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Are Followers of William Branham Sympathetic to the White Supremacy Agenda?

March 26, 2021

It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that William Branham associated, collaborated with, supported, and promoted high-ranking members of various white supremacy groups throughout his public ministry.  Not only was Branham ordained as a minister by an Imperial Wizard and organizer of several of these groups, Rev. Roy E. Davis, many men fundamental to the formation of Branham's destructive cult following had strong ties to white supremacy.  

It has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that William Branham associated, collaborated with, supported, and promoted high-ranking members of various white supremacy groups throughout his public ministry.  Not only was Branham ordained as a minister by an Imperial Wizard and organizer of several of these groups, Rev. Roy E. Davis, many men fundamental to the formation of Branham's destructive cult following had strong ties to white supremacy.  

When the Indiana Klan rose to power, meetings were held in the Cadle Tabernacle founded by E. Howard Cadle.  When the Kardashian and Shakarian families were involved with Branham's early career, Clem Davies, Canadian promoter of the Ku Klux Klan, was part of the campaign team.  William D. Upshaw, who toured with Branham throughout the 1950s, worked with Davis both as a United States Congressman in the early 1920s and as the Third Wave of the Ku Klux Klan was in early stages of formation in the mid-1940s.  Even some of the names Branham frequently dropped in his sermons, such as George J. Lacy, were involved to an extent we may never know.  Lacy, who was dishonorably discharged for brutally beating African Americans in the prison system, was paid by the Branham Campaign team to support the "halo" claim for Branham's stage persona.

These are no longer secrets known only to specific elders in William Branham's "Message" cult following.  The information has been shared globally through various forms of communication, both online, print, and verbally, for the past several years.  Thanks to social media, it is more uncommon to find a follower of William Branham who is unaware of Branham's questionable background than not, and those unaware will be informed the first time they investigate one of Branham's failed prophecies or anti-Biblical doctrines.  Almost every online discussion group contains several people, both current members, and escapees, who are aware and openly debate this and other information critical to cult propaganda.

The question has been asked, in various forms, whether or not William Branham's current followers are supporters of the white supremacy agenda.  Since (most) current members of the "Message" cult do not don white robes or burn crosses in the yards of their fellow brothers and sisters with dark skin, should they be excluded from the term "supporters" as it relates to white supremacy?

This is not a question easily answered by asking cult members.  Even if unknowingly supportive, most current members would object to the notion that they believed in racial inequality.  New sermons are not designed to incite anger against African Americans or promote antisemitism.  There are many themes supportive of the Ku Klux Klan's anti-Catholic views, but most members are unaware of this and other less dominant agendas of white supremacy groups.  The question can only be answered by asking a related question: "Are current followers of William Branham supportive of William Branham's own support and promotion of the white supremacy agenda?"

A good example of this question went viral in 2014 when a video of William Branham's "Message" cult pastor Donnie Reagan went viral after being labeled "Most Racist Pastor in Americaby Young Turks and Secular Talk.  Pastor Reagan had no idea that quotes of William Branham he frequently used in his sermons would be viewed by the Young Turks as supportive of the white supremacy agenda, or that his defense claiming to have bought bicycles for Africans could be considered racial profiling by Secular Talk and other various groups.  It was made evident in the sequence of videos that like many leaders of Branham's cult, Reagan considered William Branham to be an authority on both doctrine and scripture.  That authority was and is inclusive of William Branham's statements supporting the white supremacy agenda.

Reagan was exposed supporting that agenda by quoting Branham's statements against interracial marriage, which was a common theme during Roy Davis' involvement with the formation of the Third Wave of the Ku Klux Klan.  This was not the only theme of white supremacy Branham used in his sermons, however, and unfortunately not the only theme repeated in churches of the Branham denomination of faith.  During the height of the battle against racial integration of the American school system, Branham introduced the notion that "a Christian must forfeit his [or her] rights" and that "a colored man is satisfied in the state he is in".  Branham's sermons are played using "Message" church audio systems with listeners forced to hear Branham use derogatory terms, such as "hook-nosed Jew", "Aunt Jemima", and worse.  Stories of African American teenagers with sexually-transmitted diseases are printed and distributed by cult leaders, just as they were in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s by white supremacy groups.  Question any of Branham's supporters as to whether or not they support Branham's statements, and they will proudly stand behind the "prophet" and these horrific statements.  Examples of this can be found in responses posted by cult members on social media.

After doing so, question any white supremacy group as to whether or not they are in alignment with Branham's racially-charged statements.  You will find the two responses to be very similar.