The virtually whites-only country club that is scientology is trying to seem woke by holding a Black History Month Event.
Hosted by the very white Beth Akiyama, they have to bring in some little known outsiders to talk on the subject.
About the only people of color you will find in scientology organizations are members of the Nation of Islam who seem to have lost their way and ended up in the wrong building.
The overwhelming whiteness of scientology caused great concern to the one real celebrity scientology has had from the African American community — Isaac Hayes. He spoke directly to David Miscavige and implored him to do something about the lack of reach into the African American community in the US. The result was the opening of the Harlem Org in NY and Inglewood Org in Los Angeles. Neither have made a difference, they are literally token orgs — mostly staff by imported white Sea Org members.
And if you think I am exaggerating, I googled “Scientology crowds” and pulled down the first few images that showed actual faces (rather than being shots from behind the crowd).
This is them. Completely random and VERY representative of the reality of scientology:
And here is the last known shot of the staff of Religious Technology Center (so old, even Shelly Miscavige is in it):
And this is Tampa Org:
Some of the crew of the Freewinds:
Until you look at these shots — and many, many more like them — it is hard to fathom just HOW white scientology is.
And how hypocritical it is for them to be pretending they are celebrants of Black History Month.
I’ve signed up for Yusaku Maezawa’s dearMoon project. It would be six days of Bliss off this rock, having to sharing it with the whacked-out cult of Scientology. For once in the last 10 years, I would truly feel free – and I hope that I do get a spot. It will show that one can crawl out of a trench of ruin (as an ex-Scientologist) to become one of Humanity’s Great Firsts – those achievements that history will remember for a millennia or more.
Obviously the White Bread hypocrisy is one such example of Scientology’s dubiousness. Another is the fact that they stalk ex-members and do other acts of shadiness. Those will be known and are known. It is the great held-down seven of Scientology, to claim they are an ethical group yet practice dubiousness and pseudo-statecraft (like targeting prosecutors and other individuals in their way, to ruin lives, in order to achieve a group win like the ‘War Is Over’ win or the win for declaring Scientology a religion in some EU countries). In the end, Scientology will be exposed for these evil deeds – Mark my words.
In honor of black history month, let’s look at the words of Scientology founder Ronald Hubbard regarding race!
Scientology Racism can the Church Deny It ? Again
Scientology Racism can the Church Deny It ?
Church dogma demands a slavish devotion to its founder L. Ron Hubbard, whose sentiments appear racist to modern sensibilities but were common in white society during most of his life. Racial attitudes have changed greatly over time — in fact, modern anthropological theory denies the existence of “race” [offsite] altogether. Hubbard’s prejudices, however, are forever codified in Source, i.e., they are sacred, immutable doctrine. Hence, Scientology is inherently racist, as the following collection of scriptural quotes illustrates.
A basic component of the Church’s services is auditing (counseling sessions). Through a progression of special auditing actions for specific purposes, called rundowns [offsite], Scientologists can advance their spiritual condition. But Hubbard has a Big Auditing Problem with native South Africans, who, along with other “primitives” and children, are in a “retrograded” state:
The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world — he is probably impossible by any human standard.
–Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 119, 1 September 1957, as published in Level 0 PABS (c.1968, The American St. Hill Organization).
Natives need the help of white men to explain how to care for their possessions, including their land. Hubbard scolds South Africa for not
properly attending to native education:
As long as a white foreman is there, they will prevent soil erosion; but the moment that a white foreman turns his back — boo! There goes the whole program.
And you finally get up to the point of where he’s [native] supposed to take care of something, a lesson which has never been taught to the native of South Africa.
–Ron Hubbard, 15thACC (Power of Simplicity) lecture “Education: Point of Agreement”, 30 Oct 1956.
Hubbard also finds that the “insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling” and issues a special set of instructions, The Scientific Treatment of the Insane, for South African auditors to address the problem. Note that Hubbard also thinks the Bantu are in need of “rehabilitation”, with mental health being only one of the necessary efforts.
The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. …it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health…
–Ron Hubbard, HCOBApril 1960, “The Scientific Treatment of the Insane”
The South African Rundown, the only Scientology rundown targeted at a specific ethnic group, was developed for “delivery to South Africans—those who reside in South Africa as well as those who have emigrated to other parts of the world”. Hubbard apparently feels that they required special processing because they are “untrainable” and “insane”.
The Church’s auditing tool, the E-meter, requires adjustment in order to accommodate the needle’s larger movements because of the intensity of a black South African’sundisclosed transgressions (“withholds”).
A “black South African’s” withholds read not only on the needle [of the E-meter] alone but on the Tone Arm [sensitivity adjustment] as well.
