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If I could ask them one question, Since BLM …

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Essay originally posted 9 June 2020

If I wanted to encourage thought and try to understand devout believers better, I might ask:

“Since Black Lives Matter,
why don’t we renounce Mormonism’s racist past starting with Brigham Young?”

Things to consider:

If this doesn’t seem to make sense, it might help to consider the roots of the problem of systemic racism, but I’m not the best person to explain that. Here’s a video by Trevor Noah that does a much better job of explaining than I ever could.

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