Branham's Racist Speech Now Identified

While reviewing the timeline with the new co-host for the William Branham Historical Research podcast (podcast info here), we noticed something very odd.  Though William Branham seemed very constrained to withhold his racially charged statements against people with black skin prior to his move to Tucson in 1963, the opposite can be said after 1963.  Some versions of his stage persona were filtered at some locations after this move, but his most racist and bigoted statements were mostly unfiltered during the last three years of his life. 

In our past research, we used common terms to identify these racially-charged statements.  We searched for "integration",  "segregation",  "colored", and a handful of racial slurs that William Branham frequently used.  There are two terms that William Branham used, however, that we had missed.  And they are significant:

• Integrationist - A person who believes that people with white skin have equal rights and are no more important or different than people with black skin.
• Segregationist - A person who believes that people with black skin are inferior to and different from people with white skin, and should be kept isolated from each other.

Apparently, this was the search term that we should have started with.  If you will navigate to https://table.branham.org, the site holding sermon transcripts from cult headquarters, and search for these two terms, you will find that Voice of God Recordings — who claim that "every word that Branham said is Thus Saith the Lord" — explains how critical these two terms are.

According to the "prophet" they promote, these two terms are significant enough to determine whether or not a person is a "Christian".  William Branham openly stated in his February 6, 1965 sermon (index 65-0206) that people who do not believe that people with black skin should be isolated from people with white skin are not a Christian.  In today's language, a "segregationist" is a "white supremacist".  In other words, according to William Branham, you must be a white supremacist in order to meet Branham's criteria for "Christian".

I am a segregationalist. Because, I don't care how much they argue, you cannot be a Christian and be an integrationist. That's exactly right. God even separates His nations. He separates His people. “Come out from among them!' He's a…He is a segregationalist. “Don't even…Touch not their unclean things!' He pulled Israel, that Jewish race, out of every, all the races in the world. He is a segregationalist.[1]

This is not to be confused with hatred of black people.  Many white supremacists, Branham included, were against slavery.  In fact, William Branham mentioned this in the same racially-charged speech.[2] White supremacists of the era, people who believe that they are better than, different from, or otherwise superior to people who do not have white skin, wanted to isolate people with black skin.  In fact, many leaders in Branham's sect, as well as members of the sect, were in favor of racial segregation.  As much as eighty percent of his cult of personality in the Louisville/Jeffersonville, Indiana area chose to dine at the Blue Boar Cafeteria on Sunday afternoons.[3]  The Blue Boar Cafeteria was well known in the 1960s for being an "all-white" restaurant that did not permit non-white customers to enter.[4]

Branham on Integration (updated):
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/integration

Branham's move to Tucson:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/topics/tucson