You’d think this was from The Onion, but it’s real

Take the case of two Dallas County commissioners. One of them commented that so much paperwork had been lost in an office that it had become a “black hole”.

Another commissioner took great offense at this, and said it was more like a “white hole”. Then a judge demanded that the first commissioner apologize for his “racially insensitive” remark.

Bad Astronomy Blog

2 thoughts on “You’d think this was from The Onion, but it’s real”

  1. See my rant about this one.

    Sometimes I feel like I have to skate over thin ice when it comes to standard terminology, but something like this is always waiting in the wings to pull a Tonya Harding on my kneecaps.

  2. Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is sticking to his comments that the term “black hole,” which a colleague used, is racist.Price also says language such as “angel food cake” and “devil’s food cake” are also racially insensitive.

    MyFox Dallas

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