Positives From The Black Corner

I have been arrested by a revelation that is not new, just obscure, and hidden. Its obscurity is mainly because noted scholars have done no work on it. It is hidden because it seems to be a subject that the scholars avoid, like a plague.

The revelation is that the Holy Bible is essentially a Black History Book and the bible characters, which Christians and Jews have studied across the years, are Black folk. It troubles me that there is not much in print concerning this truth. I have a personal library of some 8,000 books and 95% of them were written by white scholars. My anguish is in the fact that white scholars have covered every biblical subject under the sun, but none, to my knowledge, have done a scholarly work on Blacks in the bible. Why is that subject taboo? With all the corroborating evidence within the Holy Bible, why is there no scholarly work from the white community on Blacks in the bible. I issue a challenge to my white Christian brothers to do a fair 10

and scholarly work on Blacks in the bible. Produce that work for all ethnic communities and you may be surprised as to how potent it will be in the solving of the race problem confronting our times.

In the mean time, I prepare this work as a proclamation of a revelation that refuses to let me go. I write not as the scholar on the subject of Blacks in the bible, just a preaching pastor given a revelation from God, with a mandate to publish it. I hope that this work will provoke thought, issue challenge and serve as a 'primer of the scholarly pump' that moves Black and White scholars in particular and the Christian community in general to view the Holy Bible as a Black history book. I also write to help lift the self-esteem of my people who have been and are treated as if they are second-class citizens even in this twentieth century. It is lifting to know that the bible is all about Black folk.