Another case of psychological colonization:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-nury-martinezs-rant-reveals-000533149.htmlColumn: Nury Martinez's rant reveals the worst enemy of Latino political power: ourselves
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instead of taking responsibility for the underwhelming state of Latino political power, they just whined and whined about their predicament and blamed everyone else — especially Black people.
When you have an elected Latina official use words to describe Black people — children, no less — as changuitos ("little monkeys") and negritos ("darkies") while no one else in the room pushes back, it shows the rot, pettiness and paranoia that infests L.A.'s Latino political class.
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"Hay trae su negrito," Martinez added — there he goes, bringing his little darky. Later, she said the boy's behavior on a float during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade made him seem like a "changuito."
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Herrera then said, "You just gotta combat CoCo with that seat. That seat has to be anti-CoCo."
He was referring to Community Coalition, the nonprofit started by mayoral candidate Karen Bass and once headed by Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson that has spent the last three decades trying to improve relations between Latino and Black folks in South Los Angeles. Bass and Harris-Dawson are Black; Community Coalition's current chief executive and executive vice president are Latino.
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"Twenty-five or so are Black," Cedillo added. "And the 25 Blacks are shouting."
De Leon interjected, "But they shout like they're 250."
The toxicity of the quartet was such that they found time to trash other groups too.
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Martinez mentioned Oaxacans, who have lived in the neighborhood for decades.
“I see a lot of short little dark people,” she said, cackling as she trotted out anti-Oaxacan stereotypes common in Mexico and the U.S. "Not even like Kevin — little ones," Cedillo added — a backhanded compliment to De León, who is of Guatemalan descent, when Guatemalans also get mocked by Mexicans for their stature and complexion.
“I don't know where these people are from," Martinez continued. "I was like, 'I don’t know what village they came from, how they got here.'”
"And now they're wearing shoes," someone added.
“’Tan feos,” Martinez responded — they’re ugly.
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a conversation in which she and her political allies ridiculed Black people, Oaxacans and Central Americans, who are now apparently not "communities of color" in her Mexican-centric world.
No, she is not a Mexican-centrist. If she were, she would also ridicule "whites". She doesn't. She is, like all the psychologically colonized, a Eurocentrist, who replicates the exact attitudes introduced during the colonial era by the Western colonialists.
Sadly, nothing about this embarrassing fiasco surprised me. I hear whining all the time from Latinos that Black people have too much political power, at their expense. Mexican discrimination against Oaxacans is so pernicious, even in Southern California, that the term "oaxaquito" — little Oaxacan — was banned in Oxnard schools. I'm surprised Martinez didn't call Koreans "chinitos" — Chinamen — because that would've followed the same diminutive, demeaning line as slurs like "negritos" and "changuitos." Too many Mexican Americans still toss them around.
The one term she will never use is "blanquito". We all know why not.
Casual racism and classism among Latinos is something our community has never really confronted until recently, as a new generation has started frank and honest conversations about our anti-Blackness and colorism.
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when you're now the majority, you're not supposed to act like those who previously oppressed you.
Our enemies have already given Martinez a pictorial feature (and of course she looks like what we would expect):
This is the type that, given a choice between identifying with the conquistadors or their victims, will always choose the former, as we were discussing here:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/uniting-americans/msg16017/#msg16017