AKA William

This is one of the posts I really wanted to get up yesterday.

Yes, yesterday was a banner day for racism at the GOP. First there’s this from Daily Kos:

Earlier today, a legislative staffer forwarded well-known West Tennessee blogger Newscoma a picture they had been sent from another staffer. It’s supposed to be an “historical keepsake photo” of the Presidents. But no picture of President Obama–instead, just a “spook.”

Because, haha, in addition to being another word for a ghost, “spook” is also a racial slur against African-Americans! Funny! Not.

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.

And then there’s this.

A South Carolina GOP state activist and former state senate candidate Rusty DePass posted a message on Facebook calling a recently-escaped gorilla an “ancestor” of Michelle Obama.

Yup.

Watch video of DePass’s rush to apologize and see full-size version of the photo above.