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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

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."

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blackhoe; blackhole; censorship; diversity; dnctalkingpoints; fakehatecrimes; govwatch; hypersensitivity; idiotalert; language; multiculturalism; pc; playtheracecard; politicalwitchhunt; racism; stuckonstupid; stupid; thatsracist; workplace
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To: kittymyrib

Hmmm...apparently the Zimbabwe model is being deployed here in the US. I wonder how long before the whites are driven from their property and the people are herded to the ballot box with only one candidate on the ballot.

Clinton must be kicking himself for not thinking of this while he was the first, ‘Black’, president.


21 posted on 07/08/2008 5:15:16 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I wonder if they just did’t know what it meant. On a realted note, years ago there was an art contest/show in our (Allegheny) County Courthouse - Pittsburgh is located here. It was about gun violence or black on black crime or something. Someone did a piece that was a respectful reinterpretation of Michaelangelo’s “Pieta.” It caused a minor controversy in the black community. Idiots are everywhere.


22 posted on 07/08/2008 5:16:07 PM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama is hiding something about his birth, parents or name- but what?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
At least he didn't say “niggardly,” That got a white guy fired from the D.C. government.
23 posted on 07/08/2008 5:16:16 PM PDT by Ratblaster ( Obama's house, Rezko's yard)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
John Wiley Price, who is black...

John Wiley Price is a good example of why the "N" word won't go away. This poor excuse for a human is a race baiting poverty pimp to rival those two pant loads, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

24 posted on 07/08/2008 5:17:10 PM PDT by Feckless (En Temps)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I wonder if he would have approved of “African American hole”?


25 posted on 07/08/2008 5:17:24 PM PDT by A. Patriot (CZ 52's ROCK)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

It could have been worse; he could have said, “niggardly black hole”.


26 posted on 07/08/2008 5:18:19 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

For just a moment I thought this was a Detroit City Council meeting. But these characters all far too articulate for Detroit government.


27 posted on 07/08/2008 5:18:27 PM PDT by Zechariah_8_13 (The golden rule can't operate through a government program, it can only work between people.)
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To: kittymyrib

hey you cant mention skin, remember?


28 posted on 07/08/2008 5:18:40 PM PDT by Disciplinemisanthropy (...and that, people, is what grinds my gears.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
One thing is for sure -- the "Judge" is ignorant.
29 posted on 07/08/2008 5:19:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Why, just today I squeezed a large African-American-head on my nose.


30 posted on 07/08/2008 5:20:57 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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To: A. Patriot

A “hole of color”?


31 posted on 07/08/2008 5:21:43 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: PghBaldy
I wonder if they just did’t know what it meant.

Hardly a reassuring thought. Furthermore, the fact they immediately assumed it had racial connotations says a lot about their own prejudices.

32 posted on 07/08/2008 5:21:48 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Feckless

black hole
black list
black book
black balled
in the black

what next??


33 posted on 07/08/2008 5:21:53 PM PDT by mouse1
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Where do they find these people? Do they get to vote?


34 posted on 07/08/2008 5:22:18 PM PDT by mortal19440
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To: mylife
John Wiley Price is widely known as an idiot.

Only by people that don't really know him. The rest of us know he's not that smart.

/johnny

35 posted on 07/08/2008 5:23:14 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

36 posted on 07/08/2008 5:24:31 PM PDT by Crazieman (Vote Juan McAmnesty in 2008! Because freedom abroad is more important than freedom at home!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

You are my heroine!


37 posted on 07/08/2008 5:25:02 PM PDT by A. Morgan (VOTE FOR A LIBERAL N' WE'LL BE UP TO OUR NECKS IN ILLEGALS and OUTA' GAS!)
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To: All

Bahawawawaawhahhahahahah...lol...

B[l]ack to the future.


38 posted on 07/08/2008 5:25:17 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Price and Jones aren’t just dummies. They’re stupid dummies!

(Thank you Fred Sanford/Redd Foxx.)


39 posted on 07/08/2008 5:25:19 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and Ye shall find.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Holy cow it’s getting difficult telling satire from real morons.


40 posted on 07/08/2008 5:25:26 PM PDT by Tigercap (McCain. For Supreme Court judge nominations and WOT progress if nothing else.)
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