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She was flanked Monday by several longtime friends and colleagues who for more than an hour described her as passionate, patriotic and “without a racist bone in her body.” It was the first time Larrea-Van Der Mark had attended a City Council meeting since April, when she spoke in support of Huntington Beach filing a lawsuit to challenge California’s Senate Bill 54, a “sanctuary state” law that expands protections for undocumented immigrants. She said she saved the video to question the content, not support it. Larrea-Van Der Mark also addressed allegations of being a “Holocaust denier” because she saved a video on her YouTube account that questioned the Holocaust. “But school boards should be nonpartisan.” “In my opinion, all people of all colors should be accepted, all political sides should be accepted,” she said. for the Advancement of Colored People also uses the phrase. I am not offended by the term,” said Larrea-Van Der Mark, who is Latina. “I consider myself to be a colored person. Larrea-Van Der Mark said that when she attended the workshop she was “physically assaulted” and described what happened using “terminology” used at the event. The colored people were there doing what the elderly Jewish people instructed them to do.”
Larrea-Van Der Mark came under fire in April after she reportedly made the comment in a post with a video she uploaded to YouTube in 2017 showing protesters crashing an anti-racism workshop in Santa Monica by a group called Committee for Racial Justice in 2017.Īccording to the OC Weekly, Larrea-Van Der Mark wrote: “This meeting was being ran by the elderly Jewish people who were in there. “As a researcher, I ask myself how did we get to this place, where my words have been attacked and twisted so viciously by the left in an attempt to remove me from positions, threatened by ideological differences?” Gracey Larrea-Van Der Mark said during the public comment period of the council meeting. A Huntington Beach woman who was removed from two school district committees after she was alleged to have referred to minorities as “colored people” in a YouTube video addressed the City Council on Monday night to deny allegations in the community that she is racist and to contend that “liberals have become increasingly intolerant of diverse viewpoints.”