Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Dallas county officials spar over 'black hole' comment
dallasnews.com ^ | July 9, 2008 | NA

Posted on 07/09/2008 12:11:52 PM PDT by neverdem

A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre Tuesday 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blackhoe; blackhole; ebonics; hypersensitivity; language; niggardly
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-5051-100101-103 next last

1 posted on 07/09/2008 12:15:08 PM PDT by neverdem
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Are these frickin’ idiots so stupid they don’t know what a black hole is? Hopefully he didn’t apologize.


2 posted on 07/09/2008 12:17:06 PM PDT by calex59
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

LOL. I thought this was satire at first...


3 posted on 07/09/2008 12:17:25 PM PDT by cdbull23 (What's going on in my brain? Check it out: cainsbrain.blogspot.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

He should have clarifed his position — “if I was talking about you, I would have said black a-hole.”


4 posted on 07/09/2008 12:17:33 PM PDT by Londo Molari
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Price sounds like an idiot.


5 posted on 07/09/2008 12:18:13 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer ("We will hunt the terrorists in every dark corner of the earth. We will be relentless." W 2001)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem
It would also appear that the education and promotion systems that put people this ignorant into positions of authority such as a Commissioner or Judge should also be added to the definitions of a black hole.
6 posted on 07/09/2008 12:18:39 PM PDT by Natural Law
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem; Stillwaters

Oh my stars! PC-speak is going to spin even further out of control in the new N’Obama era. Let’s just put Stephen Hawking on trial for all his black whole hate speech while we’re at it.


7 posted on 07/09/2008 12:18:55 PM PDT by lonevoice (John McCain was a Kinoki foot pad in the Reagan Revolution)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem
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."

Idiot.

8 posted on 07/09/2008 12:19:32 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Londo Molari
He should have clarifed his position — “if I was talking about you, I would have said black a-hole.”

Priceless!!

9 posted on 07/09/2008 12:20:29 PM PDT by Pistolshot (When you let what you are define who you are, you create divisiveness.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Black Hole???

I thought he said Black Ho...by the reaction of Judge Thomas Jones.


10 posted on 07/09/2008 12:20:39 PM PDT by rottndog (Globull Warming "Science" = garbage in, gospel out.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Former MSM Viewer
Price sounds like an idiot.
He is.
11 posted on 07/09/2008 12:21:13 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Hole-y $#!+.

I guess these gentlemen’s educations were niggardly when it comes to astronomy. I mean, call a spade a spade; schools haven’t been right in a coon’s age, spooked as they’ve been by lawsuit threats.


12 posted on 07/09/2008 12:21:56 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (I've been waiting since 11/04/79 for us (US) to do something about Iran.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Thank goodness Mayfield didn’t call Price niggardly.


13 posted on 07/09/2008 12:22:24 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Barack Hussein Obama=Jimmy Carter Part Deux)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Former MSM Viewer
Price sounds like an idiot

John Wiley has a lot of work to do to elevate himself to idiot.

14 posted on 07/09/2008 12:22:56 PM PDT by Texican72
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: neverdem
john wylie price (you always hear all 3 names) is an embarrassment - the ‘community activist’ of dallas - and has adopted all of jessee jackson’s tactics - back when i watched dallas news, he was shown at one of his ‘protests’ - he would cross back and forth at an intersection, taking 10 minutes or more for each crossing - doing a little dance that involved a protruding backside

another ‘activist’ that has never had a job - grabbing his little fame from race in his little dallas pond

15 posted on 07/09/2008 12:23:08 PM PDT by sloop (pfc in the quiet civil war)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

This is just priceless, I wonder if they’ve ever heard of the Black Sea?


16 posted on 07/09/2008 12:24:01 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem
The only "holes" in that meeting were not in space...they were Price and Jones and they made complete such "holes" out of themselves.

Good on Mayfield for responding to them the way he did.

17 posted on 07/09/2008 12:24:15 PM PDT by Jeff Head
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Mr. Price is at the top of the list of useless idiots waiting to take offense at whatever he can.


18 posted on 07/09/2008 12:24:23 PM PDT by commonguymd (Freedom and individual liberty is for everyone, including the odd and weird people like you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ExGeeEye

Talk about the pot calling the kettle C-100, Y-100, M-100, K-100.


19 posted on 07/09/2008 12:24:38 PM PDT by GSWarrior
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Londo Molari
He should have clarifed his position — “if I was talking about you, I would have said black a-hole.”

I don't know, maybe black hole is appropriate. The astronomical phenomenon is an object so dense even light can't escape,...

...much less an intellectually cogent thought.

20 posted on 07/09/2008 12:25:09 PM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

I recall reading about a year ago that some group was suing NASA and other such organizations to change the term “black hole” because they found it offensive. So I’m not surprised this hole took it as an insult as he hopes for instead of as it was intended.


21 posted on 07/09/2008 12:25:26 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

You just can’t make this stuff up.


22 posted on 07/09/2008 12:25:31 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem
At least nobody got fired or forced to resign for using the non-racial term "niggardly" like this joker did:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/daily/jan99/district27.htm

23 posted on 07/09/2008 12:25:41 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Is the descriptive “black hole” going to go the way the word ‘niggardly’ went?

Are we going to be allowed to say it’s dark at night?

Does Arnold Schwarzenegger get to keep his name?

Inquiring minds want to know!


24 posted on 07/09/2008 12:26:59 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Londo Molari

“He should have clarifed his position — “if I was talking about you, I would have said black a-hole.””

