{"id":436837,"date":"2026-09-15T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436837\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:56:08","slug":"university-of-texas-responds-after-gop-statewide-candidates-racist-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436837\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Texas responds after GOP statewide candidate\u2019s racist posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TWS4IBYRIFCS3OZLSL2XNZ4TLI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The University of Texas said it is \u201cproud to celebrate\u201d all its students after racist social media posts by Bo French, the Republican nominee for Texas railroad commissioner, over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"HUHMXMQBCJFDNBWC3EE47N53HQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">On Sunday, French shared a photo of University of Texas students at a home football game \u2014 most of whom appeared to be non-White \u2014 celebrating the Longhorns\u2019 victory. He wrote on X that \u201cthe problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined\u201d and that \u201csocial media is exposing how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Texas said it is \u201cproud to celebrate\u201d all its students after racist social media posts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-436837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}