CU professor Michelle Herren has been put under fire for racially-charged Facebook post which depicted a picture of a yelling Michelle Obama with the comment, "doesn't seem to be speaking too eloquently here, thank god we can't hear her! Harvard??? That's a place for "entitled" folks said all the liberals!”

The poster went onto comment, "Monkey face and poor ebonic English!!! There! I feel better and am still not racist!!! Just calling it like it is!"

Joann Nieto said, "Hiding behind the excuse that you're not racist, doesn't negate the fact that you are being racist," .

Nieto discovered that the poster is of Dr. Michelle Herren, a pediatric anesthesiologist who works at Denver Health Medical Center, Children's Hospital Colorado and is listed online as an assistant professor at CU's School of Medicine.

Nieto told, "I think you have to hold yourself to a higher standard as being a public employee, as well as being a professor in such a critical field,"

It stayed there for four days until Nieto had said something to the CU Board of Regents, and sent an email to them. If I never would have mentioned anything to them, how much longer would that comment have been out there in the public world

Dr. Herren declined an on-camera interview, but told Denver 7's Molly Hendrickson over the phone that her comment was taken "out of context" and insists she didn't realize the term “monkey face” is offensive. Herren said she was responding to another post pointing out people say whatever they want about Melania Trump, but if they do the same about Michelle Obama they're considered racist.

By Prakriti Neogi