About The Author

If anyone could have the right medium of ethnicity as well as cultural heritage to understand the reason the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints extended its Priesthood to God's children of the African lineage only 148 years after it was restored on earth, it would be Luckner Huggins. Why? Never has any man pondered the questions of ethnicity and cultural diversity with more respect and greater love for all his fellow human beings than Luckner. As he pondered over the serious issues of the Priesthood and the people of his lineage for over twenty years, he approached the subject daily with a humble spirit of prayer. He never felt worthy enough to receive the answers he needed to have. While Luckner shed many tears of joy and sadness in private during his spiritual quest and over the tragic discovery of why his lineage never had the Priesthood, people often aged him at least ten years younger publicly because of his jovialty and positive attitude. Because of his discovery, Luckner thought of himself as the most blessed man on the face of the earth. He was born of African ancestry in the beautiful island of Haiti, where the voodoo priesthood intertwined in the fabric of all other forms of priesthood for over twenty decades. Although Luckner's upbringing caries the footprints of Africa in almost every aspect, his scholastic education was mostly European. And with a French line of ancestry on his mother's side as well as an English on his father's, he always felt like a mediator as to resolve ethnic matters. For years, Luckner questioned the reasons the intelligent people of his nation worshiped voodoo gods while allowing dictators to lead them into spiritual and material poverty in such a rich island as Haiti for over 200 years. He also wondered what happened to his African ancestors for a few French colonists to be able to remove them from their abundant lands of Africa and reduce thousands of them to slavery away from their homes. He received many unacceptable answers. It was only after leaving his native country of Haiti to America, the heart of the world's greatest modern civilization, that he began to find material to reconcile his answers. First, he had to learn English well enough. Then, he translated religious doctrinal books such as the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price, as well as many other curiculum books from English into his native Haitian Creole Language. He did many reviews and editing works from English into his French official Language while doing interpretation for the LDS Church's General Conferences for over ten years. While doing these works, the Holy Bible was one of his greatest sources of consultation. He attended the University of Pheonix at a branch here in Utah and learned business skills. As a business man, he traveled throughout the United States and many parts of the world, meeting and dealing with people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. He served a full time mission in Florida for two years. For over twenty years, he listened to ecclesiastical leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints and read their articles in several magazines. He carefully compared their messages with those of the biblical Prophets. Though meticulous and even skeptical at times, he never found any contradiction. Their messages brought him good tidings of great joy-tidings that proves they are not racists and they had no permission from God to extend the Priesthood to the descendants of Ham before 1978.

Thus, the author wrote these few pages as a testimony to all his readers and especially to his people of African lineage so they might know God never places the destiny of His children into the hands of racists Prophets. In this book, Luckner tried to glimpse into the glorious past of Ham's descendants in order to point to the true reasons of their fall. Rather than blaming other men and looking to them for their temporal and spiritual salvation, this book invites all people to acknowledge their own wickedness, calling upon God to redeem them from their own sins and from the fall of their own ancestors!