–Ron Hubbard, E-Meter Essentials, section I: “Meter Oddities”, 1988 (pg. 24)
Perhaps the unusually strong withholds can be explained by the Bantu’s mercenary nature:
Because the one thing — the very, very commercial little culture the Bantu has … the idea of commerce and money and that sort of thing is very deeply ingrained in these people.
–Ron Hubbard, SHSBC, “Errors in Time”, 18 July 1963
Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, one of Scientology’s basic public texts, says this about “African savages”:
Image is a comic book African warrior
…the African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
–Ron Hubbard, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought,Bridge Publications: Los Angeles, 1997.
The reason that Africans feel barbarous is because of their numerous overts [glossary] that have resulted from being exposed to a “fantastic amount of space opera [glossary]” and a hostile environment.
[Y]ou’ll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on … which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn’t know why he goes through all these dances … and why he feels so barbarous ….
–Ron Hubbard, 1st Melbourne ACC, lecture “Principal Incidents on the Track”, 27 November 1959.
In Hubbard’s view, people have to be trained to be “governable” in order to become civilized and deserve independence. He suggests that this was the problem in Cameroon, undergoing internal strife on its way to independence from France and England, because there was no one there to “give civilization to”.
They took people who were totally dedicated to certain tribal procedures … and said, “You’re free.” And they said, “Free. Free? Free. Ah! You mean there’s no police anymore.” Boom! Boom!
–Ron Hubbard, State of Man Congress, Opening lecture, 1 January 1960.
According to Hubbard, Zulus are crazy:
…the Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe. … primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness …
–Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health,Bridge Publications, Los Angeles, 1995.
The Church runs security checks on members suspected of certain criminal behaviors. TheJohannesburg Security Check is “the roughest security check in Scientology” and consists of a series of pointed questions which Scientologists answer while on the E-meter (in this case, used more like a lie detector than an auditing tool). Included in the list of “crimes” is engaging in an intimate relationship with a member of a “colored” race. A selected portion of the questions demonstrates the seriousness of this crime:
Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color?
Have you ever committed culpable homicide?
Have you ever bombed anything?
Have you ever murdered anyone?
Have you ever kidnapped anyone?
–Ron Hubbard, HCOPL 7 April 1961, “Johannesburg Security Check”
There are hints that Scientology membership was limited to whites, at least initially, in their organizations in southern Africa. In the first quote below, Hubbard is concerned about the World Bank taking control of England and the general advance of Communism. He believes astronghold of civilization [outlink] can be set up in Africa to salvage white society. In the second quote, Hubbard praises the South African organization, that, in spite of the limited white population from which to recruit, managed to outproduce all other Scientology organizations.
Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere’s lights go out.
–Ron Hubbard, recorded talk to the Saint Hill staff about Rhodesia, 6 May 1966
As South Africa has a white population of only 2.8 million or thereabouts, you can see that every other central organization in the world has been out-created.
-Ron Hubbard, HCOB 17 July 1959, “Africa over the Top”
Hubbard sought to create a Scientology homeland in South Africa or Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The Church claims it opposed the white minority governments (most of its activity in the early years took place in colonial states where whites ruled and English was the official language: England, United States, Australia, South Africa, Rhodesia). Hubbard, however, appears to have thought the problem of apartheid was overstated.
The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! […] The South African government is not a police state. It’s easier on people than the United States government!
–Ron Hubbard, HCOB 10 October 1960, “Current News”
It is considered in England and the United States that the Government of South Africa is altogether too harsh with its native peoples. It is sadly humorous to notice that the native in South Africa, however, holds an exactly reverse opinion and the fault he finds with the South African Government is that it is far too lenient in its administration of laws throughout the native populace.
– Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 96, “Justice”, 15 September 1956
One reason Hubbard was attracted to Rhodesia was his admiration for Cecil Rhodes; he even claimed to have been Rhodes in a previous life. Rhodes originated the racist land grabs in South Africa, suggesting that “we must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labour that is available from the natives of the colonies”.
Hubbard’s expertise in handling the natives, who were a great resource that was not “well utilised at all”, was probably a continuation of his former lifetime’s experience.
For instance, my boy Jamble … I used to tell him “yes, I know Jamble — you’re a good boy even though you do drink and smoke dacca and gamble — that has nothing to do with me, you’re still a good boy” and you know he came way up tone arm. I noticed he drank less and I think he stopped smoking dacca entirely but he didn’t stop gambling because Master used to give him a pound to go out to the race track and lose.
