It isn't easy - even now. Below is a YouTubed 2004 news story on a black professor at Brigham Young University, Darron Smith, who edited a book on the LDS church and its history of racial discrimination. At the time of the book's publication, "Black and Mormon," Smith was a member in good standing in the church. BYU fired him thereafter. Here's a Mormon blog entry on him as well.
The reason the economy is playing differently among Southern Baptists may surely be that many are voting primarily on religious, cultural and theological grounds.
It seems to me that in the absence of a real press conference, the networks and cable news networks should simply cease broadcasting her speeches live and demand of every Republican guest that they explain this descent into anti-democratic territory.
