The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation…
At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen year old daughter were present, the little member girl – sixteen – sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents – on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same un and wind and weather… These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness….One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated…
The day of the Lamanites has come…. today the dark clouds are dissipating.” – Spencer W. Kimball
James 2:9 tells us that if we show partiality towards someone (this includes one group of people) we’re living in sin. How is talking about Native Americans in this manner a godly attribute?
I’ve heard people say that it takes generations to cleanse a country from racism, but I have to disagree.
It only takes one. It begins with you and it begins with me. My parents are racist – I’m not.
My children have been raised to believe that a person is judged by what’s inside the person, not what you can see and I have to say it’s been one of the biggest blessings I’ve ever had to see them hang out with people of all races and from numerous cultures. PTL!