… tremendous labour supply in the Bantu, the Mshombe, the Matabele, these people are very hard-working people and under proper direction are quite productive. … and here is this perfectly valid labour supply — the African, who at this time is not being well utilised at all; …
–Ron Hubbard, Conference with the Guardian, 18 July 1966
But they served with great enthusiasm. Those people sure can work. The African sure can work. That’s one thing nobody has ever quite noticed about them. They are veryhard-working people.
–Ron Hubbard, “About Rhodesia”, lecture given on 19 July 1966
Hubbard praises the South African government’s handling of the Johannesburg slums:
Photo of a South African township
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement
– Ron Hubbard, Letter to South African Prime Minister Dr. H.F. Verwoerd, 7 November 1960, Johannesburg; reprinted in part in G.P.C. Kotzé, Inquiry into the Effects and Practices of Scientology [outlink], 1972
Hubbard has few reservations in supporting the apartheid government and, in fact, callsHendrick Verwoerd [offsite] a “great guy”. He suggests ways that the Church could serve the apartheid agenda, for instance, using e-meters to interrogate suspects and to uncover agent provacateurs. “Clean them up and the riots collapse.” In Hubbard’s world, the deplorable conditions of non-white citizens did not give rise to the protests, instead, it was outside agitators (usually Communists) who were to blame — a view in alignment with the government’s.
Hubbard sees indigenous people as carefree “natives” dancing in the jungle, or agitators trying to overthrow the colonial government because they haven’t been properly primed for civilization.
Illiterate cultures do not survive and they are not very high. The natives of the tribe of the Bugga Bugga Booga Boogas down in Lower Bugga Wugga Booga Woog are mostly no longer with us, or they are around waving red flags today and revolting against their central government.
And they didn’t learn fast. Their literacy was not up to absorbing culture rapidly.
They’ve been very happily down amongst the bong-bong trees, you know, dancing up and down amongst the bong-bong trees, and the highest level of their interest and so forth was their own back yard.
–L. Ron Hubbard, The Study Tapes, “Study: Evaluation and Information”, lecture given on 11 August 1964
Hubbard invokes the “N-word”:
You shouldn’t be scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees. Get yourself a nigger; that’s what they’re born for.
–L. Ron Hubbard, in a letter to first wife, Polly Grubb
Hubbard describes the spiritual state of blacks:
Image is caricature of Negro wearing a hat, looking over a fence
Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they’re pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there—a hat. They talk to them, you know. “What’sa mattuh wi’ you hat?” They imbue them with personality.
–Ron Hubbard, Therapy section of Technique 80(“Route to Infinity” tapes), Part I, a lecture given on 21 May 1952
You can hear this quote in Hubbard’s own voice at Operation Clambake [offsite].
Hubbard disparages other “colors”, too:
Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects.
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The white goes further. He often believes he can get attention only from whites and that yellow and brown people’s attention is worthless. Thus the yellow and brown races are not very progressive, but, by and large, saner.
–Ron Hubbard, Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought,Bridge Publications: Los Angeles, 1997.
Hubbard on Indians:
Now we say there’s, well, another place in the world—there’s India. Wonderful place — except for its people.
–Ron Hubbard, “The Control of Hysteria” (lecture), 15 April 1957.
Hubbard says that “there’s nothing between me and the Arab races at all. As a matter of fact, I like Arabs.”
In North Africa they had the Arab with the gun and whip, but he could force people to do things … and he accomplished a tremendous amount of extermination, but he certainly didn’t advance that civilization very much.
–Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 119, 1 September 1957, as published in Level 0 PABS (c.1968, The American St. Hill Organization)
He’s [the Arab] been going crazy steadily and gradually ever since he lost the early very fertile basins of the Middle East. He’s been going crazy ever since he failed to learn wheat farming and brought about the erosion of all of the fertile areas of the Middle East.
This race has been going for a very, very long time and has been eating death for a very long time and it is death. … They have eaten death too long and now they bring death to the things they touch.
Image is a caricature of an angry, bearded Arab brandishing a sword
The Arab is to a point where he won’t even follow a decent leader. He’s got to have a man of blood, a man of cruelty, exaggeration and bigotry. Then he’ll follow him.
…the Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.
–Ron Hubbard, 20th Advanced Clinical Course, “Case Analysis—Rock Hunting”, lecture of 4 August 1958
Hubbard on Egyptians (and French):
Those small brown men who sell their sisters on the streets of Cairo were once the mighty Egyptians.
–Ron Hubbard, Ability,issue 56, October 1957, quoted in Winning (“News Journal of the Office of Special Affairs”) vol.1, iss.3, 1997
Ostensibly there is little antisemitism in Hubbard’s works, but on the rare mention of Jews, he upholds common antisemitic myths. What’s more, he subscribed to the Spotlightnewspaper published by Willis Carto, “perhaps the most influential professional anti-Semite in the United States” (-Anti-Defamation League).
