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Jun
http://www.wsmv.com/politics/19761259/detail.html
In case the link above isn’t working (or more likely, some Republican donates a new sound system to the news station and gets them to just pull the story), let me summarize – a state employee (an aid to a Republican senator, chair of the state Republican Caucus no less) used a state email account on a state computer to send a “racist” (that’s the word the article uses, I am not embellishing) email about Barack Obama. It depicts portraits of all the Presidents of the United States – except for one. Instead of Obama’s picture, there is just a black rectangle with big white eyes in it. I have, with some trepidation, posted the image below. The employee sent the message to 20 other state legislature employees – all Republicans.
Okay, regardless of how I feel about this deed and the attitudes behind it, I gotta say … how NOT smart do you have to be to pull a stunt like that using your official state email account on your official state computer?!! In this day and age you’ve just GOT to know that that’s going to come back and bite you …
When asked her actions, she apologized only for sending the message “to the wrong group of people”. Seriously?!! Who would the RIGHT group of people be?!! I have, as you know if you read this regularly, posted many a disparaging story about (mercifully) former US President George W Bush. Some of those have also had funny (I thought) pictures to go along with them. One of my favorites was a picture of him making the same facial expressions as a chimp, which I had on the wall in my office for some time:
So the question is, when do you cross the line? Is calling someone a moron and equating that person with a lower-on-the-food-chain animal the same as making fun of them because of race? I think not, but other people have made the argument that you’re buying into stereotypes and exploiting them either way.
Tough issues … there’s a lot about this incident that is outrageous, and a lot about it that is just sad. It certainly doesn’t exactly paint the south in a favorable light, but you know what … given the backlash in Tennessee and some of the other southern states, I’m not sure that’s not as it should be. Sigh…our country still has “a ways to go” (as they say here in the south).
Okay, this story got picked up by CNN, now, so less likely it will just disappear. We’ll see in a week or so, though, my experience is that these things flair up and then dissipate quickly…
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- You heard it here first …
- Election 2004 7:10 pm Central time
- A new day in America…
- Proud of us all…
- Time for us to move…
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