New Orleans elects first white mayor in 32 years

This statement really irritates the hell out of me.

NEW ORLEANS (AFP) – New Orleans has elected its first white mayor in 32 years, ushering in hopes of a new era in a city still trying to rebuild five years after Hurricane Katrina.

I was raising the point in an earlier blog that we are inherently racist and this adds fuel to the fire. When are we ever going to stop making outrageous statements about a persons race and some how suggesting that because a person of a certain colour, in this case, 'white' (caucasian), is going to do a better job of Mayor for New Orleans? Colour has nothing to do with anything, so why bring it up? It's funny, Jamaica which broke away from the British Empire usually voted for a 'white' person as Prime Minister and no one seem to be bothered by the fact Jamaican's are historically negro by numbers. What is so wrong with stating that with a new Mayor with super political connections may be just what New Orleans needs? He was Lt. Governor and is from a politically entrenched Louisiana family, his father once being mayor of New Orleans.

I am sick and tired of using a person's race as some sort of important factor. It's not. A persons race is completely irrelevant. How can we be a colour blind society or at least make an effort to be if we keep bringing race into a conversation or headline.