Ep 17 - Slaves to the Man Who Communed With Jehovah

Even if it takes Black History Month to spur the conversation, we dive into racism in the Mormon church. We take a brief high-level overview of how non-white people have been treated throughout the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Even though the Priesthood ban was lifted in 1978, racism didn’t go anywhere. From overt examples of prophets advocating slavery, to covert and insidious racism pervading our everyday lives, if we don’t talk about it it’ll never stop being a problem. We wrap with talking about 12 Years a Slave and an initiative in New Orleans to curb homelessness in the wake of hurricane Katrina.

Links:

Racism in Mormon Scripturehttp://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/racialstatements.htm

Book of Abraham 1:26-7https://www.lds.org/scriptures/pgp/abr/1?lang=eng

Green Flakehttps://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/flake-green-1828-1903/

Five Time Mormons Changed Their Position on Slaveryhttps://gregkofford.com/blogs/news/five-times-mormons-changed-their-position-on-slavery

Slavery in Utahhttps://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/pioneers_and_cowboys/slaveryinutah.html

Be One celebrationhttps://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/be-one-celebration-optimism-overcoming-prejudice

Healing the Wounds of Racism by Darius Grayhttps://www.lds.org/blog/healing-the-wounds-of-racism?lang=eng

MormonNewsRoom fake racism apologyhttps://www.apnews.com/8453dce99ccf46c2a938a4e65c5addc5

Light of Gazalemhttps://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/02/19/new-orleans-reducing-homeless-hurricane-katrina

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