Being half black I can say ADOS takes a kumbaya approach to invite everyone into the house but when everyone has more resources, district/voting power, and numbers they kick blacks to the curve. YOU FOOLS HAVE BEEN WARNED. You get outnumbered like in South America with your communities looking like ShawtyTowns and Favelas. You think whites are bad. Deal with a group that worships the ground they walk on.
Racist remarks spotlight rivalry between L.A. Latinos, Blacks
Former Council president Nury Martinez, a Democrat, stepped down from the job and apologized Monday, saying she was ashamed of her racially offensive language in the year-old recording. Her remarks, which included mocking the Black son of a white councilman, came during a discussion with other Latino Council members and a Latino labor leader about protecting their political power during the redrawing of council district boundaries, known as redistricting. The once-a-decade process can pit one group against another to gain political advantage in future elections.
The white councilman, Mike Bonin, issued a statement with his husband calling for the resignations of Martinez and others involved in the discussion, describing it as “a coordinated effort to weaken Black political representation in Los Angeles.”
The California Legislative Black Caucus said the recording “reveals an appalling effort to decentralize Black voices during the critical redistricting process.”
Blacks and Latinos often build alliances in politics, but tension and rivalries among groups separated by race, geography, partisanship or religion have a long history in Los Angeles and, indeed, the country. The friction can cross into housing, education and jobs — even prisons — as well as the spoils of political power.
