It’s a whitewash, I tell you!!! Well, no, really, it really is. It seems after North Carolina Congressman Cass Ballenger got in trouble for describing his “segregationist feelings” (why does this remind me of Jimmy Carter’s 1970s admission to Playboy that he’d lusted in his heart?) he knew the scrutiny was going to get punched up a few notches. So on Friday he had the black lawn jockey in his front yard repainted white. âIt was painted with the knowledge that he was attacked in the past for it, and it was likely to come up again,â Dan Gurley, Ballenger’s chief of staff, told the Hickory Daily Record.