A West Virginia county worker was fired after penning a racist Facebook post calling first lady Michelle Obama an “ape in heels”. I’m tired of seeing a Ape in heels,” posted Clay County Development Corporation’s then director Pamela Ramsey Taylor to Facebook following Donald Trump’s presidential win last week. Underneath Taylor’s post, Clay’s mayor, Beverly Whaling, voiced her approval: “Just made my day Pam.”The racist post, now deleted from Facebook, caused an uproar, with thousands of horrified voters calling on the local mayor to be fired. A petition calling on Whaling to be terminated has had more than 121,000 signatures as of midday on Tuesday. “My comment was not intended to be racist at all,” said Whaling in a statement to the Washington Post.

Source: The Guardian November 15, 2016 17:46 UTC