Dean Grose, the mayor of Los Alamitos, a city near Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA, shocked recipients with an email showing the White House lawn filled with watermelons and the headline, "No Easter Egg Hunt This Year."
"I was horrified when I read that email," said Keyanus Price, a local businesswoman, community volunteer, and an African American told the Orange County Register yesterday. "What I'm
concerned about is how can this person send an email out like this and
think it is OK? ... 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.
The newspaper said that she responded to the email 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.
It is unknown how many people received the email. Grose reportedly an email apology to Price, her boss and the City Council
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