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    For Black Angelenos, recording stokes anger, fears of losing hard-fought gains

    by Kailyn Brown and Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times Oct 13, 2022 6 minutes
    "It was hurtful," said Anthony Jolly, owner of Hot and Cool Cafe, a day after a recording was released of former President of the Los Angeles City Council Nury Martinez using racist language, in Los Angeles' Leimert Park neighborhood on Oct. 11, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — Watching the news in her View Park home, Helen Ray sat in stunned disbelief as she listened to the now infamous tape of three Los Angeles City Council members and a labor leader privately strategizing about redistricting.

    It wasn’t the casual racist rhetoric that upset her most. It was the topic: They sounded as if they were plotting a backroom deal to disenfranchise Black voters.

    “This feels like a betrayal almost akin to Jan 6,” said Ray, 76. “Donald Trump tried to overturn the election results and discount Black votes so he could be reelected president. Now, I feel the same kind of betrayal coming from City Council members.

    “It’s hurtful to know that these people don’t care about the whole L.A.,” she said.

    To Black residents across the city, the words on the year-old tape hit like a gut punch when the news broke Sunday. Around dinner tables, in coffee shops, beauty salons, bookstores and group chats, they decried the derogatory language on

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