When I was a JW, I met and at lunch with Sam Herd and his wife. Let me assure you that this man is not stupid. He is intelligent. It is the intelligent ones who are best suited to say "foolish" things like this. They KNOW WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. It is all a part of the program (programming).
He is is fully aware that his statements will offend a great many women.
Sam Herd is also speaking from a prepared outline. He has given this talk many times before.
Myself - an African Americn like Sam Herd - would be offended if someone within the organization says that "Black people or people of color should know their place."
This is really what the WT organization subtly teaches and it is no different from this talk about women. Women or "people of color" stepping outside the high walls of WT teaching will be called disobedient.
If a woman within the organization takes exception to what Sam Herd said and voiced that exception, she will be called disobedient and a trouble maker. Sam Herd was basically telling all women to "know your place."
If I question why the GB leadership has been traditionally an all White mans club and why portrayals of Adam, Eve, Noah, Moses, Angels, Jesus, etc are portrayed as White people in the publications, I am viewed as a trouble maker and one who is disobedient.
Sam Herd speaks - and many of the GB members - speak from the periphery of one who lives in the United States. I doubt very much that little African girls would be thinking along the lines of "wanting to play house." I now live in Africa and I can assure you that Africans are not reared nor do they think like persons of European descent UNLESS they have been "infected" and "indoctrinated to so.
Sam Herd is what I call a "Black Anglo Saxon." He is a man of African descent who has rejected his African ancestry and who sought to be accepted in to the "White Power" structure. In this case a high position with a religious organization. The other members of the GB speak as White men. Samuel Herd speaks as a White man.
None of the members of that historically predominately white body know what it is like to be a Black, Asian, Hispanic, Arab, a woman, etc.
Sam Herd is a "token" and fills this role to keep the "natives" within the organization under control and controllable.
Sam Herd may have forgotten the WT organization has segregated congregations in the South. Blacks sat on one side of the King Hall. Any person today "acting Black" (whatever that is) is quickly identified made to "act and think" as the WT organization wants it to. How is that? As the GB does.
The GB are not idiots. It is a mistake to label them as such. To label them as idiots denotes that one has let "emotion" get the mastery over them. The Devil "burns" with intelligence and he fully knows what he is doing.
So does his agents.
