1:28 am - 12/12/2012
According to Clutch:
On Oct. 1, a viewer identified as Emmitt Vascocu wrote, "the black lady that does the news is a very nice lady.the only thing is she needs to wear a wig or grow some more hair. im not sure if she is a cancer patient. but still its not something myself that i think looks good on tv. what about letting someone a male have waist long hair do the news.what about that (cq)."
Lee replied the same day, "Hello Emmitt–I am the ‘black lady' to which you are referring. I'm sorry you don't like my ethnic hair. And no I don't have cancer. I'm a non-smoking, 5'3, 121 lbs, 25 mile a week running, 37.5 year old woman, and I'm in perfectly healthy physical condition.
( Conforming to one standard isn't what being American is about and I hope you can embrace that.Collapse )
( Last month, Ms. Lee responded, on Facebook, to a viewer who observed that the children who won an annual toy giveaway ''lets say, are people of color,'' and accused the station of ''racism.''Collapse )
Edit: The station just put up an official response on their Facebook.
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Source 1 and 2
Yeah okay. Fire her without warning over a non-existent policy that isn't written down anywhere and leave those shitty comments up on Facebook. I can't. Furthermore, the station even "liked" the racist comments on Facebook.
KTBS-TV Meteorologist Rhonda Lee Fired For Responding To Racist Viewer Comments On Facebook
According to Clutch:On Oct. 1, a viewer identified as Emmitt Vascocu wrote, "the black lady that does the news is a very nice lady.the only thing is she needs to wear a wig or grow some more hair. im not sure if she is a cancer patient. but still its not something myself that i think looks good on tv. what about letting someone a male have waist long hair do the news.what about that (cq)."
Lee replied the same day, "Hello Emmitt–I am the ‘black lady' to which you are referring. I'm sorry you don't like my ethnic hair. And no I don't have cancer. I'm a non-smoking, 5'3, 121 lbs, 25 mile a week running, 37.5 year old woman, and I'm in perfectly healthy physical condition.
( Conforming to one standard isn't what being American is about and I hope you can embrace that.Collapse )
( Last month, Ms. Lee responded, on Facebook, to a viewer who observed that the children who won an annual toy giveaway ''lets say, are people of color,'' and accused the station of ''racism.''Collapse )
Edit: The station just put up an official response on their Facebook.
( View it behind the cutCollapse )
Source 1 and 2
Yeah okay. Fire her without warning over a non-existent policy that isn't written down anywhere and leave those shitty comments up on Facebook. I can't. Furthermore, the station even "liked" the racist comments on Facebook.
found this disgusting article when i googled this story