Denise Helms, a Turlock, Calif., woman was fired from Cold Stone after using a racial slur to describe President Obama on Facebook.

The controversy began on Tuesday night when Helms, 22, made a Facebook post immediately after the President was re-elected. She wrote, "Maybe he will get assassinated this term!!"

Helms' social media post went viral and prompted an investigation by the Secret Service about whether it was a true threat.

But Helms said she is not a racist. "I'm not racist and I'm not crazy. Just simply stating my opinion!!!" Helms wrote on Facebook.

"I didn't think it would be that big of a deal," Helms told FOX40 Sacramento during an interview outside of her work place at the Turlock Cold Stone Creamery.

"The assassination part is kind of harsh. I'm not saying I'd go do that or anything like that, by any means, but if it was to happen I don't think I'd care one bit."

People who heard about her post expressed their opinions to the national ice cream chain.

Helm's was fired from the national ice cream chain because her post went viral on Facebook and Twitter.

"The employee is no longer w/ the company. We were as shocked as you were by her outrageous and completely unacceptable comments," the official Coldstone Twitter account posted to one user Thursday night.

Helms worked at the Coldstone store in Turlock for less than a year. The store received more than 20 angry voicemails about the Facebook post, according to the store manager Chris Kegle.

"We found her comments to be very disgusting, and they do not reflect our opinions here," Kegle said.

"We never saw anything from her at work like those comments."

According to FOX40, the Secret Service said all threats or perceived threats are taken seriously and investigated, but it declined to comment any further.