A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.
Racist it isn't. Ignorant it is. After all what is a black hole?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.
A black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape its pull after having fallen past its event horizon. The term "Black Hole" comes from the fact that, at a certain point, even electromagnetic radiation (e.g. visible light) is unable to break away from the attraction of these massive objects. This renders the hole's interior invisible or, rather, black like the appearance of space itself.Thus the term black hole. The center a black hole is known as the singularity.
Now that the term black hole is banned, and singularity will probably be banned from use (it might offend single people). We need a new name for this phenomenon of nature. You must follow the rules of PC in that no minority group can be offended (offending Whites and Jews is ok after all nobody cares about their feelings).
So my truth seekers. Let's hear your suggestions for the new name.
4 comments:
Some how I missed this controversy. Being PC is so freaking out date and overrated. I won't even challenge myself to try and come up with an explanation as to why this Black man is so offended and causing such stupid brewhaha.
Somethings don't even warrant a response. I hate when people wear their feelings on their shoulders such as the Black man in this article.
A white hole? What in the world?
[leaves in disgust of what people have become]
Big Babies!
I'm so sick of this PC crap.
Debbie Hamilton
Right Truth</a
This is the immediate short-term legacy of Barack Obama, whether he's elected or not.
With his race-baiting and his and his devotees ongoing attempt to fascistically kidnap the English language, he has now truly opened something that he cannot close. And it will backfire against those users of culturl and racial PC nonsense.
That said, I'm actually glad this PC silliness continues. It's become so outrageous that people will soon just ignore it or shout it down.
BTW: The black man who objected is obviously ignorant of one of the most common science terms, or suffers from some anatomical misplacement of his head.
Do these people lay awake at night and dream up this insanity?
Welcome to Monkey in the Middle CKAinRedStateUSA and Ourvoices. I hope that you will view us again.
PC is destroying the English language. When one has to check oneself before they speak one loses a lot in the speech.
Monkey in the Middle is a Non-PC site.
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