John Demsey lost his $10 million a year senior executive at makeup company Estée Lauder after he posted a meme involving Chingy, Sesame Street, COVID, and a censored n-word on his personal IG page.
Estee Lauder senior executive John Demsey has been fired after posting this meme on his Instagram.
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) February 28, 2022
He was making nearly $10M a year.
He's posted an apology saying he "didn't read it before posting" pic.twitter.com/kCoIwN2n98
While neither Big Bird nor Mr. Snuffleupagus has commented on the firing, Chingy has weighed in and he certainly doesn't think Demsey was "racist" for posting the meme.
“I’m Chingy who you wurr speaking of, and I didn’t take it a way at all,” he said. “Matter fact I can tell you wurr jus trying to be hip like the kids today an it jus came out the wrong way. I didn’t see it as being a racial slurr either my brother. I love you guys products always have and I hope you keep yurr job my man.”
He added more in this video
https://youtu.be/H9Mz4UPOUsg"I wanna say peace and love to John Demsey. Peace and love to that brother. I didn’t take it no certain type of way.