Hubbard suggests the worldwide conspiracy against him and Scientology can be tracked back to the “Jewish bankers” who are funding his arch enemy, the World Federation of Mental Health.
Now it’s of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the World Federation of Mental Health. …and we see that although the KGB and so forth seems to be associated with the World Federation of Mental Health, their other organization in action seems to go back to Jewish Bankers.
–Ron Hubbard, Aides Conference, “Covert Operations”, 2 November 1969
Another fairly common antisemitic notion that Hubbard embraces is that an obsession with sex is a natural characteristic of the Jewish “race”.
Image is a German antisemitic cartoon of lecherous Jewish man trying to entice an Aryan girl
Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European stock.
–Ron Hubbard, PAB No. 92, “A Critique of Psychoanalysis”, 10 July 1956
(My additional quote )”On further living I found that only those who sought only peace were ever butchered. The thousands of years of Jewish passivity earned them nothing but slaughter.”
Ron Hubbard HCOPL ETHICS, THE DESIGN OF 7 December 1969
Hubbard voices concern about the U.S. pulling out of Viet Nam and how ANZO (Australia/New Zealand/Oceania) would stand alone to face the threat of Communism, which, in Hubbard’s view, was part of the psychiatric conspiracy to rule (and ruin) the planet. Apparently Hubbard is dismayed at the prospect of an influx of Asians into Scientology in the area, if their attention was diverted from war with the Americans.
This is the only way I know of to keep Anzo from being deluged with Asiatic hordes.
–Ron Hubbard, HCOInformation Letter, “Anzo Supplement”, 17 February 1969
Hubbard’s opinion of Japanese:
Japanese is a baby talk — very, very hard to read, very, very, easy to talk. … A very faint kind of language.
– Ron Hubbard, New Slant on Life, Bridge Publications, 1997.
One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters[furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them. … We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn’t win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
–Ron Hubbard, “The Part Played by the Analytical Mind” (lecture), 19 July 1950 (as quoted by Anthony Roberts in ana.r.s. post)
Image is a Japanese caricature from World War II propaganda
There is no madder nation than Japan. … And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It’s the doggonedest country.
– Ron Hubbard, Perception of Truth, part 2: “Logics 1-7”, a lecture given on 10 November 1952.
Hubbard taught school on Guam for one month when he was a young man. The island’s native population, the Chamorros, made an impression upon him:
… gooks … really more or less savage at heart.
–Ron Hubbard, personal diary, June-July 1927
Hubbard regards the Chinese as “subhuman”.
When this government [Chiang Kaishek’s] finally fell there was no one ready to teach the Chinese the human way of life.
–Ron Hubbard, The Dianetic Auditor’s Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 1, “Education and the Auditor”, July 1951
…China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.
–Ron Hubbard, Fundamentals of Thought, Chapter “Causation and Knowledge”, Section “Civilization and Savagery”, page 113-114, 1997.
You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we’ll have cleared chinks.
–Ron Hubbard, Secrets of the MEST Universe(lecture 1), “Methods of Research: The Thetan as an Energy Unit”, 6 November 1952.
The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.
– Ron Hubbard, Ron Letters and Journals [offsite], “Early Years of Adventure [offsite]” (Asia Diaries, 1927-1929)
Image is a caricature of a Chinese man carrying a washboard and sack of money
When it comes to the Yellow Races overruning the world, you may laugh … [The Chinese] have neither the foresight or endurance to overrun any white country in any way except by intermarriage. One American marine could stand off a great many yellowmen without much effort.
-Ron Hubbard, personal journal (Asia Diaries, 1927-1929) as quoted by Russell Miller in Bare-Faced Messiah [outlink], page 42 [outlink].
A Chinaman can not live up to a thing, he always drags it down.
They smell of all the baths they didn’t take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.
–Ron Hubbard, personal journal [outlink], 1928.
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Ron Hubbard, Scientology, Dianetics and Racism
Originally posted at Solitary Trees
It seems Elron had a dim view of most of the human race. Maybe that’s why some people say he wanted OT8s to work on the Generic Entity to produce genetically pure bodies so he would have some top notch models to pick from when he returns. I think he better wait for the genetic engineers to do it rather than depending on the OT8s to get it done.
You don’t say.
His whole religion is based on the fact that him, as the sole-founder, is superior and those he taught to Clear themselves are superior to the rest, as Post-Humans or Homo.Novi. Then those who are still being Cleared, the Pre-Clears, are still yet superior to the average Wog. The whole fucking thing is Elitist, and he viewed everyone not associated in some way with Him to be lesser or down-tone.
