Could the next pope come from Africa?

Pope Benedict's decision to step down has led to a debate about whether the next leader of the Catholic church should come from Africa.
 
Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports.

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[TrenchTC]

The children are much safer without religious indoctrination.

[KriztofferKriztenzen]

Most Mauritians are half Indian not Arab. The Americas is the most genetically diverse continents in the wotld. However, Arabs predominate North Africa.

[ReturnoftheBrotha]

Clearly mixed up. Not necessarily directly mixed (two parent of different races), but indirectly (mixed parents from being mixed long ago) mixed like most of them are.

[AAPL20]

You are being theoretical and I'm just making practical points. I'll be more specific, what race would you consider President Morsi of Egypt to be of?

[TrenchTC]

Strawmen, strawmen everywhere.

[foresakenlion]

Yes let them be indoctrinated by soulless Marxist Communist's who between Lenin, Hitler (A Trotsky follower), Mao, killed over 110 million people. Mass murderer's who are Satanist's guised in Science with an open conspiracy to dominate the entire world for Communism, while they support Jihadi's and work to subvert your children, while having those same Jihadi's rave about how the Jew's are the one's conspiring... when any idiot can go download The Communist Manifesto from 1848 and read it now.

[ReturnoftheBrotha]

History, knowing what black is, knowing what white is and knowing what mixed peoples look like. If you were perceptive instead of believing the CIA Factbook (the least credible agency in the world!), then you could see it for yourself. What people call each other is political. When Turks ruled so-called arab lands, were they called arab countries? You can tell which type of white the Africans are mixed with just by looking at them. People know, but when they hear arab/berber, they panic.

[AAPL20]

Where do you get your demographics from?

[ReturnoftheBrotha]

Ah, that famous word 'afrocentric' always shows itself when the core essence of racist's questions become clear. Your rant is to say that most of North Africa is not black, when if you included the mixed as blacks as you do in this country (US), then they would be. They are mixed race and you can see the Africanness in even the ones who look closer to white there. Either you see it in the skin color, hair, lips or nose.

[AAPL20]

And what truth is that? It is a fact that majority of the occupants in North Africa are not black. You went into some historical Afrocentric rant about blacks originally having that land. I never contested that.

[ReturnoftheBrotha]

No, I realize it. My discussion is the truth and yours is what you would like the truth to be.

[AAPL20]

I think we are having two different discussions, the difference is I'm the only one who realizes it.