Thursday, July 10, 2008

Is "Complete F-ing Idiot" a Racist Term?

From the Dallas City Hall Blog:

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.

That's it. This racist BS has gone entirely too far. I'm not sure what qualifies someone to be a Dallas city Commissioner, but based on this little interchange, one only has to pass pre-school and have a 3-yeard old's understanding of the universe.

What's more shocking is that a judge - someone entrusted to interpret the laws of Texas - is stupid enough to believe "black hole" is a racial slur.

According to the article, Mayfield shot back that a "black hole" is a science term, but stopped short of trying to explain what the singularity is. If I were in his shoes, I would have gone with something like, "Well, at least it's not a brown hole like the sanitation department."

And what the hell kind of come back is, "it's a white hole" anyway? Price might as well have gone with the "I'm rubber and you're glue" approach.

IDIOTS!