Column: 'This is a huge turning point in the city': L.A. wrestles with where we go from here
The Roman statesman Cicero, in the years before he was decapitated by political rivals in 43 BC, could not have known that one of his quotations would be engraved on the southern face of Los Angeles City Hall.The last time I noted this was in February 2019, when I wrote about the snake’s nest of politicalAdvertisement
As half the world knows by now, the three, along with labor leader Ron Herrera, were heard on a secret recording from a year ago setting back race relations in Los Angeles, the diversity capital of the U.S. Martinez, leader of the gang, called Oaxacans short, dark, ugly people and referred to the Black child of CouncilmanAnd so on and so on, profaning the divinity of faith itself.
But that is indeed the question, with local elections less than a month away in a city of sprawling mansions and tattered tents, unfathomable wealth and abject poverty, and a prevailing sense that little if any progress is ever made on the most vexing and divisive issues. The recording, he said, “has helped us understand where they stand, and they have had an attitude of almost superiority — they have felt that they own parts of Los Angeles.”
Whereas the politicians spoke of dividing power along ethnic lines, Winston said their comments could further unite “Latino organizations, Asian American groups, Pacific Islanders … our friends and neighbors from other communities” around a common agenda.
Contreras, who described himself as a former missionary and said he spent three years living among the homeless to better understand their plight, was stung by Martinez’s comments about Indigenous communities.
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