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1. This is Elder McConkie’s opinion. Not an official declaration of the church’s official position. 2. Elder McConkie continued to maintain that blacks were descendants of Cain and that the ban was the result of a curse put upon them by God. He believed that God had finally lifted the curse. 3. His statement about forgetting past teachings refers to the timing of the ban being lifted. He believed it had been lifted in 1978 by revelation from God, while Brigham Young and other early leaders had taught that it wouldn’t be lifted until the end of the millennium. He may have also been referring to the teaching that blacks had brought the curse upon themselves due to actions before they were born.