Showing posts with label Black Hole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Hole. Show all posts

Saturday, August 2, 2008

What to re-name it?

The left can take Political Correctness too far. Take this interesting example:

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.
Racist it isn't. Ignorant it is. After all what is a black hole?


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.