"Aren’t Irish, with their fair skin and blue eyes, the whitest of white people?"
"People like me were never supposed to be let in, much less writing in newspapers."
So since we are going to play the labeling game, 'White' Irish, then what are people like you dear author?  Brown? You mean Brown people like you? And, are we going with that "Muslim as a Race" thing again? Gee Whiz!