Silver Lake NC Board Members Goes on Anti-Mexican Rant, Forced to Resign

LA’S NEIGHBORHOODS-A neighborhood council in Silver Lake is looking to replace a member who was forced to resign last week amid public backlash for several Facebook screeds that some said were racist. 

In the posts, since deleted from Fac ebook, then-Silver Lake Neighborhood Council member Karen Speitel said that she’s been in L.A. “a loooong time and the distruction [sic] I see all over is from Mexicans. All other immigrants make pockets of this city nice. Go To Chinatown. It’s clean and fun.” 

I know people have different opinions on immigration but, in my personal opinion, they were dehumanizing. Grotesque.- Seamus Garrity, council's vice president. 

The comment was captured in a photo published by CBS2.  The blog Eastsider LA captured a separate rant in which she wrote: “All illegals should have to work like slaves for free for every single legal citizen who came here the right way.” She went on to describe undocumented immigrants as “sneaky, lawless dregs” who turn the United States into “the same third world nation they came from.”  (Read the rest.) 

-cw

 

 

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Vol 13 Issue 39

Pub: May 12, 2015

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