God’s chosen people and their Promised Land

In Mormonism, God’s Chosen People have always been white. God Himself, in all his physical glory, is white. From Adam and Eve, Lehites and Nephites, Columbus, the Pilgrims and Founding Fathers, Joseph, and Brigham — all the way through to today’s First Presidency and 11 of the Quorum of the Twelve — all are 100% PureWhite™️

Mormonism teaches: 

• that white Adam and Eve and their Garden was in so-called Missouri (and thus so will be Mormonism’s “New Jerusalem”) rhetorically rooting whiteness, Christianity, and heteronormativity as natural and Indigenous to this land.
• that during the global genocide known as the Flood of Noah God “set apart” this continent from an up-to-that-point supercontinent to purify it as a Promised Land for His Chosen People only. 
• that God then chose Lehi’s family who were “white and delightsome” to settle this land, once again rhetorically naturalizing whiteness, Christianity/Mormonism, and settler-colonialism in this land. 
• that God cursed the Lamanites with “a skin of blackness” to set them apart from his Chosen People And that Indigenous Peoples of this land are “among the descendants” of the Lamanites – fabricating a narrative that marks darks skin as a sign that that People have lost their divine birthright to God’s Promised Land.
• that Columbus’s journey and genocides were divinely destined as Columbus returned Christianity, whiteness, and settler-supremacy to this fallen Promised Land. God once again brought his Chosen People to this land.
• that the white-settler enslavers who founded the U.S. and its economy of enslavement and stolen land/resources/life were divinely destined–God’s Chosen People.
• that Joseph Smith restored God’s One True Church to this earth via his meeting the white God & Jesus and discovering buried gold which once again placed God’s Chosen white People on His Promised Land, rhetorically rendering Euro Mormon settlers as Indigenous via their ties to supposedly Indigenous religion (Mormonism) and blood ties to Lehi’s people via the Lost Tribe of Israel of Joseph. 
• that white is purity is innocence is perfection is cleanliness is Godliness

Mormonism is inherently and irreconcilably white-supremacist, settler-colonial, U.S. exceptionalist, and Zionist. Mormon mythistries align with U.S. myths of manifest destiny which says that the genocide of Peoples Indiegnous to this land enacted by Euro settlers was a divine cleansing, similar to God’s global genocide event known as the Flood of Noah.

These myths serve to deny Indigenous land rights and render Mormonism, Euro-Mormon-settlers and their violent whiteness as Divine, destined, innocent, and indigenous in and to this land.

Arguments and apologetics about whether or not this church still teaches white-supremacy are irrelevant. White/Christian-supremacy, settler-colonial-Zionist-imperialism, heteronormativity, and US-exceptionalism are the soil in which Mormonism is rooted, the foundation upon which this church is built, the straight and narrow path on which it clings, the fuel on which it feeds and grows.
​
This church is and will always be embedded in these ideologies.