TNGOP’s try at humor ends up being a Spooky Smear
The racist party makes a joke. Ha. Ha. Not funny.
This time it came from an aide to Republican State Senator Dianne Black of Gallatin. GoldnI is on the front-page of the Kos right now with the story. Here is the photo which shows all the Presidential portraits, but when one goes to Obama’s, all one sees is a “spook” with white eyes. Pretty damn offensive to most of the Nation, but not to the TNGOP. The truth is told in jest with this.
From GoldnI:
The staffer who originally sent around the picture has now been revealed to be Sherri Goforth, an executive assistant for Republican State Senator Diane Black of Gallatin (a suburb of Nashville). When contacted by Nashville Is Talking/WKRN Channel 2 (our ABC affiliate) blogger Christian Grantham, not only did Goforth refuse to apologize, all she could do was claim that she had simply sent it “from the wrong email address. In other words, not sorry that she sent out a blatantly racist email, only sorry that she got caught.
Let’s take a trip down Memory Lane with the TN Republicans: first, there was ‘the Call me Harold’ ad, then we saw the Obama is a Muslim and anti-semite, then we heard Rep. Eric Watson refer to Latinos as Hispaniels, then he called Asians the Yellow Man, and now this. There is a pattern here and it is known as bigotry.
UPDATE: Chip Forrester, TNDP Party Chair, sent out an email calling for Goforth to be fired by Republican Sen. Dianne Black. In the email, he points out some more racist examples from the TNGOP:
Unfortunately, Sherri Goforth’s email joins the list of shameful episodes by Tennessee Republicans, from the infamous “Birds of a Feather” (PDF) direct mail piece that featured black crows with the heads of Barack Obama and Rep. Nathan Vaughn (who is also African-American), to the “Barack the Magic Negro” song that former Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chip Saltsman sent to RNC members during his failed campaign for RNC chair.
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Tennessee is slipping further into the abyss under TNGOP’s leadership. Heck, before long, we’ll qualify to join TXGOP and Rick Perry as the most asinine and totally irrelevant state in the Union.
Sadly, you are right there, South Dem. I am so embarrassed about these kinds of incidents and I am not a Republican, I am just a Tennessean. I think all of the legislature and the party should denounce this. If they don’t denounce it, then they are condoning it.
I was the banner waver and spokesperson for the progressive South when I moved from the West Coast 10+ years ago. There is much to recommend about the South, but progressive thinking and open mindedness aren’t two of them. Yes, the honeymoon is over.
I have been trying to understand why. Why have low education results, low environmental progress, high support for wedge issues, high obesity rates, and reliance on irrational verbal rebuttal in lieu of educated dialogue seemed to have concentrated and congealed in the South. Why have conservative Republican ideals concentrated there? I fear the South is being held back by this.
Why don’t the progressive Republicans denounce this kind of behavior. I agree with Sandy.
Any thoughts? CalGal
Hi Cal Gal,
You are absolutely right. Poverty and ignorance go hand in hand. This results in all the issues mentioned above. It is very frustrating, but until the South supports and values education, this awful trend will continue.
Thanks for your input.
There is no humor in racism. Predjudice not only has no logic, it stems from ignorance. It is very sad to see and hear it in this day and age, especially when it is directed toward our president. I am so ashamed of those who still practice it. Judge not!
Patricia Dunne-Florida