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Show hold the priesthood either." He said, "Yeah, but you know, there's something there, Jack you're not thinking about. This is a church. Don't they have any church members?" I said, "There's a black member or two because when they first came here one or two of the people who came had, as it were, black body servants. I'll take you up and look at the statue. You know the Brigham Young statue on the corner. If you look down on the bottom there are one or two names like somebody Flake. They're not listed as pioneers, but they're not not listed." He said, "That's interesting. How does the church, how do they brush that off?" I said, "Well, you know, blacks are not white, not delightsome. The Indians have the same problem, in a way." He said, "Do you know you really ought to get more involved in that. Let's go up and talk to the president of the church." So I made him an appointment. We went up and got to talking to David 0. McKay and McKay said, "No, accor-ding to their view of the scriptures, blacks are cursed with the curse of Cain. The day will come when through revelation, will be assured that they can then join the church." ~vell vJally wrote a piece on it for the Times. A long piece. I did a piece for Newsweek. I was the Newsweek correspondent too. And we did do something, I think, in the TV news but not much. A paragraph or two. After it appeared in the Times, you see. You could quote the Times. You could quote Newsweek. The Tribune, the city 53 |
