Russell M. Nelson speaks to the NAACP national convention
Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spoke to the national convention of the NAACP in Detroit on Sunday, July 21st, 2019, 2 days before Riot Day, the dark day that marks Detroit's desstruction as the model city of racial progress. President Nelson was introduced by Amos C. Brown, a baptist pastor from San Francisco who studied under Martin Luther King Jr. He was speaking at the Cobo Center, the very spot where Martin Luther King Jr. first gave his "I Have a Deam Speech" after a march down Woodward Avenue arm in arm with Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh. This co-march was the epitome of Detroit being the model city for racial progress, an idea shattered in violence 4 years later. 1963 to 1967. During that time President Nelson was a stake president in Salt Lake City and a leading edge heart surgeon. Amos Brown mentioned President Nelson's background as a heart surgeon. President Nelson taught keeping the first great commandments,...