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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is an interesting factoid but one day we will have an actual black pope and I don’t think it’s fair to take that from him for a man who doesn’t identify with that or look like it.[/quote]

You clearly have no idea how many black people there are who don't look black.[/quote]

Eh, this is not so cut and dry. Some people like OP believe in the "one drop" rule. I don't. I think black is a color or a set of facial features. I don't think being of African or slave descent necessarily gives you those features so you can be 1/5 African but not be black IMO. [/quote]

That's the thing though. Your opinion doesn't particularly matter. Each person decides for themselves. It sounds like this family doesn't identify as Black. My family is Black Creole. My father is a blue-eyed blonde-haired man who has always identified as Black because his family has always identified as Black. Most white people assume my father is white until he says otherwise. The Pope doesn't identify as Black, and he has not lived his life as a Black man, so idk why a bunch of white folks are rushing to try to claim him as Black for us. [/quote]

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