African American Reporter Takes Stand After Body-Shaming

Style Magazine Newswire | 11/10/2017, 11:25 a.m.
A woman's comments that an African-American female news reporter in Dallas "looks ridiculous" in her clothes has sparked outrage on …
WFAA Channel 8 News traffic reporter Demetria Obilor/Facebook

Source: NBCNews.com

A woman's comments that an African-American female news reporter in Dallas "looks ridiculous" in her clothes has sparked outrage on social media. Wednesday morning, a woman on Facebook posted a photo of WFAA Channel 8 News traffic reporter Demetria Obilor wearing a red dress, criticizing the way she looked in her dress. The post has since been taken down. "She's a 16/18 woman in a size 6 dress and looks ridiculous," the post said. The woman also said she would stop watching the news channel. Obilor, 26, has been a traffic reporter at the station for two weeks. Having been in the business almost four years, she said she isn’t hurt by the comments and has thick skin. "I'm not a 16/18, but even if I was, for you to try to call out my size like that to hurt me or discriminate against me, I'm not for that," she told NBC News.

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