Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez has resigned from her position after she and two other councilmembers were recorded making racist remarks.
The NAACP chapters also called on Councilmembers Gil Cedillo, Kevin de León, and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera to step down for participating in a discussion with anti-Black and anti-Indigenous comments.Martinez referred to a white councilmember's child, who is Black, as "ese changuito," or that little monkey, during a Martin Luther King Jr.
"We clearly know where your heart and mind are, and both of them are corroded with the rust of racism and hate."The words out of mouth cut deep in the Oaxaca community of LA. I've dealt w my fair share of racism. But it's ten times worse when it comes from a brown and woman.
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