Hatred Exposed

“Sorry” Does Not Cut It

The members of the LA City Council who engaged in racist rhetoric had a year to apologize. With their words made public, they must resign.

“The racist and disrespectful language used by these elected city representatives is completely egregious, especially when referencing a child.”

- LAUSD Candidate Dr. Rocio Rivas

There are no circumstances when it is acceptable to call a two-year-old black child a “little monkey” in a derogatory manner. There is also no excuse for joking about violently disciplining a child, especially when it comes from a former school board member. Yet, last October Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez called her colleague’s son a “changuito” (little monkey), said that the child needed “a beatdown”, and offered to do it herself. These comments were made during an “hourlong conversation” with Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera.

Martinez and her fellow city councilmen have had almost a year to reflect upon their words but none of them seems to have had a crisis of…