Multiple genealogists, including the Louisiana Creole expert Jari Honora, traced Prevost’s ancestry to the Black community of New Orleans. His maternal ancestors lived in the Crescent City before migrating to Chicago in the early 20th century.
Leo XIV is not known to have publicly commented on his African ancestry, which is part of a mixed heritage that also includes French, Italian, and Spanish roots. According to the U.S. Census, Prevost’s mother, the late Mildred Martinez, was the mixed-race daughter of Black property owners, the Haitian-born Joseph Martinez and New Orleans native Louise Baquié, a Creole.
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A friend of mine who is a nurse just had to take some kind of continuing education course or exam or something. He was a little pissed at one of the questions. I have to agree that it’s completely inappropriate.
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“What positive outcome…” Holy shit, that is fucking unbelievable! “What positive outcome came of the Holocaust?” “What positive outcome came of slavery?” I just can’t…
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Yes, while the National Research Act was a good thing, the fact that we had to pass a law to get researchers to stop treating people like lab mice is hardly a positive outcome.
ETA: this would be like saying that a positive outcome of slavery is that slavery was banned.
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If they had said something like – due to the human and civil rights violations against the victims of the so-called Tuskegee Experiment, what step was taken to ensure it would never happen again – or something like that, they could have still gotten the correct answer without being stupid about it.
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W…T…F!?!
Talk about a test question that should get someone fired…
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