The Teachings of Brigham Young: the curse of Cain, enslavement, miscegenation, and blood atonement

Statue of Brigham Young on BYU campus dowsed with red paint, June 2020

This speech is found in “The Teachings of President Brigham Young: Volume 3, 1852-1854” and was given on the day Utah first legalized enslavement. Section 4 of this legislation banned "any white person” from “sexual intercourse with any of the African race.”
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While explaining why “any white person” shouldnt “mingle seed” with “any of the African race,” Brigham suggests that if he were to mingle seed in this way, “it would be a blessing” if a priesthood holding man were to “cut off (his) head.”
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Brigham says: “It is the greatest blessing that could come to some men to shed their blood on the ground, and let it come up before the Lord as an atonement.”
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He even says that this isn’t really even murder as our lives are eternal. Blood atonement simply separates the “tabernacle” from eternal body.
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He compares blood atonement to Old Testament sacrifices & Jesus’s atonement.
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Brigham goes so far as to say that
“You nor I,” speaking only to worthy Mormon men, “cannot take any more life than we can give.”
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He justifies murder bc he can sire children. He can give life (babies) and thus he is emboldened to take it as well.
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With sociopathic, megalomaniacal white supremacist founders like this is it any wonder the Lafferty’s exist?
the Warren Jeffs, the Bundy’s, the DezNats, the Mormon Trumpers who stormed the capitol, World Family of Congress/Family Watch International, Ayla “Wife With A Purpose” Stewart, and on and on.
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Is it any wonder there is a deep U.S.-white-nationalist, eugenic-great-replacement believing, far-right libertarian, fascist heart in the Book of Mormon belt?

Here is the text: 
“The Teachings of President Brigham Young: Volume 3, 1852-1854”

"The principle of slavery I understand...Long ago mama Eve…partook of forbidden fruit and this made a slave of her. Adam…our old daddy says I believe I will eat of the fruit and become a slave too. This was the first introduction of slavery upon this Earth. 
"I am as much opposed to the principle of slavery as any man (but) in the present acceptation or usage of the term - it is abused. I am opposed to abusing that which God has decreed, to take a blessing, and make a curse of it. It is a great blessing to the seed of Adam to have the seed of Cain for servants.
"(B)ut those they serve should use them with all the heart and feeling, as they would use their own children and their compassion should reach over them, and round about them, and treat them as kindly, and with that humane feeling necessary to be shown to mortal beings of the human species. 
Under these circumstances their blessings in life are greater in proportion than those who have to provide the bread and dinner for them.
"Were the children of God to mingle their seed with the seed of Cain it would not only bring the curse of being deprived of the power of the Priesthood upon them[selves] but they entail it upon their children after them, and they cannot get rid of it. 
"Let this Church which is called the Kingdom of God on the Earth…declare that it is right to mingle our seed with the black race of Cain, that they shall come in with us and be partakers with us of all the blessings God has given to us. On that very day and hour…the Priesthood is taken from this Church and Kingdom and God leaves us to our fate.
"Let my seed mingle with the seed of Cain, [and] that brings the curse upon me, and upon my generations.
"(And then) If a man in an unguarded moment should walk up and say cut off my head, and kill man, woman and child… would this be to curse them? No, it would be a blessing to them it would do them good, that they might be saved… A many would shudder should they hear us talk about killing folk, but it is one of the greatest blessings to some to kill them, although the true principles of it are not understood.
"How many times I have heard it said…that to take a life, is to take what you cannot give; this is perfect nonsense. 
"What do I do by taking a man's head off after he is condemned by the law? I put an end to the existence of the mortal tabernacle; but the life still remains. The body and the spirit is only separated...Can I give that life? I can I can make as good tabernacles as any other man, if you do not believe it, go and look at my children; therefore that saying is nonsense.
"What was the cause of the ancients drawing up…sacrifices unto the Lord? Was it not for the remission of the sins of the people? 
"It is the greatest blessing that could come to some men to shed their blood on the ground, and let it come up before the Lord as an atonement. 
"You nor I cannot take any more life than we can give."