The Retard
12-10-2005, 06:26 AM
Found this article on the OD board.
No black people at all! (http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/12/hooray_no_black.php)
A suburban development in Utah is in hot water for making the lack of black people a selling point.
On the company's web site, builder Bigg Homes offered this demographic detail: "Black race population percentage significantly below state average."
In a state with hardly any blacks to start with -- just 1.3 percent -- moving to a new neighborhood with an even tinier African-American population makes it likely your kids could grow up without ever encountering negroes.
It's unknown if there's even a single black person in Eagle Mountain, because the latest census data found only whites (94.6%), Hispanics (3.1%) and American Indians (1.0%) in numbers high enough to count. ("Mixed race" and "Other" account for the remaining 2.4% of Eagle Mountain's lily white population, leaving open the chance that there's at least a few drops of African blood somewhere nearby.)
The Salt Lake Tribune grabbed a copy of the online sales pitch (PDF) before the developer took it off the Web site.
David Adams, one of Bigg Homes' owners, says the company never meant to emphasize the semi-rural suburb's lack of dark skin. An unidentified computer nerd built the company's Web site and lifted the text from a database called City-Data.com. Except for all race demographic data, the rest of the text is still on the Bigg Homes' site.
City-Data assembles information on demographics, climate, government, economy and other community details for just about every city, town or village in the United States. The data comes from all kinds of public sources.
The demographic data for all cities has similar descriptions of the area's racial breakdown. In New Orleans, which is scientifically the opposite of Eagle Mountain, City-Data says "Black race population percentage significantly above state average," with the same bold text.
Mormonism -- that distinctly American religion of the Western frontier that controls the entire state of Utah to this day -- has not been the most integrated of faiths.
Brigham Young, the famed Mormon chief who led his people to Deseret, reportedly had this to say about black folks: "No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood."
Writing in 1954, as the whole country lurched toward equal rights for blacks, Mormon elder Mark E. Peterson wrote:
"I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after. He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage."
But even though the Church of Latter Day Saints saw blacks as a cursed race banned from the Mormon priesthood, Peterson suggested a truly repentant Negro might be able to slip into heaven ... as a waiter or dishwasher or something:
"If the Negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."
In reply, black Americans have avoided Utah like the plague.
The church's prophet and founder, Joseph Smith, had a more liberal view of black Americans. Like pretty much every white in the country -- including Abraham Lincoln -- Smith thought blacks were "naturally inferior." But he appointed blacks to the priesthood, just not slave blacks.
Yet the first black Elder and Priest of the LDS was Elijah Wood, born a slave in Maryland.
And, weirdly enough, there's a growing Mormon population in sub-Saharan Africa. Some 250,000 black Africans -- a population bigger than all of Salt Lake City -- follow Joseph Smith's remarkable invention.
No black people at all! (http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/12/hooray_no_black.php)
A suburban development in Utah is in hot water for making the lack of black people a selling point.
On the company's web site, builder Bigg Homes offered this demographic detail: "Black race population percentage significantly below state average."
In a state with hardly any blacks to start with -- just 1.3 percent -- moving to a new neighborhood with an even tinier African-American population makes it likely your kids could grow up without ever encountering negroes.
It's unknown if there's even a single black person in Eagle Mountain, because the latest census data found only whites (94.6%), Hispanics (3.1%) and American Indians (1.0%) in numbers high enough to count. ("Mixed race" and "Other" account for the remaining 2.4% of Eagle Mountain's lily white population, leaving open the chance that there's at least a few drops of African blood somewhere nearby.)
The Salt Lake Tribune grabbed a copy of the online sales pitch (PDF) before the developer took it off the Web site.
David Adams, one of Bigg Homes' owners, says the company never meant to emphasize the semi-rural suburb's lack of dark skin. An unidentified computer nerd built the company's Web site and lifted the text from a database called City-Data.com. Except for all race demographic data, the rest of the text is still on the Bigg Homes' site.
City-Data assembles information on demographics, climate, government, economy and other community details for just about every city, town or village in the United States. The data comes from all kinds of public sources.
The demographic data for all cities has similar descriptions of the area's racial breakdown. In New Orleans, which is scientifically the opposite of Eagle Mountain, City-Data says "Black race population percentage significantly above state average," with the same bold text.
Mormonism -- that distinctly American religion of the Western frontier that controls the entire state of Utah to this day -- has not been the most integrated of faiths.
Brigham Young, the famed Mormon chief who led his people to Deseret, reportedly had this to say about black folks: "No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood."
Writing in 1954, as the whole country lurched toward equal rights for blacks, Mormon elder Mark E. Peterson wrote:
"I think I have read enough to give you an idea of what the Negro is after. He is not just seeking the opportunity of sitting down in a cafe where white people eat. He isn't just trying to ride on the same streetcar or the same Pullman car with white people. It isn't that he just desires to go to the same theater as the white people. From this, and other interviews I have read, it appears that the Negro seeks absorption with the white race. He will not be satisfied until he achieves it by intermarriage."
But even though the Church of Latter Day Saints saw blacks as a cursed race banned from the Mormon priesthood, Peterson suggested a truly repentant Negro might be able to slip into heaven ... as a waiter or dishwasher or something:
"If the Negro accepts the gospel with real, sincere faith, and is really converted, to give him the blessings of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."
In reply, black Americans have avoided Utah like the plague.
The church's prophet and founder, Joseph Smith, had a more liberal view of black Americans. Like pretty much every white in the country -- including Abraham Lincoln -- Smith thought blacks were "naturally inferior." But he appointed blacks to the priesthood, just not slave blacks.
Yet the first black Elder and Priest of the LDS was Elijah Wood, born a slave in Maryland.
And, weirdly enough, there's a growing Mormon population in sub-Saharan Africa. Some 250,000 black Africans -- a population bigger than all of Salt Lake City -- follow Joseph Smith's remarkable invention.