Suzanne Gamboa is a national reporter for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com
The former president of the Los Angeles City Council who was caught on tape comparing the Black son of a colleague to a monkey and saying Indigenous Mexicans were ugly said in an exclusive interview that she is not racist and paid a 'huge, huge, huge price' for her comments.
Instead, she said she was using a descriptive phrase that was often used in her home growing up when a child was being mischievous or acting up. Nonetheless, she said she should not have aimed her comments at the young boy. “I live with so much shame every day and so much guilt, especially around the little boy.
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