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By contributing hater, Little Nightowl in the Big City
Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose’s e-mail to his local black businesswoman friend attaching the phrase “No Easter Egg hunt this year” to a picture of a watermelon-filled White House lawn has become yet another publicly documented case of “One Minority Friend Disease.”
Apparently there is no TV, Internet, telegraph or homing pigeon to transmit news in Los Alamitos, California.
Mayor Grose apologized to now former friend Keyanus Price and said that he never heard of the stereotype of black people liking watermelons. Riiiight. The e-mail wouldn’t have made sense to him if he didn’t know the link to watermelons and black people. I don’t see how a lawn full of melons in front of the White House where a black president resides does not register something, or the fact that black men have historically been referred to as monkeys.
Mayor Grose and NYPost cartoonist Delonas share a spacious, 2 bedroom apartment under this.
The mayor also pointed out to the AP that he and Price are friends and served on a youth community board together. Price’s reaction?
“I have had plenty of my share of chicken and watermelon and all those kinds of jokes,” Price told The Associated Press. “I honestly don’t even understand where he was coming from, sending this to me. As a black person receiving something like this from the city-freakin’-mayor – come on.”
Those afflicted with “One Minority Friend Disease” believe they’ve reached a certain level of comfort with their one minority friend to say things they know they cannot get away with in a larger crowd of minorities. If left untreated this illness may— no, probably WILL –lead to destroyed friendships, emergency scheduled viewings of Roots and a doe-eyed white man wondering why his one black friend got offended when he asked if she could cornrow his hair.
I just wanted to know where to get a do-rag. What? Am I saying it wrong?
I knew stupid stuff like this would continue well after that chimp cartoon fiasco and how quickly I was proven right. So can we agree to just get this all out of our system now before someone else does something stupid? Let’s begin… People of the world, please refrain from connecting the following images to our new president unless you’re ready to embrace a pink slip or a dark ring around your eye.
*Exhales*
Well, can we at least get a temporary fix?
Staining your shirt AND stomping out racial injustice!
Can I have your autograph?!?
I didn’t know watermelons were a stereotype either or monkeys. We all came from apes, didn’t we, how can it be exclusive to one class of people? Sigh, I’m never going to get the hang of all the things I’m not supposed to say here! In India we call people monkeys all the time, when they’re being mischievous.
Ding Ding Ding. Will anyone be allowed to make jokes about this President? Ever? Seriously, thats all I want to know.
Americans are cowards about race, so says our new AG Eric Holder. Hello, this is why. You can’t make jokes or say anything that might be innapropriate without blowing up friendships or careers. This is why white people don’t talk about race, because they are not allowed to, ever. Its not worth the risk to try and have some sort of conversation about it, especially since… what is there to talk about exactly?
Oh, and HATE ON ME people. I’m still waiting for you to destroy a member of the Big Media or blogosphere for making fun of Gov. Jindals name or that he’s a minority. Maybe you’ve heard peeps say that the GOP “outsourced” a job to him? Hello! Maybe not though, maybe you were too busy being drunk/high off the fact that Obama is in the White House instead of being horrified by the fact he just submitted a budget deficit more than a trillion dollars after promising smaller budgets in the election. Hello!
Umm Patrick the reason that African Americans might get upset at this would be do to the 200 or so years of slavery. White people don’t exactly have the best records in regards to other races. Thankfully history is shaping anew but its going to be quite a long time before we can all laugh at each other. The civil rights movement wasn’t that long ago. BTW I’m as pale as they come.
I have to say, that I can not agree with you in 100%, but that’s just my IMHO, which indeed could be wrong.
p.s. You have a very good template . Where have you got it from?
Sangeetha, I’m only going to allow you a little leeway on this – and that is assuming that you are truly from India. In this country the racism which is connected to blacks, monkeys, and watermelons is quite well understood. Incidentally, Mr. India…do you or anybody that you know from your advanced society burned any women lately?