Do not let prejudice corrupt your mind and judgement, every man is one under God and was created from his image with the same body functions like the man next to him, so color of skin is not a fundamental or essential factor in discharging one’s duties or fulfilling and performing the obligations or demands of an office, duty, or task. Unless if you’re talking of things like merit, effectiveness, performance etc, and then other systems of selection will be employed. The deceased Pope John Paul II was a citizen of another country too, Poland, and was able to keep control at the helm, a question of race or nationality never surfaced and matter of fact, we have a lot of missionaries from the motherland spreading the message in the west and are never met with any kind of skepticism due to the color of their skin, so being a Pope is just an elevation from the basic positions of Father, Priest, Bishop, Cardinal etc. I don’t know about your location, but being in America has been such an eye opener to me and I’ve seen real life examples of how race don’t play a role in one’s success.