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Black Americans Respond to Pope Francis' Death With Shock and Conspiracies
In 2022, Pope Francis openly spoke to American editors about African Americans for the first time, saying racism was “an intolerable sin.” Even if we didn’t hear him say it out loud, Black folks always knew he was on our side which makes his recent death such a shock and another painful loss.