Should we embrace or reject the Bible?

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]about having read the whole Bible, but you didn't read the whole Bible if you skipped THE MIDDLE PASSAGE.

[00:00:06]TELL ME ABOUT THE SLAVE BIBLE.

[00:00:09]TELL ME ABOUT THE SLAVE BIBLE. OH, SO NOW WE HAVE AMNESIA. OBJECTION. 90% OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AND HALF OF THE NEW WERE HEAVILY EDITED, FORCING ENSLAVED AFRICANS TO READ SCRIPTURE TOLD OF JOSEPH'S CAPTIVITY, BUT LEFT THE PART WHERE MOSES LED THE ISRAELITES TO FREEDOM. OBJECTION. ANSWER THE QUESTION.

[00:00:29]Does God know of how you Bible studied black skin sinking in the Atlantic like a protest song? Not Jesus enough to walk on water, but savior enough to build a nation in shackles while you rewrote these chapters, crossed out racist, rapist, body whipping, bone breaking, BIBLE THUMPING LIAR. DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT take the Bible out of context by taking black folk out its very text?

[00:00:57]And 400 years later, still black, still Bible only existed when black ink met white empty pages, still pictures of white Jesus hang happily in our mothers' homes, and still we fail to see the connection. Objection sustained.

[00:01:17]You sold us a god that looks just like you.

[00:01:22]That way, we will always depend on you to save us.

[00:01:28]Nothing further.

[00:01:30]You know, great statements, but I'm not exactly sure what his message is.

[00:01:35]In one hand on one hand, you could take his message as black people need to reject the Bible.

[00:01:40]On the other hand, you can take his statements as black people need to understand that the Bible that you have is not a Bible for black people, and that we should have a Bible for black people. And many people run to the Ethiopian Bible for this, thinking that it is something that is for black people.

[00:01:58]They have black pictures and things of that nature.

[00:02:02]So, I'm not quite sure of what his message actually is.

[00:02:07]But, let's just take account of some of the things that he did bring up and that he did say. Now, I think that some of there is a little bit off and this is why I don't quite get him.

[00:02:15]Great speaker.

[00:02:17]But, when you look at the Bible and you say to yourself that well, the Bible they took out all the black people within the Bible and they replaced them with white people and they have taught you to have a white savior. I 100% agree with that. This is what they what has been done to the Bible that the they've been Europeanized.

[00:02:36]But, that doesn't mean that the Bible is for you.

[00:02:39]It doesn't mean that.

[00:02:42]And how can you be a people who derive most of your ancestry from West Africa, which never had any contact with anyone from the Bible, is not represented by anyone in the Bible until colonization happens in the 1500s.

[00:02:55]You see, my ancestors were not part of the Exodus.

[00:02:58]He mentioned the Exodus, but my ancestors were not part of the Exodus because my ancestors never came from the Levant. My ancestors did not come from Egypt. My ancestors did not come from Ethiopia. My ancestors came from none of those places. They never had any contact with any story of the Bible until then.

[00:03:15]Now, I understand why the slave Bible take the Exodus story out. But, my understanding is that is not may may not be the same understanding that you have.

[00:03:23]Were the white man afraid that black people would think that there's that a charismatic leader would pop up and that would be a Moses and take you out of the slavery?

[00:03:32]That's a valid point.

[00:03:34]But, that's not the real point.

[00:03:36]The real point of taking Exodus out of the Bible and put and out of the the the Bible and giving it putting out of the slave Bible, sorry.

[00:03:45]Is the fact that what happened after the Exodus.

[00:03:49]You see, after the Exodus Joshua went about conquering. Joshua went about enslaving other cultures around them. You see, the real fear was that the black people, the slaves, would read those stories of the Exodus and read those stories of Joshua. And just like Haiti, because the black the Negro Bible did not come to the Americas.

[00:04:11]It was in the Caribbean.

[00:04:14]But it didn't come to the Americas until after the Haitian revolt.

[00:04:19]And the Haitian revolt, they kicked them out, established their own nation.

[00:04:24]That's what they feared by the reading of the Exodus Bible. That um is the fact that if the black Americans and the black South Americans would form their own nation and then enslave those who enslaved them. That was the real fear.

[00:04:42]Not just in leaving or in Exodus.

[00:04:44]That's the real fear.

[00:04:47]But like I said, it didn't happen until after the Haitian Revolution. Before that, Bibles that was given to slaves to preach to other slaves had those stories in there.

[00:05:01]So, we put a lot of emphasis on the slave Bible and when it came out, but you really got to look at the year, 1806.

