when the iowa democrats zoom meeting was invaded by racists. black iowa news interviewed representative thede, who is black, about the incident and reported thede said the racist act seemed to last forever. she said she has been called a racial epithet before, but had never experienced anything like what occurred on friday s call. the gazette newspaper reports individuals shouted andrew a racial epithet and posted an image of a monkey on the shared screen for all participants to see. among the event s participants were three black state lawmakers and two black leaders in the iowa democratic party. one of the leaders on the call was iowa s first black democratic party chair ross wilburn, who joined this program in october after someone threatened to lynch him because he wrote an op-ed critical of
happened to you. i even had a minister say, you know, this is awful. this is not what this country is about. and so we really just rallied together with other folks, and it felt really good because we know that there are people out there who will not tolerate things like this. and, you know what? this is going to continue to happen until all of us take our voices out there and say enough. enough is enough. we re not going to tolerate this anymore. we are done with this kind of rhetoric. and what we re going to do is we re going call you out on it. and then once we do that, we re still going to move forward with our target, things that we need to do. and i feel good about that. nothing is going to stop me. i ll keep going. and if people want me to come and talk with them, he will do that as well. but nothing will stop us from telling the truth. representative phyllis thede and al womble, i am very sorry that this happened to you and this is the reason you re joining us tonight. please
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