Dolores Feng is now set to become the new mayor of Baltimore. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)

It was a little embarrassing.

And I thought they were all over me. As I was driving out of the Maryland Department of Agriculture, I was getting a little concerned about my safety in a city that’s becoming increasingly black and Latino.

There was a woman in a yellow top and jeans crossing the street in front of me. I yelled to her, “Excuse me, lady, but are you carrying a bag?” She laughed. I yelled back, “Sorry, no, I’m in a black car,” and turned out the road.

I’m a white American and I’m tired of the city’s changing demographics, especially the city’s rising African American population. The changes of the past century, including segregation, have led to increasing segregation in Baltimore and black neighborhoods across the country. Many of the new arrivals have moved to Baltimore “with the help of illegal aliens.” That’s according to the mayor’s office’s own report in November, titled, ” Baltimore’s Changing Neighborhoods; Racial, Ethnic and Gender Diversity, 2000-2012 ”

Baltimore is becoming a sanctuary city and it’s in trouble. A study by a bipartisan group of state and local officials finds that the African American population is growing quickly in Baltimore City as immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras are flooding the city, many in the most dangerous neighborhoods. Those neighborhoods are particularly violent and a sanctuary city allows illegal immigrants to remain there without fear of deportation.

The report says some illegal immigrants have fled violence “because they fear deportation and an encounter with law enforcement.”

Now Baltimore is getting its first black mayor since 1961 — in a city where we’re not even all that far removed from the Civil War. The city’s new mayor is a very controversial figure and the new Baltimore Police Commissioner has been criticized for “institutional racism.” (The Baltimore Sun wrote about a report from one of my colleagues: “Baltimore Police Commissioner’s report raises questions about how Baltimore treats people of color.”)

After eight years of a black mayor, we’re entering a city where it’s still hard to know who’s who and what their personal ties are. The new mayor’s arrival coincided with another study that claims that Baltimore is becoming more racially diverse because of population increase, but it found only small increases in black-white-Hispanic population ratios and that some of the