HE INSISTED THAT WHERE HE WAS BURIED,NO BLACKS SHOULD BE BURIED HIGHER THAN HIS BURIAL PLACE.
WHAT WAS RUSSELL'S ATITUDE TOWARDS BLACKS?
by badboy 8 Replies latest jw friends
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snowbird
From his writings, his attitude comes across as patronizing and paternalistic. He believed that during the Times of Restitution, Black people were to become White. Of course, the idea that Black people were accursed seems to have been the prevailing thought of most Whites during Russell's time.
I find it appalling that so-called Christians were preoccupied with such things. I have a copy of C. J. Woodworth's Letter From the Raymond Street Jail. In this letter, he made a careful note of how many Black people were in the section with them. I believe the no-blood doctrine evolved out of a morbid fear that Whites would receive the blood of a Black person!
Snowbird
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greendawn
Russell and Rutherford were a long way from today's JWs who even admitted a black man in their GB. They considered blacks as inferior in nature and status according to the attitude of their times.
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badboy
RAYMOND STREET JAIL?
WAS THAT CIRCA 1919?
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snowbird
RAYMOND STREET JAIL?
WAS THAT CIRCA 1919?
It was 1917-18 before they were shipped off to Atlanta, GA. You can find the letter at the WT Observer site.
Snowbird
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badboy
Wasn't there something about black siting seperatly rom white while having gospel preached to them in one of the magazines?
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Leolaia
You forgot to put your caps lock on.
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nvrgnbk
He thought they made wonderful servants.
Some JWs defend him saying he was just reflecting the views of his contemporaries.
What made the abolitionists so smart then?
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Leolaia
"It may be claimed by some that the peasantry were more happy years ago when they were without educational advantages, ignorant, etc., and virtually bought and sold with the land. This may be true in many instances, and so too, no doubt, many of the negroes once slaves in the United States were happier and better provided for in slavery, than now that they are their own masters. But the principle involved is that the freedom is needful to the development of the human mind and of self-control and progress in general toward the true ends of human existence" (Zion's Watch Tower Reprints, June 1888, p. 1037).