Bean is running for House District 94 in the Nov. 3 election. The district covers central Arlington, northeast Fort Worth, Hurst and parts of Bedford. The seat is held by Republican Tony Tinderholt, who announced his retirement in June 2025 and is now a candidate for Tarrant County commissioner. She is also the board chair of the Texas Center for Arts and Academics, which governs two public charter schools, one in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n
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Cheryl Bean, GOP candidate for Texas House District 94, deleted a Facebook post of WNBA player Sophie Cunningham on a boat with her Indiana Fever teammates, posing similarly to the \u201cWashington Crossing the Delaware\u201d painting and to her viral meme. Comments on the post pointed out why only Black players have floaties and none of the white players do.<\/p>\n
Several comments referenced why only the Black players have floaties and none of the white players do.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the Floaties basically trying to say we can\u2019t swim. Because from my angle I can see who doesn\u2019t have them on,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n
Others laughed at the detail.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot the black girls with floaties on\u201d another person wrote with a laughing and cemetery emoji.<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay Sophie looks fantastic but I noticed only the black women are wearing floaties. I think this made me laugh even more,\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy all the black ladies got water wings?\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
By about 11:30 a.m. Thursday, the post was deleted.<\/p>\n
Bean did not respond to a message seeking comment. The Tarrant County GOP also did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
In a message to parents Superintendent Anika Perkins said the district and board members were made aware of Bean\u2019s post, according to an email a parent shared with the Star-Telegram.<\/p>\n
The message included the following statement attributed to Bean: \u201cThe post of the basketball team crossing the Delaware river has been removed. The original intent was to show female athletes standing strong against unsportsmanlike conduct in a humorous way \u2026 nothing more. My team and I did not see the floaties in the picture and would never have posted it if we had. I believe racism in any form has no place in our society and regret our unintentional oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bean faces Democrat Katie O\u2019Brien Duzan in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cTexans are struggling to pay their bills, and Cheryl Bean is posting racist jokes,\u201d Duzan said in an email to the Star-Telegram. \u201cThis post, like most of what Cheryl Bean says, shows that she\u2019s unfit to be trusted or tackle the problems facing our district. HD-94 deserves a representative who will fight for ALL people regardless of their race or their politics. We don\u2019t need any more extremists near the Texas Legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a text message, Tarrant County Democratic Party Chair Allison Campolo said it is “lazy and disrespectful\u201d for Bean to use AI-generated images for her campaign. She said the AI model shows her biases toward people who do not look like her. Campolo added the comments on the post are \u201cprofoundly upsetting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis post is a clear reminder that racism is alive and well in Tarrant County, and it’s all our responsibility to call it out when we see it, and to work to do better,\u201d Campolo said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Republican candidate for a Fort Worth area Texas House district posted and then deleted a racially coded…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":914885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,369750,2340,7371,7372,234,1502,120190,16091,7375,358,130008,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,369751],"class_list":["post-914884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-cheryl-bean","tag-dewanna-bonner","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-indiana-fever","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-republican-candidate","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas","tag-texas-house","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-washington-crossing-the-delaware"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116869368698821682","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}