My deepest apologies to the Skyway residents who joined the Local Services town hall last night. What felt like dozens of Zoom hackers “bombed” the virtual meeting with offensive, anti-Black, anti-Semitic, and sexually explicit images and words.

Sending lots of love especially to our Black and Jewish neighbors who were on the zoom call and were repeatedly subjected to the N word and swastikas. Our hard-working local services team acted quickly to shut this down, but the hackers were persistent.

This behavior is unacceptable and reflects a toxic racism that has been growing louder locally and nationally. For those who can, let’s not allow this disgusting and targeted behavior to deflate us, divide us, or make us cynical. That’s exactly what they want.

This behavior shows us even more why we need to come together, continue building coalitions, and fight for the better world we want to see.

And thank you to everyone sending me messages to check in. I’m doing fine and feel even more convinced that we’re on the right track!