You've got to love it when public officials display their ignorance by screaming "RACIST" at the drop of a hat.

And this one seems to have been caught on tape -- if anyone can direct me to the video online, I'll post it.

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.

I'm stunned. Anyone who has had any access to the media for the last three or four decades ought understand the broad, general outlines of what a black hole is, and understand what the term means colloquially -- and that it has nothing to do with race.

Seems to me that there are two ignorant racists in this story.

Ignorant racist #1 is Commissioner John Wiley Price for intentionally using "white" as a racial slur.

Ignorant racist #2 is Dallas County Judge Thomas Jones for demanding an apology from Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield rather than Price after the latter made an intentionally racist comment in an attempt to bait Mayfield.

And it would never cross my mind to describe either Price or Thomas as a black hole -- but I think we all know what sort of holes these two distinguished Democrat elected officials really are.

And to think that this Dallas County is the model upon which Democrats here in Houston wish to recreate Harris County government!

H/T Jammie Wearing Fool

Now picked up at Urban Grounds and Michelle Malkin

UPDATE: Here's the video.

Good God are these two guys stupid -- and the attempt to justify the objection is even more outrageous.

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