Idiot gets offended at non-racial remark

[TitanTiger 20,509]

I think they covered this somewhere around the 5th or 6th grade in Science class.

Dallas County meeting turns racial

5:34 PM Mon, Jul 07, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz

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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."

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

http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archive...g-turns-ra.html

I swear, some people are too stupid to be allowed to speak.

[Tigermike 3,046]

I swear, some people are too stupid to be allowed to speak.

But they are elected and must be given a platform. Ooops was that a racist remark?

[AuTigersX311 2]

wow, i would expected that kind of ignorance out of the jefferson county commission, not out of a striving metropolis like Dallas.

[Tigermike 3,046]

wow, i would expected that kind of ignorance out of the jefferson county commission, not out of a striving metropolis like Dallas.

For some reason a picture of Commissioner Shelia Smoot, popped in my head.

[AuTigersX311 2]

lmao, totally. I have a buddy that lives in Dallas. He just told me that Price guy is a complete moron.

[OldNewby 27]

wow, i would expected that kind of ignorance out of the jefferson county commission, not out of a striving metropolis like Dallas.

At first, I thought this was about Selma (Dallas County, AL).

[AURaptor 1,126]

I remember a fuss some yrs back over the term 'black ice' , which refers to that thin, invisible layer of ice which can form as rain freezes on the roads ( almost universally black asphalt ) making driving hazardous.

Some thought it racially insensitive.

I wish I was kidding.