I remember this asshole from when I lived in the Dallas area over 12 years ago, and he was crazy as a s#$thouse rat then, too! Some people just look for something to be offended by, and he's one of the worst. As bad as Al or Jesse, even.
Hey Guy:
Hows about the email that Jonah Goldberg at The Corner group blog just got this morning -- which said:
I am a mediator, and not long ago I was delivering a training module on conflict resolution to the staff of a large government agency. In my talk, I included the time-honored saying, "the pot calls the kettle black." Afterward, the African American woman who was the leader of the training program (a good friend of mine, incidentally), came to me in something of a dither. "Do you realize what you said?" she asked. "That is very offensive to black people."
I was taken aback. I explained to her that this little saying is from Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote, one of the most famous novels of all time, and that it is the perfect metaphor to use in discussing conflict resolution, in which a principal objective is seeing the other person's point of view.
She was unmoved by my explanation, saying "I don't care where it came from, this is clearly a racist remark, and I know it offended many in our audience." I said, "Look, Linda, the saying refers to a pot and a kettle hanging on hooks over a fire. That's the way they cooked in medieval times. It means that both pot and kettle become blackened by the fire. The analogy is that when you criticize someone else while ignoring your own faults, this is like the "pot calling the kettle black." Both pot and kettle are black. Of course, she simply responded that it doesn't matter what the real meaning of the saying is, it is the perception of the audience that counts.
Ironically, at the afternoon training session, a black lawyer lectured the audience on their rights under Title VII, urging them to file complaints over discriminatory practices. This was precisely the opposite message we were trying to convey: that disputes between employees and their supervisors should be settled through mediation, and that filing of an EEOC complaint should be the very last resort. The executive director of the agency and her assistant (who had hired our company to do this training) were horrified at what they viewed (correctly) as agitation, which in fact resulted in two complaints filed by employees the very next day. So, the class on conflict resolution ended in conflict, not resolution.
These people are gonna keep it up until they lose a lot more "people of good will" who were truly instrumental in effecting CHANGE lo, these past 45 years. They've already "lost" me.
They lost me several years ago Larry..as long as this is a free country I will exercise my right to be an obtuse insensitive un-politically correct old white guy..and when the time comes that I don't have this constitutional right then I will fight to get it back..
When I was teaching in a small school district, a "well meaning" group of parents decided that the school district MUST be teaching the devil's curriculum and so, the schools and the curriculum must be cleansed.
After we lost the ability to mention any kind of holiday (yah, guess what denomination the "well meaning" parents were), books that might have even the merest whiff of the supernatural were attacked.
These were the days before Harry Potter.
Our librarian was a hero in my eyes. She refused to take out books like: "The Wizard of Oz" and "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (a real irony in that demand, as it is a Christian allegory and written transparently as such)...
Anyway.
I was giving out our spelling words one week and part of that was a "pre-test" on Monday. The children were given a chance to see how many words they already knew...if the whole class knew a word we added a new one...the payoff being that the kids knew what word or words they didn't have to study.
So, when I got to the word "which", I suddenly heard a little boy gasp and say "MY MOMMA SAID YOU WASN'T TO TEACH US NOTHING ABOUT WITCHES!"
sigh. Sometimes I'm glad I'm outa there.
I heard about that on the radio and my first thought when I heard someone object to the trem was "which black hole is he pissed about using?"
Price is just an aggitator. He's actually very intelligent and he knows the meaning of "black hole" -- he just likes to throw out the race card every once in a while.
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