Karen Bass: ““Every now and then we’re popular, but we go out of popularity very quickly,” Bass said on a recent Friday in Watts at…”

“I sure as heck wouldn’t have gone.”

“It’s very hard to say that you want to be mayor of this city, and you’ve never heard of Rodney King.”

I have made enough progress to merit another term leading a city of 3.8 million people.

“As I was speaking, to see a group of young folks do this while I was speaking” – Bass shows a thumbs down – “cut particularly deep because there were young white folks who consider themselves very progressive.”