Is "black hole" a racially insensitive term? (Dallas Commissioner Science Challanged)

Chron.com (Houston Chronicle - NYTimes of the South) ^ | Is "black hole" a racially insensitive term? | Eric Berger

[TexasCajun]

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.

[TexasCajun]

This moron doesn't even know what a Black Hole is!

...thinks it is a racial slur.

[Hacklehead]

Maybe he thought he said Black Ho?

[Renkluaf]

Correction: Aparently two morons don’t know what a black hole is.

[onedoug]

Who gives a damn?

[EyeGuy]

A commissioner and a supposedly highly educated judge who are unfamiliar with dinner table science terms?

Obamative Action at work.

Not to mention the knife-edged, hair-trigger “racism” reaction.

How would the whitey’s here like to have their livlihood in the hands of this ignorant, racist judge clown?

[John123]

There are Millions and Millions and Millions of black holes... Carl Sagan must be turning in his grave...

[TexasCajun]

One day ‘White House’ might be deemed racially insensitive and not just a color?

[unkus]

Who gives a damn?

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All the PC crap is being ignored more and more. At least from what I see among normal people.

[Tzimisce]

...he doesn’t know what a black hole is?

[ArchAngel1983]

Obviously the only politically correct thing to do is rename ‘black holes’ to …oh I don’t know…‘other than white holes’?

[lady lawyer]

“Correction: Aparently two morons don’t know what a black hole is.”

But those morons are wielding governmental power over the lives of others. Ah, the joys of diversity.

[Puppage]

It’s rather gray outside today. Oh, no! I hope I didn’t offend anyones grandmother.

[MeanWestTexan]

The correct term is African American Singularity.

[1066AD]

John Wiley Price is a firebrand from wayback. He knows very well what a “black hole” is but chooses to make an incident for reasons best known to himself.

[MovementConservative]

Definitely. Time to set up a kangaroo court like they have in Canada to investigate and punish speech deemed offensive. Totalitarianism baby. Silence critics by using whatever means necessary.

[Political Junkie Too]

One day ‘White House’ might be deemed racially insensitive and not just a color?

You know that will be a major theme if Obama becomes president. I expect many comedians to use that as a punch line, and civil rights activists to use it as a slogan (as in, "The White House has finally become the Black House").

-PJ

[BooksForTheRight.com]

It is not a racial slur. This just proves that ANYTHING that a non-minority says or does, or doesn’t say or do can be twisted into something racist.

[isrul]

Like the simian minded schmuck who was offended by “niggardly” or “water buffalo”. Who will sand up tho those with the intellect of a freakin’ orangutan

[ari-freedom]

african-american holes?

[isrul]

January 2009

[Wil H]

This moron doesn't even know what a Black Hole is!

Must have had a very niggardly science education, I suspect.

[Mr. Mojo]

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

The judge is a brown (mental) dwarf.

[econjack]

...he doesn’t know what a black hole is?

I don't think so, and he's just showing his own ignorance. However, with all the media attention, I'm sure Jesse and Al have contacted him and thought of some clever way to spin him out of his own ignorance.

[gunnedah]

I tell you America has created a monster. Just say racist to anything that does not suit you. We need to come back into the universe. We have a generation that has been brainwashed into thinking they are racist and owe the black community something.On the other hand the government has the black community depending totally on them and not their own ability. It is a MONSTER!

[ari-freedom]

worse. Remember, most people don’t take astrophysics in school and they still somehow know what a black hole is.

[isrul]

Holes of the negro persuasion?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Black Hole cannot be a racially insensitive term.

In the context of cosmology and many other areas, 'black' describes the absence of light.

Additionally, there are no black people on this planet. There are very dark skinned people and many of them have ancestors who inhabited parts of Africa.

Just because they choose to call themselves 'black' does not make it true.
Conversely, a singularity that has collapsed on itself and has a gravitational pull so strong that even light cannot escape, is truly 'black'.

So anyone who is offended by the term Black Hole should pick another color to describe themselves. QED.

