Newsroom, BYU Devotional Study, 27 October 2020 “What Will Bring Peace in Our Time of Anxiety, Racism and Other Problems? The 
Quoting Churchill, the former state supreme court justice counsels that ‘if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.’ … This, President Oaks said, is important wisdom for our current moment.” — Dallin Oaks
James 2:8-10 “If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”
There’s a huge problem applying Churchill’s wisdom during WW2 to what’s going on today in the LDS Church. Ignoring the Church’s racist canon doesn’t bring people to Jesus Christ, and ignoring their racist past is dangerous. They still claim allegiance to the Book of Mormon theology which reads –
2 Nephi 5:21 “And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.”
Mr. Oaks even cautioned against hiding the truth about past racism in his talk to BYU students. To read his talk in full, see Racism and Other Challenges.
IF the Church had disavowed their part in racist theology, and repented of their sins, then indeed, there would be no need to mention these things. However, this isn’t the case, and we’re still praying they would do so!
Please, pray for young minds to be protected against the lies of Mr. Oaks, and for them to question this man’s ungodly wisdom.
With Love in Christ;
Michelle