KTBS-TV Fires Meteorologist For Defending Herself Over Racist Comments on Facebook, Comments Station Ignored

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The firing of Rhonda Lee is the topic journalists of color are talking about across the country. The African-American meteorologist at KTBS-TV in Shreveport, Louisiana, was fired for responding on Facebook to a viewer for his racist remark.

Lee told blogger Richard Prince of Journal-ism that she was fired for defending a comment about her short afro. Apparently a viewer suggested on Facebook that "the black lady" could wear a wig or grow it out.

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Some things are not a tough call. Some things are simply a matter of what is right and what is wrong. THIS is WRONG.
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