Except Price would of shot back “Yeah I know, what is your point”. The man has made his career out of being a black a-hole. Interesting enough this is the first time in a while I have heard any controversy from him. He has been unnaturally quite of late.


25 posted on 07/09/2008 12:27:34 PM PDT by neb52
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: neverdem
Black Holes Renamed 'Super High Gravity Locations'
26 posted on 07/09/2008 12:28:38 PM PDT by Heartlander
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem
There goes a "typical" white guy using "typical" coded words to describe "typical" blacks.


It's too bad ignorance isn't painful.

27 posted on 07/09/2008 12:29:43 PM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Where is the money going?

With a little Black Magic, it has disappeared.


28 posted on 07/09/2008 12:30:18 PM PDT by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Former MSM Viewer

Oh, you have no earthly idea what an idiot he is...


29 posted on 07/09/2008 12:31:33 PM PDT by Elpasser
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Non-Sequitur

“You just can’t make this stuff up.”

Astounding.

If it wasn’t true one would think, at first glance, it was a mad-TV. script!


30 posted on 07/09/2008 12:32:10 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Sounds to me that these idiots should cross black and white from their vocabularies and substitute some other word for it so the listener can make the substitution they want. The adjective that comes to mind is @$$ which is what those people are.


31 posted on 07/09/2008 12:33:40 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ExGeeEye

I am in awe of your greatness. You inspire me


32 posted on 07/09/2008 12:33:56 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

In Dallas, they must be...

holes of color.


33 posted on 07/09/2008 12:34:46 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

From what I understand, the county is also running a massive deficit. Seems they need to be a little more niggardly in how they spend tax payers money.


34 posted on 07/09/2008 12:35:01 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: STE=Q

Is it really any wonder, then, that John Wylie Price’s county precinct in Dallas is a stinking, festering hellhole?


35 posted on 07/09/2008 12:35:58 PM PDT by Milton Miteybad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Back in my middle school there was a running joke that if someone used the word black in any context someone would shout out racist. Eg. pass the black marker - racist! This is exactly what this reminds me of - hard to believe its grown men doing this.


36 posted on 07/09/2008 12:36:12 PM PDT by Blue Neon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ExGeeEye

If you want a bit more, try:

“spooked as they’ve been by figurative lawsuit lynchings.”


37 posted on 07/09/2008 12:36:25 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Is this the guy?

http://www.dallascounty.org/department/comcrt/jprice.html


38 posted on 07/09/2008 12:37:30 PM PDT by Peet (Insert clever phrase here.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

What an idiot! if he talks about black cats, is that a racial slur too? Or black cars?


39 posted on 07/09/2008 12:37:58 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: theDentist
I recall reading about a year ago that some group was suing NASA and other such organizations to change the term “black hole” because they found it offensive.

I hadn't heard that one. But I remember several years ago there was a move by the usual suspects to get computer makers to rename the "slave drive".

40 posted on 07/09/2008 12:38:00 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: rottndog

Black HO????? I did not know Don “Nappy” Imus was there


41 posted on 07/09/2008 12:38:23 PM PDT by Americanwolf (Don't Think a cop will help? Try calling a crack head next time......!! Thanks Thorin!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

It was a very bad movie that Disney rushed out to capitalize on the Star Wars mania.

Maybe if it had been a better one these simpletons might have heard of it.

42 posted on 07/09/2008 12:38:35 PM PDT by TheMole
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: G.Mason

“It’s too bad ignorance isn’t painful”

Ignorance Is painfull... to everyone but the Ignoramus displaying it!


43 posted on 07/09/2008 12:39:17 PM PDT by STE=Q ("These are the times that try men's souls." -- Thomas Paine)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: ExGeeEye

You way with word is masterful


44 posted on 07/09/2008 12:40:25 PM PDT by Americanwolf (Don't Think a cop will help? Try calling a crack head next time......!! Thanks Thorin!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Americanwolf

Maybe Kenneth Mayfield listens to Imus...


45 posted on 07/09/2008 12:40:25 PM PDT by rottndog (Globull Warming "Science" = garbage in, gospel out.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

Blacks are walking around with a chip on their shoulder and hate in their heart. Most whites are just either ignorant and oblivious to the deep deep hate that black America feels for white America. Dont expect the liberal media to have a balanced news cast - they know that if they expose the true hate from Blacks and the LaRaza types they will be shut down by the rich leftist whites who run the news.


46 posted on 07/09/2008 12:44:00 PM PDT by sasafras (Diversity = Mandated Racism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem; Salamander

In a certain sense Price is correct. There are “white holes” although this is not an example of one.

A “White Hole” is where stuff comes out of (like money, productivity, ideas.....)

A “Black Hole” is that into which it all disappears, sort of like when Congress is in session.


47 posted on 07/09/2008 12:45:09 PM PDT by shibumi (".....panta en pasin....." - Origen)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem
“Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track. TV news cameras were rolling, after all.”

The story says there's video. The hunt is on.

48 posted on 07/09/2008 12:45:45 PM PDT by Ratblaster ( Obama's house, Rezko's yard)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

its no wonder this country is going down the crapper.


49 posted on 07/09/2008 12:46:06 PM PDT by tatsinfla
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: neverdem

No doubt an Obama supporter, LOL.


50 posted on 07/09/2008 12:46:12 PM PDT by tim9021
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-5051-100101-103 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson