Apparently the term "black hole" is racist.....

[chaseter]

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages...n=5&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Hahahaha...then the idiot says 'angel food cake' and devil's food cake' are racially insensitive. When an angel or devil brings that to court then we will see. This guy is an idiot.

 

[Spade]

I assume he's gonna protest The Dark Knight because it puts "dark" in a negative light*?

*Unintentional irony...

 

[Manic]

But it says that our country isn't racist.

No it doesn't.

Yes, he does. Maybe not as overtly as I make it sound.

Next time someone makes a blanket statement that america is still racist, I'm going to point out that the Democratic nominee for president is Black.

Basically, he's arguing that America isn't racist. Because of a presidential nominee, no less. That's like saying South Africa wasn't in 1994 because Mandela won the presidency. Sure, apartheid had ended by that point, but it doesn't mean racism had stopped in all but a few "small groups" and "certain pockets of society." It was ingrained in how people ran their everyday lives.

 

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[SLVRSR4]

I'll see your Black Lagoon joke, and raise you a Black Stallion...

http://robotchicken.org/index.php?title=The_Black_Stallion

This one takes the Devil's cake

 

[Tag279]

Yes we do have a black democratic nominee, yes his nomination is indicative that things are getting better, and yest racism is alive, well, and kicking in this country.

I live in mississippi and I work for my city and I can tell you I encounter racism regularly. Now don't get me wrong it's not like Mississippi Burning around here but ther is underlying racial tension and hostility present. Things have gotten better for black people in our country. We actually have a real opportunity to succeed and race relations have really improved.

With that being said there are still some racist supremacist nut jobs out there. A couple of years ago a 25-yo black man was found hanging from a tree by our state hospital. It turned out the man was hanged because a guy didn't want his sister marrying a black guy. The brother and his buddy got the black guy drunk and hung him.

A little before that a white employee went into lockheed martin and started shooting black people and whites he viewed as traitors seven people were killed several others were shot.

He was upset because black people were promoted over him with more education and time at the company According to people that new him.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-07-08-lockheed-shooting_x.htm

Yes things have gotten better; a lot better but we still have a long way to go

 

[badgonegood]

Im curious why is the color black always associated with the negative and white with the positive? I'm aware the guy is being a loony bin.

 

[kainedamo]

Im curious why is the color black always associated with the negative and white with the positive? I'm aware the guy is being a loony bin.

Is a black hole really a negative term? Light is completely absent from black holes, so the term 'black' seems appropriate in describing it. Other negative connotations from the word black have more to do with peoples natural fear of the dark. It isn't to do with skin color.

The true mark of racial progress would be for no one to bat an eye lid if a guy gonna talk about black holes. It's sad that there are people that would make something out of it.

 

[chamber-music]

Can we just draw a line under it and say this guys an idiot because millions of black people across the world have never found the term blackhole racist.

 

[C.F. Kane]

Using black to label "bad" things and white to label "good" things isn't racist.

However, using black to label Africans and white to label Europeans does come from a far more racist tradition than what we're used to. It places something arbitrary like skin color along with good and evil. That's the only thing racist about it.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

Do people know what a black hole is?

geez

 

[Tag279]

Can we just draw a line under it and say this guys an idiot because millions of black people across the world have never found the term blackhole racist.

You got my vote...The guys an idiot.

 

[jaguarr]

Dear Mr. Price,
Kiss my white hole.

Love,
jag

 

[badgonegood]

Can we just draw a line under it and say this guys an idiot because millions of black people across the world have never found the term blackhole racist.

I totally agree. I mean when Bush says something off the wall it's "Oh he's just an idiot". If Jesse Jackson says something it's "Oh my, I didn't realize ALL black people felt that way" .

Another example of how out of touch white america is with the black community .

What's sad is that you get so used to being the target of racism. You get used to that black guy on your block getting shot 40 times by the police for no reason. You get used to getting pulled over and bullied. You get used to the annual moment of silence for, Tyrone, who was hung from a tree in the year 2008. You get used to the weird looks at the bank. You get used to waiting in lines. You get used to hiding from your white girlfriends parents. You get used to stereotypes on TV, and use to people who prob spit in your food. You get so used to it that you just start finding racism in everything. Then something like this happens and whoops... wait... this guy was just making an analogy, my bad.

Just a little multicultural psychology to think about.



White friend: "Oh my god I can't believe he just called you a N*****!?"

Black friend: "Don't worry, I'm used to it."

 

[AlteredEgo]

I totally agree. I mean when Bush says something off the wall it's "Oh he's just an idiot". If Jesse Jackson says something it's "Oh my, I didn't realize ALL black people felt that way" .

Another example of how out of touch white america is with the black community .

