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Re: Steve Blow's column Dallas commissioners' 'black hole' brouhaha exposes depths of racial chasms at the Dallas News site, which I see mentioned here:

What you're expressing isn't understanding, you're capitulating to ignorance and absurdity.

I don't care what Price claims he said or meant to say, the video of the incident and his asinine justification - which obliterated any notion that his reaction was misconstrued - is available for all to see. No matter how long he spent or says he planned to spend on the point, the fact that he took umbrage at all, and that this judge Jones saw fit to call for an apology is glaring evidence of the constructs within their minds. There's nothing reasonable or "perfectly understandable" about the commentary of either of them.

"Different viewpoints because of different life experiences" my ass. You're attempting to excuse and legitimize stupidity. Mayfield didn't say "tickets are disappearing like watermelons 'lil Black Sambo stole from the field". He said "black hole". Why should he look for another way to say it? It's a perfectly adequate, apt metaphor. Why should Mayfield check his speech on the offhand chance someone may irrationally perceive some offensive intent? Who can anticipate all permutations of ludicrous interpretation and why should they give them any consideration?

Price calls this a "teachable moment"? To teach what? That an ignorant fool can obtain a commissioner's seat? That a man who I personally wouldn't want adjudicating a pie-eating contest can be in a position to make decisions with the force of law behind them because of some mandate of political correctness?

Something I haven't seen addressed, if this judge Jones is this quick to find a racial motivation with no logical justification, to call for an apology for using an established term of science that happens to include the word "black", is it outside of the realm of plausibility to consider whether this predisposition might color his decisions in the courtroom?

And what do you mean you don't understand what it's like to have your skin tone associated with negativity? Are you kidding? You're "the man". The great oppressor of women, minorities and small furry animals. The White Devil. Given the placating tone of your commentary, I just assumed you were consumed with White guilt.

Even if were true that black has some universally and exclusively negative character - ever heard of the story "Black Beauty"? The Black Watch. Black gold. Our company is in the black - it appears your PC-ness has apparently dulled both your sensory perception and your memory. Truth of the matter is, their skin *isn't* black. It's various shades of a sort of mottled brown. The term "black" is the result of a cultural hissy fit because some didn't like the word "negro". It was good enough for the United Negro College Fund but apparently not for 60's radicals who wanted to divest themselves of something they felt the White man "imposed" on them. If they felt "black" was wholly and exclusively negative, seems odd that they would insist on its usage.

What I can just see happening in some perverse eventuality is that as the result of this nonsense Price becomes some kind of national figure the way Al Sharpton gained notoriety by being a media whore at the forefront of the Tawana Brawley debacle. The public at large knows who Sharpton is not because of any noble act, not any achievement of intellect, but because he championed a pathological liar. Which to my knowledge he's never publicly acknowledged.

If equality is what's sought, then that should mean equal opportunity to be labeled as an idiot when the shoe fits, not hand-wringing accommodation and suffering of idiocy.