Was Live Fri, Oct 21, 2022
Guest Speakers:
- Richard Rodriguez, Journalist and Writer, Author of “Brown: The Last Discovery of America” and “Hunger of Memory, the Education of Richard Rodriguez” among other books
- Erin Aubry Kaplan, Journalist and Author, has written for the LA Times, the New York Times, the LA Weekly, Essence, and many other publications
- Arcenio López, Executive Director, MICOP, Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project
- Jasmyne Cannick, Advocate, Writer and Political Strategist
News Report from this Media Briefing
Imaging a Multi-Racial City After a Political Earthquake
Event Overview
The view on the street is of a rapidly evolving city, that the New York Times recently called “a microcosm of the world”, where its residents speak more than 200 languages and live next to one another in relative peace, marry across racial groups and eat each other’s foods regularly.
But this diversity and coexistence seems to have outpaced its government’s current capacity to figure out how to wield and manage power, as shown by the recent scandal of the recordings. In the explosive audios, Latino leaders depicted their natural desire for representation as a zero-sum game and racist views were expressed about several different ethnic groups, including their own.
We will hold a panel discussion with four voices from the African American, Mexican American and Indigenous Oaxacan communities to discuss how Los Angeles can move on from this impasse.
Presented by Ethnic Media Services
