Recently an illegally made audio of a “smoke filled” back room horse-trading session involving hispanic politicians and a labor leader surfaced in Los Angeles. The participants were scheming to not let the process of redistricting weaken their hold on power (gerrymandering).  Obscenities against almost every group were used liberally.  This piece is a response to this event.  A sampling of comments made: Martinez mocked Oaxacans as “little short dark people” and “so ugly” and compared a white councilmember’s young Black son to a monkey. In reference to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, she said “F— that guy. … He’s with the Blacks.”

People are angry and upset
At politician’s racial diatribe
Their crime – being politicians!
No other way to describe

Politics is a contact sport
Fight or get out of the ring
Who doesn’t like power?
What you heard is the real thing!
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