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Two things:
Carbon fibre is black. If you scrape the pod you will get through the paint to the black.
Not necessarily. IIRC cowlings on A320s are honeycomb core of either aluminium or nomex, and the skins are often a weave of all kinds of different colours, from black to grey to orange, green to almost white.
Its not like all black carbon fibre on an F1 car