I was quite surprised when I came across these excerps from JW literature. In fact it almost made me ill. Any comments?
The Watchtower Reprints, October 1, 1900, p.2706 ***
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Though, once as black as charcoal, the Rev. Mr. Draper is now white. His people say that his color was changed in answer to prayer.
*** The Watchtower Reprints, July 15, 1902, p.3043 ***
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While it is true that the white race exhibits some qualities of superiority over any other, we are to remember that there are wide differences in the same Caucasian (Semitic and Arvan) family.
*** The Watchtower Reprints, July 15, 1902, p. 3043 ***
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Suppose a missionary and his wife removed to China; not only would the influence of the climate and soil be manifested upon themselves, but the same would be still more manifested in their children. Whoever will give careful attention to this matter will notice that each succeeding child born in that foreign country will have increasingly resemblance to the Chinese - the hair, the skin, the shape of the eyes, and in general all features will bear closer resemblance with each succeeding child. We can readily suppose that if so much change occurs in a few years, ten or twenty centuries under similar conditions would turn any white people into regular Chinese, even supposing there were no intermarrying.”
*** The Golden Age, July 24, 1929, p. 702 ***
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Question: Is there anything in the Bible that reveals the origin of the Negro? Answer: It is generally believed that the curse which Noah pronounced upon Canaan was the origin of the Black race. Certain it is that when Noah said, ‘Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren,’ he pictured the future of the Colored race. They have been and are a race of servants, but now in the dawn of the twentieth century, we are all coming to see this matter of service in its true light and to find that the only real joy in life is in serving others; not bossing them. There is no servant in the world as good as a good Colored servant, and the joy that he gets from rendering faithful service is one of the purest joys there is in the world.”
C
When the pain of being where we are, becomes greater than our fear of letting go...we will risk and heal and grow.