What the Bible Really Says When You Remove the Colonizer’s Lens
By 19Keys
They handed us the Bible in chains.
But what they didn’t expect was that we’d decode it.
That we’d find ourselves between the lines, beneath the translations, and beyond the filters.
Because here’s the truth:
The Bible, read without European bias, is not a book of oppression, it’s a record of resistance.
I. The Bible Is an Afro-Asiatic Archive
Before it was called the “Word of God,” the Bible was a geopolitical document.
It wasn’t born in Europe.
It wasn’t born in seminaries.
It was born in the heat of empire, in Egypt, Ethiopia, Babylon, Palestine, and Nubia.
These aren’t Bible stories. These are African maps, spiritual blueprints, and trauma logs of displaced Indigenous people.
Read without distortion, the Bible reveals:
• Moses was raised in Kemet (Africa), not Europe
• Jesus fled to Egypt as a child, not Rome
• The Queen of Sheba wasn’t a myth, she was Ethiopian royalty, not a side character
You remove the bias, and what do you find?
You find a story of Black prophecy, divine rebellion, and sacred survival.
II. Jesus Was Not the Founder of Western Religion, He Was a Revolutionary Under Occupation
Let’s stop pretending.
The only physical description we get of Jesus is:
“Hair like wool, feet like burnt brass” — Revelation 1:14–15
Not blonde.
Not blue-eyed.
Wool-textured hair. Burned bronze skin. Afro-Asiatic in every sense.
He was born under Roman military occupation.
He flipped temple tables, criticized religious elites, and taught economic independence.
If we read the Bible with clear eyes, Jesus doesn’t look like a European savior—he looks like a 1st-century freedom fighter from the Global South.
III. Black American Christians Are Practicing Something Entirely Different
What the enslavers gave us wasn’t Christianity.
It was control theology.
But what we built out of it?
That was Black Hoodoo-encoded spiritual science.
We turned:
• Psalms into spells
• Anointing oil into protection rituals
• Catching the Holy Ghost into Kongo-style possession
• The ring shout into cosmological invocation
This isn’t “the Black church.”
This is ancestral energy disguised as Christian praise.
IV. The Real Bible Isn’t About Obedience, It’s About Liberation
The stories of:
• Hebrew slaves under Pharaoh
• Daniel in Babylonian captivity
• Early Christians evading Roman persecution
These aren’t religious metaphors.
They’re diaspora-coded resistance narratives.
You remove the lens of racial bias, and the Bible becomes a liberation text, not a submission manual.
V. What Would Change If We Read It With Clear Eyes?
• We’d stop worshiping whiteness as holiness
• We’d stop believing that poverty is a virtue
• We’d stop waiting for heaven and start building Black sovereign futures now
We’d see:
• Jesus as the spiritual prototype of sovereignty under surveillance
• The Israelites as culturally intact people resisting erasure
• The prophets as truth-tellers calling out systemic corruption
The church would become a high-frequency headquarters,
Not a place to escape reality,
But a place to reprogram it.
Final Keyism Thought:
“When you remove the colonizer’s eyes from scripture, you start seeing God in your own reflection. Not in robes from Rome, but in wool, in melanin, in fire, in power.”
The Bible wasn’t meant to enslave you.
It was meant to awaken you.
And once we read it with clean lenses, we reclaim the divine as our inheritance.
Keyism.
