I’d also note that the usage of tar baby here is incorrect. A tar baby does not refer to a person. It refers to a situation that gets worse the more you fight it. A tar baby is a sham, not a real person, and it’s a trap.

Very few people use it correctly, most just use it to mean a ‘sticky situation’. But I haven’t ever heard of anyone calling someone a tar baby directly before. That’s kind of a new one, and because the nature of the tar baby is that of a fake person, that part is kind of creepy in this usage.