Space Racist

The county commissioners in Dallas, TX were having a meeting last week, and a White commissioner remarked the county commission's collections office has "become a black hole." Uh oh...look out....that sent Black Commissioner John Wiley Price right over the edge, and he corrected Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield immediately, saying what he surely meant to say was "white hole". Now, you all should realize if Wiley hadn't reacted, I wouldn't have to label the participants. But since the race card was dealt, there ya go.

Wow, this makes two stories this week that practically wrote themselves (see Sockopath). Wouldn't it be really neat if sanity made a sudden reappearance in this country? As a Caucasian, I am not offended by Wiley's substitution of "white hole". I am offended by his imbecility. What gave him the idea Mayfield's comment had anything to do with race? The only race to which the term black hole can be applied is the space race, and that is the kind of thinking that was sorely lacking in this meeting. Where's HAL
when we need him?"I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I think you should sit down, John, and shut the hell up."

If only he had. Later outside, Price told Fox News, "So if it's 'angel food cake,' it's white. If it's 'devil's food cake,' it's black. If you're the 'black sheep of the family,' then you gotta be bad, you know. 'White sheep,' you're okay. You know?" And if you're a complete goober, it doesn't matter what shade you are! To paraphrase Rodney King, "Can't we all just get a long, long, really long far distance away from this joker?" Imagine if you lived in the county that elected him. Keep in mind this particular meeting was televised, so we all may very well have elected idiots running the show, we just don't get to hear everything.


Sorry about that, I lost sight of reality for a moment. "Elected idiots" is redundant.

And ignorance is color blind.


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