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.
–Dallas City Hall Blog

I would suggest if Commissioner Price doesn’t know what a black hole is and what it does and has never heard anything being referred to as a black hole that he please sit down tonight and watch Universe, or any other space-related science show on this evening. Maybe he’d learn something … like calling something a black hole is simply not at all racist and white holes are very theoretical. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be a real science show. There are many, many sci-fi movies featuring black holes, and even those would teach him something.

To be honest, I find his use of the term “white hole” to be somewhat racially charged (and downright stupid). If he doesn’t know what a black hole is or why someone would refer to something as being a black hole, then how would he have a clue about white holes even theoretically existing? And if he does happen to know that (and not about black holes), wouldn’t he know that these theoretical white holes eject matter and light at astounding speeds … rather than sucking those things in and losing them … which is the opposite of the point Commissioner Mayfield was trying to make? Perhaps he had in mind something less scientific or was just spewing the opposite of black hole without having a clue. No matter, someone so ignorant as to be offended doesn’t need to be a county commissioner … or a judge.

Personally, had it been me being chastised for a perfectly modern proper usage of the term “black hole” I’d have launched into an educational session about what a black hole is, what it does, and how it couldn’t possibly be racist to use that term. I wouldn’t have cared if the TV news cameras were rolling or not.