Black meteorologist fired for responding to Facebook post about her hair; petition started

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There has been a huge uproar since the firing of Rhonda Lee, a Black meteorologist in Shreveport Louisiana.

Black meteorologist Rhonda Lee fired

Lee was fired by KTBS 3, an affiliate of ABC, after responding to a Facebook post disparaging her about wearing her hair natural.

A viewer of KBTS said while he liked the meteorologist, he felt her natural hair was inappropriate saying he’s not sure if she’s a cancer patient but she needs to grow her hair or wear a wig.

Rhonda Lee responded in a respectable fashion but the polite response resulted in her termination.

The station cites the Black meteorologist violated a “new policy” that was never written and Lee has never seen.  A new policy in which KTBS says was discussed in a meeting where Lee was not in attendance.

Rhonda Lee said that in a meeting with her supervisors, they told her the policy she violated “isn’t written down, but was mentioned in a newsroom meeting (a meeting she did not attend) about a month-and-a-half prior.”

Lee also claims, “There isn’t anything in our employee manual talking about social media dos and don’ts.”

How ironic.

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As of Thursday morning, the Change.org petition demanding that Lee be given her job back had nearly 3,000 signatures.