Skin-Tone Conflict Ends w/Latino Puppetician Resigning Over Colorist Remarks and Complicity w/White Supremacy. [the only difference btw racism and colorism is that non-whites discriminate w/o power’]
ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:
Colorism – the prejudices that Afrikans hold about each other and seemingly use against or to the advantage of themselves and others of relatively similar complexion. 2) skin-tone stratification among melanated people used as a divisive strategy and tactic. Colorism in the cultural context of group power, is an attitude. Colorism is reflected in intra-group interaction— it occurs within a group. In the Euro-cultural context, influence without the perception of a sufficient power base behind it is ignored at best—and invisible at worst—but having the same net effect just the same. The only appreciable difference between racism and colorism is that we discriminate without power. We are guilty of complicity in the deadly power game of world-wide White Racism Supremacy. (See: Racism, RACIST, Power, Political Silence, Sambo, Snigger & ARC)
From [HERE] The controversy engulfing the Los Angeles City Council has opened up long-simmering racial tensions in the city. After days of mounting pressure, the former leader of the Los Angeles City Council resigned her seat yesterday. Nury Martinez was one of the most powerful politicians in the city until she was caught on a secret recording making racist remarks during a conversation with two of her council colleagues. The scandal is upending politics in LA as demands for more resignations continue. We're joined now by NPR's Adrian Florido, who is in Los Angeles and has been covering this story.
Adrian, Nury Martinez has been facing calls to resign from the city council for days now. But until yesterday, she had resisted. What finally did it?
ADRIAN FLORIDO, BYLINE: Well, the pressure, A, had just become overwhelming. And the calls for her resignation came from as high up as the White House. What Nury Martinez was heard saying on this leaked tape were just about the worst things you could say as a politician in a city like Los Angeles, where cross-racial coalitions are so important in politics. She used racist language to talk about Black people, Indigenous Mexican immigrants and others. And this all happened during a conversation with two council colleagues, all of them Latinos, about how to increase their political power through the city's redistricting process while diluting the power of Black voters. So people were really outraged.
MARTINEZ: And that outrage was very loud in Los Angeles. Now that she has resigned, though, how are people responding?
FLORIDO: Well, they're happy, of course, but they're saying that it's not enough. Last night, I was in South Los Angeles at a meeting that community organizers called to bring Black and Latino residents together to diffuse tension, given that this racism came out of the mouths of Latino politicians. People at this meeting were celebrating Martinez's resignation and the resignation of a union leader who was also part of that conversation. But they said that they were going to keep demanding that the other two council members on that tape, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo, also resign. [MORE]