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.
