Can we please have no more projection about racism from racist Republicans?

Another disgusting display, coming on the heels of an adviser to the South Carolina Attorney General referring to an escaped gorilla as "an ancestor of Michelle Obama":

Over the weekend, a GOP official in South Carolina posted a comment to Facebook comparing Michelle Obama to an escaped gorilla. Now, in a second instance of Republicans playing the race card against the Obamas, Wonkette notes that a racist e-mail was sent out by a legislative staffer for Tennessee GOP state senator Diane Black. The staffer, Sherri Goforth, e-mailed this composite picture of the country’s 44 presidents, which represents President Obama with only a set of eyes:

Nashville Is Talking asked Goforth about the e-mail:

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.”

Oh. So she was going to send it to the e-mail list of her buddies who think this sort of thing is funny. And worse, she thinks that excuses it.

I don't want to hear one more word about Sonia Sotomayor being a racist, or Barack Obama being a racist, or any of this crap from the right. The Republicans are the ones portraying the President and his wife as gorillas and chimpanzees and monkeys and minstrelsy. Any umbrage they express because other groups have the temerity to think that everyone is entitled to a piece of the American pie is filtered through their own racism. Because yes, they are racist. Any questions?