Tuesday, August 29, 2017

"University Of Maryland Will No Longer Play ‘Maryland, My Maryland’ At Events"

Via Drudge:  The University of Maryland’s marching band will no longer play “Maryland, My Maryland,” the official state song of Maryland, at school sporting events because of its ties to the Confederacy.

On Monday, the University of Maryland shared that its marching band has cut the Southern-leaning state song from its line-up. After the deadly rallies in Charlottesville, the controversial anthem will no longer be playing on the university’s campus at all.

The song is a nine-verse war poem, put to music. It was used as a pro-Confederate battle hymn and talks of spurning the “Northern scum.”

Click here for the full lyrics for “Maryland, My Maryland.”

“To be honest, I don’t even know what the tune is. I’d be more upset if they didn’t play the fight song, I think,” said University of Maryland student, Chris Rogers.

Another student said that they didn’t think people would even notice. (Link)

8 comments:

ricpic said...

"Northern scum."

Is Sixty's leitmotif that terrible?

Leland said...

How can they even represent such a racist university within a racist state. They should just disband rather than carrying on this racist legacy.

The Dude said...

Northern scum is redundant.

"The despot's heel is on thy shore" - we grew up singing those words and took them to heart. It's worse now.

Instead, the band, such as it is, can now play "O Tannenbaum" - same melody, different words.

edutcher said...

Well, it's German, which means it's Narzi.

And there's that Christer thing.

So it's rrrraaaaaccccciiiiissssstttt.

Methadras said...

The erasure of legacy is underway to pave a new road into the land dystopia.

Chip Ahoy said...

Pave a new road into the land of dyspepsia.

windbag said...

The same tune as O Tannebaum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrmOZk3X9g0

Amartel said...

New Maryland fight song

Thanks, antyfawpantywadouchecanoegetoffmyshoe