Are there a lot of racist Mormons?

Ok now on this I will need to add a lot of detail. I am African American and I was raised by Caucasian Adoptive parents in Cadillac, Michigan which is a 98% Caucasian area. So racism was nothing new to me considering that the rest of the black members of my adoptive family made up .5% of the black people in Cadillac. (I was raised with 16 Siblings and half of them were black) Anyway I was dating a girl there and apparently because I was black and this particular girls grandma was Mormon I had to stay outside whenever we wanted to spend time together. I wasn't even allowed on the porch or inside the screen door. Now is that something that is common in Mormonism or did I just meet an odd one?

I am also African American, and I think that Mormons are racist. I am afraid of them. They are also not Christians at all.

It's not as common nowadays, but traditionally Mormons have taught that black people were a damned race that had refused to fight for God in a previous life, and were forbidden to be priests until 1970. Some believed that black people would be the slaves of the white in heaven.

Erm, I have to tell you (no offense), but Mormon's believe that African-americans are neutral in the good vs. evil battle, and that 'good' Christians are white.

No offense of course, and I feel horrible saying it, but it's true that they believe that.

But, on the bright side, it's ridiculous and is absent of what many Christians believe.

Most Mormons don't think they are but most of them are. Especially the Idaho and Utah Mormons.

I was raised Mormon.

Some "old School" Mormons take some of the older teachings, and the ban the church used to have on people of color holding the priesthood to mean people of color are bad, inferior, whatever. Today there is no ban of any kind on people of color holding the priesthood or anything else. Most of these older teachings have been taken out of the modern teachings of the church. Your girls grandma was probably of this "old School" thought. Her grandma needs to come into the 21st century.

There's a implied racism in their doctrines but I don't think they are overtly racist,

As a group, Mormons are not more racist than any other group. They may be less racist. Heck, allot of black people are racist.

It is true that the blacks were not given the priests hood in earlier days. When I joined the church in 1974, it was common knowledge that the blacks would receive the priesthood at some later time.

Mormons believe that we all were spirit children of God before we were born. Mormons believe one third of God's children rebelled and followed Satan. They will never be able to come to earth. All people who were born were among the two thirds that did not re bell.

"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiver the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him" (Revelation 12:9).

"And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth" (Revelation 12:4).

There is speculation of why the blacks could not hold the priesthood but there is no official word. We do know that lineage is very important, For example, the house of Israel is the chosen race. The gospel was not preached to the gentiles until Peter received a revelation commanding to do so. In the days of Moses, only the tribe of Levi could hold the priesthood.

We are all born into differing circumstances, some rich, some poor, etc. This is no indication that God loves some of his children less but that he treats them differently depending upon his knowledge of what each individual needs, We are all special to God.

Here is a scripture from the Book of Mormon:

"and he inviteThhem all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile" (2nd Nephi 26:33).