Black Hole is now a Racist Term

Never mind that the term "black hole" actually has a meaning in our natural universe, and that the term has other rather obvious applications.

So, when Dallas County Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield used the term "black hole" to describe an agency that has had the reputation of losing paper work, he was reprimanded for using a racist term.

Seriously.

From the Dallas Morning News:

A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

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.

Having spent a number of years in the Dallas area, I have to say that this sort of interjection by John Wiley Price is not particularly surprising because he has been race baiting and threatening an uprising for years.

But, if John Wiley Price's feelings get hurt because he is woefully ignorant, why is that someone else's fault? The burden should fall on Price to go back to elementary school and learn a thing or two about basic science rather than forcing others to bear the burden of dumbing down their speech to a point that Price understands and doesn't get offended.

You do not salve the hurt of racism by becoming so hypersensitive to it that you falsely accuse innocents of being racists.

Mr. Price...lighten up. You are hurting the cause.

h/t Michelle Malkin