GOP Embarrasses TN Again by Kevin

This time by employing a staffer who spread a racist email:

Newscoma posted details of a racist email sent from Sherri Goforth, legislative aid for Sen. Diane Black (R-Gallatin). The email depicts the Presidents of the United States with President Barack Obama as a pair of eyes in a black background.

Becasue that would make Obama a “spook” Get it? Not only is it racist, it is exactly the kind of thing that the person who is doing it thinks makes them look clever but actually tells the entire world that they are the functional equivalent of a failed Turing test.

When confronted with the racist email, what did the staffer say?

When I asked her if she understood the controversial nature of the photo, Goforth would only say she felt very bad about accidentally sending it to the wrong list. When I gave her a second chance to address the controversial nature of the email, she again repeated that she only felt bad about sending it to the wrong list of people.

“I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button,” Goforth told NIT. “I’m very sick about it, and it’s one of those things I can’t change or take back.”

She was sorry that she sent it to other people besides her racist friends. The TN Dem party has demanded that she be fired, so far without much luck.

I am so tired of this. In the 1960s, the GOP had the chance to banish racist politicians from polite company because the Democratic Party was finally, a century too late, moving to break its dependency on racists and work for civil rights — something that the GOP had been basically founded upon. But they chose instead to embrace the racists the Democrats were trying to be rid of for political gain. We could have marginalized these people long ago. But instead, the GOP helped them keep their legitimacy. It’s as if the last fifty years have passed a large portion of the GOP by.

Newscoma broke this story.