‘Wokeness at its worst’: Democrat who said non-whites should ‘take over this country’ facing widespread backlash

Democratic State Rep. Gene Wu of Texas came under fire after racially charged comments he made in a December 2024 podcast resurfaced on social media.

Wu’s comments in the Dec. 31, 2024 episode of “Define American with Jose Antonio Vargas” were reposted on X by the account End Wokeness Saturday night, where it received over 12.5 million views. Wu’s resurfaced remarks targeting white people drew criticism from Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

“I think you’ve hit exactly the right point. And it’s not just Latinos. It’s not just Asians. It’s not just African Americans. It’s everybody. It’s everywhere,” Wu told Vargas in the interview, which took place nearly two months after the 2024 presidential election. “Our country—and the powers that be—have spent tremendous time, effort, and money to make sure those groups are never united, that they always see each other as enemies or competitors, without ever realizing that they share one thing in common: their oppressors are all the same.”

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“The oppression comes from one place. 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,” said Wu, who also serves as chairman of the Democratic Caucus in the Texas House of Representatives. “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.”

President Donald Trump defeated then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, carrying 46% of the Hispanic vote, 40% of the Asian vote and 13% of the black vote in 2024, according to CNN’s exit poll. In 2020, Trump carried 32% of Hispanic voters, 34% of Asian voters and 12% of black voters, according to CNN’s exit poll.

By comparison, in CNN’s 2016 exit poll, Trump only received 28% of the Hispanic vote, 27% of the Asian vote and 8% of the black vote.

“These disgusting comments are wokeness at its worst, and the silence is deafening from Democrats,” RNC spokesman Zach Kraft told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Look no further than the Senate primary to see how the woke mind virus has spread like wildfire among the ranks of Texas Democrats.”

“James Talarico spent last week apologizing for his ‘white privilege,’ and Jasmine Crockett is taking a page out of Kamala Harris’ playbook by preemptively blaming racism and sexism for why she will lose,” Kraft continued.

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