Racism in the Jehovah Witness Watchtower

The civil rights struggles of the 50's and 60's have done much to heal the old wounds of racism that have plagued America since slavery. Few today would argue that racism serves any benefit to America. Overt racism and cultural bias has largely given way to a different type of prejudice. Organizations that once overtly denigrated minorities have refined both language and actions to more subtly discriminate.

Watchtower society members claim to be different and better than the worldly people that they refer to as "bird food". Society members refer to non-Witnesses as bird food because they look forward to the time when the birds will feast on the flesh of dead non-Witnesses after Armageddon. Is the Watchtower Society really morally superior and separate from the rest of American society?

The Jehovah Witness Watchtower organization has a long history of denigrating the ethnicities of its members. The very foundations of the society were built on racism. Just as the slave master kept slaves in enforced ignorance, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society keeps members in ignorance by not allowing them to investigate the many inconsistencies in the organizations teaching. The following quotes from the societies own literature prove the racist nature of the organization. It would be difficult indeed to include all the racist quotes the society has made over the years without filling up a book.

"The negro race is supposed to be descended from Ham, whose special degradation is mentioned in Gen. 9:22, 25. (From: Zion's Watch Tower, August 1, 1898, p. 230)

"Noah declared, prophetically, that Ham's characteristics which had led him to unseemly conduct disrespectful to his father, would be found cropping out later, inherited by his son, and prophetically he foretold that this degeneracy would mark the posterity of Canaan, degrading him, making him servile. We are not able to determine to a certainty that the sons of Ham and Canaan are the negroes; but we consider that general view as probable as any other." (From: Zion's Watch Tower, July 15, 1902, p. 216)