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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
A historian looks at the legacy of racism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mormons have a complicated history around race. Until a few decades ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints taught that they “shall be a white and a delightsome people,” a phrase taken from the Book of Mormon. Until the 1970s, the LDS Church also restricted black members’ participation in important rituals and prohibited black men from becoming priests, despite evidence that they had participated more fully in the earliest years of the Church.*
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/mormons-race-max-perry-mueller/539994/
Mormons have a complicated history around race. Until a few decades ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints taught that they “shall be a white and a delightsome people,” a phrase taken from the Book of Mormon. Until the 1970s, the LDS Church also restricted black members’ participation in important rituals and prohibited black men from becoming priests, despite evidence that they had participated more fully in the earliest years of the Church.*
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/mormons-race-max-perry-mueller/539994/