The NAACP is demanding two other L.A. City Councilmembers also step down for making racist remarks.
The NAACP chapters also called on Councilmembers Gil Cedillo, Kevin de León and Herrera to step down for participating in a discussion with anti-Black and anti-Indigenous comments.Martinez referred to a white councilmember's child, who is Black, as "ese changuito," or that little monkey, during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, according to theMartinez also reportedly said that the councilor, Mike Bonin, handled his son as though he were an "accessory.
that Bonin puts his young son out in public like a lawn jockey, the racist statues used to invoke the antebellum South.also is heard making fun of Indigenous people from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, who have migrated to Los Angeles."This kind of overt racism has no place in political discourse," Rick L. Callender, president of the CA/HI State Conference of the NAACP, said in a statement.
"We clearly know where your heart and mind are, and both of them are corroded with the rust of racism and hate."The words out of mouth cut deep in the Oaxaca community of LA. I've dealt w my fair share of racism. But it's ten times worse when it comes from a brown and woman.
Martinez, De León, and Herrera have issued statements of apology for their roles in the conversation. Cedillo told the Los Angeles Times he had no memory of the discussion.Protesters demonstrated outside of Martinez's home and played portions of the audio recording on Sunday. Los Angeles police were later seen in a video shared on social media attempting to move the crowd away from her house.
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