The derogatory comments from three Los Angeles City Council members that were captured on leaked audio recordings included not only anti-Black comments, but also swipes at Indigenous Mexicans.
, along with community and civic groups, demanding that all three resign from the council.
“I listened to a tiny bit, you know, of the clip, and … the trauma came back,” said Xochitl Flores-Marcial, an associate professor Chicana/o Studies at Cal State Northridge. She was born in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which has a large Indigenous population. She identifies as Zapotec. “When we went to school, there were kids that were bullies, just like these councilmembers, who treated us exactly with the same words,” Flores-Marcial said.Become a sponsorThe anti-Oaxacan comments echo an age-old hierarchy of color in Latin America that dates back to the Spanish conquest, in which light-skinned, European-looking Latinos are generally favored over those with Indigenous or African ancestry.
“The ranking is, of course, put in place by the dominant group in this case was, you know, white people — or rather Spanish people, which is European,” said Vallejo, who is from Michoacan state and identifies as Indigenous with Purépecha roots.Chicana/o Studies professor Maylei Blackwell said these attitudes have long been imported north from Latin American countries — and are unfortunately commonplace in the U.S.
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