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Operation Underground Railroad is a cause that my wife and I have supported (in our minor and financially unimpressive way) and that we’ve encouraged others to support.

It’s time, at the end of this year and in the Christmas season, to put a bit of a plug in for another of the charities that my wife and I favor — one, of course, of thousands of worthwhile organizations in the United States and beyond that are doing remarkable things and that merit support.I’ve already mentioned the Liahona Children’s Foundation. Now I want to recall to your attention Operation Underground Railroad. I cannot imagine a cause that is more unambiguously good.

As I’ve indicated for a very long time, two of our favorite charities — both of them, incidentally, with substantial Latter-day Saint involvement — are Operation Underground Railroad and the Bountiful Children’s Foundation (formerly the Liahona Children’s Foundation). I hope that you’ll consider them.

The world will be shocked when they find out as most are asleep. My good friend Tim Ballard has told me many evils of sex trafficking.

“LA Times 1987” wrote: Gov. George Deukmejian on Friday ordered an inquiry into how and why his appointees to the state Bicentennial Commission approved the sale of a textbook that characterized black children as “pickaninnies” and American slave owners as the “worst victims” of slavery.

In one chapter of “The Making of America,” slavery is discussed briefly by the author, W. Cleon Skousen. Controversy swirls, however, around nine pages in which Skousen quotes material written by the late professor Fred Albert Shannon.

Shannon writes: “The gangs (of slaves) in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains.”

Skousen was reported by his secretary to be unavailable for comment Friday. She said Skousen, as a college student in 1934, read the Shannon text and decided to include it in his “The Making of America.”

drumdude wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 18, 2023 11:11 pm

Yesterday he was promoting the fringe right wing conspiracy nut job Cleon Skousen:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeters ... -land.html

“LA Times 1987” wrote: Gov. George Deukmejian on Friday ordered an inquiry into how and why his appointees to the state Bicentennial Commission approved the sale of a textbook that characterized black children as “pickaninnies” and American slave owners as the “worst victims” of slavery.

In one chapter of “The Making of America,” slavery is discussed briefly by the author, W. Cleon Skousen. Controversy swirls, however, around nine pages in which Skousen quotes material written by the late professor Fred Albert Shannon.

Shannon writes: “The gangs (of slaves) in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains.”

Skousen was reported by his secretary to be unavailable for comment Friday. She said Skousen, as a college student in 1934, read the Shannon text and decided to include it in his “The Making of America.”

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

Dr Moore wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 18, 2023 11:29 pm

Tim Ballard starting to look like another Mark Hoffman problem for church leaders.