There were many salesmen (almost all men) who held weekly sales pitches to crowds interested in the limited lifetime offers. In exchange, the audience members pledged to pay membership dues and recruit new members. No one called it a multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme.
Some spokespersons passed out small brochures to potential customers near places of business. Others advertised by shouting at street corners like newsboys. Many slandered competing businesses, even those that have been witnessed firsthand and were leaving them behind in the dust. Other spokespersons and even club members derided customers of those other successful businesses, mostly because they didn’t have the same sort of club rules.
But this exclusive country club for whites only that no one could actually testify to was persistent.
Once you pledged your membership, the club slowly asked for more and more of your time and individuality. In insidious doses that would go unnoticed, the club officers would correct members on right and wrong morality according to the club rules, which became more and more intricate as one became more and more indoctrinated.
This exclusive country club for whites only that no one could actually testify to was insatiable.
If a member was in any way the least bit not obedient to the club rules or club officer, a number of different psychological measures would be used to help correct the member and bring them back in line. Fear, intimidation, shame, and deception were the most common and effective. But once the word got out that they used these tactics, people started seeing the MLM for what it was. The house of cards, the pyramid scheme, started to crumble under its own weight without the support of gullible sheep anymore.
This exclusive country club for whites only that no one could actually testify to was inhumane.
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