Nury & The Secret Tapes: Part 4
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In the year since the L.A. City Council tape scandal, a lot has changed.
Efforts are underway to reform the redistricting process. Nury Martinez and Gil Cedillo are gone from the council. Only Kevin De León remains. Progressive shifts in the council are influencing its policies, and new elected members are working to forge a new way forward in L.A. This is the last episode of Nury & The Secret Tapes.
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| 0:36.7 | You're listening to Imperfect Paradise from LA's Studios. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm your host, Antonia Ceregido. |
| 0:43.0 | This is the final part of our four-part series, Nuri and the Secret Tapes, an exclusive |
| 0:48.2 | look behind the scenes of the LA City Council tape scandal. |
| 0:51.9 | In the last episode, we challenged Nuri Martinez on the specific |
| 0:55.6 | racist and demeaning comments she made in the secret recording. One of the things that did happen |
| 1:01.3 | was this larger conversation about how we talk about race in our communities. And in many ways, |
| 1:07.8 | I think that part of it is good, like, that we try to have... |
| 1:11.4 | You know, I wish I can dive more into that, because what this has caused for me is I don't even |
| 1:17.3 | know if I'm the right person to even have these conversations anymore. |
| 1:20.6 | In this episode, we examined the ways that the L.A. City Council has changed since the scandal |
| 1:25.2 | a year ago. We talked to L.A. Cityisis Hernandez and Nithia Rahman about the limits |
| 1:31.4 | of representational politics. |
| 1:33.7 | Time and time again, we've seen reflections of leaders who look like us who are supposed |
| 1:39.1 | to represent us, making decisions that totally throw our communities under the bus. |
| 1:45.2 | And their vision for the future of progressive politics in L.A. |
| 1:49.7 | That's coming up on Imperfect Paradise from L.A. Studios. It's been a year since the LA City Council tape scandal, and in that time, a lot has changed. |
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