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. 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.
So opined Gene Wu. In a 2024 podcast interview that has recently resurfaced, this Democratic state representative from Houston, but born in Communist China in 1978, broadcast this anti-white racialist appeal (while predicting the end of life as we know it were all illegal immigrants in the U.S. repatriated).
Candidate for Texas Attorney General Aaron Reitz thinks that’s enough not only to disqualify Wu for the office he holds, but also to put the truthfulness of his naturalization process in doubt and thereby schedule him for denaturalization and deportation:
He likely concealed his anti-American sentiment throughout his citizenship application process—the details of which are conspicuously absent from the public record. Wu is a subversive whose citizenship should be revoked.
But where and when did I first catch wind of this rhetoric?
In the early ‘70s, as a Communist Party member working for Herbert Aptheker on his Du Bois projects, this Bronx native had reason to walk along 125th Street in Harlem from time to time, past the Apollo Theater, and, a few feet further east, an eye-catching mural. Continue reading “For Black History Month: Noting a Recurring Fantasy and Remembering Its Promulgator and Bibliophile”