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This week in ‘OMG, she’s awful!’

by Walter Pierce

Racist social media comments by a co-owner of a white, family-run business in the heart of a black neighborhood on Lafayette’s northside lead to calls for a boycott.

This is Darlene Cormier. Don't be like her.
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It’s probably safe to say business has slowed down at Sunshine Cleaners on Madeline Street in north Lafayette. The business’ Facebook page has been getting slammed for a week now by angry residents and now-former customers calling for a boycott after Darlene Cormier, a co-owner of the business, posted comments on Facebook about former President Barack Obama and his family that even in this dawning alt-right Age of Twitler are about as ugly, ignorant and racist as you one can get. That’s saying something.

The head-scratcher here is that, based on photos she’s posted to her own Facebook page and on comments on social media, Cormier has bi-racial grandchildren born of a relationship between her son and a black woman. The disconnect is jarring. We won’t even get into the dysfunctional relationship Cormier has with English grammar and spelling, bless her heart.

KLFY did a story on the controversy. Read it here.