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

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Did You Learn About the Curse of Came in the Priesthood Ban?

I remember reading about the dark skin curse and just thinking, well, that's weird. That doesn't make any sense. God's not racist. And so I started looking into other things like Bruce Armaconki had said about black people and David. So he talked about how he didn't fully understand blacks in the priesthood, but the Levites were banned from from having the priesthood for X amount of time. He taught those ideas or at least perpetuated those. But he wrote in the first edition of Mormon Doctrine so many,. you know, inaccuracies that had to be recalled, different things like that. It wasn't until my mission that I really did that.

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