What actually counts?

Time to resurrect this blog. I’ll probably only post once or at most twice a week, but i still…

So, to begin: This past general conference saw two new individuals brought into the quorum of apostles: Gerrit W. Gong and Ulisses Soares.

Interestingly, there was a lot of immediate reaction online decrying “two more white dudes”. I find this interesting, since Gerrit W. Gong is, by any definition, Asian-American—he’s of Asian descent on both parents’ sides.

So it leads to wondering what exactly people meant by that statement. Apparently, Asian-Americans now count as white for some people, at least with regard to Mormon church leadership. This is something to file away in the back of our minds—social categorization is nearly always fascinating.