re: The Eyes of Texas is dead

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What exactly is supposed to be wrong with the song?

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. It’s got extremely loose “connections” to General Lee and “I’ve been working on the Railroad” (which has microscopic racist overtones), and people used to wear blackface and sing it.

None of this has anything to do with the current use of the song.

Legitimately well intended people who don’t do their own research and just believe what someone else says in their own echo chamber are “making a stand”