Der Wachtturm vom 15. Oktober 1956 antwortete auf eine Resolution der American Baptist Association zugunsten der Rassentrennung, vertrat, „far from teaching segregation, the Bible condemns it“, und wies den Fluch über Kanaan als Erklärung für die Stellung schwarzer Menschen zurück, führte schwarze Menschen aber weiterhin auf einen namentlich genannten Sohn Hams zurück, auf Kusch.

The Watchtower, “Is God a Segregationist?”

15. Oktober 1956 · pp.611-613 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“Some people argue that the colored race was sentenced to a secondary status by Noah after the flood, in that he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham. However, the facts show that the colored race sprang not from Ham's son Canaan but from his son Cush. Therefore not even Noah's curse as recorded at Genesis 9:26, 27 can be used to argue that God is responsible for segregation. … Far from teaching segregation, the Bible condemns it.”

The article answers a 1956 resolution of the American Baptist Association which had put God on the side of segregation. It rejects each of the resolution's four points and says all the variations in human skin colour were available in the genes of the first man and woman. It also says the Christian "does not spend his time trying to solve all such social problems, because neither Jesus nor the apostles took such a course".

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