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Vogon_Glory

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3. No true surprise

Reply to 634-5789 (Original post)

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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White smoke, Black pope? Genealogist says Leo XIV has Louisiana African roots. [View all] 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