HJG uses story to mock black people, uses n-word.

Date
Oct 4, 1918
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Heber J. Grant
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Heber J. Grant, Conference Report (October 1918): 23

Scribe/Publisher
Conference Report
People
Heber J. Grant
Audience
Latter-day Saints
Transcription

Some of them say the Lord has directed them to take more wives. Well, I think he directed them just like he directed the negro (not that I am saying this to reflect upon negroes), but there was a negro who prayed : "Oh Lawd, oh Lawd, oh Lawd ; send dis heah niggah a turkey." He prayed for a whole week, and he didn't get any turkey, and at the end of a week he said : "Dis heah niggah don' know how to pray," so that night the negro prayed, "Oh Lawd, oh Lawd, oh Lawd, send dis heah niggah to a turkey," and he, said, "Dis heah niggah had turkey dinner the next night."

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