Twilight has a white supremacy problem

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Former tween twilight fan, now the biggest twilight hater-- in this video I yap about it Thank you to Elliot Sang, who served as my co-researcher & co-writer on this vid! Thumbnail by Uma Snow! Watch Ali Nahdee's video- ONE SCENE FOR FORGIVENESS / THE TWILIGHT SAGA IS RACIST: https://youtu.be/AVKTdkSny6A?si=Jiu_FganpZrzRoI- References: https://www.burkemuseum.org/static/truth_vs_twilight/ Dart, John (March 2, 1979). "Indians Hope to Shift Mormon View of Their Skin Color". Washington Post. Washington D.C. Los Angeles Times https://theconversation.com/the-curse-of-ham-how-people-of-faith-used-a-story-in-genesis-to-justify-slavery-225212 Cannon, Katie Geneva. “Christian Imperialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 24, no. 1, 2008, pp. 127–34. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20487919. https://www.bet.com/article/o9b53e/twilight-author-would-only-agree-to-casting-black-villain Harris, Matthew L.; Bringhurst, Newell G. (2015). The Mormon Church and Blacks: A Documentary History. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-08121-7 Young, Brigham (October 7, 1857). "Testimony of the Spirit—Revelation Given According to Requirements—Spiritual Warfare and Conquest, Etc". Journal of Discourses. 5: 332. Archived from the original on August 20, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2017 – via BYU. Homer, Michael W. “‘Why Then Introduce Them into Our Inner Temple?’: The Masonic Influence on Mormon Denial of Priesthood Ordination to African American Men.” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal, vol. 26, 2006, pp. 234–59. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43200245. Byron, John (2011). Cain and Abel in text and tradition: Jewish and Christian interpretations of the first sibling rivalry. Leiden: Brill Publishers. p. 93. ISBN 978-9004192522. https://archive.org/details/bookofmormon00lamo/page/800/mode/2up?q=blackness Winter, Arthur (June 3, 1889). "Discourse Delivered by President Wilford Woodruff at the General Conference, Salt Lake City, on Sunday Afternoon, April 7, 1877". Millennial Star. Vol. 51, no. 22. p. 339. Retrieved August 20, 2017 – via BYU. Green, Arnold H. (Spring 1999). "Gathering and Election: Israelite Descent and Universalism in Mormon Doctrine". Journal of Mormon History. 5 (21). Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. JSTOR 23287743. Pp. 206-207 Kimball, Spencer (December 1960). "The Day of the Lamanites". Improvement Era. Salt Lake City: LDS Church. p. 923 – via Internet Archive. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/history/topics/indian-student-placement-program?lang=eng Bush Jr., Lester E. (2001). "Mormonism's Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview". Dialogue. 34 (1/2). Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press: 255–56. doi:10.2307/45226775. JSTOR 45226775. S2CID 160186973. "Elder George Patrick Lee of the First Quorum of the Seventy", Ensign, November 1975, pp. 136–37. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1975/11/news-of-the-church/elder-george-patrick-lee-of-the-first-quorum-of-the-seventy?lang=eng "Press coverage of Lee's Excommunication Ambivalent" (PDF), Sunstone: 47–49, August 1989 https://www.businessinsider.com/what-hair-signifies-in-native-american-culture-2022-11 https://screenrant.com/twilight-jacob-tattoo-offensive-controversy-indigenous-people/ Mackay, R. E., & Feagin, J. (2022). “Merciless Indian Savages”: Deconstructing Anti-Indigenous Framing. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 8(4), 518-533. https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492221112040 (Original work published 2022) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-defense-minister-human-animals-gaza-palestine_n_6524220ae4b09f4b8d412e0a Mauss, Armand L. (2003). All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-02803-1 – via Google Books. Pp. 119. Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon: https://books.google.com/books?id=hrR7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA259 https://ensignpeakfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/The-Rest-of-the-Story-Latter-day-Saint-Relations-with-Utah’s-Native-Americans.pdf https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=/digital/api/collection/MStar/id/16775/download#page=2&zoom=auto,-22,1673 https://mrm.org/white-and-delightsome#:~:text=For%20behold%2C%20they%20had%20hardened,blackness%20to%20come%20upon%20them.” TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 intro 04:24 Meyer’s take on vampirism as an allegory for christian/mormon salvation 08:15 all the vamps are white?? 11:15 the curse of ham & cain 18:06 indigenous americans’ “curse of redness” 22:29 mormonism’s history of indigenous cultural genocide & the ISPP 26:22 implications of all this history in twilight 28:24 George P. Lee 29:50 the racist characterization of the Quileute 44:45 ‘CULLENIZERS’— colonizer & colonized dynamic 55:48 the racist decimation of Jacob Black 1:00:17 conclusion