Illinois zoo investigating employee’s controversial photo posted to Facebook

wttv cbs 4 ^ | 6-9-2015

[Citizen Zed]

BROOKFIELD, Ill. — A zoo in Illinois is investigating a controversial photo that some are calling “racist.”

The photo shows a woman wearing a Brookfield Zoo uniform with the caption:

“At work serving these rude (expletive) white people.”

The photo sparked outrage from some customers and was shared thousands of times on social media.

Zoo officials confirmed the woman is an employee. They said in a statement:

“Yesterday, we became aware of the actions of a single employee which we agree are unacceptable. This employee’s statements in social media are in violation of our policies and do not reflect our institution’s values. We have zero tolerance for these kinds of divisive behaviors. We treat all employment matters confidentially, but rest assured that we have taken prompt action to remedy the situation.”

[Citizen Zed]

What a zoo.

[Lurker]

It’s coming, want it or not.

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[ETL]

She’s probably pretty rude herself.

[Farmer Dean]

It’s coming,and I plan to enjoy it too.

[Lizavetta]

[Buckeye McFrog]

-whew-....”controversial photo shot at a zoo” could have been a whole lot worse than that!

[Menehune56]

Last month, similar outrage. At least this genius has been fired.

[kevkrom]

Now see, if this had been someone about to feed some, say, polar bears, I’d have just laughed it off as a clever play on words.

[dware]

It’s coming,and I plan to enjoy it too.

+1

[DoodleDawg]

And social media idiocy claims another victim.

[Alex Murphy]

The photo shows a woman wearing a Brookfield Zoo uniform with the caption: “At work serving these rude (expletive) white people.” The photo sparked outrage from some customers and was shared thousands of times on social media. Zoo officials confirmed the woman is an employee.

[a fool in paradise]

SEEBS thinks it is “controversial” (has several legitimate arguments) and only SOME think it is racist. Mmmm hmmm.

[WakeUpAndVote]

But, does she still have a job?

[Nea Wood]

At this point, I say, “Let’s get it over with.”

[jsanders2001]

I can’t believe it! Black people being charged with the crime of racism. I guess times are a’changin’

[MNDude]

This is why I use FaceBook for employee screening.

[MrB]

Well, “rude” is defined by cultural standards, so maybe, to her,

NOT yelling to your girlfriend across the quad,
speaking discernible English and limiting use of profanity,
and NOT jumping in line if front of others,
and NOT dumping trash all over the place...

are “rude” behaviors.

[VanDeKoik]

It’s the same girl!

[xrmusn]

I am just conjuring up the ‘sh.t storm’ that would have been raised if a WHITE employee said she was tired of......

The White employee would have been given the ‘Go directly to jail, do not collect 200 dollars etc’

When I/we bring up these parallels etc, we get accused of trying to incite a riot, while when the Black says something similar there is just a lot of ‘tsk.tsk.’n’ going on.