The local and state branches of the NAACP have released the following statement calling for the resignation of not just Nury Martinez, but all who were heard in the leaked audio:
The CA/HI State Conference of the NAACP and the Los Angeles Branch of the NAACP called for the immediate resignation of President Nury Martinez, Councilmembers Gil Cedillo, Kevin de León, and Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera after a recording came to light where the three Latino members of the Los Angeles City Council and a top county labor official held a conversation last fall that included racist remarks, derisive statements about their colleagues and council President Nury Martinez saying a white councilman handled his young Black son as though he were an “accessory.”
“The President of the LA City Council, and all of the involved Councilmembers should immediately resign. This kind of overt racism has no place in political discourse. We clearly know where your heart and mind are, and both of them are corroded with the rust of racism and hate.”, said Rick L. Callender, President of the CA/HI State Conference of the NAACP. Callender further pointed out that all were complicit in the conversation in the recording which was published by the LA Times.
We will not sit idly by and allow our elected representatives to engage in these kinds of disgusting and racist behaviors, said Latricia Mitchell, President of the Los Angeles Branch of the NAACP.
Both the State Conference and the LA Branch of the NAACP are calling into question, and ask for the City of Los Angeles to investigate, how far the racial animus has impacted hiring and other decisions of the City Council.
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