
Accepting the Call from the Nation of Islam
for Unity of the Black and RedThe Seven Creeds Society responds to Minister Louis Farrakhan's Message of July, 1986
BOY SCOUTS- INDIAN DRESS UP AND RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
We ask the Nation of Islam to spread a parental warning about the Boy Scouts who do not help old ladies across the street but do force Native American religions into the role of entertainment mascots.
The Boy Scouts of America buy and sell Native American religious symbols. They masquerade as "Indians" at every opportunity. Yet, they are loath to teach children the religious significance of the symbols they toy with. This is mockery of a living peoples spiritual beliefs which is put upon young impressionable children just as Hitler taught racial supremacy and bigotry through his Youth Corps. He did this through camps, outings and sporting events influencing the youth of Germany for decades.
"Avoid using any American Indian content that could have a religious connotation including dances and ceremonies." -Boy Scout policy toward Native American Religion
Look at the Official Boy Scout Catalogue under "religious publications", Jewish, Protestant and Catholic religious documents provide denominational guidance on being a boy scout. However, you will find Native American religious symbols treated as toys. They are in the back of the catalogue under crafts and lore and are sold as trinkets and "projects". Just to be sure Jewish and Christian bigotry are the sole dominating influence in Boy Scouting the national policy forbids Native American religions to be taught or have a presence. This tradition of dressing up in "red face" is the same as black Americans will remember in their own history of treatment in the boy scouts only a few years ago.
These words tell the real Native American child, "You do not fit here, better stay away." This supremacist organization abuses the spiritual meaning of Native American religious symbols, denigrating them, reducing them to a level of crafts and calling them "lore". This influential youth organization considers the living religion of Native American people to be down on a level with animals. To show their contempt for our religion, the Boy Scouts carefully segregate them from Catholic, Protestant and Jewish extremist symbols which enjoy a privileged endorsement as religions to be integrated into a boy's everyday life.
The truth is these religions are known to commit genocide against others. They work, not in love and care but in total domination over Black and Red children. They are bent on demeaning and degrading the Native American and his religion. They embrace the fascist and the religious extremists' systematic methods of influencing children when they are young by using mockery and the legacy of hatred. This violence against Native Americans is well documented because of military attack, Church suppression of Native religions in reservation and public schools. This is the same tactical plan that is used in Israel's domination over and denial of religious equality for Islamic people in the Middle East. Religious extremists go around denying religious freedom to Black and Red races through out the world.
In the United States religious bigotry is institutionalized and packaged to children as a life long pastime.
The racial supremacist takes your children while they are young. They are lured into participating in ethnic hate through games, ceremonies and summer camps.
If you do not believe in the dignity of others
you do not deserve the dignity of your own.
We challenge any Boy Scout official
whether they be "Indian" or not to sit and talk with us on these things.
Contemporary Boy Scout "history" celebrates their founder, Col. Adam Baden Powell's participation in the genocide of Africans.
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