While we’re on the subject of sad commentaries… It would appear that racism is quite unfortunately still alive and well in the Tennessee Legislature.
The Tennessean:
Sherri Goforth, a legislative aide for Senate Republican Caucus Chairwoman Diane Black, sent the e-mail last month to other staff for Republican senators. It shows a portrait or photo of each U.S. president except Obama, who is depicted as just a pair of cartoonish white eyes in a black background.
For fucking crying out loud! Doesn’t everyone on the planet by now know that you shouldn’t send an email on an office computer that you don’t want the entire fucking planet to see?
The legislative aide has been reprimanded and the letter of reprimand placed in the aide’s “file”. Democratic legislatures are calling for the aide’s termination.
But aside from the obvious public and political appearances (is a reprimand enough? should she be fired?) the incident raises larger concerns. Yes, this is merely one incident of a low-to-mid level staffer engaging in what can only be described as incredibly bad decision making, but is it also indicative of a legislative culture that condones racism? And let’s be clear here, what is colloquially referred to as “good-natured racism”–an oxymoron if ever there were one–is still racism nonetheless…
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Just think, if she had instead engaged in anti-atheist bigotry, she might have been promoted.
Sad, but true.