Black Mormons Respond to LDS Priesthood and Temple Ban | Ep. 1916
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
Today we are joined by Dr. Darron Smith, Summur-Rayn Barrett, and Nate Byrd of Black Menaces to react to the first three episodes with Matt Harris. Their commentary unpacks Joseph Smith's complex racial attitudes, Brigham Young's implementation of the priesthood ban, and the painful legacy of racist doctrines. Their candid discussion highlights the urgent need for accountability within the Mormon church and grapples with the lasting impact of this racial discrimination.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:04.3 | John Delinn. It's July 2nd, 2024 and we are here. I'm so excited for today. We are here |
| 0:10.4 | with a panel of distinguished guests, black Mormons and or ex- Mormons, I don't |
| 0:16.1 | know how they want to be referred to, they can tell us themselves. We are here to |
| 0:19.9 | review the first three episodes of the amazing series that we have been running on |
| 0:26.5 | Mormon stories on the book Second Class Saints, Black Mormons, and the |
| 0:31.6 | struggle for racial equality by Dr. Matt Harris. |
| 0:34.9 | We've released three episodes so far as of today. We've recorded 11, so we've got eight in the pipeline. We hope to record another 9 more, but it's been a great series with one huge problem. |
| 0:49.0 | I've been Vax that we haven't been able to have sort of a black historian panelist be a part of the |
| 0:55.0 | episodes. So what we decided to do was sort of with some frequency after we've |
| 1:00.6 | released a few of the episodes. |
| 1:02.6 | Well, we'll bring on black historians when we can. |
| 1:05.2 | We were really fortunate to have Darren Smith on our most recent episode. |
| 1:09.4 | I think that's episode 11. |
| 1:11.4 | But what I decided to do was to bring a panel of Black Mormons |
| 1:15.8 | on to kind of react to you know some of the episodes as they're released so that's what we have today we have a |
| 1:25.1 | three amazing black mormans slash ex mormans here to respond to the first three |
| 1:32.1 | episodes in the series. |
| 1:34.0 | And the three panelists that we have, |
| 1:37.0 | all of them, I'm happy to say, |
| 1:39.5 | will be familiar faces to Mormon stories fans. We have Summer Rain. Hey Summer! |
| 1:45.0 | Hello everybody! Welcome back. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. |
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