Nury & The Secret Tapes: Part 2
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 49 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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| 0:35.9 | You're listening to Imperfect Paradise from L.A. Studios. I'm Antonia Ceregido. |
| 0:41.1 | This is part two of our series Nuri and the Secret Tapes, an exclusive look behind the scenes of the L.A. City Council tape scandal. |
| 0:50.3 | In last week's episode. |
| 0:52.7 | And there's more, she called your son a monkey, and that's kind of when I lost it. |
| 0:59.0 | Nuri Martinez has just announced she is resigning from her L.A. City Council seat. |
| 1:05.0 | Much of the shock of the scandal was hearing someone like Nuri Martinez, |
| 1:10.0 | who people once viewed as a |
| 1:11.2 | progressive, saying the things she said. |
| 1:14.7 | I identified a lot with her because I felt like we were unapologetically Latina. |
| 1:22.2 | I am a child of the working poor, and this is why I champion issues of the working poor. Nuri was known for fighting on behalf of the working poor. And this is why I champion issues of the working poor. |
| 1:29.1 | Nuri was known for fighting on behalf of the working class and immigrant families. |
| 1:34.0 | But now, she's known for something very different. |
| 1:38.5 | Her words just confirms how racist that other Mexican can be towards indigenous people. |
| 1:48.7 | We're going to tell you where Nuri came from and how her upbringing and her family's |
| 1:53.0 | experiences shaped her political views and ambitions. |
| 1:57.0 | She treated homelessness as a problem for housed people. |
| 2:03.1 | I had conversation with Nuri, and I said, Neri, you know if we do this, you know what's going to happen. |
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