The FIRST African Pope? Sorry, too late.

This article, printed on CNN's website, is one of the worst examples of misinformation I've read. Notice how it starts right out using the words African and Black interchangeably. - Vox
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/04/04/africa.pope.ap/

""It would show that God has a sense of humor to give the people a black pope, but are Westerners ready to accept that?" asked Cardinal Bernard Agre of Ivory Coast, one of Africa's 12 cardinals."
God doesn't give the people a pope. The "conclave" of cardinals elects a new pope. - Vox

"Former Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, praised John Paul for speaking out against the evils of apartheid and seeking to unite humanity. He also called for the next pope to be African.
"We hope that perhaps the cardinals when they meet will follow the first non-Italian pope by electing the first African pope," Tutu said from Cape Town, South Africa.
Does Bishop Tutu not know that there have already been 3 African Popes (Pope Saint Victor 1 (189-203 A.D.), Pope Saint Gelasius 1 (492-496 A.D.), Pope Saint Miltiades 1 (who may have also been black) (311-314 A.D.))? Or does he mean the first black Pope? - Vox

"But Archbishop of Dakar Theodore Adrien Sarr doesn't think the cardinals will.
"An African pope? Sooner or later we will see it, but this time around, I don't think the time has come," he said."