So I saw this posted in Facebook by a friend. I recognized the person (as Jane Manning James) and decided to see was Ballard had to say about her. He uses her as an example of the church's early days and says something along the lines of "No matter the 'differences' in culture and nationality, they shared a testimony of the 'restored gospel of Jesus Christ" leaving out the fact that equality was not shared, and that Jane Manning James was sealed to Joseph Smith as a SERVANT, and when she passed away, Joseph testified that she became white in the next life (because of the "black skin is a curse/curse of Cain" that was taught back then). But that's LDS for you.


Feel free to read the comments. In one of the top comments, A commenter mentions Jane being sealed as a servant, and some of the other commenters adds in that TSCC is not open about their history. A mini-argument ensues where someone say, "Regardless, she was a blessed and faithful sister."
*Facepalms*


Anyway, here you go...

https://www.facebook.com/lds.m.russell.ballard/photos/a.167096673479082.1073741829.137920063063410/774038742784869/?type=3&theater



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to share her Google honored poem of the day, "Still I Rise."

Still I Rise
BY MAYA ANGELOU
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

And the person who has been drooling over Jane Manning James for years and does all the writing about her used to be my neighbor. Won't say her name but it's easily found. And she is a cuckoo nut job. She teaches history at BYU. But I have so many stories about how weird, nutty and out-of-touch she is. She has made JMJ into some icon for mormon women and has sold a lot of books and made money speaking about it. I doubt JMJ had any clue that JS was anything more than Massa.

Thanks Amyjo. Maya Angelou's words say it all. Deep and Brilliant. Pure class. And they subtly point out how arrogant the Mormon stance is and always has been. And ignorant. Let's not forget ignorant.

All the comments from the Mormons pretending like this is wonderful make me gag.