The leaked audio 'underscores the depressing clannishness of these Latino officials, and their apparent belief that everybody who is not like them is fair game to be trampled in the quest for political muscle,' writes columnist AbcarianLAT.
Ibranossian, understandably, was reluctant to descend into the muck when I reached out to him Monday.
“I am a 40-year-old man,” he told me. “I have a wife and two kids. This is not something I worry about.” After some reflection, he said via email Tuesday that hebothered. “This type of depiction of Armenians is not uncommon and is too often tolerated,” he said. “It’s something we as a community have become accustomed to, unfortunately.”
Ibranossian told me his family lived in Torrance for several years after emigrating from Iran to the United States. In that overwhelmingly white suburb, he was called names like “towel head” and “camel jockey,” racist slurs that are doubly stupid because they have no basis in reality. Armenians do not wear turbans, and there are no deserts in Armenia.Behind the racist language is a hard fact that is shaking up politics nationwide: Latinos are underrepresented.
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