Ugh! I met her in the early 1990's when she was running for a seat on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors against Yvonne Braithwaite Burke. I was in a position then to deliver some much-needed white votes in a race that was essentially tied in the black community. Long story. Maybe I'll tell it to you some day.
She is one of the many reasons that L.A. is more racially divided than ever. It makes me sick to remember how little race-consciousness we had in my high school in the '60s and what we have now. Her website reveals that all her work as congresswoman is purely pro-black advocacy.