Posted on 07/12/2008 6:29:16 AM PDT by Maggie Maggie Maggie
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."
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(Excerpt) Read more at cityhallblog.dallasnews.com ...
didn’t we do this?
and it was well discussed on talk radio.
Welcome to the “Politicians too dumb to hold a nrmal job” Club...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
wonder if this is the same Judge Jones?
These people are complete idiots!
More proof of the failure of affirmative action.
It could be that Wiley Price is trying to divert attention from the question of where all the money in central collections has gone.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Should have apoliogized that the term Black hole will never be used when referring to anything related to Dallas City council. Instead replace Balck with ass, the symbol of the Democrap party and the IQ level of John Wylie Price. And they wonder why nothing gets accomplished in Dallas.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This is too funny. You just can’t make this stuff up.
I suggest we all get together and show up at the courthouse with signs:
“Ban the word blackballed!”
“Ban the phrase black hole!”
“Ban the phrase black sheep!”
“Make the scientists stop saying dark matter!”
“No more White-Out!”
“Boycott Black & Decker!”
“Stop calling it a black eye!”
“No more blackmail!”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It’s now referred to as “Hole Of Color”.
“Black hole!”
“WHITE HOLE”! ! !
Now, now, children, if you keep saying things like that in public, people will think you are both “a$$ holes.
Just this past Thursday I was paying a parking ticket at that very location and from the time I walked into the building until I walked out their was not a white face to be seen, except for the people there to fork over cash. We are talking entrance to exit. There was NOTHING but incompetent, fat, slow, eubonic speaking “affirmative-action” city employees, all of whom had work areas that looked like drunken college freshmen dorm rooms.
Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield’s comparison of the central collections office to a black-hole is razor sharp accurate. John Wiley Price and Judge Thomas Jones can K.M.W.A.
These people are so freakin’ stupid it hurts. Finding racism in everything. Next they’ll be screaming when nutritionists say eating Cocoa Puffs is bad for you. Dumba**es.
And what’s the BFD anyway? I thought they were all “African Americans” or “persons of color”. I thought “black” was so.....”passe”.
What about the exclusive restaurant “White Castle”?
I guess my charitable organization is racist for requiring black tie at our annual fundraiser.
And there should be no more black-outs.....from now on, these are limited resources of lighting.
“Price needs to learn the difference between a “black hole” and a “black a-hole”...the former is a figure of speech; the latter describes jerks like him.”
I read a few of the comments on the article at the link and some of them are hilarious. One argued that any use of the word “black” in a negative connotation was no longer permissible. Another stated that the negative terms like blacklisted, blackballed, etc. came from colonial times to put down black people.
Problem is, I believe during the colonial times, blacks were referred to by other terms. “Black” is a more recent term for African Americans. If you choose to adopt a term for yourself by an existing word, you choose to deal with the baggage that term already has. Perhaps they should come up with a different term for themselves. After all, no one is truly black but rather varying shades of brown or tan, the same as no one is truly white, just varying shades of tan or pink.
I would dare say we know who the racist are in that room.
Another display of world class idiocy that results from selecting people to employ or vote for based on the color of their skin as opposed to their qualifications and accomplishments.
It is time for people in America to get over their hesitancy to call an ass an ass because of skin pigmentation.
LOL!
black mark
black list
Black Sea
black magic
black market
black cat
I’m so tired of these idiots.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Afro-Americans? Or am I gonna get too much afritude for that?
The whole “hyphenated society” thing is lost on me. I’m an American sans hyphen.
I mean - which are you? If you’re one - fine, go back: if you’re the other, well stay. But, make up my mind, be one, or be the other.
But, that’s a different rant.
Except for the ones with a yellow streak running up their backs, or for having the same color prominently on their bellies. Probably gonna get a lot of red ass for saying this...
It is my considered opinion that America is in deep doo-doo and not likely to get out any time soon.
I was at the casino last night, was it racist for me to enjoy my time at the black jack table??
John Wiley Price is the biggest biggot in Dallas. But I am quite sure that he had no knowledge of what a Black Hole is, in fact probably never heard of it. He is conditioned to react to any mention of the word black.
Of course it was! You should immediately sign up for sensitivity training. There are groups of people who are entitled to never be offended even if they manufacture the offense themselves. You need to learn to celebrate diversity......except for those who are white, male, Christian,.......
Uh-oh.......what about the “WHITE HOUSE”?.....:)
Mr. Mayfield refused, saying later, "Anybody who's offended by that statement needs serious psychiatric help."
Good for Mayfield standing up to this nonsense
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/sblow/stories/DN-blow_11met.ART0.West.Edition1.4d4babf.html
But see thats the problem. They have hosed up the cities ability to progress, that its literally vacent. Out side of the West End, Dealy Plaza and AA arena where the Mavs play, theres nothing! Fort Worth doesn't have that problem and its thriving.
I lived in the Dallas area long enough to become totally sick of John Wiley Price and his antics, and the intervening years have not diminished the displeasure of hearing that idiot’s name yet again.
It’s now referred to as “Hole Of Color”.
++++++++++++
I call a spade a spade.
Down with PC.
It is racist to use the term ‘blackjack” You should have said the ‘the opposite of whitejack table”
You can't make up this stuff. Dumb and dumber.
How did Judge Thomas Jones ever become a judge? How did he get through college? Or is he suffering from dementia?
John Wiley Price is infamous in Texas as an idiotic buffoon. He makes Jesse “cut his nuts out” Jackson seem like a genius in comparison.
He should have said “has become a Schwarzschild discontinuity”
In the end, I believe that might well be a very accurate observation. No one is talking about the money vanishing, just the rantings of a lunatic acting offended over a non-racial term. He's either incredibly ignorant, or knows where the money is going, or perhaps both.
Menus all over America must be reprinted. No more "blackened sea bass" allowed. The government must now call "black-ops" double secret probation ops, and all karate participants will wear "the belt who's color must not be named" as their highest achievement.
The saddest part about all this is that many people will actually side with this idiot, because they want to show everyone how superiorly "diverse" and "tolerant" they are. Imbeciles, the entire lot of them.
The judge is trying to whitewash the thievery.
Good thing there were no Indians present or they might get upset at all the red-ink.
That will never work! Schwarz means “black” in German! You’ll have to call it a Weisschild discontinuity, I’m afraid.
When Commissioner John Wiley Price realizes his insight was just a Pale Imitation of discernment, he may turn White As A Ghost and seek to Whitewash the whole incident lest he get a Pink Slip.
John Wiley Price is a Dallas sized version of Al Sharpton (aka race hustler) without the benefits of suave speaking, charm and a cooked-up divinity degree.
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