thomaslewis1857BYU is directly confronting its past history on race this weekend by honoring two members of the Black 14, the players kicked off the 1969 Wyoming football team because they considered wearing black armbands during a game with BYU to protest a past Latter-day Saint policy on race and priesthood.
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2 days ago
Is it “confronting its past history”?
There is a lot of blame levelled at Coach Eaton, and none at the Church. My guess is the Church, and certainly ETB, appreciated Eaton’s firm stance on the issue at the time. Any demonising of Eaton serves to pass off and attempts to diminish the Church’s responsibility.
And of course, no apology, not even close. No acknowledgement of error, even. Like the GTE on Race and the Priesthood, which never accepts error: the closest it gets is to say the reasons for the race restrictions are not “accepted today as the official doctrine of the Church”. How weak is that.
So as others say, it’s decades late and many dollars short. It reeks of mere PR unless they accept responsibility. And everybody can see that, except the Church. But no, when Uchtdorf makes the mildest acceptance of the idea that some leaders made mistakes, it’s so offensive that he gets booted out of the FP at the first opportunity so he can learn the Oaks doctrine: never apologize, never accept we were wrong, obfuscate, coverup, deny.