[00:05:07]That's when the slave Bible came to the shores of America.

[00:05:10]They were in the Caribbean, but it was 1806.

[00:05:13]The [snorts] letters of how to build a Negro Negro Christian it was in the Caribbean.

[00:05:19]Didn't come to the Americas till later.

[00:05:21]John Lynch letters didn't come to the Americas till later. So, we have this I mean, Willie Lynch. Didn't John Lynch, the football player. Didn't have those in the black American society of slavery until then.

[00:05:35]So, I'm not exactly sure where he's coming from with his statements on that one. They seem to be off as if you're supposed to follow the Bible.

[00:05:42]You're supposed to listen to the Bible.

[00:05:44]But if that's the case, then black people all over the world.

[00:05:50]Those who are in colonizations in Africa, those who have been in the diaspora, you are not supposed to just find your place in those societies. No.

[00:05:59]You're supposed to find your own nation.

[00:06:01]And then according to the stories in Joshua, he told the 12 tribes of Israel Israel, go in and kill everyone who is in your promised land.

[00:06:11]For those you cannot kill, force them into labor.

[00:06:16]For the citizen civilizations around you, you get your slaves and you put them into enslave put them into slavery. You do not just kill them, the men, the fighting men.

[00:06:26]You kill the women and the babies. You kill all of them.

[00:06:30]And in some instances, you can take the women who have not known a man and make them into your wives.

[00:06:35]Is that the That's the real message if you want people to still read this Bible and think that black people who are in the diaspora, black people in Africa, in West Africa, cuz Africa's huge.

[00:06:47]You can't just say that Africans in Egypt makes up the Africans throughout the rest of Africa. The Africans in Ethiopia makes up the Africans throughout the rest of Africa. Africa's huge.

[00:06:57]And my ancestors have nothing to do with the Bible.

[00:07:00]But you cannot say that they just free themselves. No. They must enslave. They must commit genocide. They must take little girls and make them into their wives.

[00:07:10]That's the message if you want black people to stay with this book.

[00:07:13]So I'm not exactly sure. Part of me thinks that he's saying that we should just disengage ourselves from the Bible completely. And I would agree with that 100%.

[00:07:21]The Bible has absolutely nothing to do with the overwhelming majority of people in the world.

[00:07:26]But if he's saying that we should just rewrite or rethink the Bible, there in lies the major issue, the major problem.

[00:07:33]Because Yahweh never came to the rescue of the West Africans. Now I know there's going to be an Hebrew Israelite who's going to say that oh we were there because we suffered through 400 years because we were cursed. It's even worse.

[00:07:47]>> [snorts] >> To be cursed by your God for generations that had nothing to do with not following this God. To be cursed into the transatlantic slave trade, the trans-Saharan slave trade.

[00:07:59]>> [snorts] >> It's worse than the people who say that slavery had to happen in order for God to come to us.

[00:08:08]That the result is the goodness of God.

[00:08:11]I want you to go tell that to a woman who was raped.

[00:08:15]And say that well, she had to be raped in order to have her son, her daughter.

[00:08:20]That's the way your God operates. Go tell that to people who during the Jim Crow era say that well, they had to be treated like children and treated like cattle and even in a society that said that they were free.

[00:08:32]But they had to fight and let dogs be sicked upon them, let policemen beat them, let firemen point hoses at them.

[00:08:37]They had to go through that so that God can bless them with the civil rights civil rights bill.

[00:08:45]Does that sound right? Does that make any sense?

[00:08:48]That a good God would put his children through slavery in order for them 400 years later who had absolutely no nothing to do with that.

[00:08:56]I've actually had older black people who have said to me that they thank God for African colonization and slavery because otherwise their people would have not known of the God of the Bible.

[00:09:07]Our people were better off without the God of the Bible.

[00:09:10]Our people were better off believing and worshiping their own gods. Matter of fact, the revolution of 1804 in Haiti, they went back to their orishas. They went back to their ancestral gods.

[00:09:20]And through that motivation, cuz I'm not saying their gods had anything to do with it, but through that motivation, they conquered and they established themselves as a free nation. Now, they allowed for the Europeans to financially devastate them thereafter.

[00:09:35]They didn't finish the job and they're still not finishing the job.

[00:09:39]But to say that you need this guy, this guy is doing all this for your benefit, for my benefit, it's so ridiculous. That my ancestors suffered because of this guy? No.

[00:09:50]That's Stockholm Syndrome. That's cognitive dissonance. So, I'm not sure of that young man's message. Maybe y'all understood him and I didn't. But always remember you have to free yourself to be yourself because your greatness is non-negotiable.