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portlander23

(2,078 posts)
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 09:16 AM Dec 2016

Michelle Obama 'ape in heels' Facebook post: Woman 'to return to work

Michelle Obama 'ape in heels' Facebook post: Woman 'to return to work
BBC News

Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who runs a local non-profit group in Clay county, will resume work on 23 December, the Charleston Gazette-Mail said.

In her Facebook post, Ms Taylor had said: "It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified first lady in the White House. I'm tired of seeing a Ape in heels."

The Clay County Development group, of which Ms Taylor is the director, is partly funded through state and federal grants, and the group provides services to elderly and low-income residents.

Ms Taylor told local news outlet WSAZ, which first carried the story, that she acknowledged her Facebook post could be "interpreted as racist, but in no way was intended to be", and that she was expressing a personal opinion on attractiveness, not the colour of a person's skin.


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InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)
6. Yup, what a disgusting "human being"... our beautiful First Lady is such an inspiration! Gotta love Michelle!
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 09:58 AM
Dec 2016

Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
5. ...notwithstanding her ongoing appalling tweets, e.g. re tweeting the Nazi salutes
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 09:50 AM
Dec 2016

from the recent White Nationalist "Heil Trump" hatefest, a phony photoshopped pic of the Obamas wearing Che Guevara t-shirts in Cuba, etc.
https://mobile.twitter.com/pamelaramseyta2?lang=en

She was never qualified for her $84 k/yr.executive position in the first place. She doesn't meet the stated minimal educational requirements, having no college background at all, and worked as a cosmetologist prior to being hired by the agency.
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20161210/clay-nonprofit-official-who-posted-racist-comment-to-return-to-work

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
9. The county she lives in went 77.4 Trump 19.1 Clinton.
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 01:17 PM
Dec 2016

She was speaking to a majority with her comment. Their concern is not economics. It's POC.

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