I not too long ago highlighted what I’m now going to call a No Whitey Zone, which are places where the idea of a white person holding an elected position is especially distasteful to local race-mongers.

Another No Whitey Zone has been discovered in Baltimore, Maryland:

“Our concern is who would the governor appoint?” Cheatham said. “Here you have a predominantly African-American city. What if the governor appointed somebody white? … Would he appoint someone Irish to be the mayor?”

A bloody leprechaun in government? The horror! This is particularly amusing considering that the previous mayor, and now current governor, is not only white, but with a name like Martin O’Malley is probably at least 200% Irish.

Hat tip: QandO

Identity politics perpetuates racism by constantly making everything about race.  In order to illustrate this point, I have changed a few details in the following story:

Louisiana’s 7th Congressional District has long been represented by a Caucasian, but there’s now widespread worry in Lafayette’s white community that that could soon change.

With Republican Rep. Charles Boustany signaling he’s ready to step down from the House, there’s a real possibility that a non-white candidate could win the seat.

“I think there is always that concern,” said Mary Girlkin, a former Boustany chief of staff who is mentioned as a possible contender. “It’s a fear that a lot of people have.”

“There’s great concern,” said Johnny Smithson, a white community activist in Lafayette.

Talk that the seat could flip to a nonwhite candidate signifies a stunning political turnabout. Lafayette’s white community sees Boustany’s district as its own.

Shocking?  It shouldn’t be.  Although the details of mine were fictitious, it was based on this equally racist but entirely real story.