I've got *so many* projects I'd like to take up if I weren't sick and needing to make money.
While much has been said about the racism of Mormonism, I don't think it's been fully unpacked. Like, it's one thing to refuse priesthood to Black men (and women, but women are still barred). It's a totally other thing that the Book of Mormon is a novelization of the 19th Century American doctrine of Manifest Destiny that justified the violent colonization of the West. And I haven't seen this argued or explored much, if at at all. As soon as I learned what Manifest Destiny was, the connection clicked with me.
I don't say Whiteness is a Cult flippantly. As a Mormon, I was unknowingly immersed in one of the deepest covertly racist organizations in the USA, one which promoted whiteness as an aspiration and eternal destination. Unpacking the one for me has necessarily led to unpacking the other.
I could do a whole book that is a deep-dive on this topic. And this isn't the work for a Black Mormon. This is our baggage, and our sin. A white Mormon / exmormon needs to do it, with a white target audience.
Here's some of the short work I've done on the topic:
https://recoveringagency.com/elder-jacksons-culture-of-christ-is-a-culture-of-white-supremacy/
#WhitenessIsACult #exmo #exmormon #ReligiousTrauma #decolonize
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸
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