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![]() The blackness of Africans derived from an even more ancient stain, Cain’s murder of his brother Abel in the Genesis story. At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter we represent, 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 sun and wind and weather… These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness. The children in the home placement program in Utah are often lighter than their brothers and sisters in the hogans on the reservation. In this picture of the twenty Lamanite missionaries, fifteen of the twenty were as light as Anglos, five were darker but equally delightsome. For years they have been growing delightsome, and they are now becoming white and delightsome, as they were promised. I saw a striking contrast in the progress of the Indian people today… The day of the Lamanites is nigh. ![]() Kimball suggested at the general conference that Native Americans who converted to Mormonism were gradually becoming lighter skinned: These verses have been thought to explain the dark skin of Native Americans. Later, when Lamanites became Christians, “their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites” (3 Nephi 2:15). The Lamanites sinned against God, and “because of their iniquity….the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them” (2 Nephi 5:21). The book tells of a conflict between two lost tribes of Israel, the Lamanites and Nephites, who journeyed to the New World and made their home in Mesoamerica. In the Book of Mormon, (not the musical but the actual sacred text) dark skin is a sign of God’s curse, while white skin is a sign of his blessing. ![]() ![]() ![]() As of Friday, December 6, the Mormon Church has officially renounced the doctrine that brown skin is a punishment from God. ![]()
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