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Jabari Parker: Being Black and Mormonism
Black Athelete ^ | Aug 30, 2012 | Eric D.Graham

Posted on 08/30/2012 12:02:38 AM PDT by delacoert

NORTH CAROLINA (BASN)--Black and Mormon, now that's an oxymoron.

Shockingly, however, the number one recruit in high school basketball, who some consider the "next Lebron James," is a 6'9 practicing Mormon named Jabari Parker from Chicago, Illinois.

How a Black person could be a Mormon in 2012 is simply idiotic, especially with the churches racist past?

Without question, Parker, who is of Tongan and African American descent, has definitely been "brainwashed” to believe that "THE WHITE JESUS CHRIST" visited North America" and that Joseph Smith is some type of divine prophet.

This is classic example of why Black people, according to religious scholars, are considered to be likening to sheep, because they historically continued to follow anybody and worship anything, just like Jabri Parker, who was highly influenced by his mother, Lola Parker.

What most Black people and the Parkers fail to realize, however, is that White Supremacy is the religion worshipped throughout the world, regardless if it comes in the form of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism or Scientology?

Hopefully, Jabari, who was named the 2011-12 Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year and Mr. Basketball of Illinois,will learn this as he continues to impress college scouts from around the nation at Simeon Career Academy during his senior season.

BASKETBALL AND MORMONISM

With that said, one has to wonder what kind of impact Jabari's Mormonism will have on his basketball career and on his college recruitment process, is yet to be determined.

Currently, he is being recruited by Duke, Kansas, Michigan State, and North Carolina. But many people wonder whether he will sidestep an opportunity to attend one of these collegiate powerhouses in order to attend BYU or Utah instead.

Regardless of what college Parker attends, several scouts believe he will be going to leave for the NBA after his freshman season.

Unfortunately, due to his Mormonism, Parker will be "encouraged but not required" to embark on a two-year missionary tour, where he has to push "this poisonous religious like crack" to some gullible part of the world.

During this two-year tour, Parker, who won't be able to work or play basketball, will be dressed in a standard white shirt, tie and khakis, while carrying a Book of Mormon and trying to convince people the Joseph Smith is a prophet for God, instead of working on his basketball skills.

This, in effect, could hurt his status and stock in the NBA Draft as well as his career in the NBA.

Personally, I feel Parker won't participate in this Mormon mission to spread the "so-called gospel" just as other well known successful Mormon athletes didn't: like the 2011 college basketball player of the Year at BYU and the 10th pick in 2011 NBA Draft Jimmer Fredette, NBA champion Danny Ainge (Boston Celtics) and three-time Super Bowl champion Steve Young (49ers).

THE MORMON DOCTRINE

With Parker being the "new black-face of Mormonism" let's take a closer a look at what the so-called prophet Joseph Smith said about Black people:

"The negro is an unfortunate man. and he has been given black skin.....not only was Cain called to suffer, but because of his wickedness he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures.... they have been made to feel their inferiority and have been separated from the rest of mankind from the beginning.”

I wonder if Jabari Parker, who is Jabari is a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is aware of this White Supremacist doctrine as he dribbles his basketball up the court as a high school senior, while confessing his devotion to the "false prophet" Joseph Smith.

Hopefully, he will put down the Book of the Latter Day Saints and pick up The Black Man of the Nile by Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan, Nile Valley Civilization by Anthony Browder and Sex and Race by J.A.Rogers during his sojourner in life.

Yes, according to the Mormons, Black people are cursed with the mark of blackness and are descendents from Cain. It's the same old, white, racist rhetoric that infects the white churches in America as well as in the "so-called" Jewish synagogues in Israel that claimed Black people were the cursed seed of HAM Recently, there was evidence of this racist theology in Israel’s xenophobic attacks against African migrants, which had been denounced by the United States.

Could this be the only reason Mitt Romney has been given a pass, or an endorsement by some of the "so-called" conservative Christian Right during his run for presidency, even though, most of them consider Mormonism to be a cult.

JABRI, ROMNEY and MORMONISM

Speaking of Mitt Romney, who could be the nation's first Mormon president, why hasn't anyone asked him what the Mormon Church really believes in, besides the late- Tim Russert on Meet the Press.

Unfortunately, most Black people don't really care what Romney believes as long as he is not a Muslim and doesn't listen to Pastor Jermeieh Wright. Besides, I am still looking for Fox News' Sean Hannity to do an investigative report on the alleged cult. Plus, I am still waiting for Rush Limbaugh to ridicule this "so-called Mormon religion."

That's why, somebody has to inform the young and naive, potential NBA superstar, Jabri Parker that the Mormon Church considers him to a part of an inferior race of people before he becomes further indoctrinate with this foolishness.

Yeah, I know they claimed to have had a change of heart in 1978.

But according to the "so-called" Apostle N. Eldon Tanner during a interview with the Seattle Magazine in 1964, "the church has no intention of changing its doctrine on the Negro.Throughout the history of the original Christian church, the Negro never held the priesthood. There's really nothing we can do to change this. It's a law of God."

