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Title: Dallas County meeting turns racial
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Dallas Morning News
URL Source: http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/ ... s-county-meeting-turns-ra.html
Published: Jul 7, 2008
Author: Kevin Krause
Post Date: 2008-07-08 20:35:46 by mirage
Keywords: None
Views: 497
Comments: 18
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.
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#1. To: mirage (#0)
Proof of what we all know to be true. You will see racism in anything if you are looking for it and expecting it. I guess we are going to have to ban the word "black" as hate speech.
OMG soon the word black used in any context will be verboten
Mayfield,,,,,call it a Big Black Buck hole so these affirmative action psychos really get pissed. Niggardly SOBs...
Makes you wish for a Greater Depression so these idiots starve, doesn't it?
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
John Wiley obviously felt his wife was being insulted.
In fairness to the judge, knowledge of black holes is forbidden in law school curricula.
The topic of racial variation is admittedly disturbing, and in an ideal world might be passed over in silence, but accusations against whites have made such discretion impossible. The right of the accused to present his case includes the right to raise issues that distress his accuser. A plaintiff demanding damages for a broken leg cannot ask at the same time that his leg not be talked about, nor take offense when the defendant presents evidence that the injury was congenital. By claiming harm he opens up the question of why his leg is game. Claiming racial harm has opened the topic of racial differences.
To hell with Dallas, it's North Texas' version of Houston.
For now...
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
Too much. Lessee, another word that should be banned - "sniggers" which was my reaction to this surreal absurdity. Swarthy Hole, anyone?
I'm taking this as a cue that political correctness has now jumped the shark and a reversal is on the wind. People need thicker skins.
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
That's an insult to Americans. We now prolly have the thinnest skins in the world. In Eastern MA, we've had a bunch of teeth gnashing and caterwauling by the earnest, chin nodding set at the temerity of the "horribles" parade in certain towns to poke! fun at the pregnancy outburst in Gloucester MA.
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. Does this mean that Stephen Hawking will be the next target of a Jesse Jackson lawsuit?
Black holes shall hereinafter be described as "African-American abysses" or "AAA" for short.
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.” - Sam Houston
Judge Thomas Jones another product of affirmative action. White guilt has got to end. Blacks should earn their livelihood in America like most whites do.
God is always good!
The reason that a lot of minorities in positions of power are so vindictive is that deep down inside, they realize they wouldn't be anywhere near where they are if it weren't for affirmative action. That makes them insecure, so they lash out at everyone who reminds them of this uncomfortable fact.
Isn't that already the word used for housing projects? Good idea, though. The next reprint of Hawking's book could be A Brief History of Time: from the Big Bang to African-American Abysses, edited for political content by Rev. Jesse Jackson, with an introduction by Rev. Al Sharpton.
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. In this particular instance, the black gentlemen couldn't be bigger effing morons! ;-) Forget BLACKholes, try ASSholes
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Yup. But, I still see this as jumping the shark and a change is in the air.
"A leader, for a change." - Jimmy Carter, 1976 campaign slogan. Sound familiar? Here it comes again!
"You have delusions of adequacy."
#2. To: mirage (#0)
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#4. To: christine (#2)
#5. To: mirage (#0)
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#7. To: mirage (#0)
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#8. To: X-15 (#7)
it's North Texas' version of Houston
#9. To: mirage (#0)
#10. To: swarthyguy (#9)
#11. To: mirage (#10)
thicker skins
#12. To: mirage (#0)
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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.
#13. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#12)
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#14. To: mirage (#0)
#15. To: RickyJ (#14)
Judge Thomas Jones another product of affirmative action. White guilt has got to end. Blacks should earn their livelihood in America like most whites do.
#16. To: Sam Houston (#13)
Black holes shall hereinafter be described as "African-American abysses" or "AAA" for short.
#17. To: mirage (#0)
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.
#18. To: swarthyguy (#11)
We now prolly have the thinnest skins in the world.
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