While it has been a good year for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team, the marching band that dots the “I” in Ohio and supports them is having to answer questions about something that is no laughing matter.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article talking about a songbook that is passed around among members of the band. In the book, songs containing offensive material are prevalent. One of the most shocking songs was describing Jews being taken to concentration camps during the Holocaust:
The Holocaust song, called “Goodbye Kramer,” whose lyrics haven’t been previously disclosed, includes lines about Nazi soldiers “searching for people livin’ in their neighbor’s attic,” and a “small town Jew…who took the cattle train to you know where.