If you put it on a grade-chart, he is number one. Anyone with direct association is number two. Anyone with indirect association is number three. Anyone with an affinity with the subject is number four. Anyone who is capable of paying for the expensive courses but not yet having an affinity is number five. Then you have those with the inability to pay as number six. Those both without money and incapable of earning money as number seven. Finally, you have the non-sentient as number eight. There you go history: Scientology in a Nutshell
He had a deep and abiding disdain for anyone who was not HIM. Other people were only tools to be used. Women were only good for servicing his physical needs and wants, to be discarded later
I am imagining, just as a speculation, that because of the outright weirdness so many people of color have encountered and endured in their lives—which inspires them (many) to work hard to understand and get along in a white-dominant culture—they have mastered a more refined detector of duplicitous-ness. Perhaps (still as a speculation) those who do get active in the group spot the bait-and-switch more quickly than the average person, which means they then leave (more quickly).
On another angle—as I see clear reports here, which I am not disputing, that Hubbard himself demonstrated explicit racism—in 2014 or 2015, I had a veteran Flag Sea Org member tell me the campaign to introduce more and more people of color to Scientology was real. She told me LRH wrote that people of color, Black people in particular the world over, “tend to be more sane.” I personally contemplated this many times. When I considered my own encounters with people of color, I could see that view well. Many instances where I have met and worked with people of color, these individuals have strong education, enormous hustle, and (in my experiences) do not have near the “withhold-y” nature of fellow White people with whom I have worked.
People of color with whom or for whom I have worked (in my experience) demonstrated a stronger inclination to own up to the truth of what is going on. This is extremely helpful, because then, once you see it, you or your team as a whole can deal with it and move on, versus try with lots of “PR” to insist “Oh, that’s not me. I am good, I am right, I insist to be seen as a good person,” what have you.
Please forgive me if it seems like I am trying to advance stereotypes above. I am not. I am simply offering a different view that I cultivated, and it was inspired by a Sea Org member who confidently considered that she was advancing a point of view of Hubbard himself. I had known this Flag staff person for a long time as someone I trust. Including, I did not observe her treating people differently because of the color of their skin. Of course, the role in which I knew her back then was registrar, so she would be motivated to treat everyone she met very well and with keen interest and admiration.
As readers and participants in this blog know, both angles could be true. As a Former-In, it becomes clearer to me what a conundrum is Scientology. LRH crisscrosses himself frequently. This is why any of us who were in experienced a steady string of disruptions and unworkable encounters. It is as if you can find a Hubbard policy to cover, explain, and justify anything. You could be sitting across from someone, two opposing views, where BOTH of you can bring forth a so-called “valid” LRH policy that backs your individual action or viewpoint.
#madness
Peridot – Thank you for your very well thought out and expressed comment.
@Richard – Thanks for acknowledgement. This is a rich, interesting dialogue Mike’s blog has inspired. Appreciate your contributions as well.
Peridot.
My last wife who was an engineer on the Freewinds was black.
She said sometimes I have nothing against niggers. I think that everyone should own one.
She could say that as she was black. I have heard blacks call each other nigger.
In y 10 years “in”, I saw only 2 black scns, both at NY Org, which was BUSY in the ’70s.
It’s nice of Davey to recognize that the IDEAL state of an org is empty. That’s all he yanks the cord on.
If it weren’t for the lies they hide behind, like “scientology cares about blacks”, they would have nothing to say. I’m still waiting for the NOI leadership to come across some of Ron’s more bigoted writings and blow the lid off. BOOM! There goes the only “real” expansion scientology has had in decades. Straight down and vertical.
The scientology bait is cast upon the waters. They take in almost everyone that responds. Sterling Management and all the other consulting companies take in those that respond. It’s an imprecise but effective system. Less blacks in the bubble leads to less blacks. In Atlanta there was one black veterinarian, a black ex-SO dentist, and now a couple black chiropractors. The NOI surged around 2012 and there were fifty or so on staff during the grand opening. They are now mostly gone.
Scientology continually markets to those in the bubble. 4D marketing campaigns apparently don’t bite on black people. There isn’t anyone in management that really thinks this is a problem. They just want more people. I’m not saying this, but probably someone there could have the position that black people just aren’t aware enough. I could just totally hear that coming from someone’s mouth to fill in the void.
As with all DM’s schemes, the only “success” they exhibit is filling Dwarfenführer’s® coffers. Actual expansion where it matters is unimportant.
Yep. Prolly backed up with lots of tek references.
Anyone who doesn’t reach just isn’t aware enough.
They’re not up to “ruin” or “need of change” on the awareness scale.
