Friday, July 11th…..Wow. Some People Really Love Being Dumb.
I share with you two stories. I’m not sure what else I could add. Sometimes, when you let people talk enough, they will show you the way: who they are, how they think, what is wrong with them on almost every level. These are those stories.
The first -from Dallas News.com:
“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.
Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster’s, is perhaps “the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape.”
Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track. TV news cameras were rolling, after all.”
And, if that wasn’t enough. As if it wasn’t completely self apparent that Commissioner Price is a fool, here is the follow up. Enjoy the video, and listen closely to the logic:
Did you catch the insane logic (not to mention the rather overt anti-semitism?) Calling it a “black” hole, that’s racially insensitive. Calling it a “white” hole, that is not racially insensitive. As a matter of fact, he renamed the “black” hole the “white” hole years ago. The video clip above should be played to your children and your children’s children as a brilliant example of the depravity and ignorance of political correctness.
And here’s one more, from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
In the battle of the sexes, women’s magazine editor Cynthia Good said this was a skirmish she had to fight.
Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read “Men At Work” or “Men Working Ahead.”
Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men.
Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the signs and last week, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista agreed.
Score one for gender equality, Good said Wednesday.
“They get it,” Good said about the city in a telephone interview.
Public Works officials are replacing 50 “Men Working” with signs that say “Workers Ahead.” It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public Works spokeswoman Valerie Bell-Smith said.
Good, founding editor of Atlanta-based PINK Magazine, a publication that focuses on professional women, said she’s not stopping with Atlanta.
“We’re calling on the rest of the nation to follow suit and make a statement that we will not accept these subtle forms of discrimination,” said Good, 48.
Good pressed the issue after Atlanta police came to her office last month on a complaint that she spray painted “wo” onto a “Men At Work” sign.
Did she do it? Good replied by complaining about the signs.
Good fired off letters complaining about the signs to Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin and Gov. Sonny Perdue.
State transportation officials said they will ask contractors to remove signs specifying just men are working at a construction site.
Atlanta union leader Gina Pagnotta said some women employees of Atlanta Public Works complained about these signs years ago.
“It is a little bit bias to say ‘Men Working,’ ” said Pagnotta, president of the Professional Association of City Employees. “Women are working, too.”
In this case, Political Correctness will cost Atlanta thousands of dollars. If asked, I’d tell you that I have no problem with a sign that read “Workers Ahead.” It perfectly explains what is happening. But to retro-fit the signs, or order new ones to replaces signs that are still in good working condition, is a horrid waste of taxpayer dollars, not to mention the environmental impact. But I guess the environment takes a back seat to equality Or does it? Which is more important, political correctness or the Church of Environmentalism?
Now that’s a debate that can become a real black hole.
Carthago Delenda Est!
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