Did Steele demand a firing after that "watermelons on W.H. lawn" email from the white GOP mayor?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Just wondering. I don't recall Michael Steel getting his undies in a bunch over this one and demanding the racist white guy be fired.

:eyes:

White House Watermelon Email From California Mayor Dean Grose Inspires Outrage

AP | February 25, 2009 03:30 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/white-house-watermelon-em_n_169933.html



The mayor of Los Alamitos is coming under fire for an e-mail he sent out that depicts the White House lawn planted with watermelons, under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year."

Local businesswoman and city volunteer Keyanus Price, who is black, said Tuesday she received the e-mail from Mayor Dean Grose's personal account on Sunday and wants a public apology.

"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."

The Orange County Register first reported the e-mail on its Web site Tuesday night.

Grose confirmed to the AP that he sent the e-mail to Price and said he didn't mean to offend her. He said he was unaware of the racial stereotype that black people like watermelons.

He said he and Price are friends and serve together on a community youth board.

"Bottom line is, we laugh at things and I didn't see this in the same light that she did," Grose told the AP. "I'm sorry. It wasn't sent to offend her personally - or anyone - from the standpoint of the African-American race."

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Screw Steele

He's a joke.

[zbdent]

2. Michael "Honest Injun" Steele ...

don't forget that ...

[zbdent]

3. Rush Limbaugh didn't order him to call for firings over the "watermelon" incident ...

obviously, Rush ordered him to make a big stink over Reid's statement ...