Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
A Tennessee software executive has reportedly been terminated after a social media firestorm identified him as the person responsible for sharing a racist meme showing former president Barack Obama with a noose around his neck, according to the The Chatanooga Times Free Press.
Screenshots shared widely on social media this weekend allege that the image was posted by Facebook user Gary Casper, identified as vice president for information technology at Chattanooga-based Transcard, the newspaper