Texas’ monumental come-from-behind win against Ohio State on Sept. 12 was marred by racist comments by a Republican candidate for statewide political office (Photo Credit: Regal Media Group/Todd A. Smith)
After seeing a section of predominantly South Asian Texas Longhorns fans cheering their team to victory over previously number one ranked Ohio State, Bo French, a Republican candidate for Texas railroad commissioner, said in a social media post, “I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.”
The problem that French wrote about, obviously, is even though White Republican politicians pushed to get rid of affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in schools of higher learning, the number of White students is still decreasing at schools like University of Texas at Austin (UT).
Megan Menchaca of The Texas Tribune reported, “Approximately 26 percent of degree-seeking undergraduate students are Asian, up from 20 percent a decade ago. About 29 percent of students are White, which is down 44 percent in the same time period. UT has been prohibited from considering race in its admissions process since a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2023.
“Sitting the cohort of South Asian students at the football game happened partially by happenstance. Like everyone else, they and their friends waited many hours in line in the heat before the highly anticipated game against Ohio State and ran to the closest seats to the field when UT let them into the student section of the stadium.”
Apparently, racist White politicians like French believed that merit-based admissions would automatically increase the number of White students at some of the top schools in the Lone Star State.
Instead, White students at UT are becoming a minority like all White Americans will be soon.
And that is a problem for people who believed that White made them right and their place at the top of the totem pole of life was ordained by God Almighty.
Instead, they have lost their god-darn mind at the reality that someone lied to them their entire life, and they are regular and common like everyone else.
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“Bollywood University. Are we watching a cricket game? I didn’t know the stadium was in India. The America we grew up in no longer exists.”—Several comments made on conservative talk radio
“When I look at that picture, I don’t see a problem.”—Dhairya Gupta, a senior at University of Texas who is included in the picture that French made go viral
“If you were at the game, you know that picture is taken extremely out of context. I’m gonna be completely candid. I think, as a politician, as somebody in the public eye, to take something like that out of context and manipulate it to fit your agenda and your views on a certain race is extremely unprofessional.”—Arsheeya Moyeen, a sophomore at University of Texas
“When I stood on the sidelines at DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium Saturday night and looked up at the seats filled with incredible fans, I saw Longhorns. It’s the same remarkable view I have at graduation ceremonies and anytime I’m on campus. I’m proud to celebrate all our Longhorn students today and every day.”—Kevin Eltife, chairman of the University of Texas System Board of Regents
“All of them are Longhorns.”—University of Texas President Jim Davis
“To complain about skin color and to complain about other people ‘taking over’ UT Austin and how disappointing that is, is just disgusting. It really is because I feel like football and sports (are) something that should be uniting. It should be a uniting factor. It should be something that we all come together to celebrate.”—Lisa Varghese, a sophomore at University of Texas
“There will always be racist people out there who feel O.K. with hiding behind a screen and commenting things about people that they don’t know, but for a politician running for a public office to come out and say those same hateful things just takes it to a whole different level that you truly can’t ignore anymore.”—Moyeen
“It seemed like the actual Texas alumni seemed to be very passionate about the fact that these are also students at the university, and this is the university. It’s not defined by the demographic(s) of the university itself, but by the culture of the university.”—Gupta
“This is the Republican nominee for statewide office. Are other Republican elected officials going to condemn the intolerance and racism or look the other way while it becomes normalized. This is how great political parties self-destruct. Sad.”—Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)
“It’s truly unfortunate that so many elected ‘leaders’ will just silently let this pass.”—Texas state Rep. Jon Rosenthal, French’s Democratic opponent for Texas railroad commissioner
“A selective picture of Longhorn fans celebrating our biggest home victory-ever-actually shows a way that Texans unite. We all support our college football teams. The way we win the state is the same way we win football games. We unite under the brand of Texas. That doesn’t mean that Texas cannot also lead in having the toughest immigration laws of any state in America and freezing H1B visas at our universities.”—Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
“You can oppose immigration policy without demeaning people because of their race or ethnicity—this post crossed the line.”—Texas state House Speaker Dustin Burrows
We’re literally American citizens. He’s running for office so what he says does matter and inherently it wasn’t even a political take, it was straight racism.”—Jesvin Varghese, one of the Longhorn fans criticized by French
