By now, most of us have read about the recorded conversation of Los Angeles County council insiders making mean-spirited and bigoted comments about Blacks, whites, gays, Jews, Armenians, and indigenous peoples as they complained about the new redistricting maps that a city commission had recently proposed. It's appalling—and we're just beginning to see the fallout.
Now-resigned Council President Nury Martinez and her colleagues (Council members Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León and former labor leader Ron Herrera) seemed hostile to everyone who wasn't in their little clique, viewing them as a threat to their political power. But what constitutes membership in that group?
