After scandal, L.A. band Las Cafeteras sings ode to Oaxaca
She called them “dark little people,” adding “tan feos” (“they’re ugly”) and claimed she didn’t know where they came from.Former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez’s recently leaked racist remarks about Oaxacans living in Los Angeles sparked a major backlash this week that led to her resignation Wednesday. Martinez’s comments employed stereotypes that have long been used against Oaxacans in Mexico and in the United States.The L.A. Chicano band Las Cafeteras, which formed in 2005 and fuses folk music with spoken…