They don’t have enough free theta, they’re down tone and aberrated.
Nothing really exists or is valid except LRH and the tek.
The lack of diversity in the cult is fascinating.
I distinctly remember reading of an incident (you may have been there for this, Mike) where Miscavige was beating Marc Yager up and he said to a Black CMO executive (Faith Schermerhorn) “Hey, Yager thinks that black people are n*****s, and he doesn’t want Scientology to help blacks. Go kick him” and she did so. Everything about that statement, IMO, is just so… wrong, and it seems to sum up Scientology’s attitude to Black people.
Yes, that’s a true account.
“About the only people of color you will find in scientology organizations are members of the Nation of Islam who seem to have lost their way and ended up in the wrong building.”
Best. Quote. Ever.
So what is the point here? That non-white races and ethnicities are not scammed and defrauded enough by the cult?
I believe the point is their hypocrisy.
The point is already in the title.
Like all corporations Scn must prove diversity to avoid scrutiny and attempts at cancellation. The alliance with the NOI is obviously “diverse” and keeps Scn under the radar. Big brother looks elsewhere.
“Proving” diversity isn’t it, but featuring the token minority member to make it SEEM that they’re “woke” is the purpose. In truth, if you have lots of MONEY, they don’t care what you look like.
GREEN is the only color they cater to.
Little did Scn know that when it welcomed the NOI into its ranks it would protect them from being accused of racial discrimination a decade later. You can’t get more racially equitable than welcoming a Black Supremacist group into your organization.
Whether or not anyone watches the “Revealing History” Zoom presentation it has been publicized and is in compliance with current corporate racial equity enforcement.
My younger brother has a management position at a large corporation. He recently attended his third Sensitivity Training Zoom seminar. He is not yet convinced that America is systemically racist or that he himself is a white supremacist.
When I was drafted into the United States Army in 1968 during the Viet Nam War, I arrived in Fort Leonard Wood Missouri. My first company in the Army was composed of 80% drafted Black men from the streets of Chicago. The training non-commissioned officers were predominately black. In our drills the black commander would say that the enemy does not care if you are orange, black, white or green. If the man next to you in the fox hole with a rifle is black and you are white, your lives depend on each other. In Korea, I nominated my Black sergeant for the ARMY COMMENDATION MEDAL which he received with honors. After the war, the reports were very clear. Black men sacrificed themselves and were placed on the front lines. When I sold security systems in Massachusetts after the war, this was verified. I would go to black families and they often had pictures of their sons killed in Viet Nam. During the Korean War, one of the best units in the Army was from Puerto Rico. They attacked and pushed back the North Koreans to north of Seoul. Crisis and need evaporates racial lines. The soft environment in the United States breeds racial hatred because the emphasis is on easy luxury. Scientology is a white man’s organization and Miscavige is indeed racist. My hope is that Black Nationalist men simply eliminate Scientology and control the religion. It is possible.
George,
My first personality test was with a black man, maybe late 20s early 30s, back at Sunset mission in early 70’s. He was quite a character and imbued with all the enthusiasm and spirit of a movement that was going to make a difference in the world. Because it was about the spirit of man but backed up by Science. How could that go wrong?
He was his own person, very aware of a lot of the BS and expectednesses of the race stereotypes, but transcended it by his drive. In this particular time and place and people, his type of attitude and behavior was the main game in the Scn group I was in, and he was a loved and very valued team member, no weird crap.
Not that the intensity of the circumstances compare, nowhere no-how, of what you were describing in Vietnam, but there is a similar effect of people on a “Crusade” which devaluates the importance of personality quirks, race, ethnics differences. Regardless of all the wrongnesses and rightnesses of what one is engaged in.
Great comment. Thanks. In 1972 in New York City we were “imbued” just as you describe.
Scn is obviously a purely fascist organization. Homophobia and racism are part of his writings. I don’t know if black people instinctively dissociate from them. The fact that few are part of it says a lot. Certainly they don’t promote to black people or other minority groups. Good point Mike.
If the Church wants to find a high ranking black Scientologist to represent it during Black History Month, they should reach out to Jesse Prince.
They have a LOT of amends owed to Jesse Prince.
Maybe next they’ll offer a course on the “1619 Project”. The New York Times might send them a stipend if they apply.
The COS did make a feeble effort to give Scn some presence in the hood, here in the US. Though I doubt not much is happening in the Harlem and Inglewood orgs. Did I say feeble effort? Token effort is probably more like it.
Token? As in Token from South Park?
You might need to look up the word “token” in the dictionary. All I know is that you’re in trouble the moment you have to explain your jokes.
The city of Tampa is a minority-majority city with a 2019 population of 44% white.
