Bo French posts racist photo about University of Texas students
As a reminder, Bo French didn't attend the University of Texas, but -- in his role as a white man -- he thinks he gets to complain about the demographics of actual students who do attend classes there. White guys own everything, you see.
Barrista53How do you see this image and not be like fuck yeah America rocks
Greg Greene (he/him/his)38Texas rightists got rid of affirmative action, quotas, DEI, whatever the latest Atwater-esque innuendo is — but this isn’t what they want? What could be the problem?
Francesco Caporusso17There are people of Mexican descent in Texas? if he knew Texas’ history he might understand why.
Sugarfreesucrose13Does he know he’s in Texas
Professor G12Also, the complaint is always “they won’t assimilate to American culture.” My man, those kids have clearly embraced American culture in a way you can’t fathom
Rev Barb10They make their racism so blatant these days but heaven forbid if you accuse them of it.
Sen. Cornyn slams Bo French as a racist piece of shit. Will any GOP electeds who didn’t just lose their primary speak up?
Eric Columbus63To answer the question I asked above: here’s a GOP Texas state representative running for reelection condemning Bo French. More please!
CRobertBuchanan30Cornyn only finding his courage now that he's got nothing to lose and after he's rubber-stamped every racist excess of the Trump regime. So typically Republican.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)13Instead of yet another Hasan Piker segment like we saw this morn on CBS' Face the Nation, there's a whole topic begging for mass media attention: the racists & neo-nazi's running for office in the GOP and working on GOP campaigns.
Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrain11We are reaching unprecedented levels of Hot Dog Suit Guy.
Michael Love5Cornyn says this but would nevertheless cheerfully vote to confirm an active Klan member to the Supreme Court if Trump nominated one
Daniel Brody4A good start but Cornyn needs to go full Kristol.
Wow! Bo French saw brown students at the University of Texas and decided they couldn’t possibly be Americans. That isn’t immigration policy, it’s racism on full display. And he’s the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner.
Voted for joy and we ended up with this.26I'm so fucking tired of this bullshit and I'm white.
Dona Flaca8I’m so sick of those whiny, racist, insecure, arrogant, ignorant mfers. Truly the most despicable, incompetent good for nothing losers. They literally have NOTHING to offer. Not a F thing but their stupid, immature racism.
Sergeant Swamp💙7👇 Individual slaveholders and Confederate authorities in Texas had motives and opportunities to withhold or deny emancipation, and the institution continued through coercion until federal troops could enforce freedom.
🦋Kepi11077🦋 You said the two words that explained it all...Texas and Republican... #Blues
Women For Survival7My God. How many white Americans think POC are not Americans?
Kristin7When you're running for an office in Texas without even a little knowledge of the history of Texas.
Here's Bo French, the GOP nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, just being openly racist and telling the world that MAGA believes white = American. These are South Asian American Texas students celebrating their team's awesome win. About as American as Apple Pie and Mexicans.
keynesaddiction.bsky.social9Talarico should make this tweet more popular.
Meidas Clementine 28This is how these slime balls start. Railroad Commisioner. Stop racist people in their tracks
Tracy L Cooper 📎7This land was never white! These POS need history lessons!
Ryan Statz7And Texas will vote for that shit.
Richard Noel6What a jackass! The GOP has turned into a Christian white nationalist cult. I can’t wait to vote!
John Novio4I wonder if French knows Texas (and most of the West) was once Mexico and thousands of Mexicans lived there before it became Texas.
A post has created a ton of online discourse in Texas today, including some GOP officials condemning it. It’s from Bo French, GOP nominee in a statewide race in TX (Railroad Commissioner, which deals with oil & energy). Picture shows nonwhite students cheering; I didn’t want to share full photo.
Bethany Albertson98I want to see all politicians condemn it, and UT leadership join in. These are our students.
Riley 🐺43(They're mostly Indian if you're really that curious. FWIW even John Cornyn condemned this tweet. Crickets from Paxton.)
D.C.17“The problem” to French and other Republicans like him? Non-whites existing in America.
jungkafka.bsky.social14Bo French is among the worst people the GOP has to offer and that is saying a lot. Straight up Nepo baby racist trash bent on destroying the US
Ask JD Vance how he feels about it.
Luck Be a Lady6If you can swing it, please consider donating to Jon Rosenthal’s campaign. Donating down ballot can help James Talarico’s Senate campaign. jonrosenthaltx.com
TheValuesVoter17These people are not conservative. They only care about one thing: having a white ethnostate. I wish they would all either chill out and accept the fact that our country is and always has been a melting pot - or just go somewhere else:
Just Kevin2I would love to see climate action advocacy organizations team up and focus on trying to elect Democrats to become Texas Railroad Commissioners.
Several Texas Republicans condemned Bo French on Sunday after the GOP nominee for Railroad Commissioner made racist posts calling Asian students at UT a "problem." bit.ly/4xgJuOF
Angele18Cornyn speaking up once he lost his senate seat. Too bad so many of the folks running the former GOP now maga cult have given up their own sense of ethics & morality.
Kim10Republicans love racism, the several who spoke out likely are thrilled with this regimes racist policies.
Serious Talk9They're tired of being called racist but not tired of being racist.
bingmanc.bsky.social5The only thing that has changed in my voting life is that Republican racists no longer use code words.
Elizabeth GB1Now do Brandon Herrera. 
wihsal.bsky.social1Well it turns out they can find one of their balls when they want to.
Kylie Eleison162One of the few remaining shafts of daylight between the Rethuglikkkan establishment and the chud swamp is the former still tends to view South Asians as model minorities who hate woke and the latter are ferally racist about them
Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)90A major development in US politics since, well, Elon Musk took over Twitter is that Republican politicians are now more racist than their base when it used to be the opposite.
