There is a scandal brewing in the town of Los Alamitos in California.The mayor of this town has sent the above image to an African-American businesswoman & she didn't appreciate the "humor".And I can see why she didn't find such blatant racism funny in any way!Yes,the liberal state of California has more than it's share of racism.Do you know how many fried chicken & watermelon jokes I have heard people tell?!Hell, the last time I heard a racist "joke"it was a Mexican co-worker of mine that told it.Stereotyping people is never funny.And guess what? I hate watermelons!I prefer seafood & beef over chicken.
This type of ignorance shouldn't be tolerated by anyone.I believe that is why Keyanus Price has spoken out about this racist e-mail that she received from the mayor.Here's more from the OC Register:
"Price said she wanted a public apology for the e-mail and today contacted The Orange County Register to share the brief exchange that took place on Sunday.
Grose's e-mail included the picture with a heading that read, "No Easter Egg hunt this year."
"I think he's saying that since there's a black president, there will be no need to hunt for eggs since they're growing watermelons in the front yard this year," Price wrote.
She responded to the e-mail with: "Hey, that's not nice at all. Not all black people like watermelon… you should know better than that."
Grose replied: "The way things are today, you gotta laugh every now and then. I wanna see the coloring contests."
Price said Grose's response upset her more.
"As soon as I saw his response; that put me over the top because it was no big deal to him," she said.
Price and Grose have worked together in the past – they both sit on the board of the Youth Center, and she often works with city officials in the community representing her employer. The two have exchanged e-mails in the past.
The e-mail was sent to at least one other person, but the mayor said he isn't sure how many people received it. He said there is a "small group" of people he sometimes forward e-mails to.
In his apology to Price via e-mail, Grose wrote that he was not representing himself as a public official.
"It was not sent to a whole bunch of people, and it went through my personal e-mail," he said. "People e-mail things all the time, but that's not an excuse."
Peter Eliasberg of the ACLU said that while the mayor wasn't acting as a city official at the time, it doesn't mean that it was OK to send.
"Even though as much as we may always think they're always public officials, they're not always public officials; it's kind of going out as a private citizen," Eliasberg said. "That doesn't mean that she doesn't have every right to demand a public apology. It seems like it was pretty offensive."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.
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