The LA City Council
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/us/los-angeles-city-council-racist-remarks-leaked-audio/index.html
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez is apologizing after allegedly making racist remarks toward a fellow council member and his Black child.
“In a moment of intense frustration and anger, I let the situation get the best of me and I hold myself accountable for these comments. For that I am sorry,” Martinez said in a statement to CNN.
The remarks were part of leaked audio that was posted anonymously on Reddit and obtained by The Los Angeles Times. According to the newspaper, the audio details a conversation between Martinez, Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera.
Much of the conversation focused on maps proposed by the city’s redistricting commission and the councilmembers’ frustration with them, as well as the need to “ensure that heavily Latino districts did not lose economic assets” in the once-in-a-decade process, according to the Times.
The councilmembers then discussed Councilmember Mike Bonin, a White man. In clips of the leaked audio posted by the Times, Martinez is heard recounting a conversation and says “Bonin thinks he’s f**king Black.”
According to the Times, Martinez says Bonin appeared with his son on a float in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade and he “handled his young Black son as though he were an accessory.”
The Times reported that Martinez also said of Bonin’s child, “Parece changuito,” or “He’s like a monkey.”
In the leaked audio, Martinez can also be heard speaking about Bonin’s son allegedly misbehaving while at the parade.
“They’re raising him like a little White kid,” Martinez said in the audio released by The Times. “I was like, this kid needs a beatdown. Let me take him around the corner and then I’ll bring him back.”
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Shocking and deeply troubling. But we must understand that politicians, as a matter of course, interact with the other side. Some of the racism that permeates conservatism will inevitably transfer to innocent Democrats, like an airborne virus of hatred. Do we blame hospital workers for catching the flu from one of their patients? No. And we shouldn’t blame Democrats for sullying themselves as their job duties force them to interact with the hatred of the right.
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As a Person of Color, Martinez cannot be racist and we must focus our attention on the obviously racist attitudes of this man who is continuing the foul plantation practice of fouling the bloodlines of the black race with his despotic seed.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/us/los-angeles-city-council-racist-remarks-leaked-audio/index.html
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez is apologizing after allegedly making racist remarks toward a fellow council member and his Black child.
“In a moment of intense frustration and anger, I let the situation get the best of me and I hold myself accountable for these comments. For that I am sorry,” Martinez said in a statement to CNN.
The remarks were part of leaked audio that was posted anonymously on Reddit and obtained by The Los Angeles Times. According to the newspaper, the audio details a conversation between Martinez, Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera.
Much of the conversation focused on maps proposed by the city’s redistricting commission and the councilmembers’ frustration with them, as well as the need to “ensure that heavily Latino districts did not lose economic assets” in the once-in-a-decade process, according to the Times.
The councilmembers then discussed Councilmember Mike Bonin, a White man. In clips of the leaked audio posted by the Times, Martinez is heard recounting a conversation and says “Bonin thinks he’s f**king Black.”
According to the Times, Martinez says Bonin appeared with his son on a float in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade and he “handled his young Black son as though he were an accessory.”
The Times reported that Martinez also said of Bonin’s child, “Parece changuito,” or “He’s like a monkey.”
In the leaked audio, Martinez can also be heard speaking about Bonin’s son allegedly misbehaving while at the parade.
“They’re raising him like a little White kid,” Martinez said in the audio released by The Times. “I was like, this kid needs a beatdown. Let me take him around the corner and then I’ll bring him back.”
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-12/la-me-nury-martinez-resigns
Nury Martinez resigned her seat on the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday, days after the release of an explosive leaked audio of a racist, crude conversation.
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