[Publius6961]

Originally named in reference to the fact that light cannot escape their intense gravity, the term 'black hole' was increasingly criticized as being insensitive to African-Americans and African-Europeans...

Can someone explain to be how that is being insensitive?

I hate whining victim groups claiming exclusive ownership of a word defining a color forpetesake!

Unless someone, other than I is willing to argue that the expression "black hole" is invariably assumed to mean Africa... and even then....

[snowsislander]

Can someone explain to be how that is being insensitive?

I hate whining victim groups claiming exclusive ownership of a word defining a color forpetesake!

The article is an attempt at satire. You can assume that if a posting is from "chordmaster" that it will be a short excerpt from the parody website "The Daily Redundancy" since this new poster has done nothing except post such excerpts since joining Free Republic on June 26, 2007.