Tag: First Lady Michelle Obama

Racist Post About Michelle Obama Causes Backlash

The director of a West Virginia development group and a mayor are under scrutiny after a racist post about first lady Michelle Obama caused a backlash and prompted calls on social media for both women to be fired.

Clay County Development Corp. director Pamela Ramsey Taylor made the post following Donald Trump’s election as president.

Her post said: “It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House, and then made a derogatory remark about the current first lady.

Clay Mayor Beverly Whaling responded: “Just made my day Pam.”

The post, first reported by WSAZ-TV, was later deleted. It was shared hundreds of times on social media.

A call to the Clay County Development Corp. went unanswered and Whaling didn’t immediately return a telephone message Monday.

Local School Counselor Represents State at White House Event

A Kanawha County school counselor was recognized for his work at a recent White House function.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports 37-year-old Todd Roatsey and other state representatives for the National Counselor of the Year Award attended a ceremony Jan. 28, where they met First Lady Michelle Obama, among others.

Roatsey was named the Elementary School Counselor of the Year by the West Virginia School Counselor Association. The organization nominated him, and he was approved, as the state’s national counselor representative.

Jill Cook, assistant director of the American School Counselor Association, which presented the national award to Katherine Pastor at Arizona’s Flagstaff High School, says Roatsey was among representatives from 47 states and the District of Columbia.

Roatsey works as a developmental school guidance counselor at Pinch Elementary.

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