Granderson: City council members' recording isn't just offensive. It's also illuminating (via latimesopinion)
It was Martinez who called Oaxacans “ugly,” referred to her out gay colleague Mike Bonin as a “bitch” and described Bonin’s Black son as a “monkey” — and yet the fact that those comments went unchallenged says a lot about everyone else in the room. It’s hard to imagine her saying these things unless Cedillo and De León provided the environment in which such sentiments seemed OK.Martinez resigned as president of the council on Monday and took a leave of absence on Tuesday.
While the offensiveness of the conversation commands the headlines, the reason the group met in the first place warrants more attention. They had gathered at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor with Ron Herrera, who was president of the federation until. Most of the conversation was about the maps proposed by the city’s redistricting commission and the need to protect heavily Latino districts from losing economic assets in the once-a-decade process.
“What kind of districts are you trying to create?” Martinez said in frustration. “Because you’re taking away our assets. You’re just going to create poor Latino districts with nothing.”The leaked audio showed just how toxic L.A.’s political leadership has become. This meeting was about politicians and communities fighting for political power. Democratic leaders, both locally and nationally, know this is not a new topic.
Martinez, Cedillo and De León are a lot of things, including Democrats. Anger over the inequitable power structure within the party is not unique to them. Feels like a much larger conversation needs to happen, beyond calls for the councilmembers’ resignations and beyond Gov. Gavin Newsom’s remarks that “
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