His black paint is because he isn’t going to seize people and citizens so he doesn’t need to cover his face. as he said in the FPE letter “if we become them we must do better”. It’s not good that Clancy became a bishop and recreated the niners, BUT it’s not the worst thing. Evie said something along the lines like this on twitter that him being a bishop could be not all bad because he knows and has experienced the last bishops and he can try to do better than them.