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1731: Exposing BYU’s Racism Goes VIRAL - Black Menaces’ Nathan Byrd

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What Was It Like to Read the Book of Mormon?

"It was a BYU that I first read, the autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley. And then Spike Lee came out with that movie soon after with Denzel Washington," he says. "I don't think that I really identified the same as the Lamanites ... Like I didn't realize that that curse of skin extended to me and my dark skin" He adds: "All that really came on his mission when we actually studied for myself."

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