“As a black person receiving something like this from the city-freakin’-mayor — come on.”
Keyanus Price, a businesswoman in Los Alamitos, CA, after getting an email last week from Mayor Dean Grose — using his personal account — with this 
oh-so-amusing (if you’re into bigotry and stereotypes) image of the White House and watermelons captioned, “No Easter Egg Hunt this year.”
After bucketloads of criticism and bad publicity, the mayor — did I mention he’s a Repubican? — on cue said that’s not what he meant. What did he mean? Who knows? He didn’t say. He did claim he wasn’t aware of the racial stereotype involved and if you believe that, far be it from me to tell you there’s really no Easter Bunny.
By Thursday, he was up to his neck in this mess and announced he will resign at tomorrow night’s city council meeting. Promise, Mr. Mayor?
His little town is in Orange County, where the airport is named for John Wayne and vapid trophy wives have a “reality” show. Don’t let the door hit you, Mr. Grose.
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I am so outta the loop.
I don’t have the foggiest idea to what “Watermelon patch” refers. My guess, after all the brouhaha, is that it somehow refers to share cropping or something similar.
Love Herbie Hancock. The sound on those little uploads is crisp and clear. Wonderful.
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The sound is good from that service, isn’t it? That song was bouncing around my brain from the moment I read the first story about this, soooooo …