<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 3:24 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">They have had all<br>
those Italian popes, and now they are getting a lot of cardinals outside of<br>
Europe, but I have never heard of a black pope or even a black cardinal, not<br>
even an Indian pretending to be black. That doesn't seem right.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Arinze">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Arinze</a></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sarah">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sarah</a></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turkson">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turkson</a></div><div>All three of these look black to me, and Wikipedia says they are cardinals of the Catholic Church. They aren't the only examples I found.</div><div><br></div><div>As to black popes, there is speculation that Victor I (189-198 A.D.), Miltiades (311-314 A.D.), and/or Gelasius I (492-496 A.D.) may have been black, with Victor I the most likely. But you are probably thinking of modern popes only.<br></div></div></div>