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.I spoke with Sherri Goforth minutes ago to confirm she sent this email. She confirmed she had sent it and also said she had received a letter of reprimand from her superiors but said she will stay on the job.
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."
On another note, I just got a good letter from a cat in South Carolina, who noted that a lot of Southern whites are so sick and embarrassed by this sort of thing. He added that the guilt from their image as a racist backwater affects a kind of paralysis. He wanted to assure me that these fools don't represent the South.
Seems fair to me. I know white Southerners, and the GOP gets tired of being tarred with the racist tag. That said, it's worth considering that black people get tired of being the targets of people who are tired of being tarred with the racist tag.
Seriously folks. In terms of diplomacy between white and black, the South Sides, the Harlems and the West Baltimores of the world can't do much better than the Obamas. Whenever I see this sort of thing I just wonder what they'd say we'd sent them Sharpton.
From the comments on the story, it seems using one's state time to fritter away forwarding e-mails is a firing offense. I'd love to see this get more play--here's your tax dollars at work, folks! Sure you want to keep her boss around, so she can keep e-mailing up a storm?
I'd also like to see some more protest from the ever-diminishing non-crazy branch of the Republicans. Denounce this following up with action: no one believes the "it's just some entertainer" schtick when its GOP officials and officeholders and their employees sending out the Obama watermelon bucks. Get brave enough to threaten a purge: you might be purged back but at least then you're free to get started on a noncrazy conservative party. Sincerely, an independent who would like to have a 2-party system again.
It's not enough to be racist in Southern Republican circles, apparently. You have to be a racist idiot.
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I wonder if some White folks GET THAT!
]]>This is where some simple Jeff Foxworthy logic can be applied. If you think that photo was funny, you're a racist.
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Kidding mostly.
And you have a shitty sense of humor. I know plenty of racists who wouldn't even find that funny. But yeah, if you're laughing at that picture, you're racist.
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Like so.
Particularly ironic given that everyone vying for GOP head, and then the young Rs a week or so ago, were all "twitter, twitter, we're going to twitter and that will bring the party back, with the youth and all."
]]>Of course if she had meant to do that the message would have started with something like:
"Look at the racist nonesense someone sent me, see what I have to put up with?"
Or if she just meant to send it to a friend she had ongoing communication with it might have been simply "here's another one" with the other person knowing what she meant. Of course if that were the case she would have said so in her apology.
In fact some smart republican operatives in the South should be "accidentally" forwarding emails like that to wide distribution lists. Of course if republican operatives in the south were actually that smart they wouldn't be in the mess they are:-)
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Thsi is why they don't get PC. They get there are things that are offensive, but what they think that means is they just can't say certain things in public. It is still ok to think it, she is just supposed to know better than say it in front of the "wrong" group.
When they actually understand why it is racist they will have made it to the civil rights movment.
P.S. - This part, where we are asked to consider giving Southern whites the benefit of the doubt? Aren't the people getting called out over the past coupla days very clearly "representing" the South? I mean, these people were voted for (or work for someone who was voted for.) It's not like they're just entertainers or athletes who happen to be from the South. Someone voted them in.
]]>I think "effects" is actually the right word there. As in "results in."
]]>You could place a pair of blue eyes on a white background to represent me and I wouldn't complain. Perhaps you can get one of those Jewish fellas to show you how to photoshop something. Those Jews run the internet.
I doubt Barack Hussein Obama is even aware of this incident. As a Mooslim I'm sure he is following the events in Iranistan very carefully.
I pray that the Iranistanians are successful in finding 5 Christian Supreme Court Justices to decide their election and then convert "en masse", that's French so forgive me, to Evangelical God Fearing Christianity.
Let us bow our heads...............Lord, Jesus, please allow the people of Iranistan to be free to worship and adore you in exactly the way you require. Please let them find leaders as gifted as Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin to lead them to your glory in the new Confederate States of Iranistan.
]]>Does anyone remember the guy killing his wife and the Boston police hauling blacks off to jail in the middle of the night, because they were black?
