Indianz.Com > News > ‘We all deserve better’: City officials caught on recording making anti-Indigenous comments‘We all deserve better’City officials caught on recording making anti-Indigenous commentsIndianz.ComThe first and only Native council member in California’s largest city is calling on his colleagues to step down for making racist and offensive statements about Indigenous people, African Americans and members of the LGBTQ community. “I just think that that presence will continue to be an obstacle if it is still there, in the halls of power at Los Angeles City Hall,” O’Farrell continued. “It hurts that one of our son’s earliest encounters with overt racism comes from some of the most powerful public officials in Los Angeles,” the Bonin family said. But they account for just 0.7 percent of the population in Los Angeles , a city of more than 3.9 million. As the first and only Native member of the city council in Los Angeles, Mitch O’Farrell helped designate the holiday.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 12, 2022 02:46 UTC