Boys are racist towards a black guy and in turn get drowned in a barrel filled with black ink. Gute Nacht.

I remember it as him having to be black like the kids that he mocked as his punishment. (Essentially, “think about how you would feel being as black as them.”)

He was also dunked into the inkwell by a giant St. Nicholas, of course.

That’s the result of polkit (policy kit) authentication agents. These are typically DE-specific for their GUIs.

pkexec is comparable to sudo and can be used from the terminal to get the graphical prompt for elevated commands.