I immediately recognized how the L.A. politicians were weaponizing Spanglish on the tape. Now, Nury Martinez, Kevin De León and Gil Cedillo are maintaining they were talking as Latinos normally do.
When I first heard a secretly recorded conversation among four of L.A.'s most powerful politicos that captured them uttering all sorts of racist and conspiratorial nonsense, very little of it surprised me. The voices — then-Los Angeles City Councilmember Nury Martinez, then-Councilmember Gil Cedillo, Councilmember Kevin de León, and then-Los Angeles County Federation of Labor head Ron Herrera — were familiar.
Martinez despised her former colleague and thus had no qualms about trashing his Black son if that meant scoring points during a private conversation. That's why she described the young boy as a changuito — little monkey — and a negrito, which translates as “little Black male” but has the connotation of “darky.
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