The racist remark of Rodner Figueroa about Michelle Obama

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Mar 12, 2015

Michelle Obama looks like someone from the cast of “Planet of the Apes.”, that was a comment for the talk show host Rodner Figueroa who was fired from Univision after these words about Michelle Obama appearance.

He made his remarks during a live segment of the show “El Gordo y la Flaca”, and he is known for his biting fashion commentary. The show hosts were commenting on a video that shows a makeup artist transforming himself into different celebrities like Michelle Obama and other known characters.

Figueroa, 42, said with a giggle “Well, watch out, you know that Michelle Obama looks like she’s from the cast of ‘Planet of the Apes,’ the movie,” and as a result of that racist remark, he was dismissed from Univision.

Several sources informed that there are photos of the host from the shows’ web pages proved that Figueroa’s dismissal from Univision and the network already happened.” Figueroa co-hosted the evening gossip show “Sal Y Pimienta.” By Wednesday night beside his appearances in “El Gordo Y La Flaca,”.

Univision called Figueroa’s comments “completely reprehensible” through a statement and said they “in no way reflect the values or opinions of Univision.”

Figueroa, who had been on “El Gordo y la Flaca” since 2000 and worked for Univision for 17 years, did not respond to the demands of commenting today.

Severing ties with Sigma Alpha Epsilon because of video

Mar 10, 2015

A video purportedly shows members of the chapter singing a racist chant and the president of Oklahoma University decided to severing all ties and affiliations between his school and its local Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

The video that shows a young men on a bus chanting, “There will never be a n___r at SAE.” was posted on Twitter by an alliance of black students.

Oklahoma University president said that Sigma Alpha Epsilon residents would have to remove their possessions and vacate the house and also doesn’t intend to help the displaced residents in finding other housing.

The Oklahoma Kappa chapter at the University of Oklahoma closed and suspended fraternity’s members as the statement of the national SAE organization said. also the members involved with the incident could have their membership privileges revoked permanently.

They felt sorry in their statement and disgusted that any member would act like that. they apologized for the unacceptable and racist behavior of the individuals in the video.

” the online statement read. “Furthermore, we are embarrassed by this video and offer our empathy not only to anyone outside the organization who is offended but also to our brothers who come from a wide range of
backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities.”

The investigation is still running in university to find which members of the fraternity participated in the chant. Just one person on the bus objected to the racist refrain, this person till now is anonymous, he recorded a 10-second video of the scene on the bus after that he sent it to the black student organization which called Unheard and they posted the video on Twitter.

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