It is true that many a Christian church held that the black race were inferior the white race.. Since that time churches like the Southern Baptists have apologized for their history of bigotry and hate. Mormonism too have apologized for their bigotry and hate.. But what is this? Mormonism have their racism actually embedded into their scripture? Stating that priesthood was denied to a man because he was the offspring of Ham who is taught by an LDS apostles to have had a wife who was black. The Bible says that Noah curse his son for seeing Him naked. That curse was upon Him not His sons.. Yes Ham settled in the land of Egypt. Did that make him black or his wife black? Remember Ham settled in Egypt AFTER the flood. Before that where was he? All the Bible said is that he lived on the earth.. The land of Egypt was named after Ham's wife but was a dark skin part of some imagined curse or was it a variation God gave a people that lived in a part of the world where a dark skin would be a protection from the sun? But it is STILL a teaching of mormonism that a dark skin is a curse (BofA 1:26-27, 2 Nephi 5:21)

In this teaching mormonism continues their insistence that being Black is Ugly, that it is a curse, that those who are "cursed with a skin of darkness" are less worthy, an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety. Isn't that a prejudices? Isn't that the meaning of bigotry? And there it is written into a book that the LDS church calls the word of God!!! Today the NBA has denied a man the right to direct his own property (the LA Clippers) because he used racially bigoted language. How much more serious is it to use the racially charged language we find in the books mormonism calls scripture.. Are those we see today with a "skin of blackness" somehow less important to God or worthy of these prejudgments because of the color of their skin? God doesn't see it as any hindrance at all. The very first gentile recorded as being called into the Church was an Ethiopian Eunuch.. He didn't just hear the words of life but God by miraculous means brought Philip to him so God's words of life could be explained to him.. Why was he so important? I have no idea, but maybe it was to show up the bigotry and hatred that the black race would face in the years to come.. Maybe even to disprove the bigotry and hatred of Indians and Blacks that is still alive within mormonism.. IHS jim