Exploring Oaxacan culture after LA city councilmembers' anti-Indigenous remarks

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October 25, 2022

People hold signs and shout slogans as they protest before the cancellation of the Los Angeles City Council meeting Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, in Los Angeles. The explosive recording of Los Angeles city council members making racist and disparaging remarks have deeply hurt the city's indigenous immigrants from Mexico. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for Los Angeles City Council members Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo to resign, as city council president Nury Martinez did after an audio recording of a conversation among the three council members was leaked.

On the recording, they made racist remarks about their constituents and colleagues, including comments about Oaxacans, Indigenous people from Southern Mexico who make up a large part of Los Angeles's immigrant community.

Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks with Bricia Lopez, a cookbook author and restaurateur in Los Angeles, and with Brenda Nicolas, an assistant professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine

This segment aired on October 25, 2022.

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