Let me now tell you that Black West Africans and some East Africans have a birth right so glorious, so wonderful, so special and so amazing that many peoples of other races are either insanely jealous of blacks or conversely insanely despising of blacks.
Before though I inform you of the most wonderful news that ever came to West Africa you should read a bit more about the guys that you may see from time to time walking about in pairs dressed in white shirts and dark trousers, usually with white on black name tags pinned to their shirt. They represent the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints commonly known as Mormonism.
Below are some paragraphs taken from the New York Times. Notice how Mormonism, like so many other religions which come to Africa, like to gloss over a background of severe discrimination against blacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/racism-and-the-mormon-church.html
“Mormonism wasn’t always troubled by anti-black racism. In a country deeply stained by slavery and anti-black racism, the church, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, was noteworthy for its relative racial egalitarianism. Smith episodically opposed slavery and tolerated the priesthood ordination of black men, at least one of whom, Elijah Abel, occupied a position of minor authority.
It was Smith’s successor, Brigham Young, who adopted the policies that now haunt the church. He described black people as cursed with dark skin as punishment for Cain’s murder of his brother. “Any man having one drop of the seed of Cain in him cannot hold the priesthood,” he declared in 1852. Young deemed black-white intermarriage so sinful that he suggested that a man could atone for it only by having “his head cut off” and spilling “his blood upon the ground.” Other Mormon leaders convinced themselves that the pre-existent spirits of black people had sinned in heaven by supporting Lucifer in his rebellion against God.
The priesthood ban had sweeping ecclesiastical consequences for black Mormons. They could not participate in the sacred ordinances, like the endowment ceremony (which prepares one for the afterlife) and sealings (which formally bind a family together), rites that Smith and Young taught were necessary to obtain celestial glory.
Of course, while perhaps unusual in its fervor and particular in its theories, the rhetoric of Mormon leaders was lamentably within the mainstream of white American opinion. White Christians of many denominational stripes used repugnant language to justify slavery and the inferiority of black people.”
