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Recent events in Charlottesville and past movements like "Black Lives Matter", raise doubts as to whether or not racism has truly disappeared over time. Counterpoint: Experts debate if racism is ...
Nowhere are these attacks more evident right now than on college campuses. Many academics who teach about the history of race and racism in America, as I do, are being unjustifiably blamed for the ...
“We know that statistics are stark to show that systemic racism still exists, and whether that is conscious or unconscious. it exists in our criminal justice system and throughout our society.”
[63]: 236–237 Bushman has also noted Smith's long-time teachings that in a premortal war in heaven, Black people were considered to have been those spirits who did not fight as valiantly against Satan and who, as a result, received a lesser earthly stature, with such restrictions as being disqualified from holding the priesthood.
White guilt [1] [2] [3] is a belief that white people bear a collective responsibility for the harm which has resulted from historical or current racist treatment of people belonging to other ethnic groups, as for example in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, European colonialism, and the genocide of indigenous peoples.
The legal scholar Tanya Katerí Hernández has written that anti-Black racism has a lengthy and often violent history within the Hispanic/Latino community. [3] According to Hernández, anti-Black racism is not an individual problem but rather a "systemic problem within Latinidad" and that myths exist within the community that "mestizaje" exempts Hispanics/Latinos from racism.
"Is this ever going to end?" I wrote in 2014. I ask myself the same question now; and I find there can't be a resolution until Howell's citizens agree on the most basic of human principles.
The church actively opposes racism among its membership, is working to reach out to Black communities, and hosts several predominantly-Black wards in the United States. [136] [24] In 2017, the LDS Church released a statement condemning racism in response to the white-nationalist Unite the Right rally in Virginia.