'The Eyes of Texas' has âno racist intent,â according to report By Rudy Koski and FOX 7 Austin Digital Team Published âThe Eyes of Texasâ report finds songâs intent ânot overtly racistâ Student-athletes asked UT-Austin to drop the school song during Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020. AUSTIN, Texas - A comprehensive report from a committee tasked to look at the University of Texas at Austin's alma mater song has been released and one of the committee's findings was that the "intent of 'The Eyes of Texas' was not overtly racist." The committee went on to say that "it is similarly clear that the cultural milieu that produced it was. And the fact that the song was, for decades, sung and revered on a segregated campus has, understandably, blurred the lines between intent and historical and contemporary impact. This complicates its understanding and explains how different people experienced the song in vastly different ways."