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William Branham was all over the map on what he believed and what he preached. So it is not surprising that this is also true when it came to his position on racism. He clearly stated in 1947 that: | William Branham was all over the map on what he believed and what he preached. So it is not surprising that this is also true when it came to his position on racism. He clearly stated in 1947 that: | ||
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:''The President (John F. Kennedy) wants us to surrender this state to Martin Luther King and his group of pro-communists who have instituted these demonstrations."<ref>Alabama Governor George Wallace, public statement of May 8, 1963 in The New York Times. (May 9, 1963).</ref> | :''The President (John F. Kennedy) wants us to surrender this state to Martin Luther King and his group of pro-communists who have instituted these demonstrations."<ref>Alabama Governor George Wallace, public statement of May 8, 1963 in The New York Times. (May 9, 1963).</ref> | ||
==William Branham's beliefs on interracial marriage== | |||
Here are some comments on biracial marriages that William Branham made that are clearly racist: | |||
:''Hybreeding, hybreeding, oh, how terrible, hybreeding. ...'''What white woman would want her baby to be a mulatto by a colored man?''' God made us what we are. <ref>CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION_ JEFF.IN 60-1113</ref> | |||
:'''''What good would a white woman want to have a baby by a colored man making him a mulatto child? It's not sensible.''' <ref>BUT.IT.WASN'T.SO.FROM.THE.BEGINNING_ BLOOMINGTON.IL TUESDAY_ 61-0411</ref> | |||
:''He makes white man, black man, red man. We should never cross that up. It becomes a hybrid. And anything hybrid cannot re-breed itself. You are ruining the race of people. There is some things about a colored man that a white man don't even possess them traits. A white man is always stewing and worrying; a colored man is satisfied in the state he is in, so they don't need those things.<ref>O.LORD.JUST.ONCE.MORE_ HOT.SPRINGS.AR 63-0628M</ref> | |||
:''He makes white flowers, and blue flowers, and all colors of flowers. '''Don't interbreed them. Don't cross them up. You get against nature.'''<ref>THE.THIRD.EXODUS_ JEFF.IN 63-0630M</ref> | |||
:'''''Now, I don't believe in mixing marriages. I believe that a white man should not marry a colored girl, or a colored girl marry a white man, or a yellow marry a colored, or a white,''' ...It fools me that I seen some real pretty colored girl, intelligent, nice looking kid, just as pretty as any woman you'd want to see... '''What does she want to marry a white man and have mulatto children? What would an intelligent colored girl want with such a thing as that?''' <ref>QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.4_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0830E</ref> | |||
=What do William Branham's followers believe?= | =What do William Branham's followers believe?= | ||