Topic: Commissioner Called Racist for saying Blackhole
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Thu 07/10/08 12:50 PM
This might be the most ridiculous story I have ever read. Talk about politically correct on drugs.

Article is from Dallas City Hall Blog

"Dallas County officials spar over 'black hole' comment"

5:34 PM Mon, Jul 07, 2008

By Kevin Krause

"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." - http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/07/dallas-county-meeting-turns-ra.html

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Thu 07/10/08 12:54 PM
:laughing:

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Thu 07/10/08 12:56 PM
OMG!!! As sooooooon as I saw "John Wiley Price".... I just KNEW IT!!! I have no respect for him at all, loves making mountains out of BLACK HOLES!!!!! laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

MirrorMirror's photo
Thu 07/10/08 01:00 PM
laugh He's just mad because he aint getting his cut of the moneylaugh

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Thu 07/10/08 01:03 PM

OMG!!! As sooooooon as I saw "John Wiley Price".... I just KNEW IT!!! I have no respect for him at all, loves making mountains out of BLACK HOLES!!!!! laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh
Sound's like Price is a black hole!

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Thu 07/10/08 01:06 PM
I got a 'white hole' they can ahhh kiss...grumble

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Thu 07/10/08 01:07 PM
Edited by MirrorMirror on Thu 07/10/08 01:10 PM
:smile: The court system IS rascist and against poor people as well, just like the cops:smile:

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Thu 07/10/08 01:10 PM
I am so sick of people taking things out of context and making it a race issue? When is it going to stop? Why can't people just take a conversation at face value and stop making something out of nothing.

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Thu 07/10/08 01:17 PM
"black" is just an adjective...not a race.......

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Thu 07/10/08 01:20 PM

I am so sick of people taking things out of context and making it a race issue? When is it going to stop? Why can't people just take a conversation at face value and stop making something out of nothing.
Ditto.