With that said, hopefully, Jabari Parker will throw the Book of Mormon in the trash, denounce the false faith, while "washing his brain" from all of the "white lies" and "white"progranda promoted by Brigham Young, Joseph Smith, and the "white Jesus, who came to North America spreading it.


TOPICS: Other Christian; Other non-Christian; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: inmans; mormonism
Even though one paragraph in the article unflinchingly impugns all religious as "white supremacy" the article does a more than adequate job of illuminating Mormon racism.
1 posted on 08/30/2012 12:02:48 AM PDT by delacoert
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To: delacoert

True.


2 posted on 08/30/2012 12:05:46 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: delacoert

Go and play with your friends in the MSM. Enjoy 4 more years of Obama.


3 posted on 08/30/2012 12:19:00 AM PDT by Stayingawayfromthedarkside
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To: delacoert

Go and play with your friends in the MSM. Enjoy 4 more years of Obama.


4 posted on 08/30/2012 12:20:46 AM PDT by Stayingawayfromthedarkside
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To: delacoert

5 posted on 08/30/2012 12:25:52 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: delacoert
This is classic example of why Black people, according to religious scholars, are considered to be likening to sheep, because they historically continued to follow anybody and worship anything,

A tradition that continues to this day in the Democrat party.

6 posted on 08/30/2012 12:28:54 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: delacoert

The “prophet” Joseph Smith admired another “prophet”. :(

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2817/joesmithmohamedsmall.jpg


7 posted on 08/30/2012 12:48:25 AM PDT by Keith Warner
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To: delacoert

“This is classic example of why Black people, according to religious scholars, are considered to be likening to sheep, because they historically continued to follow anybody and worship anything,”

This is the most racist and bigoted article I have ever read...and you not only posted it, but you AGREE WITH IT???
Are you insane?


8 posted on 08/30/2012 1:43:45 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: MestaMachine

The most offensive aspect of this “so-called” article, is the “author’s” lack of “writing skills” including the proper use of “quotation” marks.


9 posted on 08/30/2012 2:22:34 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: delacoert

It must be hard when every opinion or belief a person holds - even his or her hairstyle - has to subjected to dozens of people’s judgment of whether a black person “should” believe or do whatever it is. A constant barrage of condemnation and negativity ... like living with several teenagers, only worse!


10 posted on 08/30/2012 2:27:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Now a hit television series starring Judi Dench!)
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To: delacoert

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;...

So, you’re willing to strip Mr. Parker of his 1rst Amendment rights to practice whatever religion he chooses?

The author is clearly a racist. The article is racist and anyone that agrees with him is a racist.


11 posted on 08/30/2012 3:25:04 AM PDT by panaxanax (Voting 'Third Party' will ensure a Communist-Marxist-Socialist dominated Supreme Court!)
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To: panaxanax

As racist and bigoted as this article is, I am surprised it is still up. It has no place among decent people.


12 posted on 08/30/2012 5:24:36 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: MestaMachine

Jospeh Snith was the racist, not the author.

Deal with it...

I vote “Neither” in 2012.


13 posted on 08/30/2012 5:38:18 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

Difference extraordinaire between IS and WAS. The author IS. Period.


14 posted on 08/30/2012 5:45:13 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: stormhill
The most offensive aspect of this “so-called” article, is the “author’s” lack of “writing skills” including the proper use of “quotation” marks.

...and ending statements with question marks.

Clearly illiterate.

15 posted on 08/30/2012 6:03:13 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: MestaMachine

OK.

I’ll give you that the author is a racist.

But he/she is a two-bit player compared to the kingpin racism of Jospeh Snith.


16 posted on 08/30/2012 6:57:18 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

I don’t know who Jospeh Snith is, but joseph smith is long d e d.


17 posted on 08/30/2012 7:10:19 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: Tax-chick
How a Black person could be a Mormon Democrat in 2012 is simply idiotic, especially with the churches party's racist past?


18 posted on 08/30/2012 7:19:07 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: MestaMachine

As a white Mormon, Mitt Romney was given a draft deferment by his church (they were in charge of their own deferments, and would submit them to the draft board), a draft deferment forbidden to black Mormons.

Black Mormons were not allowed Mormon draft deferments, they went to war.


19 posted on 08/30/2012 5:01:50 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: delacoert
This is actually to everyone on this post unlike all the other religions of the time our church did have a doctrine of not ordaining blacks into the priesthood for a period of time and it actually did make some people leave it help out the church in the long run we have more people living the principles of the Gospel then any other religion in this country the black and whites are more educated and have better jobs then every other religion we are more active in our communities and we are more likely to serve our neighbors and yes we were denied the priesthood bur the lord gave us the temples which every member of our faith at that time have received the endowments or the eternal priesthood so they will be able to obtain the celestial kingdom and exaltation and for Jabari I am glad that he is a good upstanding citizen and member of my faith and a fellow black Mormon. I see more race divide in other faiths that unlike ours are not divide by location but by the way a leader leads and the evolution of doctrine because there is on real leaders in the church I was baptist for 19 years of my life and have seen how that church divide people by there race culture and wealth. I decide to find a church that didn't judge a man but love him in faith. It was the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
20 posted on 09/09/2012 2:38:55 PM PDT by quesum
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