![]() Law enforcement continues to antagonize communities of color even as the rank-and-file nowadays are majority Latino. ![]() The white power structure he inveighed against again and again has become more diverse but no less self-preserving. The Los Angeles of today is the one Mike long warned about, except even more dystopian. It’s all Mike ever wanted his readers to do, even in the face of doom. I felt sad for about a minute, then remembered the famous slogan associated with the late labor leader Joe Hill: Don’t mourn, organize! I congratulated him on his usual prescience and vowed to visit again after the election.Ī mutual friend texted me the news that Davis died Tuesday at age 76 from complications of esophageal cancer. for posing “a threat not just to mainstream Democratic personalities but more generally to the ethno-dynastic structure of local politics.” And he ended by turning Martinez’s slurs against Oaxacans, whom she had dismissed as short, dark and “ugly,” into a pledge for solidarity with a hearty “ Nosotros somos oaxaqueños!” - we are Oaxacans - while jokingly referencing his own diminutive stature. ![]()
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