In a leaked tape, three members of the all-Democrat (plus one independent) Los Angeles City Council, along with a labor leader — all Latino — used racist, homophobic, anti-white, anti-Asian and even anti-Mexican slurs as they plotted to redistrict the city council to increase “Latino power.”
LA is approximately 50% Latino, but Latinos control “just” 30% of the 15 council seats. For the party of diversity, inclusion and equality, this is a problem. Worse, blacks, though less than 10% of the population, occupy 20% of the council seats. The three black council members preside over districts that are either majority Latino or where they make up the largest plurality. How dare Latino voters vote for black politicians!
Leading the parade of invectives was since-resigned City Council President Nury Martinez, herself a daughter of Mexican immigrants and whose rise in city politics was aided by a black mentor politician. Martinez — who has called President Donald Trump “racist” — and the others directed much of their wrath against a fellow councilmember, Mike Bonin, a white man with an adopted black child.
They accused Bonin, whom Martinez said “thinks he’s f—-ing black,” of using his black child as an “accessory.” Councilman Kevin de Leon said Bonin treated the child like a “Louis Vuitton bag” and Martinez described the boy as being “like a monkey.” As for Bonin, a gay man, Martinez called him “a little bitch.” De Leon also took a swipe at both neighboring Orange County and the Los Angeles Times. He said Latinos need not fear “those crazies in Orange County who are pro-Trump. It’s the white liberals. It’s the L.A. Times.”
Another white man, the Los Angeles City Controller, came under attack, as did the white colleagues on the council. Martinez said, “You need to go talk to that white guy (the city controller). It’s not us. It’s the white members on this council that will motherf—- you in a heartbeat.”
Martinez also attacked the Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, but not for his soft-on-crime policies that many point to as a major cause of the rise in violent crime. About Gascon, Martinez said, “F—- that guy … He’s with the blacks.” Apparently to Martinez, Gascon’s policies, which allow bad guys to remain on the streets where they disproportionately shoot and kill blacks, is being “with the blacks.”
In a discussion about whether immigrants from Oaxaca, Mexico, are part of Los Angeles’ Koreatown, Martinez said: “I see a lot of little short dark people. … I was like, I don’t know where these people are from, I don’t know what village they came (from), how they got here. They’re ugly.”
As for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor’s President Ron Herrera, he publicly supports black candidates for council, but on the tape says, “My goal in life is to get the three of you elected. We’re like the little Latino caucus of our own.” If this means diminishing black political power to do so, well, so be it.
In the hourlong meeting, the four uttered not one word about the city’s record-setting crime and homelessness. They said nothing about the poor urban K-12 government schools or about the city’s declining population, caused in part by the lack of housing affordability for the working and middle classes. As for these liberals’ quest to increase “Latino power,” this raises a few questions. What is the left-wing Latino position on homelessness that differs from the position of the left-wing non-Latinos on City Council? What is the left-wing Latino position on reversing the population loss? What is the Latino position on crime, something that 77% of city residents say they are concerned about? What is the Latino position, compared to their non-Latino liberal colleagues, on how and why test scores of government schools in California are near the bottom when compared to other states, with the scores of Angelenos lower than the California state average?
Martinez and Herrera have resigned, while the two other council members, Gil Cedillo and de Leon, have been stripped of their committee assignments but have resisted calls for their resignation. Cedillo, however, lost his reelection bid, and his term ends in December. Tough to pin this on “white supremacy.” Was this the LA City Council or a KKK meeting?
Larry Elder is a best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @larryelder. To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
Woke liberalism at its finest! Each now separated ‘minority’ group as opposed to the white supremecists are now at each other’s throats, showing the characteristics they have been accusing others of for years. I suppose L.A. got exactly what they voted for without realizing it.
GOOD. let them fight one another.
The hate, cons, lies, hypocrisy and treachery of the treasonous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
This treasonous, dishonest, destructive, immoral, demonic, socialist Democrat Party and their Democrat RINOs revolves around and its philosophy is based on Total Control, Hate, Lies, Cons, Deceptions, Immorality and the lack of Integrity, Ethics or Honor.
The Democrat Party professes to be passionate enemies of racism; they in fact perpetuate racism by injecting it where it does not otherwise exist in order to cultivate hate, racism and political division.
In the Democrats woke mentality, the use of the words , Hispanic, Black, White, Asian are racist. They in themselves are just adjectives used to describe a persons heritage. They can be used in a racist comment, but the use of these adjectives IS NOT racist.
When we elect Godless, dishonest, immoral, hateful self-righteous, self-serving political representatives like the corrupt, demented, puppet Joe Biden, Tinkerbell PinocchiObama, the hateful Nancy Pelosi, racist Maxine Waters, Liar Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, Camel toe Kamala Harris, Bimbo Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Muslim Ilhan Omar, squaw Elizabeth Warren and Ayanna Pressley who intentionally pit one group against another to divide the country and cultivate hate and distrust, you got to ask yourself; what are the motives of these type people? To lead the country into prosperity OR to gain control, stay in power any way possible and to dominate the citizens? No matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
Liberals are without exception all children of the devil but it amuses me to see one bunch of Satan’s children being hateful to another bunch of his children.
John 8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
YEa, it is fun, watching them fight one another..
It is bad to whitewash all Mexicans with this leftist racists’ stuff. These are leftist activists. Regardless of race gender or anything their warped minds show through. Most Mexicans are as we Americans are. Love family, country, and God. These folks who aspire to public do nothing but cause problems jobs are pretty much the fringe of their people. The sad part is they run for office and no matter who does they are all the same.
These things happen because the Democrats have played one group of radicals against another too often. They divide people by race or sexual proclivity and make them compete for power and taxpayer money.
Yes, most Mexicans are good, hard working people. So are most blacks, most Indians, most Asians, etc.
The author of this piece is black, I’m white, maybe you are Mexican or maybe not, but I think we probably see most important things the same. Democrats do not see those things the same no matter what color their skin is.
At this point I don’t know if Los Angeles can be saved, or California, or for that matter America. We slept too long.
Which is why i’d be ok, if the great quake we keep being told “is coming”, BREAKS CA off, from the rest of the US..
When will they make Spanish the Official language of California
in some areas, it already effectively is.
Identity politics has become systemic. It is the currency of politics. As a result racism has been an open tool of politics. Those using it have personally gained. Racism is a double edged sword, especially for those along for the ride being exploited to make their numbers appear large. When it comes to controlling money and power, the same method is used to fight over the spoils as was used to deprive the original victims.
While in the way the statement was said and where it was said does imply it to being a racist statement.
I am from the “old, old” generation where if such a statement was made, it woud have been said about one’s relative/close neghbor/close friend and how they were behaving at that time. Paraces chango (acts like a monkey) if jumping around or jumping from branch to branch in a tree or post to post. Eres tortuga; caminas como tortuga (you are a turtle; you walk like a turtle – meaning slow/very slow); pareces pato (look like a duck – meaning a waddle or sway from side to side). I never recall these being used to show contempt against another person but guess it could have been said as such but usually among “friends” where it stayed at.