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Last week, during a virtual public hearing about Maryland s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines for Latino and Black communities, two people made fun of Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro while she was speaking. The two people, a council employee and a contractor from the nonprofit Montgomery Community Media, were overheard on the Zoom call discussing Navarro s speech. I love how her accent comes out and pronounces words like she thinks they re pronounced. Like, she says represents and hologram, the woman said, according to WZDC. I heard hologram and thought that was kind of interesting, a man said while laughing. So cute, the woman responded.
| Credit: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for The Washington Post via Getty Startling and symbolic. That s how Montgomery County Councilmember Nancy Navarro describes a virtual meeting held earlier this week when while she was discussing racial disparities in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine two of those participating in the call mocked her accent.
As Navarro spoke personally about the bizarre disconnect she s experienced in her years of public service and how the COVID-19 pandemic has specifically impacted the Latino and Black communities, two participants in the Tuesday Zoom call could be heard laughing and joking about her accent. Get push notifications with news, features and more.