White Wash

For black Saints, forgetting the LDS Church's racist heritage is easier said than done Darron Smith, author and adjunct sociology professor at Brigham Young University, recently appeared on a local TV station to promote Black and Mormon, a collection of essays he co-wrote and edited about the black experience in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The next day, Smith says BYU’s sociology department received a phone call from an irate woman “calling me all kinds of niggas.” Full Story: http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/feat_2004-12-16.cfm