Thinkprogress:
Los Alamitos, CA Mayor Dean Grose has announced that he will be stepping down from his position on March 2, after sending an “e-mail picture depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons under the title ‘No Easter egg hunt this year.’” One recipient, local businesswoman and community volunteer Keyanus Price, who is also African-American, said that she was “horrified” when she received the e-mail on Sunday, and replied, “Not all black people like watermelon… you should know better than that.” Grose wrote back, “The way things are today, you gotta laugh every now and then. I wanna see the coloring contests.” Grose has since apologized, saying the picture was never meant to offend anyone “from the standpoint of the African-American race.”
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This guy has no business being mayor of anyone.
It shocked me after all that's been said said about racism and Obama over the pass two years. You sometimes really don't know the person. Now I experienced racism as me and my best friend Joann. Now I went with Joann to her friends event but when we got there ok let's say I was the only color in the room of about 250 people. Now the host suggested to Joann that I wait at the bar until the event was over. Well Joann broke out and I did have to get her out of there as she was yelling and said you want me to choose between Jackie or you. The Lady said yes and Joann said ok Jackie let's go.
This Mayor won election but then showed his true feeling and that was no accident.
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