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Originally Posted by Solon
In the Mysteries of Godliness book that Lebowski reviewed so well yesterday (BTW, I'm not sure he got enough love for his efforts - that must have taken some time to type up. Kudos), Buerger claims that in an interview with an actor from the third endowment video, which the LDS church produced in 1969, the actor who portrayed the minister claimed that "the role of Satan was to have originally been filled by an African-American." After protests by LDS Polynesians, a white man was cast in the role. (pg. 169)
That's pretty outrageous, if it's true.
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I guess perhaps they wanted to battle what would be future efforts of Hollywood to cast Morgan Freeman as God in a dozen movies.
Racism has never been officially acknowledged in the church. It will likely require the leaders in the church of that time to die before there will be any introspection on the matter.