What’s up with California Republicans and all the Obama-watermelon references?
Dean Grose, the white, Republican mayor of Los Alamitos, California, has apologized to a local black businesswoman, Keyanus Price, to whom he sent an email depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons. The picture included the caption, “No Easter egg hunt this year.” (via The Huffington Post)
And let’s not forget the “Obama Bucks” pictured in a newsletter mailed by a California Republican women’s organization on the eve of the November election.
Maybe it was more than just policy differences that had California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger considering a switch in parties.
Update
- (2/26) [Today, as it turns out, is the birthday of the late black actor Godfrey Cambridge who died in 1976 at the age of 43. Cambridge famously starred in a 1970 film as a bigoted white insurance salesman (played in “white face”) who awoke one morning to find he had turned black. The movie, directed by Melvin Van Peebles, was the Watermelon Man.]
- (2/27) Mayor Who Sent Obama Watermelon Email Quits
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