Nolan Hicks36I’m a proud UT grad. I’m proud of those students who by sheer virtue of admission are the best and brightest in the whole state. I’m thrilled they got to root on Texas in an instant classic of a game. I’m livid someone would try and ruin this moment for them. Beyond livid. Leave the kids alone.
Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc)35There’s a lot of things to take from this •Texas Dems may win multiple Statewide races they *probably* shouldn’t be able to •Republican candidates are continuing to get worse and in tolerating that are throwing races away •this is a sign of things to come for the GOP and god help us if they win
Aaron Sojourner18Appreciate them taking this stand. The more the better. bsky.app/profile/texa...
Tim Murphy14did they even know what football was in rhodesia
Jennifer Harris10The Republicans that had the courage to call this out need to go one step further: Endorse @jon-rosenthaltx.bsky.social
Bill Childs5I get the sneaking suspicion that this French fella is an asshole
Truther_Dare4lol. They are like “dude. Asians aren’t gonna be targeted u til after the Muslims. Slow down.”
Ben DuBose4This unnecessarily becoming an issue is a gift. I dunno if any will have the courage to endorse Dems, but it is something that can lead to voter apathy from the old-guard types
After months of staying quiet on his gutter racism, top Texas Republicans are now condemning a post in which Bo French, candidate for Texas Railroad Commission, posted a photo of brown UT students at yesterday's game and said "the problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined."
Robert Downen65As we wrote back in July, Bo French has a long history of posting fascist and white supremacist rhetoric. By and large, Republicans have stayed quiet about it.
Jill in Texas9And Kenny just doubling down on that racism.
Charlie Henry7I think it's strange that Bo French seems to think these kids who stayed in line in 100+ degree heat for 12+ hours to get into a college football game are "foreign nationals"
cdpositive 4When you have a racist support system at the very top this is what you get.... the gutterbugs crawling out from under the rocks.
Elizabeth GB3The “Don’t call us racist” Texas GOP only calls out the blatant racism when the race is tight. We didn’t get here overnight. These same people created this rotten state party.
AGoodEgg.bsky.social2Astonished to learn that in TX, it is the job of the railroad commission to regulate the oil and gas industry. I wonder if everyone elected to office in TX just thinks it is someone else's job to regulate the oil and gas industry, and this has all been a hilarious environmental misunderstanding.
Monty Bennett, Republican megadonor and publisher of the "nonpartisan" Dallas Express, weighs in on Bo French's most recent provocation, appearing to endorse rhetoric that other Republican politicians in Texas have described as racist.
steven monacelli45Some past coverage of French in the Dallas Express written by Carlos Turcios, who is currently the head of a committee for the Tarrant County Republican Party, where French was previously the chairman.
jungkafka.bsky.social14Did anybody say those kids in the photo at UT weren't Americans ? Monty Bennett sucks Dallas is worse because of his presence.
I Don't Bluebook9When I graduated from Berkeley, my mom commented afterwards at dinner something like “there were a lot of names I couldn’t pronounce” and brought up how “they” were “stealing spots” which I think was the moment I decided to move across the country and not be near them anymore
Selio81177766, a definitely real, for sure not made up, absolutely rock-solid statistic with no error bars
MashStars4Is it AI psychosis when someone vibe codes agents on Vercel for graphs to post racist arguments on X? I feel like that should count.
Sewmichelleu3Is this guy going to pay for American students
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick2341.2 million foreign students represents just 6% of the 19.4 million students studying as of 2025. But even that is too high, as the 1.2 million number includes ~300,000 people on post-graduate Optional Practical Training (OPT), meaning foreign students are sub-5%.
Kylie Eleison28Probably pretty good for Talarico that right when he’s in very real danger of depressing base turnout, the central debate in Texas politics is becoming“Should Indians?”
Ross5This is just such sad pathetic gruel at this point. They have nothing but xenophobic hate & racism anymore.
Michael Mirer3International undergraduates pay full price at public universities. Their presence opens up seats for citizens because states stopped funding public higher education adequately and this is the way American universities afford instructors for everyone.
Blake Smith2French is a Klan level gutter racist and he won his primary because the Texas GOP is a Klan level racist organization. This shit is exactly what the big money GOP donors want and what they pay good money for.
Brian Kenna2Fun fact: The reason universities accept as many foreign students as they do is because the federal government gutted university funding back in the 80s and foreign students pay full tuition.
"Think about how big of a loser you have to be to spend your night after a big UT football win tweeting about how you were crying that there were too many brown students." @timmiller.bsky.social rips apart white nationalist loser and statewide Texas Republican candidate Bo French:
The Bulwark32Watch the full episode of Bulwark Takes:
LPDOak, CA3All the more confusing because the Dept of Ed doesn't want any more college grads. In fact, higher ed is officially woke. Now this piece of work is lamenting what he views as "white displacement"? Bigots will rage on anything & everything.
Robin1So many shitty people are leaving a stain on the rest of us Americans that are appalled by this behavior.
www.thedailybeast.com/maga-candida... #USDemocracy #ProudBlue Cornyn is right to call out racist radical anti Muslim Bo French French wants to ban all Muslims from Texas and bar Muslims from doing business in Texas Not a single Texas Republican has followed Cornyn’s lead in calling out French
observerbs.bsky.social3Yep. Corollary: Republicans can stop Trump any time they want to.
txmom15372This one has. Some of his North Texas constituents (like me) are making comments like "we don't like you or agree with you on most everything, but thank you for posting this". Part of his area is Collin County that has a large South Asian population so he probably knew better than to stay quiet.
