Op-Ed: L.A.'s history of Latino-Black political conflict? It's a curiously short tale (via latimesopinion)
In the mid-1950s, L.A.’s one and only Latino City Councilmember, Ed Roybal, ran for county supervisor. He lost but later went on to win a congressional seat representing East L.A. Tom Bradley — then a Los Angeles Police Department officer at a time when Black officers were few and far between — volunteered to work on Roybal’s campaign, where he met Maury Weiner, a Jewish left-wing activist.
In the political sphere, comity has been more common than discord. The policy differences between L.A.’s Black and Latino elected officials have been notably few. By that time, every district in the city represented by Black members on the City Council, in the Legislature and in Congress had a Latino plurality; many had a Latino majority. Following the 2021 redistricting, three City Council districts were represented by Black councilmembers and four by Latinos, though Latinos now outnumber Blacks by a 6-to-1 ratio in the population at large.
What the recording of that meeting, made public last week, reveals is not just the hateful and racist language of the participants, but also their concerns about an ethnic imbalance in civic power that disadvantages Latinos generally and themselves personally.In economic matters The irony of this City Council debacle is that De León, Cedillo and Herrera each played key roles in some of L.A.’s defining progressive battles of the past 30 years.
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