That first TikTok video originally got 5,000 likes when it was posted. Wilcox later apologized, but the comments caused pain to many who are Black in the faith. “Maybe instead of asking why the Blacks had to wait until 1978 to get the priesthood, we should be asking why did the whites and other races have to wait until 1829.” Maybe they’re asking the wrong questions, Wilcox suggested. Was Brigham Young, the faith’s second president, “a jerk,” he said they often ask him, or were early Latter-day Saints “prejudiced”?
In the recording, Wilcox said he gets questions from members who wonder why Black men didn’t get the priesthood until 1978, when church leaders lifted their ban. 6, Brad Wilcox, who is also a religion professor at BYU, was recorded giving a talk at a fireside for congregations in Alpine. The first video the group posted was spurred by the viral comments of a high-profile, white Latter-day Saint leader about Black members of the faith. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A student answers a question for Kennethia Dorsey of the Black Menaces, at BYU in Provo on Friday, April 8, 2022. The responses from white students asked to identify an iconic picture of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched in Mississippi and helped spur the civil rights movement, are cringeworthy, stumping most who can’t say who it is. “I don’t,” a girl says, starting to apologize. They ask white students if they have any Black friends. They ask white students what they learned during Black History Month. The power of the videos, Weaver said, is that they show the difference between what white students overlook or ignore and what Black students experience.
The two-minute videos they post of the responses are meant to be unfiltered, to document the answers without comment. They go around campus with an iPhone, asking mostly white students questions about race and marginalized communities in person-on-the-street style interviews.
With their account, they intend to expose the attitudes they come across every day. “It might seem provocative to some, but it’s just that most people don’t know what it’s like being Black at a church-owned institution or even a majority white institution.” When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.“We’re highlighting the reality here for people like us,” said senior Rachel Weaver, who is one of five students who run the TikTok account. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).