This Monday, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez announced that she will resign after making racist remarks about a fellow council member and his Black child.
In a video posted anonymously on Reddit and obtained by The Los Angeles Times, you can hear a conversation between Martinez, Councilmembers Gil Cedillo, and Kevin de León and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera. In the secret recording, much of the conversation centered around the process of redistricting. Martinez can be heard
discussing the need to “ensure that heavily Latino districts did not lose economic assets.”
From there, the councilmembers then discussed Councilmember Mike Bonin, a White man who has a Black child. In clips of the leaked audio posted by the Times, Martinez is heard recounting a conversation and says “Bonin thinks he’s f**king Black.”
Martinez went on to accuse Bonin of “handling his young Black son as though he were an accessory” when the father-son duo appeared on a float for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade. During their conversation, the city council president also spoke about the Black boy’s behavior during the event. “They’re raising him like a little White kid,” Martinez said. “I was like, this kid needs a beatdown. Let me take him around the corner and then I’ll bring him back.” Now, that wasn’t all…After discussing Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, Martinez too remarked, “F*** that guy. He’s with the blacks.”
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