[ExI] Why farmers?

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 3:24 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> They have had all
> those Italian popes, and now they are getting a lot of cardinals outside of
> Europe, but I have never heard of a black pope or even a black cardinal,
> not
> even an Indian pretending to be black.  That doesn't seem right.
>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Arinze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sarah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turkson
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.

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.
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