Louisiana meteorologist Rhonda Lee of the Shreveport, Louisiana ABC affiliate dared to speak up and speak back to insensitive viewers who left racially-charged comments on her station.s Facebook page. Lee.s decision cost her job. The meteorologist responded to this Facebook message left on a public page: .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,. Emmitt Vascocu wrote.Click here Lee wrote a response to Vascocu: .Hello Emmitt.I am the .black lady. to which you are referring. I.m sorry you don.t...
- 12/18/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Rhonda Lee, a Ktbs meteorologist, was recently let go after she responded on Facebook to a viewer’s comment about her looking like “a cancer patient” (Read Tommy Christopher's extensive report on the event here) due to her short hair. Lee responded by suggesting that the viewer should be more accepting of others’ appearances but said she appreciated his viewership. After her firing for this response, Lee joined MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts and host Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss the incident and the how the issue of hair care is a serious one to African-American women.
- 12/13/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Ktbs-tv Meteorologist Rhonda Lee was fired by the Shreveport, La, ABC affiliate for violating a social media policy that she says was never communicated to her. 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." Lee's response, she says, cost her her job, despite the fact that the policy she was told she violated was "not written down," and was supposedly communicated at a newsroom meeting that she did not attend.
- 12/12/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
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