JWP: “They Might as Well Call it White Jack!”
John Wiley Price didn’t say that in yesterday’s county commissioners meeting, a special session regarding problems with traffic tickets and the central collections office. But he came close enough, after fellow commissioner Kenneth Mayfield called the central collections office a “black hole.” That prompted this:
[Price] 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.
(H/T: UP)
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If central collections is a black hole, then which division of city government is a red giant? Red dwarf?
Space…the final frontier…
Further proof that terrible racists named all these space phenomena – gimme a break! The anecdote reminds me not only of Bernie Mac’s “whitejack” comment, but also of the Washington DC city government official who in 1999 was forced to resign because he correctly used the word “niggardly” in city budget discussions (the word means “miserly” and has no race-related origins).
I’m sure Sandra Crenshaw has a word or two on this subject….
you’ve got to be kidding me! Dumb bastard not pay attention in 5th grade science?!? A black hole is racist now?!?!? There goes ordering a black bean burger at chilis! No wonder the county and city are so screwed up…morons are running the place.
No wonder people go to bars and light up. It’s not even 10 and I already want a Blue Moon and a Camel.
That’s supposed to be I-d-I-o-t-s. I can spell out bastard though…that’s great!
JWP ranks up there with the Revuhnd Al Sharpton as someone who is able to spot a ‘racist’ remark no matter the context.
maybe he should review his history
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_of_Calcutta
or his science
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
If you think it is bad now, wait until Nov. 5th
I hear he also wants the DISD to change the name of the High School WT White.
Can anybody point to anything the county court commissioners have done lately except find ways to look and act like fools? The jail discovery channel thing will surly bite them when the program airs. This ridiculous “incident” seems to me a pure youtube moment for the rest of the country to laugh at. Embarrassment.
so we can we expect an apology from judge thomas jones? Oh…he won’t?…figures.
How do I go about petitioning to change the name of white rock lake? Because…you know…I’m offended.
Brinker International would like to announce a few name changes to the Chili’s menu:
The Black Bean Burger substitute item will now be called “The Absence-of-Color Bean Burger” in consideration of the racial stigma with its former name.
The Flame-Grilled Ribeye will now be called the “Fire Grilled Ribeye” in consideration of our friends around Cedar Springs and Oaklawn.
The Quesadilla Explosion will now be called the “Quesadilla Special” as we know others who have had drunk the water in Mexico.
More changes will be announced as we continue to comply with the ever-contentious politically-correct atmosphere created by the overly sensitive populace.
Please help! I have a vet appointment later today and I don’t know now how to properly refer to my B____ Lab!
sigh… does crap like this happen in Fort Worth?
JWP ascribes to the theory that Tyson Homosexual is a sprinter on the US Olympic track squad and that the federal budget needs to be brought back in to the African-American.
We still call it a black hole.
Wow. This story just drained the life-force right out of me. I’d go grab some black coffee to recharge, but I’m pretty sure that would make me a racist. Err…White coffee anyone?
Mayfield should have picked up the ‘Star Trek Book of Space Jargon’ and came up with the term ‘multi-dimensional anomaly’. There aren’t any multi-dimensional commissioners. Everyone is apparently stuck in their singular plane of existence.
I’m thinking he might have mistaken it for a racially tinged gender slam when he heard the words “Black Hole”.? Maybe he thought he heard “Black Ho”?
Is chocolate off limits too? How about dark chocolate? White chocolate? I’m so confused.
Maybe we could be doubly sensitive and only use the Spanish word for black in future references?
trey wins! lol
Standing….clapping…..
hahaha…took a second but then it clicked. trey gets a gold star
hear hear, Trey
and here ya go, Rawlins: http://www.midwestbeerfest.com/images/06logos/negro%20modello.JPG
Trey is #1
btw, sticking with the always excellent Star Trek technobabble, one could not prick anybody’s feelings by Calling Central Collections a Quantum Singularity. Of course that would be way over everybody’s head we elect in county Government. Farmers Branch is included too.
oh I used a word for stick and it got bleeped out, so lessoned learned about double meanings, I retire.
Wasn’t there a controversy over the word “niggardly” there too? Somebody needs to donate some of those “Word of the Day” calendars to the County Commissioners along with a subscription to Reader’s Digest.
I thought they wanted to keep ‘colored’ on the county water fountain.
Next on the agenda: book burnings of “Huckleberry Finn”. Synchronize your whiteberrys.
Since when is the term black hole racist?
To me it means an empty void that gobbles up everything in it’s path and leaves nothing behind. There’s no context or history by which this is related to African-Americans.
JWP needs to turn down his racedar
Does this mean I can’t order a Black Cherry soda at Sonic anymore? Will official forms now say “must use BLUE ink ONLY?” What about my black and white cat? Is he now a “mmmm and white” cat?
JWP has his sensitivity level turned up a tad too high. Dial it down, dude. Dial it down.
I wonder if Judge Jones is too stupid to be embarrassed? JWP and Jones are certainly laughing stocks across this country now . . .
Problem is – they make all Texans look like idiots.
i d i o t s!