any people both accepted and projected the judgment that people of African descent were inferior to Caucasians. I believe that it is evident that the founders and early leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints agreed that Negroes were deserving of a subordinate role in their Church. As society began to renounce racist ideas towards African Americans, many Mormon leaders stood firmly by the word of their ancestors. The refusal to accept new ideas hindered the development of the Mormon Church. Racism is an extremely ugly aspect of life. If a God does exist I strongly hope that he would not curse an entire race to a subordinate role because of an unrighteous ancestor. In the idealist strive towards racial equality I would like to that that it is the manner in which people conduct themselves that defines what kind of person they are, not the circumstances that an individual is dealt at birth....
