Black hole

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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

[Peikko 1,575]

Yes, we can't possibly use the term black hole because clearly we are referring to a ***'s butt if we do so.

[chri'stina 190]

mama mia

[Sassy1natl 0]

Any of these elected type people related to Rev. Jesse Jackson, by chance? Just curious.

[pedroh 21]

yea, they should call it a light and matter absorbing singularity

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Wow.... Clearly some people would benefit from shutting their hole, before they open it.

Don't look know but I guess according to this guy's rationale outer space isn't "black", nor does the expression "black hole" have anything to do with the fact that the stellar phenomena is in fact, black...

[Steve Y Jessica 1]

Yes, we can't possibly use the term black hole because clearly we are referring to a ***'s butt if we do so.

OH!!! Butt?? That was not what I was thinking!!

[tmma 467]

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.[/b]

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

And I demand an apology from Nagin for his racially insensitive analogy!

I am outraged for Price, Mayfield, Jones in Dallas and the racially diverse population of NOLA.

[PlatyPius 5]

What a Chopf##k.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The judge and the other comissioner are clearly idiots, if "black hole" is an expression they've never heard before.

[pedroh 21]

[almaty 19]

stupid sh!t..

[Sister Fracas 5]

mama mia

I'm offended... that's an ethnically offensive response to this situation.

Edited July 10, 2008 by Sister Fracas

[almaty 19]

mama mia

I'm offended... that's an ethnically offensive response to this situation.

i agree...shot at italians

[Marilyn. 340]

The judge and the other comissioner are clearly idiots, if "black hole" is an expression they've never heard before.

they prolly don't watch Stargate or any other SCIFI shows