Nury & The Secret Tapes: Part 1
Imperfect Paradise
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4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We take you behind the scenes of the L.A. City Council tape scandal, a year later. The secret recordings of the conversation among four of the city’s most powerful Latino leaders making racist, derogatory insults – exposed thorny, unresolved issues of race and politics. Host Antonia Cereijido explores those issues and speaks with the people who were most affected by the tapes, including former councilman Mike Bonin. And for the first time since resigning, former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez breaks her silence.
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| 0:32.5 | You're listening to Imperfect Paradise from L.A. Studios. I'm Antonio Cereidijido, your host. |
| 0:38.3 | It's been a year since secret recordings of four powerful Latino leaders were leaked to the public, |
| 0:44.3 | leading to a massive outcry and a demand for the resignation. |
| 0:48.3 | Racism is racism, whether it's coming from a guy in a red maga hat or from the president of the LA City Council, it is unacceptable. |
| 0:57.0 | Since then, the woman at the center of the scandal, former LA City Council President Nuri Martinez, has not done an interview, until now. |
| 1:07.0 | Have you thought about why you said what you said? |
| 1:10.0 | I've thought about that particular day. |
| 1:12.7 | Got a thousand times, if not more. |
| 1:14.8 | We're going to talk candidly to the people who were most affected by the secret tapes |
| 1:19.0 | in a way that no one has really heard before. |
| 1:22.3 | I got a call from a friend of mine who said, |
| 1:26.3 | Hey, I need to talk to you. There's a secret recording of Nuri and |
| 1:32.2 | Gill and Kevin. You can't figure out what's happening. Like, did someone in the room make this |
| 1:37.7 | recording? And then our board member sends me the text. Did you see this? And I'm like, |
| 1:43.5 | oh, this is what people are talking about. |
| 1:46.4 | Mono Monito, monkey, monkey, these are deeply racialized terms that are not at all innocuous. |
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