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2008-07-10 Home Front: Culture Wars

Is "black hole" a racially insensitive term?

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-07-10 12:21|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 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."

"White Hole": Okay
"Black Hole": Very very bad

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-10 12:57|| 2008-07-10 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Black hole is ok, but Commissioner John Wiley Price is definitely an A-hole.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-10 13:13|| 2008-07-10 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, and mole is a speciest term.

Quark is an insult to Ferangie.

Sun sounds like son, an obviously sexist remark.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-07-10 13:25|| 2008-07-10 13:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Judge Thomas Jones, (Affirmative) Action Hero and, undoubtedly, a pass-through attendee of our public school system, demonstrates basic ignorance of widely known and used scientific term/commonly understood metaphore.......

Posted by Uncle Phester 2008-07-10 13:26|| 2008-07-10 13:26|| Front Page Top

#5 spelled 'metaphor' BTW ;-)

And yes, he's got 'issues'.

Posted by lotp 2008-07-10 13:41|| 2008-07-10 13:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Now don't be niggardly with your commentary.

We just need to make Star Trek mandatory for graduation from law school.

Posted by AlanC 2008-07-10 13:47|| 2008-07-10 13:47|| Front Page Top

#7 What about "white dwarf" and "brown dwarf"?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2008-07-10 14:04|| 2008-07-10 14:04|| Front Page Top

#8 dwarf of color.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-10 14:40|| 2008-07-10 14:40|| Front Page Top

#9 "Hole of Color"...

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-10 14:41|| 2008-07-10 14:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Careful. Don't want to offend persons of alternative genders.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-07-10 14:44|| 2008-07-10 14:44|| Front Page Top

#11 "Androgynous Hole of Color"...

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-10 14:45|| 2008-07-10 14:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Knew an old guy that retired from the Army as a commercial diver. He said it got so bad before he left that you couldn't even call one of those big paper tablets on a tripod a "flip chart" without pissing off all the Filipinos in the room. It's a chalk board now, not a black board. Women plumbers in NYC made the terms Ball Valve and Stopcock verboten, and I'm not even getting warmed up yet.
I have no respect left for 90% of the population and I don't think it's my fault.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-10 14:48|| 2008-07-10 14:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Price & Jones thought Mayfield was saying 'ho' and not 'hole' - accents are a cultural thing.

Posted by Menhaden S 2008-07-10 14:51|| 2008-07-10 14:51|| Front Page Top

#14 yeah, and that little spot of front that the pilots sit cannot be called a cockpit anymore either. don't want to get sinktrapped for what it is called with an all female flight crew, however......(but it's name is also the place where you get tickets to a play)

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-07-10 14:57|| 2008-07-10 14:57|| Front Page Top

#15 "Don't you call ME a yellow dwarf" Sol shouted.

Posted by Perfesser 2008-07-10 15:38|| 2008-07-10 15:38|| Front Page Top

#16 I say we just kill anyone who complains about the name of something.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-10 15:52|| 2008-07-10 15:52|| Front Page Top

#17 Me thinks there may be a lot of African Americans at the central Collections office.

However, Commissioner Price and Judge Jones, Rantburgers are up to the challenge of more racial sensitivity.

Here are name changes as a start:
Whiteberry - a hand held electronic device
White and Decker - power tools
Whitejack - a game of chance
Whitepool - a English beach resort
White Angus - cattle or restaurant chain
White Sabbath - rock band
White Gold - Oil, can be confused with jewelery
Whitewater - civilian security contractor, can be confused with river condition
Whiteout - power outage, can be confused with snow condition or correction fluid

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-07-10 15:53|| 2008-07-10 15:53|| Front Page Top

#18 1987 rap ditty:

"I'm a ho, yes I'm a ho!
And I don't mind tellin' you so!
I'm a jigger hi and I'm a jigger low!
I'm a jigger, I'm a n*gger!
And I don't mind tellin' you so!
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Borgboy sez after twenty years i can't get this drek out of my mind! BTW the name of this "song" was "Hey, Hey, We Want Some P*uuuuusssssay!"

Posted by borgboy 2008-07-10 17:09|| 2008-07-10 17:09|| Front Page Top

#19 Just call those two ghetto morons what they are- ASS-holes.

Posted by Glealing Wittlesbach8220 2008-07-10 17:21|| 2008-07-10 17:21|| Front Page Top

#20 I am a Dallasite. Price and Jones are "old school" African-American politicians. Price has been county commisioner from an Aftican American section of Dallas that thinks the more intimidating thier representative is towards other races, the better. Thus, Price has been a commissioner forever.

Actually, much different than Obama, which is why they could never get anywhere in Politics (just like "Old School African American" Reverand Jesse Jackson was too crass and confrentational to be a viable Presidential candidate).

Word was Price kept an Uzzi machine gun in his car. During a protest against "blue eyed, lilly white" Dallasites as he called them (and he is now offended by Black Hole???), he kicked down a beat a white jogger who "got too close" to the demonstration.

They've been quite for a while around here, but, these morons think that now a black man is making a serious bid for the highest office in the land that they now have the license to intimidate white's like they did "back in the day" when they were younger local black politicians.

What they don't realize if they don't shut up this will HURT O'Bama in the long run, not help him, just like it torpedoed thier aspirations "back in the day".

Posted by From Dallas 2008-07-10 17:31|| 2008-07-10 17:31|| Front Page Top

#21 P.S.

The reason Price didn't do serious time for beating down the white jogger was that during the assault trial, a major supermarket center in the predominately white North Dallas area was torched, brazzenly, during peak shopping hours, yet no one saw who did it. Word was put out on the street that if Price went down all of North Dallas would burn. The cowards in the Dallas justice system caved in.

Posted by From Dallas 2008-07-10 17:55|| 2008-07-10 17:55|| Front Page Top

#22 Obama should whitelist these politicians so they don't whiten his chance of getting elected.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-07-10 18:27|| 2008-07-10 18:27|| Front Page Top

#23 Was that supermarket case before or after the concealed carry law took effect?

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-07-10 21:00|| 2008-07-10 21:00|| Front Page Top

#24 Jo Wiley: There is a HUGE sale this week end at Krupps Home and Garden. Just thought you should know.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-10 21:10|| 2008-07-10 21:10|| Front Page Top

#25 You want divisiveness you got it. You want war you got it. Just be sure you do.

Posted by jds 2008-07-10 22:43|| 2008-07-10 22:43|| Front Page Top

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