US doctor fired for calling Michelle Obama monkey face
A US doctor has been fired after calling First Lady Michelle Obama "monkey face" and saying she spoke in "poor ebonic English", weeks after a police officer was fired for posting her racist Facebook memes. Michelle Herren, a pediatric anesthesiologist, was fired from from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine where she held an unpaid faculty position. She also quit her post as a pediatric anesthesiologist at Denver Health Medical Center, the facility confirmed.
Herren on a Facebook comment rant after she read a post praising the First Lady. She posted an unflattering photo of Obama and wrote, "Doesn't seem to be speaking too eloquently here, thank god we can't hear her!" "Monkey face and poor ebonic English!!! There! I feel better and am still not racist!!! Just calling it like it is!" she wrote, New York Daily reported. In the crass comment, she also claimed that Harvard where Obama studied law is for "entitled folks" and "all the liberals."
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