[tbpiper]

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."

Now that was a racist remark.

[MrB]

ari - we could just shorten your suggestion to “a-hole”...

I was thinking “holes of color”...

[Da Coyote]

The judge want to law school somewhere. Wanna guess the standards of that school? Oops, could be Harvard Law, since they graduated the Obamaloon - who only slightly exceeds W when speaking extemporaneously.

[wideawake]

Apparently the science education budget at the judge’s public grammar school was quite niggardly.

[MilspecRob]

As I recall, “Black hole” is an obscenity of some kind in Russian. They call them “Collapsars”

[Hoffer Rand]

Other soon-to-be-renamed items:

black box (on planes)
black robes (on judges-no wonder more African Americans get convicted, it’s the ROBES!) /s
black ball
black list
brown bagging your lunch to work
electrical black outs and brown outs

Feel free to add to the list of offensive items, folks. We feel your pain.

[Niteranger68]

african-american holes?

That's better than nappy-headed holes.

[messierhunter]

Obviously the only politically correct thing to do is rename ‘black holes’ to …oh I don’t know…‘other than white holes’?

Gravitational singularity or curvature singularity. I'm sure that under an obama administration these terms will become mandatory. After all, even the word "yuk" is now racist.

[Da Coyote]

As I recall, “Black hole” is an obscenity of some kind in Russian. They call them “Collapsars”

I like that term. Makes sense.

[N. Theknow]

Kids will be buying crayons of color.

[the anti-liberal]

"(as in, "The White House has finally become the Black House")"

and a growing black stain on America.

Black Socialism - a new term for coming times?

[Hoffer Rand]

So what do we call a dwarf star? A small statured stellar object? (relatively speaking) ;-)

[unkus]

Must have had a very niggardly science education, I suspect.

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Use of the word “niggardly” got a white professor in trouble, once. I can’t remember the details.

[N. Theknow]

A commissioner and a supposedly highly educated judge who are unfamiliar with dinner table science terms?

Apparently, their teachers were niggardly when it came to teaching definitions of words.

[al_c]

John Wiley Price is a firebrand from wayback. He knows very well what a “black hole” is but chooses to make an incident for reasons best known to himself.

I think this also shows that JWP and the other guy more than likely weren't even listening anyway. Probably just heard the word "black" and reacted. Idiots.

[muawiyah]

His attention wavered for a moment as his mind drifted off toward thoughts of a "black ho'" he'd just recently met; suddenly he awoke to the voice of another commissioner asking him about her. "Black ho, black ho?" he gasped; oh, no brother, she was "white".

No doubt the story would be corrupted by the ignorant newspaper people for the morning edition the next day.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

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.”

Village idiot alert!.....

[opus86]

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.

These buffoons are too stupid to be in any position of authority. As though any use of the word "black" MUST be some denigration of the black race.

To quote Jerry Seinfeld, "Why must you always be the focal point of attention? Why can't you just be? Why can't you live?"

[patriotspride]

” One day ‘White House’ might be deemed racially insensitive and not just a color?”

I agree, that’s probably what we are headed for in this PC world we live in.

[madison10]

Well, it’s not a blue hole, a red hole, or a blasted green hole...it’s a freakin’ black hole.

Dear Lord, people are SOOOO stupid, please forgive their stupidity.

[NativeNewYorker]

Will they have to re-name aircraft telemetry black boxes?

What about secret computer operations? Can they still be called black boxes?

Can covert intel ops still be called black bag operations?

[billygoatgruff]

John Wiley Price is the village idiot, also known as The Dallas Joker. He used to wear a purple suit while sporting his corn rows and bull horn to interrupt traffic on the highway so he could do his protest dance in the 90s.

Therefore, we don’t take him very seriously, and yes he very ready for any racial fight. Our version of Jesse Jackass. Aren’t we lucky? The clown keeps getting voted back in, I guess just for entertainment purposes.

[Faith]

Feel free to add to the list of offensive items, folks. We feel your pain. blackmail black magic