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.
Oh Brother…will this madness ever end? My five year old nephew knows what a black hole is. I guess bobbo will defend this too.
#18 – Glenn E. – It’s a total absence of light…
And what color is something that absorbs light? I guess you have to a racist pig to answer that one, right?!
Take it easy. I’m sure after his wife gets through explaining to him just how much he embarressed her by his show of ignorance on tv to him he’ll understand.
Sounds like a typical liberal. They blamed as racist, remarks by John Rocker too. At least Rush Limbaugh was referring to race when he was pilloried for his (nonracist)statements on Donovan McNabb
They probably heard it a black HOES.
Any Semi-literate person understands what a black hole is. This proves John Wiley Price of Dallas is not Semi Literate. Unfortunately, he’s been a nuisance presence on the political scene for decades.
What is sad is that many in non-spanish, non-white, non-asian, non-native american take this fool seriously. And best I can tell, he has accomplished exactly zero over those decades.
#15 for the win!
John Wiley Price has been an embarrassment for the City of Dallas for a couple of decades now. He rose to power through a long series of race related tirades and homespun race wars. His favorite tool has always been the bullhorn.
After years of annoying protests and “civil disobedience”, he finally rose into the upper ranks of the Dallas City Council and, since then, he has become somewhat more civilized. However, he is always quick to play the race card and feign outrage at even the most dubious of perceived racial slights (as in this “black hole” incident).
I still have this mental picture of one of his former protests. He was demanding something at the Parkland, the Dallas County hospital. He was leading a protest where he intentionally walked back and forth across an intersection wearing garish skin tight spandex gym suit yelling into a bullhorn and walking in baby steps. It took him several minutes to cross the intersection at which point he would turn around and do it again, over and over. With all the other people he had whipped into a rage marching along side him, they stopped all traffic around the hospital for days until he got what he wanted.
He thinks he is a crusader for black justice in Dallas but he is best at driving a wedge between the races in Dallas. He is a divider, not a uniter.
His power must be waning these days because Dallas now has more Hispanics than blacks and whites are now in the minority. How times change.
http://tinyurl.com/6ph9u
http://tinyurl.com/6b8qgf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cODq6Vt2PI4
I suggest the new term “colored holes”.
# 14 OmegaMan said, “Also why don’t we have a sports team named the White Skins?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Whites
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store.aspx?s=fightinwhite
Gravitational Point Source just doesn’t come smoothly off the tongue, I guess.
I found a video of the actual “black hole” comment:
http://tinyurl.com/5qlmpf
Now angel food cake and devil’s food cake are also apparently racist, according to Mr. Price.
It’s almost embarrassing to be human.
McCullough–thank you for the mention. Yes, it has taken me a few years to come around to being politically sensitive to the power of words.
Most of the railing on these issues come about because it is the advantaged class that wants to continue the status quo–and why not?
But unless you think words NEVER have an impact on people, then these issues need to be evaluated as they arise. Separate the real from the imagines concerns. The reasonable from the unreasonable.
Only knuckle draggers would be so lazy as to think either “Its all good” or “Its all Bad.” That being the case, those of you who clearly see Commissioner John Wiley Price as an idiot would do well not to emulate him by going to the opposite side of the same coin.
Exercise judgment and reason. Thats where your humanity lays.
Not to continue any black-out on this news item, I came across this relevant joke. Can you guess the punchline before you read the last sentence?
WARNING
If you laugh at this, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Rev Wright and idiot Commissioner John Wiley Price will be comin right over to kick your white honky ass !!!! ((I laughed)).
xxxxxx
A Zebra dies and arrives at the Pearly Gates. As he enters, he asks St. Peter, ‘I have a question that’s haunted me all of my days on earth. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?’
St. Peter said, ‘That’s a question only God can answer.’
So the zebra went off in search of God.
When he found Him, the zebra asked, ‘God, please – I must know. Am I white with black stripes, or am I black with white stripes?’
God simply replied ‘You are wha t you are.’
The zebra returned to see St. Peter once more, who asked him, ‘Well, did God straighten out your query for you?’
The zebra looked puzzled. ‘No sir, God simply said ‘You are what you are.”
St.Peter smiled and said to the zebra, ‘Well then, there you are. You are white with black stripes.’
The zebra asked St. Peter, ‘How do you know that for certain?’
‘Because,’ said St. Peter, ‘If you were black with white stripes, God would have said, ‘You is what you is.’
lmao..
this only proves they allow uneducated ignoramuses to be put in important and powerful positions.
(most likely so they can be exploited or manipulated easier, amongst others.)
-oh, and to meet PC quotas, of course.
this should be slammed all over major media as
yet another reason why PC and racial quotas should be obliterated from the human psyche.
the only thing ever accomplished by PC and
racial quotas is vast mediocrity and the deliberate dumbing down of the American population and workforce. (which has now
spread like a plague to the rest of the
planet)
-s
Ordinarily I would say “Only in America!”, but it’s happening here as well. I’m surrounded by berks!
this is what you get when you let stupid people open their mouths.
Bobbo, as soon as you say reasonable vs unreasonable, you give power to the people who like to declare so many things unreasonable.
#38 No, it’s what happens when you let stupid people hit the streets.