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Second-Class Saints
- Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
- De: Matthew L. Harris
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7
On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop. On that historic day, LDS church president Spencer W. Kimball announced a revelation lifting the church's 126-year-old ban barring Black people from the priesthood and Mormon temples. It was the most significant change in LDS doctrine since the end of polygamy almost 100 years earlier. Drawing on never-before-seen private papers of LDS apostles and church presidents, Harris probes the plot twists and turns, the near-misses and paths not taken, of this incredible story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Justicfication of Racism by Latter-Day Saints
- De Amazon Customer en 04-11-25
- Second-Class Saints
- Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
- De: Matthew L. Harris
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
The Justicfication of Racism by Latter-Day Saints
Revisado: 04-11-25
Due to my Black/African American parent's conversion to the church in the late 1960's, my brothers, sister, and I were all born and raised in this church before 1978. Despite patriarchal blessings, serving missions, temple marriages, and many priesthood leadership positions, we were ignorant of the debts of racism in the church. Blacks and the Priesthood was just the tip of the iceberg of this global racist belief. A few years ago I read a book called "Mormonism and White Supremacy". It opened my eyes to the racism of the leadership of the church and how their many documented teachings influenced member's beliefs and behaviors towards Blacks / Africans. However, I believe this book by Matthew L Harris is the best ever written on the subject. The details of the leadership’s mental disposition toward Black/Africans is astounding.
How can a church who claims to be "the ONLY true and living church upon the face of the earth" and bear the name of JESUS CHRIST have an undeniable and continued history of 100% racism in every aspect of the word? So. . .what are the true behaviors and beliefs of Christianity one may ask? Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Are people of African descent your neighbor? In my opinion, this answer is the true definition of Christianity.
I believe white or fair skin members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints could be some of the most racist people in all of Christianity because they justify their mental disorder of racism by blaming God, curses of Cain & Ham, and belief in the words of so-called Prophets and Apostles. It does not take much research to find out believers of Christianity have a very long history of racism and not recognizing those of brown or black skin as their neighbor. I have always wondered, does Christianity cause people to be racist? What's even more revealing in the book is the countless amounts of lies, spin, and deception by so-called Prophets and Apostles on this subject. Do you believe the church can still be true or the Church of Jesus Christ?
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Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 20,852
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 18,123
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 17,989
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant, articulate, highly listenable.
- De GM en 08-05-20
- Caste
- The Origins of Our Discontents
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Very educational and eye opening!
Revisado: 11-09-22
Loved it! This author completely changed the way I see the world. Caste. . . is much deeper than racism and explains many of the behaviors which have been difficult for me understand. I was born in the "lower caste" and this book has open my eyes to why unusual behaviors toward me are persistent anywhere in the United States of America and the countries I have visited in Europe. Wow. . .
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