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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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: blackhoe; blackhole; ebonics; hypersensitivity; language; niggardly
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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!)
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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
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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)
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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!)
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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.)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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To: neverdem

No doubt an Obama supporter, LOL.


50 posted on 07/09/2008 12:46:12 PM PDT by tim9021
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To: neverdem
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."


51 posted on 07/09/2008 12:46:21 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (ISLAM IS THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, DIRECTED BY SATAN AND HIS FALLEN MINIONS.)
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To: neverdem

At this rate, we will soon not be able to say or use: Black hole, Black Sea, Black & Blue, Black & White, Blackball, Blackmail, Yeungling Black & Tan, any school song referring to the color black, Black-eyed Susans, .....

Just wait until the Indians say we can’t use or say red; there goes Red Sea, red line, any school song referring to the color red, red eye, ....

Silence is golden.


52 posted on 07/09/2008 12:46:28 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
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To: GSWarrior
Talk about the pot calling the kettle C-100, Y-100, M-100, K-100.

Are you a printer (pressman) by any chance?

FMCDH(BITS)

53 posted on 07/09/2008 12:46:55 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: ExGeeEye

well, there you go.......


54 posted on 07/09/2008 12:47:31 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: STE=Q
Sigh ... so true.


So many targets ... so little time.

55 posted on 07/09/2008 12:48:30 PM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Oak Cliff might be one..


56 posted on 07/09/2008 12:51:53 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: neverdem

This is so embarrassing. I’m not black, so I imagine it must be really embarrassing for blacks. But just as an American, knowing we have bred and hatched people this dumb...it makes me cringe.


57 posted on 07/09/2008 12:56:25 PM PDT by livius
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To: neverdem

Can’t say “black” anymore. Sort of reminds me of that other word that you can’t say that means “stingy.”


58 posted on 07/09/2008 12:58:21 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ExGeeEye

Leave it to the Dallas electorate to pick a ninny like that for county commissioner.


59 posted on 07/09/2008 12:58:53 PM PDT by GOPmember (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: neverdem

The terms “black hole” and “white hole” have well defined and understood meanings in astrophysics. The term “black hole” is also commonly accepted in popular culture to mean anything into which objects disappear, never to be seen again. It takes remarkable ignorance or willful misinterpretation to claim that this term has anything to do with human skin color.


60 posted on 07/09/2008 1:04:02 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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