(CNN) -- The chairman of Tennessee's Democratic Party wants a Republican legislative aide fired for sending out a "reprehensible" e-mail depicting President Obama as two cartoonish white eyes peering from a black background. Sherri Goforth, a Tennessee state senator's aide, said she mistakenly sent the image "to the wrong list of people." Obama's image is in the last square of a collage containing portraits of the previous 43 U.S. presidents. The e-mail, which was sent to other GOP staff members, was posted on the Internet Monday. Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, has admitted she sent the e-mail May 28 with the title "Historical Keepsake Photo." She said, without elaborating, that she mistakenly sent it "to the wrong list of people."
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E-mail shows U.S. presidents; Obama depicted as white eyes on black background
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It was sent by aide to Diane Black, head of Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus
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Aide says she sent it to "the wrong list of people;" Black says she won't be fired
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Tennessee Democrats call the e-mail "racist smear," call for aide to be fired
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