Even with the imported staff from Central and South America, Tampa staff is not representative of the community.
I am sure Scientology’s whiteness is at least in part due to Hubbard’s well-documented racism and complete cultural incompetency.
A regular poster, here and at the Bunker, is Mark Foster. Mark was a staff member at the Washington DC mOrg and was one of the only African Americans there. He has spoken out about the overt and quiet racism he saw when he was in. I believe that he once referred to $cientology as ‘honky town’. A moniker that is well deserved.
David Miscavige has use racism too, his references to ‘soul duds’ and other ramblings show an implicit racism.
Talk to Jessie Prince about his experiences. You’ll get a nice interview and some more first hand knowledge.
Absolutely, an interview with Jesse Prince would be great, if he’s willing to do one. Ask him about the time he pulled a gun on Miscavige when the tiny tyrant wanted to send Jesse to the RPF. A gun that L Ron Hubbard gave Jesse as a gift, by the way. The man has so many great stories about LRH and Miscavige.
“Highly Commended” Scientology Field Staff Member Nation of Islam Sister Renata Muhammad again says —
“The Best And Only Solution: The Separation Process Has Started”
— and asks you to sign the Separation Petition.
https://twitter.com/Renata564/status/1365491702790819841
https://www.projectseparation.com/petition
As I noted yesterday, “Separation” refers to racial separation pursuant to step 4 of the Nation of Islam Muslim Program:
https://www.noi.org/muslim-program/
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4. We want our people in America whose parents or grandparents were descendants from slaves, to be allowed to establish a separate state or territory of their own–either on this continent or elsewhere. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to provide such land and that the area must be fertile and minerally rich. We believe that our former slave masters are obligated to maintain and supply our needs in this separate territory for the next 20 to 25 years–until we are able to produce and supply our own needs.
Since we cannot get along with them in peace and equality, after giving them 400 years of our sweat and blood and receiving in return some of the worst treatment human beings have ever experienced, we believe our contributions to this land and the suffering forced upon us by white America, justifies our demand for complete separation in a state or territory of our own.
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I memorialized the above, with screenshots, on ESMBR at:
https://exscn2.net/threads/scientology-field-staff-member-and-scientology-commendation-winner-nation-of-islam-sister-renata-muhammad-attacks-imposter-jews.1574/post-78847
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So they want their former slave masters to make amends for bringing their relatives here and giving them jobs. Okay, lets dig those slave masters out of their graves so they can do this. Come up to present time folks.
Also, from my personal knowledge in all my years working in government what these folks are asking for is the same as all so many of them have been getting from the government for decades. Welfare, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, HUD; housing subsidies, food stamps and so on. So now they wish us to add a free state or country to the pile.
I vote no and again ask; Come up to present time folks.
Quite true Mike.
In all my decades in the cult I only knew two black members; husband and wife named Lutin and Alethia Taylor. They didn’t last long but I don’t know why.
“It’s ironic that they would target the African-American community because the current leader of Scientology, David Miscavige, is a racist – a racist in extremis – as well as his South African companion, Norman Starkey. I was the only African-American that I know of that ever achieved a high position within Scientology. And even then, I was continually subjected to racial slurs by David Miscavige and Norman Starkey to the point where we nearly came to blows about it. ‘Nigger’, ‘dumb nigger’, this kind, constantly. L. Ron Hubbard himself is on tape giving lectures speaking about how stupid African-Americans are and how they can’t be cleared, and the best thing to do is to just put ’em all on a barge and dump ’em in the middle of the water, just kill them, you know, genocide, as well as the Arabs; he found these people to be quite useless. That they would put on the facade that they even care about these people, to me, is just more of the deep deception. Just another example of the deep deception and the lengths they will go to accomplish their purpose.” – Jesse Prince.
MWestern, good points. The church also doesn’t believe in God or Jesus yet they build the Winter Wonderland every Christmas and try to look mainstream religion through that lie. Re blacks, in the 80’sand 90’s there was a black group in Scn in LA called Ebony or Ebony Awakening or something like that. There were only like 6 to 8 members of it.
If it’s more santa’s grotto than baby jesus then, for me, it’s no biggie. Christmas is neither exclusively christian nor religious. If they have a nativity or any specific christian iconography then that’s entirely different. But fake snow and fairy lights? Meh.
If you ask a Scn, “Does your religion believe in God?” They will lie through their teeth and say “yes” just to make Scn look mainstream. They don’t tell you about the tapes where LRH is recorded saying that Jesus was a pedophile and that Christianity is an implant called “The Heavens Implant.”
