Joseph F. Smith speaks of someone who was "unfortunate enough to be colored with a black skin."

Date
1905
Type
Meeting Minutes / Notes
Source
Joseph F. Smith
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Joseph F. Smith, Discourse, April 04, 1905, in Seventy-Fifth Annual Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News, 1905), 86

Scribe/Publisher
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
People
Joseph F. Smith
Audience
General Public
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Transcription

I never like to bow or take off my hat to a boy or a young man with a cigar or a cigarette in his mouth. I don't like to bow to a cigarette. I don't like to bow and pay deference to a nasty old stinking tobacco pipe. I think that Is more condescending by far than to bow to a courteous gentlemanly man who is unfortunate enough to be colored with a black skin. I have seen many polished gentlemen In my life who have been unfortunate enough not to to be white, that Is In their skin; but in their hearts and In their manners, in their courtesy and conduct, they were far superior to many of their boasting white brothers.

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