thanks to sue on the exmormon yahoo group for the heads up on this one:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/50882900-76/mormon-book-changes-church.html.csp

e.g.:
The words “skin of blackness” were removed from the introductory italicized summary in 2 Nephi, Chapter 5, in describing the “curse” God put on disbelieving Lamanites.



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And still the racism is not removed. The words in the chapters are not gone. The change just makes them harder to find.

The 1978 LDS change for the Blacks allowed all worthy males to hold the priesthood. Unlike that, this change is an illusion. It leaves the most sickening parts of the Book of Mormon in place. They have only taken away the advertising.

"And still the racism is not removed. The words in the chapters are not gone. The change just makes them harder to find."

Oh, but this is merely the first stage of the revision. Give it a few years and the chapters will be exponged as well. "I don't know that we ever taught that."

Glad I still have an older copy so I have proof of racism in TSCC.

When I was a very new missionary we had an investigator family stop talking to us b/c they read about the loathsome nature of their skins. They were latino and offended by the "word of gawd". Weird huh? My uber-TBM training companion had no answers for their accusations, so I just apologized and we left.

I always wonder how members with dark skin feel about those passages.

Is it the fulfillment of prophecy when people go to tanning salons and darken their skin like the Nephite dissenters that marked their foreheads?

Those that tan are marking themselves as sinners.

"I always wonder how members with dark skin feel about those passages."

This link has some Native American people talking about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhDH0w13K2Q

Thanks!

Skousen, quoted in the article, gives me the creeps. “Eight other verses still use the phrase,” Skousen said. “If the [church] was just responding to sensitivities, why wouldn’t they have changed all the other ones?”

So the church just is racist? People change color based on "righteousness"?

God just changed his mind. Modern prophets trump former prophets. I am sure this was revealed to Monson. Just shut your mouth... pay and obey!