Racial?????

Dallas City Hall Blog reported 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.

Do these two idiots not know what the term "black hole" means?

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."

Precisely.

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

Then why don't we have a YouTube clip of this stupidity

Michelle Malkin blogged Next on the p.c. forbidden list: black box, Blackberry, blackjack, and blackout. Oh, and all black Crayola crayons, which shall henceforth be called “African-American.”

Darleen Click blogged Scientists - unconscious racists... Let’s not be niggardly with our praise of these brave fellows.

Neo commented If brains were dynamite, both ot these two asshats couldn’t blow their noses.

Left wing John Cole blogged This pains me, but Michelle Malkin is right, and this is the dumbest damned thing I have heard in a long, long time.

Penn C'06 blogged This is just getting silly. There’s a reason it’s called a black hole. Light can simply not exist, the black hole obfuscates all properties of matter except for mass. There’s a reason for color-centric names like blackboard and white-out: they make sense. I suppose we could call a blackboard a chalkboard, but is calling it a blackboard racially insensitive to blacks? Wouldn’t it be more offensive if we called a blackboard an African-American board, formally calling out this coincidence and creating an even more insulting one?

Van Helsing blogged This is just a hint of the insanity we can expect if PC totalitarians are successful at installing Barack Obama in the White House — which may have to be renamed in the interests of preventing white supremacism.

JammieWearingFool blogged Oh brother. Talk about the language losing all meaning.

Flip blogged An Object So Dense, Not Even Sanity Can Escape.

John Wiley Price, you are the black sheep among your fellow Commissioners and your involvement in public affairs constitutes a black mark on Dallas County and a black eye to county taxpayers.

Ace blogged Term "Black Hole" Now Racially Insensitive. "Red giant" is deemed iffy, but go right ahead with "white dwarf."

Rod Dreher blogged Score two for the Idiot-American community.