I was a black child in white supremacy cult & dubbed a witch…I spiralled into drugs when £60m doomsday scam was exposed
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JERALD Walker knew he was different from his mates – because they told him it was weird that he was not allowed to celebrate his birthday or Christmas.
But what his friends and neighbours didn’t know is that he was part of a white supremacist doomsday cult.
And what’s even stranger is Jerald is black.
His blind parents had been convinced that TV evangelist Herbert W. Armstrong was the new Messiah and that he was going to save them.
They were not alone.
At its height in the 1970s the Worldwide Church of God had over 100,000 members and was pulling in over £60 million in donations from followers.
Armstrong convinced his followers that going to a hospital was a sin, that they shouldn’t listen to pop music and that black people should serve white ones.
According to his teachings, even heaven would be racially segregated.
But when judgement day came the chosen ones, no matter their race, would be taken to a “safe place” where they would be protected from drought, burning skies and pestilence.
In return, Jerald’s school counsellor dad was giving almost a third of his wages to the church which helped to fund Armstrong’s private jets and limousines.
When the “messiah” was exposed as a fraud in April 1979 on the 60 Minutes TV show in the US, Jerald realised he had been “duped.”
Feeling he had little to live for, he turned to drink, drugs and “petty crime” before nearly being shot by a robber convinced him to shun that lifestyle.
Content retrieved from: https://www.the-sun.com/news/12562553/black-racist-white-supremacist-cult/.
