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She also doesn't mention Asian people. I think you're reading too much into this. This is standard issue woke signaling, not a serious indication she can't/won't represent the needs of white people. I certainly wouldn't vote for her because I find this sort of thing maximally obnoxious, but I think that your interpretation here is off base.
Disagree, at least in terms of syntactic coherence. If someone wishes to say that they equally represent all of their constituents, they can plainly say so. Stating explicit representation of one group while not mentioning another suggests special treatment for that group; in the event that members of these groups collide in a zero-sum dispute, I would expect the explicitly called out group to be served. I'm quite confident that flipping the explicitly mentioned groups to include a sentence that says "Chad is dedicated to serving the needs of White Americans" without mentioning other groups would result in their branding as a white supremacists; I might even be inclined to agree with that framing.
Asian-Americans should generally expect that woke-affiliated groups will actively discriminate against them in favor of preferred groups as well.
I would expect, considering that this is basically woke boilerplate, that she would come down on the side of rich and possibly on the side of gay every time in actual practice, while being possibly mildly discriminatory towards Asians and probably discriminatory towards red tribers, and largely ignoring African Americans and illegals. There’s also the fact that this is Texas and nearly everything the Austin city council actually does turns into a fight with the state legislature(and in fairness much of what the Austin city council does is very stupid).
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