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Playingmantis

(594 posts)
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 11:50 AM Tuesday

Nurse loves Obama Ape video [View all]

A nurse at Rochester General Hospital was placed on administrative leave and removed from her union leadership position after she made social media posts containing racist content.

Though she has since deleted her Facebook history, screenshots circulating online show that Christa Vernile Kendall shared a post including an image from the widely condemned racist video that appeared on President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account on Feb. 6 depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as jungle apes — and then commented, “Love it!”

When people called her out online for endorsing racial discrimination, Kendall, echoing the way White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt initially dismissed concerns over the AI-created clip, described it as “a comical meme” featuring Trump as the Lion King “that makes no difference whatsoever in the world,” adding that “Everything is not about race.”

https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/02/19/rochester-nurse-put-on-leave-after-embracing-trumps-racist-post-portraying-the-obamas-as-apes-but-she-wont-back-down/

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Oh there is no racism in MAGA just fun loving people with a sense of humor, they tell us

.MY ASS THERE ISNT!

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