A Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives is being called out for using racially-charged rhetoric on a podcast after the clip resurfaced on social media.
A little over a year ago, State Representative Gene Wu was a guest on Define America with Jose Antonio Vargas, a left-wing podcast focused on immigration issues.
On Saturday, the popular right-wing X account End Wokeness posted a clip from the podcast, in which Wu made a controversial statement about how non-white people in the US are now the majority and are in a position to ‘take over this country.’
The clip begins with Wu, who was born in China, saying, ‘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.’
‘Because we are the majority in this country now,’ the congressman continued.
‘We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone, and to make things fair, but the problem is our communities are divided – they’re completely divided.’
The account captioned the clip: ‘Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off: “Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country.”‘
On Sunday, the account replied to its own viral post and wrote: ‘More condemnations from the GOP over a Lion King meme than this.’
That was in reference to a meme posted Thursday night on President Trump’s X account, in which the faces of former President Obama and First Lady Michelle were superimposed onto apes.
The post was widely criticized as racist by people on both sides of the aisle, and it was deleted on Friday.
The clip of Wu has received more than seven million views, 27,000 likes and nearly 5,000 responses in less than 24 hours.
One of those responses was from X CEO and billionaire Elon Musk, who simply wrote: ‘Shame on him.’
The vast majority of reactions on X were also negative, and the clip going viral inspired people to post negative comments under the original podcast episode on YouTube as well.
‘Why would you immigrate to USA to be oppressed?’ one user wrote on X.
‘Uh huh SO SICK & TIRED of this race baiting marxist CR@P,’ another user posted along with a political cartoon depicting a group of people at the border wall saying: ‘Please let us in so we can be victims of systemic racism and white supremacy!’
‘I’m still trying to figure out why Democrats are so obsessed with race,’ a third user wrote.
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