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Finally! Proof that Stephen Hawking is an undercover racist!

Do you even vaguely understand that? I don’t. How can I begin to understand what this man is thinking if he believes that the term black hole is some form of racist slur?

Now if Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield had said that central collections was turning into a ‘nigger ghetto’ then fair enough he would have deserved a slap but given that he used a perfectly acceptable analogy to describe the manner in which tickets entered the department never to be seen again, the comment should have passed without incident.

For those of you still in the dark about this let’s look at the American Heritage Dictionary’s definition of black hole:

black hole
n.

1. An area of space-time with a gravitational field so intense that its escape velocity is equal to or exceeds the speed of light.
2. A great void; an abyss: The government created a bureaucratic black hole that swallows up individual initiative.

The second definition is especially fitting, don’t you think?

Now in that video Commissioner John Wiley Price also goes on to talk about devil’s food cake, angel’s food cake and black sheep.

Let’s look at the saying black sheep of the family. The term originated from sheep which are born into a herd of white sheep but have black wool. Black sheep were considered commercially undesirable because their wool couldn’t be dyed in the way that white wool could.

It’s not as if there were white supremacist sheep marching around subjugating the black sheep. It was just a handy metaphor used to refer to someone that stood out and wasn’t particularly popular. It has nothing to do with race.

Yet still we see these terms brought out by small minded bigots like Price to prove that white people are racist.

The first statement in the following clip probably says more about Commissioner Price than anything else.

The phrase after that just astounds me. You’ll need to sit down for this one.

Scientists could quite as easily have called it a white hole, why didn’t they?

Christ. Do I really have to answer that? Could it perhaps be that nothing escapes a black hole, not even light. Therefore if you were to look at one you would see nothing. It would be defined by the absence of any light. It would be black.

I suppose they could have called it a dark hole, but why would they!?

Not only that but the term white hole already exists, it’s the theoretical opposite of a black hole, what a black hole sucks in a white hole spews out. Do you think that’s racist too? Having said that the white hole/black hole combo forms a wormhole (by means of a Einstein-Rosen bridge fact fans), is that offensive to worms?

Who knows, I’m lost.

The very fact that anyone is taking this nonsense seriously enough to put it on the news is unbelievable. Not only that but it puts the cause of equality back by years.

It’s disturbing that we feel obliged to let people pretend they have been the victim of an attack, rather than the victim of their own ignorance.

Sad.