Scientists Get Ready To Change The Name - “Black hole” It’s Racist!
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas County meeting turns racial
A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.
County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.
Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.
Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”
That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.
Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster’s, is perhaps “the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape.”
Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track. TV news cameras were rolling, after all.
Dallas county official: “Black hole” is racist!
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Comment by Dan on 10 July 2008:
I am amazed that the Judge Thomas Jones is a complete idiot. He has no knowledge nor handle on the English language. Black Hole has nothing to do with race. It has to do with astronomy and has been carried over in our language referring to things that are lost etc. He proves he got to his position because of Race not intelligence. Losers will use the race card for everything. Socially inferior types make excuses and play the race card. Judge Jones is one that has the ghetto mentality. Always looking to be offended, but shows his uneducatedness. Then people wonder why the are stereotypes and prejudices.
Comment by Dean Norris on 13 July 2008:
The man is an embarrassment to all blacks, or at least I hope he is. If not, there may be something to the old line that blacks are not as… But I don’t think so. It is just that he is too stupid to breathe our air.