Yeah Tennessee Nana tell us about the Birth of a Nation in the south!
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Hooded Klansmen catch Gus, a black man whom the filmmaker described as "a renegade,
Posted on 03/20/2008 2:29:23 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
Elijah Abel, Jane Manning James and Green Flake hold a unique, but rather obscure place in Mormon history: all three joined the church in its infancy and all three were black people.
They also remained faithful after policies were altered and black people were denied full membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Abel was the first black man ordained to the priesthood in 1836. James worked in the home of church founder Joseph Smith and followed the faith's next president, Brigham Young, across the Plains to Utah in 1848. Flake came to Utah as well, but as the slave of white members. He was freed by Young in 1854.
Such stories won't remain unknown if Darius Gray and Margaret Young have anything to do with it - they've chronicled the struggles of black Latter-day Saints in a new documentary "Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons."
"To me, it's parallel with the story of African Americans, period," said Gray, who is black and has been a member of the church since 1964. "We talk about the black history and contributions being either lost, stolen or strayed generally, and it's the same within the LDS church."
Nearly six years in the making, the film is an extension of a longtime partnership between Gray, a former broadcaster, and Young, a writing teacher at the church-owned Brigham Young University. Together the pair have written three books on black Mormons.
Wrapped in soulful black spirituals, the 72-minute film takes viewers on a journey from the days of Mormon pioneers to the 1960s civil rights era, when some university athletic teams refused to compete against BYU because the church openly discriminated against black people. It ends with current black church members sharing their own stories - good and bad...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
BTTT
thanks,
fred
Can you spot them?
Do you care to spot them?
Not really...
the accurate parts are bad enough...
“Brigham Young later preached that black people “bore the mark of Cain” and implied that they were inferior”
Recap.....
Do you care to spot them?(mistakes in her background writings)
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Not really...
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I think this is the second time you have said you do not care to know the truth.
Yeah Tennessee Nana tell us about the Birth of a Nation in the south!
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Hooded Klansmen catch Gus, a black man whom the filmmaker described as "a renegade,
Do you suppose those wicked klansmen tried to keep those poor black folk from going to Heaven?
A) She didn't consult with you?
B) She didn't consult with the First Presidency?
C) She didn't consult with you after consulting with the First Presidency?
Is that Ted Danson in black face again?
Do you suppose those wicked klansmen tried to keep those poor black folk from going to Heaven?
That is in your backyard I would not know I am from the northwest!
Do you think that Tennessee Nana is African-American?
I have no clue “Birth of a Nation” was Written in 1915 by D.W.Griffent about the KKK in the 1860 and many in the south supported it and took a long time to overcome.
BTW, I am not from the South.
It was the Lord who had the issue I know you cannot grasp that...
and we do believe in baptism for the dead so no one is being kept out of heaven!
Something for you!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fd-MVU4vtU
So, you can keep people out of the temple when they are alive, but baptize them after they are dead and THEN they can go to heaven, huh?
Does that include the Catholic Popes? The Jews of the holocaust? Of course they have to "accept" their baptism into the mormon faith after they are dead, right?
Not interested in your youtube link, don't waste your time.
At one time only Judah held the priesthood none other were allowed sometimes I wonder if some here just like to stir the pot or just ignorant!
Not interested in your youtube link, don’t waste your time.
It wasn’t a waste of time greyfoxx39, got the reaction I wanted!:)
Well the music was good just did like the message!
Oh, yeah..from the person who linked Tennessee Nana to the KKK....BTW, where is your answer to my post? The mormon whites were allowed to have the priesthood and go to the temple, but until 1978 the blacks were not, Judah notwithstanding. Are you admitting you are ignorant of that?
No you are showing you bitterness LOL
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