Dean Grose used to be Mayor and a City Councilman in Los Alamitos, California. In 2009, Grose resigned from both his positions after sending a racist email depicting watermelons growing on the lawn of the White House. Now, Grose is running for his old City Council seat once again.Back in February, 2009, Grose became a household-internet name when he sent around the now-infamous email to a group of friends, including to one African-American businesswoman, Keyanus Price. The Orange County Register reported that the email had the heading: “No Easter Egg hunt this year,” and prompted Price to respond to Grose: “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.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=119305