Where he did apply gentle pressure was in addressing to Wallace (and by inference the broader Mormon and non-Mormon audience) an instruction that sounded like encouragement: “Don’t worry about those little flicks of history,” Hinckley said, smiling. In so doing, he made small (“little”) and insignificant (“flicks”) the problem of anti-Black racism, minimizing as a past “worry” the impact of racism on Black lives in Mormonism and beyond and indicating no responsibility on the part of white Mormons (or others with similar histories of discrimination) for their past practices or of the impact
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