Nurse loves Obama Ape video

[Playingmantis]

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!

[DFW]

1. I wonder what she would have said to this one................

[gordianot]

2. Maybe she will be invited to Trumps State of the Union Speech.

It would be most fitting to associate a face with this crass self destructive stupidity.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. That's awful

The community surrounding that hospital is extremely diverse. They brought my dad back from a massive stroke in 1998 - and he walked out 6 weeks later.

I'm glad she's on leave. She needs to be fired.

[twodogsbarking]

4. Adios.

[ShazzieB]

5. "Everything" may not be about race.«

But depicting African Anericans as non-human apes is ALWAYS about race, you bigoted ass!

[ShazzieB]

6. Maybe "everything" isn't about race.

But depicting African Americans as nonhuman apes is ALWAYS about race, you odious bigot!

[paleotn]

7. She's a racist wench.

She’s not fooling anyone. Need to jerk her license. That’s the last person we need treating people.

[talking-liberally]

8. She should choose another career.

...or work in the office of an insurance company.

Part of medical ethics is to treat everyone equally. If a person can't, they should not be working in the field.

[Fil1957]

9. To hear that a union leader in a bluish state is so brain dead that she would repost an obviously racist video, is

really depressing. Sometimes I think there is no hope for the human species.

[Marcuse]

10. She probably discounts pain complaints from her African-American patients.

/https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a35483492/racial-bias-pain-assessment-management/

[Bev54]

11. Of course it is racist, MAGA does not have a sense of humour, only a meanness.

[Warpy]

12. Nurses aren't plaster saints

I know because I used to be one....a nurse, never a plaster saint.

What we need to do is check our religious, social and political baggage at the door Some are more successful than others.

My own dad was a bigot, the most appalling racist shit came out of his mouth. However, I never saw him be either rude or dismissive to a POC. People, even dads and nurses, have a right to believe stupid things. It's how they act that matters.