County Commish's Black Racist Tender Sensibilities Erupt in Texas
By Warner Todd Huston Posted in Liberals — Comments (12) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
There is always one guy in a bar spoiling for a fight and will take any movement or glance, any sound, any word as his excuse at bellicosity. In the race mongering biz the equivalent would be people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, both men who take immediate umbrage at the un-umbragable, just so that they can use the excuse to extort money out of businesses or get their mugs splashed across the papers and TV. In Dallas County the loudmouth looking for a fight is Commissioner John Wiley Price who foolishly decided that the scientific term "black hole" was a racial epithet and verbally attacked another commissioner for using it.
Here is the whole, stupid, story:
During a special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets the discussion turned to the central collections office that is tasked with processing ticket payments and other paperwork. This discussion prompted Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, a white man, to say that central collections had become a "black hole" of paperwork as often times paperwork simply disappears there.
And now the stupidity:
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.
Commissioner Price and Judge Jones seem to be very stupid men.
For his part, Mayfield told them to lump it because not only is the term "black hole" a perfectly common idiom for what he meant, it is a scientific term for a collapsed star into which all matter is sucked, unable to escape. And nowhere, anywhere has anyone ever used the term "black hole" as a racial epithet. Any fourth grader or sci fi TV fan understands what a black hole is and none of them would peg the term to race.
I'd say that if this is the sort of stupidity that comes from a race monger like Price and Judge Jones, then we have arrived at a post racial period in America. If THIS is all they have to worry about for being "racist language" then we have, indeed, effectively eliminated racism in America.
Commissioner Price and Judge Jones should be ashamed of themselves.
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tries people for offending other people in political speech?
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I just bought a house outside of Phoenix, Im doing my best to Americanize, lol!
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We stopped trying to make value judgements about ability or integrity long ago. Now we promote people on the basis of height, hair, and fashion sense.
I beleive we got that particular technique from Europe...
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That's about par for that charlatan. I never heard of Judge Thomas Jones, but from that exchange I can see that he's just an other race-hustler like JWP. Good on Mayfield. Nothing is served when good men knuckle under to punks and bullies.
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Remember the movement to strip the word "man". This is right up there with it.
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Seems to me that movement made a lot of headway, man, er, person.
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and is rapidly becoming a hole, of whatever color.
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Same thing only different... I wanna say lightin up a bit, but who knows, that may be considered racist. Things are getting a little out hand on the race front.
A LITTLE out of hand? When you can't even say a scientific term without being called a racist things are a LOT out of hand.
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Warner, that is dead on. When you got people filing lawsuits to try to force pro sports teams to change change names or behaviors [Washington Redskins, Atlanta Braves with their tomahawk chop, etc] there is a basic problem in that people are going out of their way to be 'offended' for the purpose of exerting control over others (ie, taking away freedom of speech).
It's a LOT out of hand, like you say. I just penned a diary that touches on that very theme - and inspired by the same racist incident (racist on the part of Price and Brown).
Impeach the 5 usurpers
Because however its done in America, may I suggest, on seeing the awesome intelligence displayed by the judge, that it needs a little tweaking?
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