How to Read the Bible

HOW TO READ THE BIBLE Contemplating the large number of black men who have been freed following the discovery that they were routinely wrongly convicted by law enforcement figures based on tainted, withheld or coerced evidence, brings to mind the even greater number of them that were not freed, but were killed by prison authorities or white racist lynch mobs since the end of slavery! The so-called "Slaughter of the Innocents," therefore, is not confined to Bible lore, or to Jesus Christ, it also pertains to African American life and history. Therefore when we read the Bible it is paramount that we read and interpret it through the ever-pregnant prism of our own peculiarly remarkable experience and of our stellar and still unfolding deliverance!