Interracial marriage

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This is a tough question to answer

Children from a black-white marriage are called mulatto by Americans.

64-0830 — Questions And Answers #4

166 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, or a…I believe the brown, black, white, and races of people are like a flower garden of God, and I do not believe they should be crossed up. I believe that’s the way God made them, and I believe that’s the way they should remain.

167 What…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? Is because that something…that communist…And how would a colored man want to marry a white woman and have mulatto children?

168 I don’t believe I believe you should stay just what we are. We—we’re servants of Christ. And God made me…If He made me, my color black, I’d be happy to be a black man for God. If He made me yellow, I’d be a happy yellow man for Christ. If He made me white, I’d…?…happy white man for Christ. If He made me brown, or red, an Indian, whatever it is, I’d stay my same color. That would be me. I want to be like my Maker made me.

169 Down there that day in Shreveport when that uprise come, and them…and there was all them young colored inspired out there, communistic…

170 I’ve told you here in this pulpit, Martin Luther King is the greatest indebtment the colored people’s ever had. Right. That man’s going to lead a thousands of them to a slaughter (that’s right), inspired by communism.

Brother Branham was not in favour of inter racial marriage between blacks and whites.

He also said Martin Luther King would inspire riots where thousands would die.

Matin Luther King was a Black Baptist Pastor and a Civil Rights leader who was assassinated in 1968.

Martin Luther King led huge but peaceful protests. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

After his assassination, riots then broke out in over 125 cities, leading to 39 deaths and thousands of injuries.

His protest marches never led to thousands of deaths.

In another sermon brother Branham predicted that a million would die because of Martin Luther King. But that obviously never happened.

When brother Branham gave his opinion on a matter, that did not mean that it was always correct.
He was prone to exaggeration.

A million people never died in black-white civil rights riots.

    63-0721 — He Cares. Do You Care?

“And I think that Martin Luther King is Communistic inspired, which is going to lead about a million people to a absolutely a death trap. See? I don’t say the Lord told me that.”

Again, in the next two quotes brother Branham disagrees with black-white marriage.

    64-0418 — A Paradox

197 But I don’t believe in marrying, intermarrying like that. I don’t believe in a white…What—what business would a beautiful, young, intelligent colored girl want to marry a white man for, and have mulatto children? What would a fine, intelligent colored girl want to do a thing like that for? I can’t understand it. And what would a white woman want to marry a colored man, with mulatto children? Why don’t you stay the way God made you? “Be content with such as you have.” See?

62-0719B — Life

To me, you ought to leave it the way God had it, He made a white man, black man, brown man. He is a God of variety, let them stay the way God made them,” that’s what I think. If I was a black man, I’d want to stay in my class of people; if I was a Chinese, yellow, I want to stay that way. Being that I’m Anglo-Saxon, white, let me marry amongst the white, teach my children the same, and just stay the kind of a flower and the color that God made us at the beginning, after all, He is the One that made it.

In the next quote brother Branham seems happy with Moses marrying a black woman.
   64-0619 — Perseverant

“58 Moses, this runaway intellectual, runaway prophet, out on the backside of the desert, and marry this beautiful Ethiopian woman, and was living…had a child, little Gershom.”

Wrong.   She was a Midianite

Brother Branham thought, wrongly, that she was a black Ethiopian and he seems quite happy with Moses marrying her.

Later in the Exodus, Moses was married to a black Ethiopian woman. Brother Branham has no problem with this mixed marriage.
    61-1015 — Respects    

“72 And there, one day, we find out that even Miriam, a prophetess, and Aaron, the high priest, made fun of Moses’ wife because she was an Ethiopian, and thought, “Wasn’t there enough women of our own group, to marry, instead of going down there and marrying that woman?” That wasn’t Moses’ choice; that was God’s choice for Moses.

And when they made fun of it, that angered God in such a way until He struck Miriam, the prophetess, full of leprosy, Moses’ own sister. What about that? Her, a prophetess, but what was she doing? She was making fun and an irreverence to God’s messenger, the messenger of the covenant of that day. And she was irreverent. And also Aaron, the high priest, the very mouthpiece of Moses, right, he was with her.

73 And Aaron then, when he saw his sister struck with leprosy, he went in and told Moses, “Would you let your own sister die?”

The second wife of Moses, the Ethiopian woman, was black.

Miriam complained that the Ethiopian woman was not white.

God struck her with leprosy, making her whiter than white.

God seemed quite insistent that nobody should criticize this black-white marriage.

Brother Branham again criticized black-white marriage, but incorrectly labelled it a hybrid marriage.

   60-1113 — Condemnation By Representation
“137 What are we doing, friends? Men think they know all about it. The people would be better off, if you just let them the way they are, the way God made them. Let the brown race marry the brown race. The white race marry the white race. The dark race, the yellow race, and whatever more, stay the way God made them.

138 If a violet, God made it, it was white, let it remain white. It’s blue, black, brown, whatever the flower is, let it alone.

139 If corn was raised a certain way, yellow corn, don’t mix with white corn. If you do, you mix it up, then it can’t breed itself back again.

140 If a mule was or jack was a jack, and a jenny, to begin with, let them stay that way. Don’t mix them with horses. You make a renegade.

141 Hybreeding, oh, it’s such a curse. Go back to where God started. Let’s go back to the beginning. Go back to where God brought us, what we’re supposed to be.”

Brother Branham uses the word hybreeding which is wrong.

Black and white marrying is not hybreeding.

Hybreeding produces a sterile offspring. A mule comes from a horse and a donkey. But the mule is sterile and cannot breed. Children from a black-white marriage are not sterile. They are not hybrids.

SONG OF SOLOMON 1:5

“I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.”

The Song of Solomon is a love song in which his chosen woman is black.

The big problem with racial segregation is the later generations. How are they classified?

Black-white parents produce 50% black:50% white children.

50% black:50% white woman marries white man and produces 25% black:75% white children.

25% black:75% white marries white spouse and produces 12½ % black:87½% white children.

Classifying these people is just playing games. That is why Apartheid in South Africa failed.

Multi-racial identities are complex and not easily categorized.

Perhaps it is just safer to regard people as Humans instead of classifying by race or colour.

The black Ethiopian wife of Moses and the black wife of Solomon are Bible facts.

Building a doctrine on quotes is hazardous as different statements can be found on the topic.

There are more than 6 million mixed-race Americans.

Marriage tends to be a free choice by the individuals.