If the mayor isn't black then that's unacceptable to the Maryland NAACP. You see the present mayor (who is black) is about to be convicted of seven theft-related charges will have to vacate the office. That has put the state NAACP in a low hover. Apparently they don't want the governor appointing someone that doesn't look like them if that's the case. Marvin L. Cheatham, the president of the Baltimore Chapter of the NAACP had this to say:

"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?"

Oh my goodness - someone white? Heaven forbid! And lord help us all, certainly not someone "Irish"!

Now to the point - let's replace some words, shall we?

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

Anyone - what would that statement be branded as? Here, let me spell it out for you. It would be called r-a-c-i-s-t.

Racist. And it is blatant racism, just like the real quote above it.

Here's the irony.

The governor has absolutely nothing to do with such an appointment. Nada. The state defers to the city, and the city council president becomes the mayor to fill the term per the city charter. All of this came from Cheatham hearing someone discuss the topic on a talk radio show. It was all nonsense.

But that didn't stop the state NAACP at the behest of Cheatham from passing a resolution asking the governor to defer to the city in picking the next mayor. As Cheatham says it passed "nearly unanimously" with little debate.

Cheatham also said he worried that a future Republican governor could appoint someone from his party to lead a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans 9 to 1. "Would not the Republican governor have the ability to pick a Republican mayor?" he asked. "We just think there are some unanswered questions about the process," Cheatham said.

We think so too, Mr. Cheatham - like why you use code words like "Republican" when, in fact, you mean "white", you racist twit.

"Post-racial" my rear end. Time for a little diversity training in MD, wouldn't you say?

[Crossposted at QandO]