After decades of American institutions of higher education teaching that whites are the “oppressors” in the intersectional hierarchy, Texas politician Gene Wu is encouraging other racial groups to team up politically based on claims of shared victimhood.
In a recently circulated clip from a December 2024 interview, Wu says:
“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. We … have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.”
In the full interview, Wu makes clear that he is advocating for the anti-Western, anti-American group identity framework to dominate American culture, including education and immigration policy. This collectivist philosophy holds current populations responsible for the conduct of past generations and seeks to nurture generational resentment, regardless of the evolution of civil rights, constitutional amendments, and legal decisions expanding rights and citizenship. He critiques what he refers to as a “book ban” and the “CRT [critical race theory]-ban” in Texas, saying:
“There is a real effort to make sure that history is not taught, to make sure people don’t learn about the past. When people learn what’s going on right now, and compare it to what happened 100 years ago, they’re going to be pissed. And part of why there is this concerted effort to cover all this stuff up is to say, basically, these people will come and support us as long as they don’t know what we did.”
Nobody alive today is the “we” who “did” anything “100 years ago.” Until recently, when much of the country’s K-12 educational institutions became captured by intersectionality and oppressor/oppressed narratives, American students were taught the horrors of slavery, Japanese-American internment, etc., without being taught that America was uniquely evil and that all white people are oppressors. Efforts to correct this indoctrination are not a “cover-up” of history.
Consistent with the academic theory of intersectionality, which argues that “structures of oppression are related and therefore, … struggles are linked, Wu encourages a perpetual struggle of identity groups teaming with other identity groups based on perceived common oppression. He says, “It’s not just Latinos, it’s not just Asians, it’s not just African Americans. It’s everybody. Our country and the forces that be, the powers that be, have spent tremendous time, effort, and money to make sure that those groups are never united; that they always see each other as enemies, as competitors, without ever realizing that they share one thing in common. That their oppressors all are the same. The oppression comes from one place.”
In the interview, Wu says, “African slaves built and generated the wealth of this country. Latinos owned this land; this land was Mexico. … Latinos built Texas, and then it was taken from them.” He attributes Americans’ concerns over an open border as “purely a sense of white nationalism” and a vision that “America really just belongs to white people.” Wu argues, “We should be welcoming immigrants into this country because you have a lot of people, especially the white nationalists who say we should … close the border. What they’re really saying is we don’t want any nonwhite people to come into the country anymore.”
Wu admits that “even a rough estimate of my district, I would say easily a third are undocumented, if not higher.”
He refers to illegal aliens as the “literal hardest working people in our entire damn country … The hardest, most resilient, most innovative, most intelligent people are here, and they’re doing the jobs.” He argues that not just despite, but because they have maneuvered to be here, working illegally and not following immigration laws, “it’s like running a gauntlet … We should give them a prize. They should win like one green card. They should win citizenship.” “They’re all Americans,” he says, “I don’t care what your status is.”
He claims that “there’s no government benefits for undocumented people,” as the interviewer interrupts, saying, “especially not in Texas.” For 2022, it was estimated that for illegal aliens just in Texas, the cost of benefits and services provided was $9,942,111,305. According to the same report, when adding the costs of the children of illegal aliens in Texas, the cost to taxpayers was over $13 billion.
Amanda Stulman is a Senior Researcher and Attorney at the Legal Insurrection Foundation
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