Mayor Dean Grose of Los Alamitos, California has announced he will resign at Monday's City Council meeting. He drew fire for an email he sent to a constituent showing a picture of the White House lawn superimposed with a watermelon patch (above). The email had the subject "No Easter Egg hunt this year."

Mayor Dean Grose of Los Alamitos, California, is under fire for an email he sent to a constituent showing a picture of the White House lawn superimposed with a watermelon patch (above). The email had the subject "No Easter Egg hunt this year."

At best insensitive to the victim of this week's mauling of a woman by a pet chimp, and at worst racist, the New York Post released a cartoon today that could be interpreted as comparing Barack Obama to a chimpanzee.

President Obama spurred a dramatic change in the way whites think about African-Americans before he had even set foot in the Oval Office, according to a new study.

Ah, Miley, Miley. All right, I suppose one could call these photos that have just emerged showing Miley Cyrus (of Hannah Montanafame), 16, with boyfriend Justin Gaston, 20 making slit-eye gestures with some friends as they're being photographed "just something a teenager might do." On the other hand, as someone in the public eye, she needs to be more careful, as although she may not be racist, the gestures are definitely offensive.

Lafayette French Pastry, a Greenwich Village bakery popularized by the TV show "Sex and the City," has come under fire for "celebrating" Barack Obama's inauguration with what they called "Drunken Negro Head Cookies."

By Dafna Linzer, ProPublica
A year ago this month, President Bush sent a letter to Chigozie Okorie, the 10-year-old son of a Nigerian-born Presbyterian minister, who was seeking a pardon for his dad. The letter, on White House stationary, didn’t acknowledge the request. Instead, Bush wrote: "Laura and I hope the coming year brings joy and peace to you and your family."

White people do not get as upset when confronted with racial prejudice as they think they will, a study by researchers at Yale University, York University, and the University of British Columbia suggests.

Tennessee Republican John "Chip" Saltsman, former manager for Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign and a candidate for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC), sent a CD of holiday music to RNC members earlier this month. But among the other already provacative songs was the tune Barack the Magic Negro, a parody first aired in 2007 by talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

I've often wondered if anyone would name their kid Adolf. And I've also wondered what someone with the surname Hitler would do. But in this case, someone actually made the choice to name their kid Adolf Hitler.

For the second time in little more than a month, an effigy of Barack Obama has been found at a college campus. The first incident took place at George Fox University in Oregon, ironically a Christian campus. George Fox was the founder of the Quakers.

Barack Obama canceled most of his Thursday and Friday appointments as he prepared to fly to Hawaii to visit his gravely ill grandmother. At the same time the reaction from some can only be described as hateful, disgusting and unfeeling (and that's being nice).