As recently as 2006, President Hinckley acknowledged that some of the members of the church were racist. He reprimanded them, saying:
Now I am told that racial slurs and denigrating remarks are sometimes heard among us. I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ. Nor can he consider himself to be in harmony with the teachings of the Church of Christ.
I'm currently reading a book called The Freedom Writers Diary. While it is about overcoming prejudices, it's awfully hard to read it and believe that racism doesn't exist.
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If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? -- Milton Berle
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. -- C.S. Lewis
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