LA City Council: Behind Closed Doors

Everything is recorded these days.  Every. Thing.  But that was a newsflash to 3 members of LA's City Council when they met behind closed doors to talk about redistricting.  And boy did they talk.  They talked about "the blacks," and "the jews," and Armenians and those "tan feos" Oaxacan people who live in Koreatown.  They mock a fellow council member who is gay and compare his 3-year-old son to a monkey.  That last bit is not so bad, right? 3 year olds are always running around like crazy and doing silly-funny things.  But the 3-year-old boy is black and being "raised like a white kid."  So the monkey comment leans just a teeny bit racist.  Just. A. Bit.

No one knows who leaked the secret recording - and in California it is illegal to record people without their knowledge so whoever our hero is, they will be in some pretty big trouble later.  Like legal trouble.  Or maybe not! Because "maybe" there is a billionaire industrial mayoral candidate who is behind the leaked tape. Who knows? It's wild speculation.  The only thing that is for sure is that the 3 city council people involved haven't said the tape is a fake, instead they apologize for what they said behind closed doors.

Racism, it's everywhere - and it's back again in this week's episode.