Some visitors to Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s office, or at least left-leaning political commentators, have been scratching their heads over a prominently displayed portrait there — a few people have even demanded a refund of taxpayer dollars spent on the odd painting.

It’s mostly a misunderstanding, though: The controversy was sparked by a local politics blogger sending around a photo of a painting around Jindal’s office that rendered him with an oddly light complexion.

​But the report wasn’t correct, Jindal’s chief of staff pointed out — the supposedly controversial painting was a gift from a Louisiana resident.

This hasn’t been the only effort to stoke some controversy over the potential 2016’s ethnic identity: An MSNBC commentator recently suggested that Jindal’s hawkish rhetoric on Islam amounted to “trying to scrub some of the brown off his skin” ahead of potential presidential run.

At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Monday, Jindal laughed off the painting controversy, calling the whole thing “nonsense” and referencing Richard Pryor’s “You mean I’m not white?!” line.

He took the opportunity to slam liberal efforts to create more racial divisions in politics. “I think this whole thing is silly,” he said, according to the Daily Caller. “I think the Left is obsessed by race. The dumbest thing we can do is try to divide people by the color of their skin.”

“You can write in every article that you write that I’m not white,” he told reporters.

Via Mediaite.