Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard has been accused of harboring racist views; in a letter to his first wife, Polly Grubb, Hubbard wrote "You shouldn’t be scrubbing the floor on your hands and knees. Get yourself a nigger; that’s what they’re born for." Hubbard also strongly defended the apartheid system in South Africa and reportedly considered founding his own all-white colony on the continent. He also spoke ill of Asians, saying "The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here".
There are however some African-American followers of Scientology including Isaac Hayes, a soul singer and the voice of Chef in the animated series South Park. An African-American former high-ranking Scientologist, Jesse Prince, has claimed that current Church leaders David Miscavige and Norman Starkey repeatedly called him racial slurs. The Johannesburg Sec check reportedly included the question "Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color?" amongst other questions asking about arson, embezzlement, incest, and other crimes.