Robin Abcarian: In that racist leaked recording, LA sees its true reflection — and it's ugly

I wasn't expecting to hear a reference to my favorite childhood movie as I listened to the surreptitiously recorded conversation among Latino officials that has shaken Los Angeles to its core.

But there it was, sandwiched between then-City Council President Nury Martinez's cruel and racist comments about Oaxacans (they're so ugly), a Black child (he's like a monkey), a gay colleague ("a little bitch").

City Councilman spoke of what he called the "Wizard of Oz" effect. Black Angelenos, he implied, are overrepresented in the city's corridors of power, because