"So I see someone has joined," says Blunt Rochester, who has appeared back on the screen. Without skipping a beat, the congresswoman chimes in. A white cursor hovers over the black screen. Then, a red scribbling of the N-word appears across the screen, along with a doodle of a swastika.ĬAR INSURANCE COST REDUCTIONS: See how your Delaware auto insurance policy is lowering costs amid coronavirus pandemic ![]() The screen stays black for about two minutes as the meeting goes on. "Did I lose you?" asks John Fleming, the district director of Delaware Small Business Administration Office, who was on the Zoom call. ![]() In the video, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester is heard speaking about "the equity of this whole process" when the screen goes black and she disappears. The incident occurred nearly an hour into the Wednesday evening Zoom meeting, a recording of which was provided to Delaware Online/The News Journal from a Senate Democrat spokesman. Lisa Blunt Rochester, small-business leaders and several members of the Delaware Legislative Black Caucus. African American businesses, churches and not for profits were also invited to join. The meeting was a virtual information session to encourage African American businesses, churches and not for profits to apply for the Paycheck Protection Program, a $349 billion program that the federal government launched this month to help small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. ![]() Blunt Rochester reacts to racist hack of Zoom meeting.Ī Zoom meeting to help African American business owners in Delaware was hacked with racist language, Nazi imagery and graphic pornography on Wednesday.
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