All of that was recent history and it happened in the Northeast. There are lots of other examples of nothern racial hatred and you guys know it. Stop acting like the south is the only place it has happened. If the south is so bad why are nothern cities being depleted of people because they are moving south for a better life.
Atlanta and Charlotte are just two of many cities in the south where blacks are doing very well. When will we get real? My answer? NEVER!
We see what we want to see and ignore everything else. The difference in me is this; I'm black and love being black but I am not blind!
Two, most of the criticisms are of the GOP (a party) not the South (a region)
]]>you are one wacky black Republican. You even have a thing for Sarah Palin............that's kinda cute.
I can quite understand black Republicans. Strikes me as a cow being the leading spokesman for McDonalds.
I kid Rob.
Here's just one of your more amusing postings:
RobNCLT | November 5, 2008 8:40 PM | Reply
"Here's another post you fearful left wingers can crack up on. This is not the last time you will see Sarah Palin on a national stage. The media did all they could to attack her like they did Bush but it did not work. Wherever she went there were large crowds longing to see and hear her. She will be back, those of us on the right will see to it.
As for Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin, I'm delighted she has decided to stop. She really didn't look much like Sarah Palin with her boney face and nose. Mrs. Palin is much more attractive then Tina will ever be.
We're going to have some fun dogging Obama for a while now. The left was vicious and we learned from them how to dog a president his whole term. Thanks for the lessons!"
LOL
]]>Boston has a sharp color divide. It doesn't make the e-mail in question okay, or the "gosh sorry I hit that wrong button" apology okay, or the general lack of anyone in the TN Rs being appalled and demanding that firing okay. TN acting stupid this week is not excused by NY acting stupid a decade ago....and most of the state managed to come out on the correct side even back then.
TN Rs need to start sending the "I am shocked that someone used government time for this, and it reflects badly on our party" message, not the "well, these people are around, can't say anything against them" message.
]]>If there was a racist pol from Boston who said or did something as nasty as the couple of things covered in the posts today, I'd be on his/her ass, too.
]]>It's time to start telling people they're behaving indecently and that we, individually, personally, wish they would cut it out. And occasionally, that we wish a particular person would crawl into a cave and hide because their recent conduct counts as letting down OUR race.
]]>I'm keeping my nom de guerre.
After all the Irish Australian Errol Flynn was "Captain Blood".
Now that was a pirate. Not that amusing Johnny Depp impersonation.
As for MSNBC it's probably best that I not go on. I'd just spend my time trying to get Rachel Maddow into bed. The unstoppable force meets the immovable wall.
]]>Here in Chicago we say:
President Barack Hugh O'Bama. Then we drink guinness and fight.
]]>Judge Sotomayor...and, uh, who else ? Oh yeah. Michelle.
]]>"It doesn't make any difference what my intent was, it's the perception. And, as they say about jokes, if you have to explain the joke, it's not a very good joke. And I'm certainly - " (audience applause) "- thank you. Well, my responsibility - I take full blame for that. I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It's not your fault that it was misunderstood, it's my fault. That it was misunderstood." (audience applauds) "Thank you. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I'm sorry about it and I'll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much."
That seems like a real apology, at least. (I'll save my comments about manufactured outrage for later.)
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]]>Have them say something bigoted --or even not bigoted and have the right-wing go nuts, and then have them say "I'm not racist, some of my best friends are white.."
That would be classic...
]]>1. Blacks, who really, honestly are her inferiors and who SHOULD be treated like garbage so that they "learn their place" as inferiors
2. Total and complete utter idiots, ie. liberals
3. Weasels who use "politically correct" words because they're too cowardly to tell the truth, but who secretly agree with them 100%. In their minds, about 95% of whites fall into this category.
That's why racists never really apologize. They are convinced beyond argument that they are the only ones brave enough to stand up against those evil, evil, uppity blacks and the total idiot liberals who are too dumb to see blacks as inferiors.
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