I Got It (Admiration For A Permanent Tan)

I know Mexicans, Germans, some parts of France, and several other countries and cultures - including Mormons - all have a "Black Pete" tale. Anybody wanna take a stab at what's up with that? I'm serious. Other than Santa Claus and Jesus, there aren't too many mythical white people walking through black folks' dreams, so what gives? 

  This group began to practice speaking in tongues, which some outsiders called “talking Injun.” This was likely a reflection of their attempt to apply the Book of Mormon as they understood it. They also developed other ecstatic religious expressions that were common within the slave religious tradition familiar to Black Pete and his mother Kino.

Outsiders who observed these events often wrote of Black Pete with derision and ridicule. Because these non-Mormons sought to use his race to attack his religion in general, their slanted view makes it difficult today to discern all of his contributions to the community. At the same time, members that knew him failed to mention Black Pete at all. This suggests he may have left the Mormon community and separated himself from them,...

I'm pretty sure picturing that episode isn't hard,…