What happens next with the LA City Council is anyone's guess. Nury Martinez resigned following those racist remarks caught on tape. Gil Cedillo and Kevin DeLeon are  hanging on for now. What was said on the recording raises questions again about Black and Latino relations in the city. 

Mindy Romero is the founder and director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. And Melina Abdullah is a professor and former chair of the department of Pan-African Studies at Cal State LA and co-founder of the LA chapter of Black Lives Matter.