are not acknowledged by those who claim that their plight is still inexcusably abhorrent, then there is no room for discussion and escalating unrest and conflict will be the result. Quit caving in to ridiculous threats. Texas Fight, Texas Fight, And it's goodbye to A&M. Not everyone is going to buy into the Marxist theoretical framework when it comes to resolving the country's social issues, racial or otherwise. With multiple band members refusing to play “The Eyes of Texas” due to the song’s ties to blackface and minstrel shows, the University of Texas Longhorn band won’t play the song this weekend due to a lack of “necessary instrumentation,” according to The Daily Texan. The most controversial of the letter’s demands was for Texas to stop using “The Eyes of Texas.” The song is sung at nearly every organized campus event, and players in all sports gather as a … Really shouldn't be to surprised this coming from little snowflake hurt feelings libturd Austin. The LIVE! While The Eyes of Texas will still be sung as the school song … Black America, you are making adversaries of those who would otherwise take your side. This started back in 2010 when the university began removing statues and names of the treacherous dogs. Because they don't fight, they just explode and shred to pieces everything they touch. As protests continue across the country for racial equality and an end to police brutality, conversations on the same subjects have given way into concrete action at one college campus in the South. Everyone join hands and celebrate being the first generation of perpetual crybabies, who for all you mommy and daddy's money, haven't learned much more than how to sniff out petty grievances, and complain about a world that you've contributed absolutely nothing to. The Texas fight song, Fight Texas and Alma mater, The Eyes of Texas, are both recognizable parts of Texas football. Fight! Support your school the way it is or make another choice. He further charged that the fight song was adopted in 1903, a period of time when lynchings were frequent and African-Americans in Texas lived under Jim Crow laws. Hogg, a former governor of Texas, was too young to serve in the Civil War, but his father died as a Confederate general during that war. Not that the song has racist lyrics. After the football team’s latest loss, the coach and most of his players are at odds with the athletic director and many fans and supporters over the university’s controversial spirit song. Student Government debated on Tuesday about whether to continue singing the University’s fight song “The Eyes of Texas” at its weekly meetings, amidst student and faculty criticisms that the song has a racist history. Could the University of Texas ditch “The Eyes of Texas” fight song? Fight! The Red River Showdown logo is shown on the field of the Cotton Bowl, prior to an NCAA college football game between the University of Texas and Oklahoma, in Dallas, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. I have never in my life known such privilege, such a sense of entitlement, as I have witnessed in the most recent weeks. Now, the interim president of the University says he will meet with student groups to talk about possible changes. Yea, Longhorns! The University’s school spirit song was written in 1903 and was debated by the UT Student Government as recently as 2018. "Texas Fight," is the official fight song of The University of Texas and is played following touchdowns and extra points at football games, as well as many other occasions. “Pinky” Wilson, one of the hundreds of Aggies who fought during World War I, as Wilson sat in a trench during a battle in France. T.S. Where will all this panic stop? Hail, Hail, the gang's all here, And it's goodbye to all the rest! In 1920, UTEP was known as College of Mines and Metallurgy of the University of Texas (sometimes referred to as "Texas College of Mines," or "TCM"). And we'll put over one more win. The bottom of the email contains the most recent rants and comments. And I demand the defense actually tackle, instead of playing two below or ole'. Reconsider, and exercise the magnaninity that King learned from Gandhi and acknowledge the good in those your leaders claim are your enemies. The town of Littlefield is named after George and the Sons of Confederate Veterans named their Austin camp after him. Now people are just digging for issues to shame and inflame, reveling in the power and glory of being heard. Painter was sued, along with the university, in 1950. Texas Fight! Houston's News, Weather & Traffic Station. How about some new policies for football players? The LIVE! “It’s also definitely about school pride. The SCV attempted to sue UT in 2015 for secretly removing Confederate statues from campus. The Eyes of Texas are upon you, boys. There are plenty of football players waiting to replace the demanders. Daily is the "newspaper to your email" for San Angelo. The football players have more demands, including that the school administration rename four buildings, Robert Lee Moore Hall, Painter Hall, Littlefield Hall, and James Hogg Auditorium. Covering West Texas from San Angelo, TX © 2020 Copyright • All Rights ReservedContact Us • Terms of Use and Privacy Policy • Advertising Information Fight! Texas Fight! Turn those universities into community gardens. Husband George held the rank of major in the Confederate States Army and suffered an injury in battle. However, his sin was that while he pushed for anti-lynching legislation, he also supported a movement to segregate railroad passenger cars in Texas. The new fight song does not have any controversial lyrics. There are those of us that refuse so if you won't help, just get out of the way. It's not about people being sensitive themselves. Go big Maverick. Thank you for this opportunity for engagement. (“The Eyes of Texas” is UT’s official alma mater tune and an unofficial fight song; the school’s official fight song is “Texas Fight”). Yea White! Let's change our school song simply because it was written during a time when racism was much more prevalent. Regardless of race, there are a lot of people imitating the Covidiot-in-Chief in his narcissism. Click to hear and sing-a-long with the University of Texas Longhorns fight song "Texas Fight".Visit www.your-fun-stop.com for fun on the Internet!! Abilene Mayor Announced As Finalist For City Manager in Washington State, Viken Detection: Stopping Drug Trafficking One Scan At A Time, Family Left Hanging After Someone Else Is Buried In Burial Plot, Advertising here can transform your business. According to the UT school newspaper, The Daily Texan, in April 2018, “The University of Texas, at least originally, had very clear minstrel connections,” vice provost for … “The Eyes of Texas” school spirit song. Controversy over the song grew over the summer as Texas athletes called for the school to stop playing it, citing a history tied to racism. FIGHT SONG. Have you never heard of Auschwitz-Birkenau Miri? Source: Transitions: A Centennial History of The University of Texas at Arlington. Soon there will be nothing left because if you dig far enough into the history of anything there will be something to offend someone. Houston's News, Weather & Traffic Station. Make whatever excuses you feel like you have to make so you can feel better about yourself. Texas Fight! • Get the iOS App for iPhone/iPad (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) The "Eyes of Texas" will reportedly remain the school song of the University of Texas despite the controversy surrounding such a decision. Demands at this point only exacerbate the tension caused by the many concessions that White Americans have largely, collectively made out of a sense of moral duty and which are increasingly ignored or deemed to be insufficient by a minority of activists and political agitators. Its successful implementation is far from being an inevitability and not everyone is just going to just sit back let that authoritarian gulag start springing up around us. The song, apparently, is racist. email. Texas Fight! We are a pure-play, indie web and mobile news platform with a local audience larger than all the San Angelo TV stations, radio stations, and newspaper combined. I'll bet there are plenty of up-coming players who would be happy to take their place. What Texas college is next to fall for this type of foolish false sense of their little warm and fuzzy feelings. There are many successful Blacks in the United States, and there has even been a Black president. 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