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(Some Guy) Dumbass Mayor of Los Alamitos sends an email to a local African-American businesswoman showing a watermelon patch in front of the White House; hilarity for some reason does not ensue   (ocregister.com) divider line 71
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AirForceVet [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 09:20:51 AM  
Watermelons planted on the White House front lawn? What a dumbass. It should have been okra.

/Obama supporter.

 
testaclese [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 09:23:59 AM  
I'm all for not being politically INcorrect, but holy shiat. What an ASSHOLE. Just because you say it comes from your personal account and not in your official capacity doesn't mean you're exonerated from being a douchenozzle.

 
NikolaiFarkoff [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 09:39:42 AM  
I don't get how watermelon alone, with no other context, is automatically racially-charged. I mean, if you're gonna get in trouble, at least make it funny.

 
jchic [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 09:42:27 AM  
Apparently African-Americans love watermelons. Not real sure how that got started. My dad's white and a bigot and loves watermelon more than anyone I've ever known of any race.

 
Eddie Adams from Torrance [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 09:45:20 AM  
It's funny because teh negroes like watermelon.

 
smooshie [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 09:50:18 AM  
jchic: Not real sure how that got started.

What I heard:

Back when most African-Americans were extremely poor and oppressed, watermelon and fried chicken were really cheap and easy to get, so it became associated with that race.

FTA:She responded to the e-mail with: "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."


Wow.

 
cheshirecatsmileyface 2009-02-25 10:22:37 AM  
jchic: Apparently African-Americans love watermelons. Not real sure how that got started. My dad's white and a bigot and loves watermelon more than anyone I've ever known of any race.

I always wondered this too because EVERYBODY likes watermelon.

Turns out they're native to Africa.

So...still kind of a stupid stereotype. Mostly because it's not even a funny one. I can't really take offense to it...I mean, watermelon is farking delicious.

 
Howie Spankowitz [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 10:49:10 AM  
Welcome to Orange County.

Putting the SOUTH in SOUTHern California.

 
jchic [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 11:00:41 AM  
cheshirecatsmileyface:
Turns out they're native to Africa..


No s#!%, really? I did not know that.

 
Diogenes [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 11:04:34 AM  
I think it's no mere coincidence that stupidity so often accompanies racism.

 
veedeevadeevoodee [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 11:10:47 AM  
www.mofopolitics.com

/ OM NOM NOM

 
Snarfangel [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 11:11:24 AM  
I like watermelon and fried chicken, and I'm nearly translucent.

 
what_now [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 11:13:42 AM  
Snarfangel: I like watermelon and fried chicken, and I'm nearly translucent.

This. I'm french and dutch. I don't tan, I freckle, burn, heal and turn dead fish pale again.

But fried chicken and watermelon sounds delicious right now.

 
DarnoKonrad 2009-02-25 11:44:27 AM  
AirForceVet: okra.

/Obama supporter.


Obviously.

/better than 'matoes fried green.

 
bubbaprog [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-02-25 11:44:41 AM  
It's 1909 again!

 
netcentric 2009-02-25 11:45:12 AM  
what_now: Snarfangel: I like watermelon and fried chicken, and I'm nearly translucent.

This. I'm french and dutch. I don't tan, I freckle, burn, heal and turn dead fish pale again.

But fried chicken and watermelon sounds delicious right now.



Well just don't go to the Whitehouse guard shack and ask for some. I'll bet they're a little touchy about the subject. And they have guns.

 
eraser8 2009-02-25 11:48:07 AM  
DarnoKonrad: /better than 'matoes fried green.

I always thought that sounded disgusting...until I actually tried it. Honestly, it's pretty tasty.

 
NikolaiFarkoff [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 11:49:12 AM  
eraser8: DarnoKonrad: /better than 'matoes fried green.

I always thought that sounded disgusting...until I actually tried it. Honestly, it's pretty tasty.


