LAist Studios presents: Imperfect Paradise: Nury & The Secret Tapes: Part 2

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4.2 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Before the L.A. City Council tape scandal, Nury Martinez, the former council president, was known as a champion of working class immigrants. After, she became the poster child of anti-Blackness and colorism in the Latino community. Host Antonia Cereijido examines how Nury's upbringing influenced her politics and the divisions that emerged within the council under Nury's leadership, leading up to the secretly-recorded conversation.

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0:52.0	I'm Antonia Céehe though. This is part two of our
0:55.0	series Nure and the Secret Tapes, an exclusive look behind the scenes of the
0:59.4	LA City Council tape scandal. In last week's episode. And there's more she called your
1:06.8	son a monkey and that's kind of when I lost it.
1:10.5	Doreen Martinez has just announced she is resigning from her LA City Council seat.
1:18.2	Much of the shock of the scandal was hearing someone like Nury Martinez, who people once viewed as a progressive saying the things she said.
1:25.0	I identified a lot with her because I felt like we were unapologetically Latina. I am a child of the working poor and this is why I
1:37.6	champion issues of the working poor. Nure was known for fighting on behalf of the working class and immigrant families, but now she's known for something very different.
1:50.0	Her words just confirms how racist the other Mexican can be towards
1:56.5	indigenous people.
1:57.6	We're going to tell you where Nury came from and how her upbringing and her
2:04.5	family's experiences shaped her political views and ambitions. She treated
2:10.7	homelessness as a problem for housed people.
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