Race and US Politics: Hero of the Angelenos
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Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa has become the first Hispanic mayor to be
elected in Los Angeles for more than 100 years. But what will his
convincing victory mean for America's second-largest city? By Andrew
Gumbel
19 May 2005
There are not many epiphanies in American politics any more: the
campaigns are too dirty, the money too brash, and the stakes, for the
most part, too stultifyingly low. But to the thousands of people
dancing and celebrating on the sprawling lot of a Los Angeles film
production studio in the early hours of yesterday morning, this
certainly felt like the Big One.
All evening, as a typically Angeleno fusion of mariachi bands, gospel
choirs and klezmer ensembles succeeded each other on the makeshift
stage, the numbers flashing up on giant video screens confirmed that
history was indeed being made. The City of Angels had just elected its
first Latino mayor of modern times, the affable and energetic Antonio
Villaraigosa, and in the process created a potential political
superstar with the clout and the visibility to lead a head-on challenge
to the Bush administration and the Republican majority in Washington.
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