That is about the only type of character TWD hasn’t introduced.
They have or have had black, white, Asian (Glenn), LBGT (Tara, Jesus),
Muslim (Sidiq) and probably more that I can’t think of.
Would not be surprised if a transgender is introduced too.
This has also occurred to me. Mostly because killing Carl makes no sense. My daughter tells me that he is an integral part of the comics (and is still alive in them) in the future. Why kill him.
Could it have anything to do with "white privilege" or "toxic masculinity"?
When I saw the scene with Carl and Sidiq, I thought it looked and sounded as if Carl's thread in the comics is being handed off to "Sidiq". At least, that is how I took it.
The only other possibility I see, is to have Enid take over Carl's thread in the comics, 'cause girls are better than boys, don't ya know.
Carl Grimes was sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. That is why he had to die; and, it was then fitting that he died in the burnt out shell of the church, his body laying about where the altar should have been.
Also, what is Rick's motivation going forward? Rick doing everything he could to create a world for Carl to live in. A future, for Carl and Judith. Now Carl is gone. Carl's future was a motivating factor in Rick carrying on. And, I might add, the actor playing Rick, Andrew Lincoln, used that motivation in his portrayal of Rick, so the actor also had the rug pulled out from under him. Are Rick's days numbered? Since we can no longer count on the events being played out in the comic series, as being the base for the storyline in the t.v.. series; Rick dying is just as possible. Was that last scene, with him holding a bad wound while sitting under a tree, a sign of things to come?