I thought the ‘church’ blamed the racist teachings on the times the ‘church’ was founded in?
Good pt.
But when it came to the choice of which "prophet" to toss under the bus, well, hey' 'twas easier to agree with the RLDS assessments & Emma Smith's assessment of Brigham Young than to topple the very Joseph Smith foundation of their church.
The church had already silently done that by tossing Brigham's "Adam is God" & "blood atonement" tabernacle teachings under the bus.
And, yeah, it's kind of difficult to make your university namesake a PR sacrificial lamb, but I think they finally realized, "what comes around, goes around" -- and, knowing, that Brigham Young threw John D. Lee under the Mountain Meadows Massacre justice bus stop -- protecting himself & other Mormons by making Lee the sacrificial wolf in that case...they figured, "Well, hey, it's Brigham's turn."