Phenomenally good. Even better at home with panko crumbs. Very easy to cook, too.

Try fried pickles if you ever get the chance.

 
mediablitz [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 11:51:48 AM  
NikolaiFarkoff: I don't get how watermelon alone, with no other context, is automatically racially-charged. I mean, if you're gonna get in trouble, at least make it funny.

You missed the part about "no easter egg hunt this year" as the title. Oh!!! HA HA HA!!! Side splitting! Give me air!!!

 
liam76 2009-02-25 11:52:44 AM  
At least the coloring contest part was original.

 
pope183 2009-02-25 11:55:13 AM  
i'll bet Keyanus had her sphincter all in a knot. Keyanus apparantly not fond of being the butt of racial jokes. she sounds kind of Anal bout the hole thing to me butt what do i know...

/anus

 
bhcompy 2009-02-25 11:55:16 AM  
As a Los Alamitos resident, I'll go ahead and say who gives a shiat? He's a good mayor, the city is prosperous, the schools are great, crime is low, and blacks and whites(and asians and hispanics and everyone else) live together in harmony. Bad joke, but come on, have a goddamn sense of humor. There is no history suggesting it's anything more than a joke.

 
Spindle 2009-02-25 11:56:19 AM  
God dammit, now I want fried chicken for lunch.

 
ZachF81 2009-02-25 11:57:20 AM  
She's getting all uppity over this isn't she?

She responded to the e-mail with: "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."

Price said Grose's response upset her more.

"As soon as I saw his response; that put me over the top because it was no big deal to him," she said.


Wow, so some people don't have a stick up their ass? How about that?

 
saintstryfe 2009-02-25 11:59:17 AM  
Spindle: God dammit, now I want fried chicken for lunch.

Yeah. Damn you, I don't have the budget to eat take out that often!!

 
Mordant [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 12:01:16 PM  
If he's doing a good job as mayor then it's a shame if this wrecks his career. Even the way things are today I tend to think everyone should get one free "oops that was stupid" card so they can have a second chance.

 
eraser8 2009-02-25 12:03:34 PM  
saintstryfe: Yeah. Damn you, I don't have the budget to eat take out that often!!

Ugh. I hate take-out fried chicken. It has to be made at home by somebody who knows how to do it.

I like good fried chicken as much as anybody. But KFC, Church's, Popeyes all make me wanna vomit.

 
PacManDreaming [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 12:09:12 PM  
AirForceVet: It should have been okra a fried chicken tree.

FTFY.

 
pope183 2009-02-25 12:09:27 PM  
FTFA is the mayors response/apology to the city council which i have fixed in [ ]'s to show what he clearly implies

I am deeply embarrassed in receiving your email, and for any harm or hurt that it may have caused. It was poor judgement on my part and was never intended to be offensive to Ms. Price, your company or anyone in the African American Community. I have exchanged emails with Ms. Price in the past. [ but didn't know she was black - and have since corrected my error and moved her address to the "Black " group in my email groups and this will never happen again i assure you ]
I can fully understand your concerns and comments. Please be advised that... blah blah blah

 
bhcompy 2009-02-25 12:10:43 PM  
eraser8: saintstryfe: Yeah. Damn you, I don't have the budget to eat take out that often!!

Ugh. I hate take-out fried chicken. It has to be made at home by somebody who knows how to do it.

I like good fried chicken as much as anybody. But KFC, Church's, Popeyes all make me wanna vomit.


Broasted chicken is awesome, and pretty much impossible to make at home

 
KellyX 2009-02-25 12:15:22 PM  
Republican?

 
meat0918 2009-02-25 12:19:45 PM  
Obama should have a garden for some of the food at the White House, and they may already have one. Lead by example.

 
Saiga410 2009-02-25 12:22:37 PM  
What is wrong with this? I applaud Obama's stance on home grown food.

 
soy_bomb 2009-02-25 12:23:16 PM  
I like watermelon. Feel free to plant a patch in my front yard.

