As many have read, several members of the Los Angeles City Council were recorded on their phones making racist remarks. For example, council member Martinez said that immigrants from Oaxaca are short and ugly.
I have a Mexican-American immigrant student, a hard-working and charming woman I will call Rosa. She's learning English slowly. Like me Rosa is not talented in language acquisition, but we blunder along. We talk. She was telling me about her younger son's friends in grammar school and mentioned that one friend is from Oaxaca. So I told her about Martinez's racist remarks.
"Oh yes," Rosa said. "My son his friend from Oaxaca is short. And ugly."
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