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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Nope, there's no more racism in this country
Posted by Jill | 9:01 PM
First it's the New York Post, deciding that even parodying an incident in which a woman's face was chewed off is a great way to make fun of the new President. Now it's the Mayor of Los Alamitos, California, sending out e-mails guessing what he thinks might replace the White House Easter Egg Hunt this year:
The mayor of Los Alamitos is coming under fire for an e-mail he sent out that depicts the White House lawn planted with watermelons, under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year."

Local businesswoman and city volunteer Keyanus Price, who is black, said Tuesday she received the e-mail from Mayor Dean Grose's personal account on Sunday and wants a public apology.

"I have had plenty of my share of chicken and watermelon and all those kinds of jokes," Price told The Associated Press. "I honestly don't even understand where he was coming from, sending this to me. As a black person receiving something like this from the city-freakin'-mayor—come on."

The Orange County Register first reported the e-mail on its Web site Tuesday night.

Grose confirmed to the AP that he sent the e-mail to Price and said he didn't mean to offend her. He said he was unaware of the racial stereotype that black people like watermelons.


Jesus H. Toe-Tapping Christ on a rollercoaster. He expects us to believe this? Yeesh.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
California seems to have no problem electing morons to public office, from govenor on down.

mikefromtexas
2/25/09, 10:35 PM  
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