What's sad is that you get so used to being the target of racism. You get used to that black guy on your block getting shot 40 times by the police for no reason. You get used to getting pulled over and bullied. You get used to the annual moment of silence for, Tyrone, who was hung from a tree in the year 2008. You get used to the weird looks at the bank. You get used to waiting in lines. You get used to hiding from your white girlfriends parents. You get used to stereotypes on TV, and use to people who prob spit in your food. You get so used to it that you just start finding racism in everything. Then something like this happens and whoops... wait... this guy was just being funny, my bad.

Just a little multicultural psychology to think about.



White friend: "Oh my god I can't believe he just called you a N*****!?"

Black friend: "Don't worry, I'm used to it."

wait, what? what do you mean this guy was just being funny? like he was using the term blackhole as a punchline? like blackhole was some double entendre? im not sure im following, i mean, i just kinda jumped in this conversation so correct me if youre talking about something else.

 

[Manic]

I find it annoying and a little bit funny that some white people think Jesse Jackson and/or Al Sharpton are the official representatives of black people in America. We've actually got very little respect for them, and see them as the attention-hungry tools they are. When comedian Michael Richards went to those two to make his official apology, it was actually the first time he'd made me laugh in years.

We've been making fun of them for years:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/5015/in-living-color-al-sharptons-hunger-strike

 

[bullets]

blacklisted

blackmailed

blackout

blackballed

blackbook




jesse jackson

 

[jaguarr]

I find it annoying and a little bit funny that some white people think Jesse Jackson and/or Al Sharpton are the official representatives of black people in America. We've actually got very little respect for them, and see them as the attention-hungry tools they are. When comedian Michael Richards went to those two to make his official apology, it was actually the first time he'd made me laugh in years.

We've been making fun of them for years:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/5015/in-living-color-al-sharptons-hunger-strike

Rest assured there are plenty of us out here who realize irrelevance has absolutely no correlation to race.

jag

 

[badgonegood]

wait, what? what do you mean this guy was just being funny? like he was using the term blackhole as a punchline? like blackhole was some double entendre? im not sure im following, i mean, i just kinda jumped in this conversation so correct me if youre talking about something else.

I was speaking in general. However if you replace "this guy was being funny" with "this guy was making an analogy" you can apply it to this situation, and so forth . I even went back and edited it for ya.

 

[Erzengel]

I'm going to try and use black hole in my daily conversations from now on.

And Disney? You bunch of racists.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

To me it sounds like he's saying, we got a black prez candidate, so quit whining about racism. He openly admits in the opening statement that his comments are going to sound racist, so I can't really give him too much wiggle room with that.

No, he's saying that when people make a generalization that America as a whole is still racist, he's going to use Obama being the Demo nomination as evidence that isn't true. That doesn't mean there still isn't racism.

His comments about how this is going to sound racist applies to him saying that minorities perpetuate racism.

Yes, he does. Maybe not as overtly as I make it sound.

Basically, he's arguing that America isn't racist. Because of a presidential nominee, no less. That's like saying South Africa wasn't in 1994 because Mandela won the presidency. Sure, apartheid had ended by that point, but it doesn't mean racism had stopped in all but a few "small groups" and "certain pockets of society." It was ingrained in how people ran their everyday lives.

"Next time someone makes a blanket statement that America is still racist, I'm going to point out that the Democratic nominee for president is Black."

To me, he's saying when someone makes a generalization that America is racist it's not true. I think there's a difference between a country being racist and racism existing. Yes, racism exists but that doesn't mean every single person in this country is racist.

 

[Manic]

Nobody thinks every single person in the US is racist, but racism is still a big problem. Not as big as it used to be, but big enough to say that this country as a whole still has racial issues. A few idiots crying wolf doesn't invalidate the real issues.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

Okay, let me see if I got this straight--a member of a legal council, who has went through many, many years of school, has never, in all of his years, heard of a black hole?

Either he's craving attention or just a plain idiot.

To me it sounds like he's saying, we got a black prez candidate, so quit whining about racism. He openly admits in the opening statement that his comments are going to sound racist, so I can't really give him too much wiggle room with that.

Rule #23 of Internet Discussion: If your post starts with "I know this is going to sound racist/sexist/homophobic/e.t.c.," then your argument is more than likely going to sound so because it IS racist/sexist/homophobic/e.t.c.

Dear Mr. Price,
Kiss my white hole.

Love,
jag

Short, to the point, and yet wonderfully poetic. You truly are a wordsmith and a scholar among your peers. Well done, good sir.

 

[The Lizard]

Im curious why is the color black always associated with the negative and white with the positive?

I'd guess it has to do with the primal human fear of the dark. The blackness of night is when bad things happened to people throughout ancient history, so light = good and darkness = bad is pretty much a prehistoric concept.


Black people aren't really black, so it really has nothing to do with skin color of course, but there it is.

 

[chaseter]

So was the black death actually a group of dark colored assailants beating down Europeans to death?