SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — At the San Diego County Board of Supervisor’s meeting on Aug. 26, County Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe was called a racial slur by a member of the public.

Montgomery Steppe is the first Black woman elected to the Board of Supervisors in San Diego and represents District 4, which is home to neighborhoods like Spring Valley, La Mesa, portions of San Diego and more. She was also appointed Vice Chair of the Board of Supervisors on July 22.

During the recent meeting, a person in attendance called the supervisor a slur, to which Montgomery Steppe and other supervisors responded.

“Thank you to my colleagues for your comments and acknowledgement of what was said,” Montgomery Steppe said. “I think this word and the two combined words used have a very deep and traum

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