Dallas City Hall Blog | The Dallas Morning NewsA 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."
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Painful, eh?
Speaking of NiggardlyGate... found this tidbit as well, from the WaPo:
D.C. Mayor Acted 'Hastily,' Will Rehire Aide
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The mayor said that an internal review had "confirmed for me that Mr. Howard did use the word 'niggardly,' but did not use a racial epithet" during a Jan. 15 discussion with two employees of the Office of the Public Advocate. "Niggardly" means miserly and has no racial connotation.
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An "internal review"? Which consisted of what? Consulting a dictionary?
But back to Dallas...
Reading the comments at the original link, all citizens of The Big D seem appropriately embarrassed by the insanity... except for one commenter who had this gem to add to the conversation:
It's rude to use "black" in a negative context -- scientific, maybe, but rude.
We're so done.
But yeah, Barack, let's demand Americans learn Spanish... so we can be illiterate in two languages!
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