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>> What specifically does the Mormon Church say about
>>African-Americans and Native Americans

>> I'm with you...who wrote that question. Also the answer
>> doesn't really even fit with the question.

That question was specifically a present-day racism bait. Its well-known that the Mormon church in June 1978 stopped their prohibition against Blacks of African descent from holding the priesthood, participating in temple ordinances and serving as full-time missionaries. This change in policy is oftentimes used as a defense against charges from critics that Mormons are racist. For example, Brigham Young taught that the Law of the Lord on Interracial marriage was death on the spot. And since he also taught quite clearly that every sermon he preached was scripture this teaching of his was taken quite seriously by faithful church members to mean that interracial marriages were forever prohibited. In fact Mark E. Peterson of the Council of the Twelve specifically insisted in 1978 that it be understood that this prohibition was not being lifted. For the most part Mormonism has moved past that now and nobody in acknowledged authority ever talks or encourages racism in public or private.

The point of mentioning the Native Americans is because the church still professes the Book of Mormon to be true and this book is very racist. People being cursed by God with dark skin and loathsomeness for being wicked? People getting white skin and delightsomeness for repenting? If that's not racism then what is?

About the Book of Mormon (BoM) and Native Americans (NA) .... the BoM has been “sold” by Mormons since at least 1830 as being a record of the ancestors of the NA(s). One big problem for Mormon scientists in recent years is that scientists of many disciplines such as anthropology, archaelogy, linguistics and most recently genetics have found NO evidence of any of the ancient civilizations of millions of people that the Book of Mormon talks about. An even bigger problem for the church is that its now officially quite silent on this matter whereas in the past they were quite vocal in proclaiming what heavenly messengers like Moroni had to say on this subject.