I can’t believe the NAACP did that! And I can’t believe that I and other media outlets got caught up in it. If my face wasn’t Black, it would be as red as a radish! Because not only am I embarrassed for myself, but I’m embarrassed for the hypersensitivity, lack of discernment, and the inability to construe on the part of my people!

Remember last week I mentioned that the local NAACP had taken the Hallmark greeting card company and two local drug store chains to task for creating and selling, respectively, a talking graduation card that called African-American women “Black hos” (whores)? Not true! It was a misunderstanding that bodes badly upon what we Black people tend to think of ourselves. I read the “demand that you stop smearing Black women” letters the NAACP wrote to the three companies, but I did not see or hear the actual card until it was splattered all over the Internet. The card, which had a vivid out-of-space theme, had nothing to do with human beings of any type — no race, no gender  — and the voice on the card spoke of how this graduate is so smart that he/she is destined to solve the many mysteries of outer space, and it ends with an enthusiastic, “Look out, black holes!”

As those of us of the astrophysical persuasion know, black holes are regions of space from which nothing, including light, can escape. They are surrounded by intriguing points of no return. (I am an original “Trekkie” and have always had an interest in space, complete with the fantasy of being the first Black female captain of the Enterprise. I dabbled in astrophysics in college, but the math kept getting in my way, so I stuck with my first love, journalism, and my fantasy of being a Black Lois Lane.)

Anyway, Leon Jenkins and the NAACP misinterpreted the whole thing and sent us scurrying about, making a big something out of a clever and fascinating little nothing. For my part in this, I apologize.

WE’RE WAITING — It’s been almost two months since Lejoy Grissom was shot dead by Culver City police officers and none of the supposed “investigations” into his killing by three submachine gun blasts to his chest have been concluded and/or reported to the public. A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department lieutenant told me he was investigating and would present his findings to the district attorney. I don’t know what the Sheriff’s Department’s findings are, but I have a good idea what they will amount to, given that a month ago the sheriff’s investigator reportedly wrote that Grissom was shot by Culver City cops because he was reaching for a weapon in his shoe!

The district attorney is charged with investigating all officer-involved shootings and making a determination as to the circumstances of the shootings and who is at fault. I have not seen nor heard anything about Grissom’s killing from the district attorney. I have asked County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, in whose 2nd District this killing occurred, to get copies of whatever official county reports exist so they can be made public. Grissom was shot dead in public and we demand that our government tell us how it believes the young Black man came to die and what it intends to do — or not do — about it, then we can take it from there. We’re waiting.

DATEBOOK — The reconstituted United Homeowners Association will hold its first meeting after throwing those other rascals out Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Windsor Hills Elementary School, at which the organization’s new bylaws will be discussed with the membership. The bylaws will be voted on by the members at their July 15 meeting.

Supervisor Ridley-Thomas and the African-American Voter Registration, Education and Participation program will host their ninth annual Juneteenth celebration Friday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. around the rooftop pool at the J.W. Marriott at LA Live, 900 W. Olympic Blvd. Information/RSVP: (213) 985-4117.

The Los Angeles Alumni Chapter of Historically Black College and University Paine College in Augusta, Ga., will sponsor a turnaround bus trip to the San Manual Indian Bingo and Casino Saturday to benefit California students who plan to attend the liberal arts, church-related Paine College in the fall. The bus will depart Saturday morning at 7:30 from the intersection of 120th Street and Crenshaw Boulevard and return to the same location at 5:30 p.m. Ticket information: (323) 596-5177.

In the meantime, the local alumni chapter of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., will hold its scholarship luncheon Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in the Carson Community Center, 801 E. Carson St. The college president, Walter Kimbrough, will keynote the event, and Vivian Hines, a longtime trustee of First AME Church and Philander Smith graduate, will be honored. Information: (714) 345-2858.

The Black Probation Officers’ Assocition will hold its annual Juneteenth celebration Saturday at the Bayou Grille, 1400 N. La Brea Ave. in Inglewood from 5 to 9 p.m. Creole food will be served, along with good music, special guests and other entertainment. Information and RSVP: (323) 298-3528 or (310) 603-7971.

William Releford, president of Our Community Works and who has worked in Inglewood for more than 20 years on behalf of young men and minority contractors, has been selected by the Southern California Edison’s Juneteenth Committee to receive the company’s Illumination Award at its annual Juneteenth Small Business and Faith-Based Symposium Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m. at the California African American Museum in Exposition Park.

Councilman Herb Wesson’s third annual “Movies in the Park” free family-friendly events will kick off June 25 with the showing of “Antz” at the Baldwin Hills Recreation Center, 5401 Highlight Place at 7 p.m.

THIS AND THAT — A group of nine Black and Latino youth activists associated with Community Coalition won a new scholarship that will pay for college, provide funding for summer internships and a full-time salary for two years of service with a community-based organization upon graduation. The nine youths are part of a program funded by the New World Foundation that develops young leaders in low income communities. South Los Angeles’ scholarship winners and future leaders are Tylo White and Taylor Griffin of Dorsey High; Eric Maultsby, Carmen Aguilar and Chrystina Spight of Manual Arts; Jesse Jacquez, Crenshaw; Juana Gonzalez, Jordan; Shanice Sholes, Frederick Douglass Charter High and Yovani Marroquin, Fremont Magnet High. Remember their names.

Adm. David L. Brewer III, our former LAUSD superintendent, e-mailed me about a book-signing event he attended with Doris Buffett, the older sister of Warren Buffett, the third wealthiest person in the world. It seems Brewer has befriended the uber-rich and philanthropic Doris, who has already donated more than $100 million to battered women, prisoners, at-risk children and such, and Brewer said he discussed with Doris her plans to start a school for disadvantaged youth in Fredericksburg, Va., many of whom are African-American boys. He said Doris is donating all the profits from her book, “Giving It All Away,” to the school and he is encouraging everyone to buy the book and help the cause. I don’t know if I can read it. People that rich turn my stomach.