Her name is Sherri Goforth and she has been working for the Tennessee State Senate for 20 years, reportedly with a stellar record. But if this report is accurate–and I have no reason to believe otherwise–she has acted in an irresponsible and disrespectful manner. It seems she sent an e-mail featuring a picture of two cartoon eyeballs set against a black background and meant to depict President Obama. The image featured a succession of presidents in dignified and stately positions until the final picture of Obama. She has acknowledged her bad decision and apologized for the offensive nature of the e-mail.
Awful. I wish these things did not happen.
Source: Fox News
9 responses so far ↓
dean // June 18, 2009 at 1:19 am
totally insensitive! ignorant!
Mike Lovell // June 19, 2009 at 7:52 am
Disgraceful (and many other harsh sounding similar adjectives I’ll avoid printing here) email.
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Greg the Explorer // June 20, 2009 at 6:41 pm
and yet – you’ve posted it up for all to see.
Greg the Explorer // June 29, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Still interested in knowing why, if you consider it racist, is the picture still up on your blog?
dean // June 30, 2009 at 5:50 am
Greg, was it not for informational reasons that this was posted?
Greg the Explorer // June 30, 2009 at 3:43 pm
What information is provided by the cartoon that isn’t already provided by the text of the post? If a cartoon is racist (and I agree that this one is) why is it being displayed on a Christian blog?
I’m pointing out the incongruence of all the huffing and self righteousness of people calling it racist but being quite happy to have it displayed for all to see.
Greg the Explorer // June 30, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I am asking you Shirley to justify its appearance on your blog or perhaps take it down as it is a racist cartoon and in my opinion not worthy of being displayed for any reason.
Peace
Greg
Shirley // July 1, 2009 at 5:50 am
Greg, I haven’t been ignoring you–just have not even looked at my blog for days. I’m sorry that the way I presented this issue offended you. When I posted the picture I did not even consider that so doing was involving me in racism. I still don’t think it does, but because you see it that way–and others may also–I am taking it down.
Sorry I offended you.