The concept of “god”, its nature and significance is not exclusively defined by christianity. Hubbard’s description of theta as a life force, for example, is not that far off from qi/chi (chinese philosophy, taoism) or prana (hinduism). The thetan as a “fallen god” is not entirely dissimilar to some of the guff found in the abrahamic faiths, thus arguably appropriated from the ancient religions of rome, greece and mesopotamia.
If a scientologist answers “yes” to that question and another says “no”, both can be correct – regardless of where they are on the bridge. Evaluating spiritual concepts solely through a christian lens is kinda reductive, imho.
I was the Freewinds Mechanics Chief for 16 years and before the Original Maiden Voyage in June 88 DM and his execs came to the ship. The 1st Engineer Rod McNocher was a South African and when the execs came into the Engine Control room he had left a sjambok, a South African whip on the Control panel. When Cmdr Starkey saw it he grabbed it and was swinging it around and cursing in Africans about Kaffirs (blacks). Since I do not speak Africans I do not know what he said but he was making the motions of striking Kaffirs with it. As I recall DM was laughing.
Scientology overall is a white supremist Cult that attracts a few token blacks and orientals in the Cult however, it is for PR only.
If you are a dentist, vet or chiropractor, Scientology does not discriminate. Money is green and Scientology loves green money. That is all Scientology loves. It hates people of any color. The evidence of 69 years of damaged people with lives ruined.
Scientology is for white people who have a lot of money or are willing to work for nothing for a billion years. Scientology tricks and fools people by stating you can be in any religion and still do Scientology. “It’s a religion for other religions”. That is a lie. You cannot be in any other religion or practice anything else. They will allow it in the beginning until they have you trapped by signing contracts or money on account. Lots and lots of money on account.
Scientology Traps people by getting them invested with time and money.
Scientology uses mind control methods. Hypnosis is a clever one.
The repeater technique is used to penetrate your reactive mind (subconscious) mind so Scientology can implant the ideas and beliefs which will futher trap you.
NOI is a black supremist Cult that does not allow any other race or religion in the organization.
Scientology is a Cult that allows a few gays in for PR only but LRH policies and technology state Homosexuals and Transgenders are low toned and are 1.1 covertly hostile and not to be trusted.
NOI exploits nice good intentioned black people and turns them into racist zealots. Scientology exploits anyone who has the unfortunate experience to get involved.
Beware of these cults. They are very dangerous for one’s well being.
The reason there are so many dentists, vets, and chiropractors in Scn is because when Sterling Management Systems was around (are they still in business?), Sterling used the green on white management tech to grow the practice of dentists, with the hidden agenda of getting all of the owners on the Bridge. Same when they branched out into chiros and vets. It was part of the Sterline Mgmt curriculum when they came to learn the tech, that they would see registrars who would ruin them (find their ruin) and sell them on buying auditing at the org.
Maybe the photos show that people of color have been taken advantage of enough to know a scam when they see one? They have learned from experience to know a bad deal when they spot one and it’s best to say thanks but no thanks to the cult.
Yesterday, I reported elsewhere that, unlike past years, the schedule for the Nation of Islam Saviours Day 2021 events, February 25 – 28, does not disclose that any event utilizes or teaches Dianetics or Scientology Tech.
However, Scientology Purification Rundown Completion Nation of Islam Sister Amatullah Sabreen notes that NOI Minister Ishmael Muhammad discussed Dianetics Auditing. Based on this, Sister Amatullah advises: “Take what the Messenger of God has approved for you to take!”
https://facebook.com/groups/DianeticallySpeaking/permalink/3575521739213484/
Minister Ishmael participated in the seminar on Disaster Preparedness. At 2:03:14 in the video of part one of the seminar he indeed makes a point of promoting Dianetics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzyKr43ND48&t=123m14s
The statement by Minister Ishmael is particularly significant because he is the Nation of Islam National Assistant Minister to Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Minister at Mosque Maryam, the headquarters of the NOI. A 2011 New York Times story states that he “is sometimes considered the most likely successor” to Minister Farrakhan.
I memorialized the above, with screenshots, on ESMBR at:
https://exscn2.net/threads/members-of-the-nation-of-islam-are-practicing-the-religion-of-scientology.55/page-16#post-78817
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Hey, RTC has an Asian guy in the photo. And they used to have a Black guy before Miscavige got rid of him.
I believe the Asian guy was named Nori Matsumaru – no doubt Mike or anyone else who was at Int would know far more than I. He was a finance officer in RTC for many years before leaving in 2008. He was interviewed for a Tampa Bay Times story about The Hole in 2013, along with John Brousseau and a certain Mike Rinder (Nori was never in The Hole himself, but witnessed a lot of its goings-on from outside).
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2013/01/13/confess-cower-crawl/