Reddit has the recording. And to hear a city leader of any ethnicity utter words like this is disheartening. The conversation makes it clear how she really feels.

Nury Martinez has to go from the council. Because Los Angeles is at its best as a global-oriented city. Where you can get on an elevator on South Hill street and hear four languages. Where we welcome people from everywhere. So we become post-racial. Mature enough to simply not align contempt with skin color.

Frankly, minority vs minority racism fuels the far right better than almost anything. Ugly at best.

She called the Black child of Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin “changuito,” or “a monkey,” who gets carried around like a purse. “Su negrito, like on the side.”

Of Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, she simply said, “F— that guy. He’s with the Blacks.”

L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez says she was merely caught up in “a moment of intense frustration and anger” during an hour-long, secretly recorded meeting in October 2021 with L.A. County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera and fellow Latino Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León.

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