"No Easter Egg hunt this year"
"No Easter Egg hunt this year"
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#1"No Easter Egg hunt this year"
Posted: 2/25/09 at 1:42pm
Grose's email included the heading, "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," said Keyanus Price, an African American who was among those receiving the email. Price told Fletcher that she considers the email rascist and offensive.
"What I'm concerned about is how can this person send an e-mail out like this and think it is OK?" Price said. "He's putting the city into a bad place and he is a liability."
Grose apologized to Price, city council members and others.
"It was just poor judgment on my part and I am deeply sorry," he said.
Via Pam's House Blend
Updated On: 2/25/09 at 01:42 PM
#2re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 1:55pm
Why doesn't California just de-annex Orange County?
Updated On: 2/25/09 at 01:55 PM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 1:55pmI'm waiting for the apologists to start explaining why it's not racist.
#3re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:01pmThe watermelons obviously represent the members of Congress, not the Obamas. Because they are pushing the "stimulus" package so hard this year, the tiny eggs have grown into giant watermelons. Updated On: 2/25/09 at 02:01 PM
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Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:03pmOn the bright side, no chimps were harmed in the production of this e-mail.
#5re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:03pmWow. And this is an elected official?
#6re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:05pmIs that really what a watermelon patch looks like?
#7re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:05pmObviously, it's racist and offensive. Is it any more deplorable than mocking the name of someone of Indian descent?
#8re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:08pm
yes, b/c no one cares about the Indians. Their time hasn't come yet.
I mean Slumdog just won the Oscar 3 days ago.
Baby steps.
#9re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:10pmI have taught my teenager never to send an email that you don't want on the cover of The New York Times. It's a good rule to live by. How did this dumb ass get elected? Did he really think this was funny? appropriate? Im just stunned. ugh. apology NOT accepted.
#10re: 'No Easter Egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:11pm
Oh, come now Taz, that time was decades ago when Marlon Brando had one decline his Oscar.
Just like when Julie Andrews stood up for the Egregian culture.
Updated On: 2/25/09 at 02:11 PM
#11'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:14pmmb, the gop can be mocked using any means. they are the gop. hypocrisy only exists when demonstrated by them and their followers. when they attack someone's name it is racist and wrong and deplorable. when theirs are attacked it is simply using their own methods against them. the fact that the people using those methods earlier denounced them is not something bears on the issue. at all.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#12'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:20pmIs Jindal Native American or Indian Indian?
#13'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:21pmlike it matters, taz. racist, pure and simple. i mean he's a republican, right? clearly that means his evil, stupid and worthy of being killed in a painful manner. gawd. i thought you knew this stuff?
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#14'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:22pm
Columbus (a pizza-making mafia guy) couldn't tell the difference, so why should I?
btw, my pizza/mafia statement was not a comment about Italians but rather about the ravenous and underhanded methods of Queen Isabella
Updated On: 2/25/09 at 02:22 PM
#15'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:29pm
So let's just call him Native Indian and cover all our bases.
It's not like anyone cares if he's offended. I mean, he's a republican.
#16'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:33pmCan i pretend to be prince Harry and call him a Paki?
#17'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:41pmWow. Not only is it racist and completely unfunny, it's also pretty badly photoshopped.
#18'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 2:52pmWatermelons don't write Bills, y'all!
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Joined: 12/31/69
#19'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 3:12pmWho's made fun of Lil' Pi-Pi for being Indian? I have been too busy making fun of him for sounding like Kenneth the NBC page.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#21'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 3:14pm
Who's made fun of Lil' Pi-Pi for being Indian?
So spaketh the republicans, so maketh it true.
#22'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 3:38pmheh, mb's a republican. heh.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#24'no easter egg hunt this year.'
Posted: 2/25/09 at 4:10pmOne of the racists I know will likely forward the e-mail thinking it is funn!
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