Scientists be warned! “Black hole” is now a racist term

Posted on July 10, 2008
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Along with “Tar baby”. No, I’m not kidding.

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.

Better strike all these words and phrases from your lexicon just to be safe. And maybe you should run off a copy and carry it around so you don’t make a mistake.

Please let me know if I missed any. I want to be as racially sensitive as possible.

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7 Responses to “Scientists be warned! “Black hole” is now a racist term”

  1. Right Field on July 10th, 2008 4:28 pm

    I couldn’t believe this when I saw it. Its so incredibly ludicrous…and you can’t refer to a black hole as a white hole, either, because theoretically a white hole is the exact opposite of a black hole. What a joke…

  2. Hard Right Rudder on July 10th, 2008 4:37 pm

    Or, you could be like me, an equal opportunity pisser-offer, unless they are conservatives. Screw blacky, whitey, brownie, yellowy, and all those in-betweeny. Kikes wops spear chuckers, chinks kinks dinks, red necked honky white trash, uppity white scum, beaner, pollock, dumb swede, drunk irish, blood thirsty English, idiot European communist pig, did I miss anybody?

  3. J. Tyler Ballance on July 10th, 2008 9:58 pm

    You do not identify who these idiots are, or what commission they happen to be on. If the two who don’t know what a black hole is are elected, then they should get pounded during the next election for being so ill-informed. If they were appointed, then let the re-call petition effort begin.

    Luddites who think, black hole, is a racially charged term are too stupid to serve in a public office.

    After these morons are removed, they should be sent back to astronomy class to learn about black holes and how they were originally believed to be so dense that they sucked matter inward from all around and that even light could not escape. As a consequence, people began using black hole to refer to bureaucrats and their offices where nothing got done, or where rank inefficiency existed, as black holes.

    I learned years ago that many people in our population are so poorly educated that they do not understand the use of analogy or metaphor, and as this case bears out, the ignorant often imagine insult in phrases that they are ill equipped to understand.

    Elect/appoint good people based on their MERIT rather than on their gene pool of origin, or their gender, and this sort of problem will not happen.

  4. Whackette on July 11th, 2008 9:51 am

    Happened in Dallas. I now have the video up.

  5. wildkids7 on July 11th, 2008 8:45 pm

    You forgot Black Friday. LOL.

  6. Lowell on July 11th, 2008 10:18 pm

    Ignorance is a cost to our society that will be borne by our children’s children.
    JTB, I agree with you. There is no excuse for such idiocy. What a shame that there are people in a position to affect and effect policy and law who do not understand analogy and nuance. And satire for that matter…
    RS, I agree with you as well. This is ludicrous indeed…
    This American experiment in representative democracy depends on a well educated and discerning base of citizen voters.
    Unfortunately, there are those who have achieved elected authority who wish to weaken, undermine, and destroy this very capacity in our society.

  7. Whackette on July 15th, 2008 10:47 am

    Blacktop
    Black hat

    Forgot about those

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