Kimball makes a joke about using blood donations to make indigenous Americans more "white and delightsome."

Date
Oct 7, 1960
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Spencer W. Kimball
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Direct
Reference

Spencer W. Kimball, in Conference Report (October 1960): 34

Scribe/Publisher
Conference Report
People
Spencer W. Kimball
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

At one meeting a father and mother and their sixteen-year-old daughter were present, the little member girl—sixteen—sitting between the dark father and mother, and it was evident she was several shades lighter than her parents—on the same reservation, in the same hogan, subject to the same sun and wind and weather. There was the doctor in a Utah city who for two years had had an Indian boy in his home who stated that he was some shades lighter than the younger brother just coming into the program from the reservation. These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness. One white elder jokingly said that he and his companion were donating blood regularly to the hospital in the hope that the process might be accelerated.

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