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Dallas County meeting turns racial ("black hole" now a "racist" term)
© The Dallas Morning News, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ^ | 5:34 PM Mon, Jul 07, 2008 | Kevin Krause

Posted on 07/08/2008 5:02:25 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Reminds me of a similar meeting long time ago. It was on all the major newspapers. A guy used the term ‘niggardly’ (begrudgingly) during a meeting, and he was excoriated by black attendees. I think he may even have been fired.

Lots of ignorant people in the world. What can I say?


41 posted on 07/08/2008 5:25:35 PM PDT by Ben Reyes
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To: mortal19440

Can I object to the term, “white dwarf”?


42 posted on 07/08/2008 5:26:06 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Evidently, John Wiley Price is sufficiently ignorant that he doesn’t know what a black hole is. Since that appears to be the case, I say we just let him exist in his own little stupid world.


43 posted on 07/08/2008 5:26:27 PM PDT by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
February 4, 1999 [Washington,] D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams said yesterday that he will rehire a former top aide who resigned last month because some city employees were offended that the aide used the word "niggardly" in describing how he would have to manage a fund's tight budget. . . .

Headlines?

Hadron Collider the world's largest atom smasher to be scrapped?
Libraries, universities to shred millions of astronomy books
"It's likely all of them contain the offensive description."

44 posted on 07/08/2008 5:26:37 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

That’s disappointing.

John Wiley Price has in the recent past been a fiscally responsible, reputable leader of the Dallas County Commissioners.

Let’s hope he’s not falling back into his 1980’s lunacy.


45 posted on 07/08/2008 5:26:40 PM PDT by primeval patriot
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To: JRandomFreeper

What about “white lie”?? Is that considered racist too??


46 posted on 07/08/2008 5:26:57 PM PDT by ninergold3 (Don't like my attitude? Then get one of your own!)
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To: mylife

John Wiley Price once slugged a white jogger as he ran by a demonstration Price was leading..........


47 posted on 07/08/2008 5:26:58 PM PDT by Doctor Don
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To: mylife
John Wiley Price is widely known as an idiot.

In that case, he's chosen an ideal profession.

48 posted on 07/08/2008 5:27:16 PM PDT by Reaganite1984
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
...a "white hole."


49 posted on 07/08/2008 5:28:19 PM PDT by Libloather (July is Liberal Awareness Month.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

OMG, the idiocy of some people never ceases to amaze me. I can only hope that the two men misheard Mayfield and didn’t really not understand the reference.


50 posted on 07/08/2008 5:28:51 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
"Watch it, cracker!"


51 posted on 07/08/2008 5:29:20 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

BTTT


52 posted on 07/08/2008 5:30:01 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Wow. Just Wow. I had to check if this was Scrappleface, Onion or John Semmons on the Arizona Conservative...

None of the above. Reality.

Just wow.

K.


53 posted on 07/08/2008 5:30:33 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

A nasty term in Russian, I am told.


54 posted on 07/08/2008 5:31:09 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: P.O.E.

LOL!


55 posted on 07/08/2008 5:32:07 PM PDT by rabidralph (Dems now have Oil Derangement Syndrome)
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To: windsorknot

That would be funny - except that the effect of this ignorant sensitivity is to reduce vocabulary. Where a word like “niggardly”, which has a perfectly distinct etymology and predates the racial epithet by over 100 years, has an appropriate use, these chowder heads will banish it from usage forever. The kind of thing that would make me drop my opposition to Obama would be his coming out and attacking this kind of reflexive but adamant ignorance on the part of blacks. He of all people should understand the value of an education and the power of a developed vocabulary. Yet he cannot take the time to point out that Rev. Wright was not merely being bombastic - but he was completely false in many assertions (such as HIV as a deliberated policy of government as urban genocide). I won’t hold my breath for Obama to come around.


56 posted on 07/08/2008 5:32:31 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: P.O.E.

I’m the friendly stranger in a diverse sedan, won’t you hop inside my car.


57 posted on 07/08/2008 5:32:57 PM PDT by rabidralph (Dems now have Oil Derangement Syndrome)
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To: SoftballMominVA

The overall nignorance is overwhelming.


58 posted on 07/08/2008 5:33:54 PM PDT by szweig (Had it up to here)
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To: sam_paine

“Dianne Ragsdale”

LOL. Never say that name Three times while looking in a mirror.


59 posted on 07/08/2008 5:34:00 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (")
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To: BenLurkin

Once I heard someone use the term “Black Plague” and a few blacks were offended.


60 posted on 07/08/2008 5:35:53 PM PDT by Orange1998
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