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634-5789

(4,678 posts) Sun May 11, 2025, 05:39 AM May 2025

White smoke, Black pope? Genealogist says Leo XIV has Louisiana African roots.

GEEZ..no wonder the repukes hate him....he could be 'One of them there people..."
Leo XIV is a member of a religious order named for the famous African St. Augustine of Hippo.

Louisiana Creole expert Jari Honora has traced Prevost's ancestry to the Black community of New Orleans. His maternal ancestors lived in the Crescent City before migrating to Chicago in the early 20th century, Honora said.

https://www.ncronline.org/news/white-smoke-black-pope-genealogist-says-leo-xiv-has-louisiana-african-roots

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White smoke, Black pope? Genealogist says Leo XIV has Louisiana African roots. (Original Post) 634-5789 May 2025 OP

Go back far enough and we all have multigraincracker May 2025 #1

re: pope TnDem May 2025 #2

No true surprise Vogon_Glory May 2025 #3

multigraincracker

(37,675 posts)

1. Go back far enough and we all have

Reply to 634-5789 (Original post)

Sun May 11, 2025, 05:50 AM

May 2025

African roots.

TnDem

(1,390 posts)

2. re: pope

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Sun May 11, 2025, 07:19 AM

May 2025

He doesn't look black to me and who cares if he is?

Vogon_Glory

(10,302 posts)

3. No true surprise

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Sun May 11, 2025, 08:11 AM

May 2025

While I won’t say that the French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana before 1803 weren’t racist (They were), the color line grew more blurry after several generations. And starting in the last century the color lines slowly, slowly became more blurred (No doubt to the consternation of white supremacist bigots and other Trump fans), leading to folks like His Holiness and a lot more folks.

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