/OM NOM NOM NOM

 
eraser8 2009-02-25 12:25:07 PM  
bhcompy: Broasted chicken is awesome, and pretty much impossible to make at home

I'm actually going to try this. And if the chicken doesn't stand up to your praise, you owe me a quarter.

 
optional 2009-02-25 12:31:54 PM  
Go Griffins!

 
Phaid 2009-02-25 12:35:20 PM  
Watermelon, barbecue, cadillac car
We ain't as stupid as you think we is

 
Phil Herup 2009-02-25 12:39:32 PM  
Be carefull with that stuff.

www.khou.com

 
TheShavingofOccam123 [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 12:46:46 PM  
Another Republican echoing the party platform.

 
Riche [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 12:47:38 PM  
Ugh. My mom emailed me that pic when Obama was sworn in, along with several other far worse "funny" pics.

When it comes to unintentional racism like this we should just cut the older population some slack. It's how they grew up, and they just don't know any better.

Elected officials, however, SHOULD know better.

In the end, no big deal. The mayor did something stupid, he got called out on it, and he apologized. No need for him to resign or anything.

If I lived in that city I would certainly think long and hard before voting for his reelection. Not because of his tasteless joke, but because I wouldn't want a mayor that clueless.



/I'd be willing to bet a gallon jug of grape drink that the mayor is over 60.


 
Memes Ate My Balls 2009-02-25 12:49:49 PM  
If racists are so much better than everyone else, why can't they come up with a new joke every once in a while?

 
SiON42X [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 01:12:33 PM  
what_now: This. I'm french and dutch.

img5.imageshack.us
Approves.

 
gilgigamesh 2009-02-25 01:14:24 PM  
NikolaiFarkoff: I don't get how watermelon alone, with no other context, is automatically racially-charged. I mean, if you're gonna get in trouble, at least make it funny.

Youre right.

He should have shopped in a grossly caricatured Steppin Fetchit version of Obama gleefully prancing thru the patch with a watermelon in each hand, with a caption reading, "AHH SHOS DONE LUVS DEM DERS WASSAMELLONS, MASSAH, YASSAH!!"

Now THAT would've been funny.

 
rob.d 2009-02-25 01:23:26 PM  
There is no defense for being an idiot.

While I don't think the guy should go to jail, the public should be made aware of how his brain works.

Doing this would be like raising a swastika in Tel Aviv.

Dumb.

 
Joyenz 2009-02-25 01:23:42 PM  
Sounds like a photoshop needs to be done gilgigamesh >.>

 
bruce4bruce 2009-02-25 01:29:11 PM  
Dang. I have possible racist emails forwarded to me at work from my co-workers. After looking at the TO.. and CC.. area of the email I noticed that certain co-workers were left off of the email.

That's how you are suppose to do it.

 
Hideously Gigantic Smurf 2009-02-25 01:40:42 PM  
ZachF81: Wow, so some people don't have a stick up their ass? How about that?

If black Americans have a stick up their ass, it's only because they traded it for a rope around their necks.

 
sailorman_glh [TotalFark] 2009-02-25 01:56:45 PM  
Memes Ate My Balls: If racists are so much better than everyone else, why can't they come up with a new joke every once in a while?

There's only so much we have to work with, so we're like Hollywood. We take old material, and freshen it up a bit.

As in...

i43.photobucket.com

as well as...

i43.photobucket.com

this...

i43.photobucket.com

and my personal favorite...

i43.photobucket.com

 
gilgigamesh 2009-02-25 02:03:40 PM  
Hideously Gigantic Smurf: If black Americans have a stick up their ass, it's only because they traded it for a rope around their necks.

Hm.

Tough choice.

How big of a stick?

 
ArtKunk 2009-02-25 02:04:27 PM  
So wait... I get the watermelon part, but wtf do easter eggs have to do with anything?

 
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