Joseph Smith announced to the world...
My cogitations, like Daniel’s, have for a long time troubled me, when I viewed the condition of men throughout the world, and more especially in this boasted realm, where the Declaration of Independence
"holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;"
but at the same time some two or three millions of people are held as slaves for life, because the spirit in them is covered with a darker skin than ours;
and hundreds of our own kindred for an infraction, or supposed infraction, of some over-wise statute, have to be incarcerated in dungeon gloom, or penitentiaries, while the duellist, the debauchee, and the defaulter for millions, and criminals, take the uppermost rooms at feasts, or, like the bird of passage, find a more congenial clime by flight.
The wisdom which ought to characterize the freest, wisest, and most noble nation of the nineteenth century, should, like the sun in his meridian splendor, warm every object beneath its rays;
and the main efforts of her officers, who are nothing more nor less than the servants of the people, ought to be directed to ameliorate the condition of all, black or white, bond or free;
for the best of books says, "God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth."
Our common country presents to all men the same advantages, the facilities, the same prospects, the same honors, and the same rewards; and without hypocrisy, the Constitution, when it says,
"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America,"
meant just what it said without reference to color or condition, ad infinitum.
The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal rights as appears in said Constitution,
ought to be treated by those to whom the administration of the laws is entrusted with as much sanctity as the prayers of the Saints are treated in heaven, that love, confidence, and union, like the sun, moon, and stars, should bear witness,
"For ever singing as they shine,
The hand that made us is divine!"
http://www.blacklds.org/platform
Joseph Smith advocated that all Black people should be freed from the awful chains that Non-Mormons held them down with. Joseph Smith advocated that all Black people should be given the right to vote.
Joseph Smith advocated that all Black people should receive 160 acres of prime farm land as reparations for slavery.
Joseph Smith was murdered in cold blood by a mob of Pro-Slavery Anti-Black, Anti-Mormon, Mormon-Haters.
It was Non-Mormons (Non-Mormons like you) that mass-enslaved Black people. It was Non-Mormons (Non-Mormons like you) that denigrated Black people and raped Black women and insulted Black people over and over again for hundreds and hundreds of years, and did all manner of evil against Black people.
It was Non-Mormons who mass-murdered Native Americans in South and Central America. It was Non-Mormons who mass-murdered Native Americans in North America.
Mormons stood stubbornly against the mass-murder of Native Americans and have always been against mass-murdering and mass-enslaving of all the various indigenous people in the world.
After slavery officially ended in the United States after the Civil War, there was virtual slavery of Black people in the United States. It was not until 1978 that Black people finally had the right to vote, and that right had become established in the minds of the people of the United States.
A slave (even a virtual slave) cannot be allowed to be a Priest, because then an Anti-Mormon master could control that Slave and destroy the true Church of Jesus Christ, through excommunication procedures and through other methods.
Mormons love Black people, always have and always will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKwBM93W7j0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1__QWbHkLoI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQZ_xuRBNwQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUiDvRa1N1U&src_vid=VaEgGZnZcos&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_845139
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLS1AHNGiNw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sP1Aai5GVU
http://Mormon.org Chat.
God bless.