An ongoing Los Angeles City Council scandal pits old-school ethnic politics against the multiracial progressivism of young upstart politicians, jaycaspiankang reports.
, who had defeated Cedillo in this year’s election for City Council District 1. Hernandez will begin her term at the end of this year, and will serve a lot of historically Latino neighborhoods, as well as some places where young, well-educated white people live, like Echo Park, Highland Park, and Mount Washington.
The tapes, she said, felt like a “gut punch” that “set us back decades” and undid much of the community work that she and fellow-organizers had been doing to build up Black and Latino solidarity throughout the city. The question in front of Angelenos, and, to some extent, every large city with left-leaning local elected officials, is whether politicians like Raman and Hernandez can build something better than what Martinez, Cedillo, de León, and Herrera are leaving behind.
, and argue that many of the candidates in this new coalition of leftist politicians will rely on votes from the same gentrifiers they are trying to stop. Talk of solidarity might sound nice to everyone, but Los Angeles is, in reality, a collection of ethnic economies that are in constant competition with one another.
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