Time & Perspective Quote by Warren Jeffs

Jeffs’s line weaponizes a faux-historical sweep to do something bluntly strategic: turn white-supremacist theology into a present-tense warning. The opening move, “So the Negro race has continued,” pretends to grant a neutral, almost anthropological fact, then pivots into panic: “today is the day of the Negro.” That apocalyptic phrasing borrows the cadence of prophecy while smuggling in a political claim - that Black existence and visibility constitute an existential takeover “as far as the world is concerned.” It’s not observation; it’s mobilization.

The real payload arrives in the doctrine-coded phrase “not able to hold the priesthood.” In Jeffs’s Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint context, “priesthood” is less a spiritual abstraction than a mechanism of authority: who counts as legitimate, who can lead, who can access power. By framing “mixed blood” as the reason people are disqualified, he turns racism into a bureaucratic rule, a kind of spiritual paperwork that polices intimacy, marriage, and lineage. “They have influenced the generations of time” reads like grudging respect, but it functions as an accusation: influence is recast as contamination.

Subtextually, this is about boundary maintenance inside a closed system. Jeffs is speaking to followers he wants compliant and fearful, offering a paranoid explanation for why the outside world must be resisted and why internal purity codes - racial, sexual, familial - must be enforced. The phrasing launders hate through scripture-shaped syntax, giving prejudice the feel of inevitability, as if domination is just theology doing its job.