An Interesting Story out of Louisiana

Via Alphapatriot:

The Louisiana gubernatorial race is making waves. Bobby Jindal, an Indian-American, has passed the first round of Louisiana's election process.

Which is interesting for the South, where the racial issue (which is like the turd on the coffee table that everybody sees but is afraid to talk about) is Black and White:

From the article:

Jindal began the campaign with strong backing from Foster, but it still seemed his ethnicity might rule him out. Louisiana, which is barely 1 percent Asian, has little experience with Indian-Americans. And the South, historically fixated on blacks and whites, has had trouble knowing what to make of people who are neither.

And the sad part is the number of people who have probably wondered aloud "Is he black or is he white?"

As Jindal moves on to a Nov. 15 runoff against Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Blanco, he has a chance to make history. He would be the first Indian-American governor in the United States, and one of the few elected officials from an ethnic group that now numbers nearly 2 million. And he would be Louisiana's first nonwhite governor since P.B.S. Pinchback served for 35 days during Reconstruction. But if Jindal's success is a sign of racial progress, and it is, it also has elements that suggest how far America still has to go.

I wish it weren't an issue. But it is.

Even in these enlightened times, a buddy's roommate won't eat at Fat Mo's because they guy who runs it is originally from the Middle East.

So the race thing was kind of on my mind.