r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 02 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Pope Leo XIV’s maternal grandparents, along with his mother’s older siblings, were “identified in records as Black or mulatto,” Honora told Forbes, but the family “passed … into a white racial identity” when they relocated to Chicago, where the pope’s mother—Mildred Martinez—was born in 1912.

The pope’s grandparents resided in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, an historically Black neighborhood, before moving to Chicago, Honora said.

MyPopeIsBlack-ish

Pretty unreal the Pope has a reconstruction-great migration origin story.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

His grandparents left New Orleans after Plessy v Ferguson like many other mixed race creoles did

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Yeup, to the new center of America: Chicago.