The title is a twist on something Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee said, and it made its debut in a minstrel show, but « The Eyes of Texas » will continue to be sung at…
(Newser) – The title is a twist on something Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee said, and it made its debut in a minstrel show, but « The Eyes of Texas » will continue to be sung at the end of football games. A University of Texas committee charged with studying the history of the song to assess whether it’s racist in nature has cleared it. « The research leads us to surmise that intent of ‘The Eyes of Texas’ was not overtly racist, » the committee’s report says. « However, it is similarly clear that the cultural milieu that produced it was.
