'After listening to the talk, I think his apologies barely scratched the surface, especially since they didn’t identify what was wrong about what he said about race,' writes Jana Riess.
The fact that he kept referring to “the priesthood ban” leaves women out of the equation entirely, as if they were unaffected by the church’s racist policies.
In the Feb. 6 fireside, Wilcox began his remarks on priesthood by saying he did not wish to oversimplify a complex issue before he proceeded to oversimplify a complex issue. He adopted a mocking tone for an unnamed interlocutor who questioned why people of African descent were subject to a racial ban for most of the history of the church:
By his logic, it doesn’t matter that Black people were oppressed for so many decades. They have the priesthood now, don’t they? Why are people still bellyaching about that? What really matters is white men! We had to go without the priesthood for 18 centuries, which is way worse. There’s more. The fact that Wilcox kept referring to it as “the priesthood ban” leaves women out of the equation entirely, as if women were unaffected by the church’s racist policies.
“Some lady walked up to me that I didn’t even know, sees my nametag, and she’s like, ‘Brigham Young University … ' ‘WHY DON’T YOU GIVE WOMEN THE PRIESTHOOD?!’“And she said, ‘Well, uh, I don’t know, but I think the women should have it.’ Never fear, though: Wilcox is the self-nominated hero of this story, and he makes it clear that he put her in her place. He sure showed her, exposing her total ignorance of what priesthood really entails. There was “no way” that her “very shallow” voice was going to have any impact on him, “just cause she’s loud.”
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