I am shocked, shocked I tell you to hear that a non white minority person is racially insensitive!
They need to be sent to rcaial sensitivity classes. Just like those bigoted white guys..., yes sarcasm.
They need to be sent to rcaial sensitivity classes. Just like those bigoted white guys..., yes sarcasm.
LOS ANGELES — President Biden joined a growing chorus on Tuesday calling for the resignation of three Democratic politicians in the nation’s second-largest city, after a leaked audio recording revealed racist and disparaging remarks made by the City Council president in a meeting last year. Scores of angry protesters disrupted a council meeting as the episode exposed painful racial fault lines in the diverse and heavily Democratic city.
The details:
- In the profanity-laced recording, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times and which was first reported by The Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Councilwoman Nury Martinez, who is Latina, compared the Black child of a white council member to a “changuito,” Spanish for little monkey. She also called Oaxacan immigrants living in Koreatown “short little dark people.”
- The remarks occurred during a meeting of Ms. Martinez with two other council members, Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León, and the head of one of Los Angeles County’s most powerful labor organizations. That official, Ron Herrera, resigned late Monday.
- Ms. Martinez stepped down as council president on Monday and said on Tuesday that she would take a leave of absence. But she stopped short of resigning from the council, despite calls for her and the two other members to do so from Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles, both of the candidates running to replace him, President Biden and many other prominent Democratic officials. Mr. Biden’s spokeswoman called the language used on the tape “unacceptable” and “appalling.”
