"Is that a racist statement, or would it only have been so if a German had been quoted complaining about a hispanic pope and "darker" had been replaced by "lighter"?"
Of course it's not racist, dark people are incapable of being racists. And if they are, it's well deserved. Didn't you go to publik schul?
Except for a few summer school classes, I went to private schools for all 19 years. I think I missed some of the required indoctrination.