An old clip — and false caption — of Texas Rep. Gene Wu had Republican candidates getting mad on the internet about something that didn’t happen.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/gene-wu-super-bowl-white-genocide-evan-mintz-21342935.php
While the rest of the country was watching the Super Bowl — or, like my brother, the Puppy Bowl — Texas politicians were getting mad on the internet.
No, they weren’t mad about Bad Bunny, the Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican singer whose performance during the halftime show attracted so much partisan ire for reasons I still don’t understand. (Who can disagree with “Together, we are America” as a message?)
They were mad at Gene Wu.
Apparently the End Wokeness content farm account on X, formerly Twitter, shared a 2024 video of the Houston state representative on a podcast hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.
According to End Wokeness, Wu said, “Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.”
No. That’s not what Wu said.
If you actually click the video and listen, you won’t hear Wu say the word “non-whites,” nor will you hear him say the word white at all. Instead, he offers a rather generic description of the Democratic Party’s difficult multiracial politics.
“I always tell people the day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning,” Wu said. “Because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and do what is needed for everyone. And to make things fair. But the problem is our communities are divided — they’re completely divided.”
While I can understand some quibbling about the phrasing of “take over this country,” there’s little in Wu’s statement that should be controversial. Heck, the Chronicle’s Joy Sewing even wrote a column about Wu’s speech more than a year ago as his comment went viral not on End Wokeness, but on platforms popular with Black audiences.
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