EVERY BLACK MAN SHOULD KNOW THE STORY OF Willie Lynch: The Making of a Slave

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He was a slave owner from the west Indies that went to the U.S. when he heard that the south slave owners were having problems with their slaves running away. He gave speeches in the south to teach slave owners how to make the perfect slave by mentally destroying the black man and women to gain controll:smh:..... it's a good read....and its also sad because this mentality still last today..There were others, that did the same thing later on


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This speech was delivered by Willie Lynch on the bank of the James River in the colony of Virginia in 1712. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies. He was invited to the colony of Virginia in 1712 to teach his methods to slave owners there. The term “lynching” is derived from his last name.

[beginning of the Willie Lynch Letter]

Greetings,

Gentlemen. I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies, where I have experimented with some of the newest, and still the oldest, methods for control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish, I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasions. I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree, a couple miles back. You are not only losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here, I HAVE A FULL PROOF METHOD FOR CONTROLLING YOUR BLACK SLAVES. I guarantee every one of you that, if installed correctly, IT WILL CONTROL THE SLAVES FOR AT LEAST 300 HUNDREDS YEARS. My method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer can use it. I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences and think about them. On top of my list is “AGE,” but it’s there only because it starts with an “a.” The second is “COLOR” or shade. There is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZES OF PLANTATIONS, STATUS on plantations, ATTITUDE of owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, course hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action, but before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST AND ENVY STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION. The Black slaves after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for HUNDREDS of years, maybe THOUSANDS. Don’t forget, you must pitch the OLD black male vs. the YOUNG black male, and the YOUNG black male against the OLD black male. You must use the DARK skin slaves vs. the LIGHT skin slaves, and the LIGHT skin slaves vs. the DARK skin slaves. You must use the FEMALE vs. the MALE, and the MALE vs. the FEMALE. You must also have white servants and overseers [who] distrust all Blacks. But it is NECESSARY THAT YOUR SLAVES TRUST AND DEPEND ON US. THEY MUST LOVE, RESPECT AND TRUST ONLY US. Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. IF USED INTENSELY FOR ONE YEAR, THE SLAVES THEMSELVES WILL REMAIN PERPETUALLY DISTRUSTFUL. Thank you gentlemen.”

LET’S MAKE A SLAVE

It was the interest and business of slave holders to study human nature, and the slave nature in particular, with a view to practical results. I and many of them attained astonishing proficiency in this direction. They had to deal not with earth, wood and stone, but with men and, by every regard, they had for their own safety and prosperity they needed to know the material on which they were to work, conscious of the injustice and wrong they were every hour perpetuating and knowing what they themselves would do. Were they the victims of such wrongs? They were constantly looking for the first signs of the dreaded retribution. They watched therefore with skilled and practiced eyes, and learned to read with great accuracy, the state of mind and heart of the slave, through his sable face. Unusual sobriety, apparent abstractions, sullenness and indifference indeed, any mood out of the common was afforded ground for suspicion and inquiry. Frederick Douglas LET’S MAKE A SLAVE is a study of the scientific process of man-breaking and slave-making. It describes the rationale and results of the Anglo Saxons’ ideas and methods of insuring the master/slave relationship. LET’S MAKE A SLAVE “The Original and Development of a Social Being Called ‘The Negro.’” Let us make a slave. What do we need? First of all, we need a black ****** man, a pregnant ****** woman and her baby ****** boy. Second, we will use the same basic principle that we use in breaking a horse, combined with some more sustaining factors. What we do with horses is that we break them from one form of life to another; that is, we reduce them from their natural state in nature. Whereas nature provides them with the natural capacity to take care of their offspring, we break that natural string of independence from them and thereby create a dependency status, so that we may be able to get from them useful production for our business and pleasure.

CARDINAL PRINCIPLES FOR MAKING A NEGRO

For fear that our future generations may not understand the principles of breaking both of the beast together, the ****** and the horse. We understand that short range planning economics results in periodic economic chaos; so that to avoid turmoil in the economy, it requires us to have breadth and depth in long range comprehensive planning, articulating both skill sharp perceptions. We lay down the following principles for long range comprehensive economic planning. Both horse and ******s [are] no good to the economy in the wild or natural state. Both must be BROKEN and TIED together for orderly production. For orderly future, special and particular attention must be paid to the FEMALE and the YOUNGEST offspring. Both must be CROSSBRED to produce a variety and division of labor. Both must be taught to respond to a peculiar new LANGUAGE. Psychological and physical instruction of CONTAINMENT must be created for both. We hold the six cardinal principles as truth to be self-evident, based upon following the discourse concerning the economics of breaking and tying the horse and the ****** together, all inclusive of the six principles laid down above. NOTE: Neither principle alone will suffice for good economics. All principles must be employed for orderly good of the nation. Accordingly, both a wild horse and a wild or natur[al] ****** is dangerous even if captured, for they will have the tendency to seek their customary freedom and, in doing so, might kill you in your sleep. You cannot rest. They sleep while you are awake, and are awake while you are asleep. They are DANGEROUS near the family house and it requires too much labor to watch them away from the house. Above all, you cannot get them to work in this natural state. Hence, both the horse and the ****** must be broken; that is breaking them from one form of mental life to another. KEEP THE BODY, TAKE THE MIND! In other words, break the will to resist. Now the breaking process is the same for both the horse and the ******, only slightly varying in degrees. But, as we said before, there is an art in long range economic planning. YOU MUST KEEP YOUR EYE AND THOUGHTS ON THE FEMALE and the OFFSPRING of the horse and the ******. A brief discourse in offspring development will shed light on the key to sound economic principles. Pay little attention to the generation of original breaking, but CONCENTRATE ON FUTURE GENERATION. Therefore, if you break the FEMALE mother, she will BREAK the offspring in its early years of development; and when the offspring is old enough to work, she will deliver it up to you, for her normal female protective tendencies will have been lost in the original breaking process. For example, take the case of the wild stud horse, a female horse and an already infant horse and compare the breaking process with two captured ****** males in their natural state, a pregnant ****** woman with her infant offspring. Take the stud horse, break him for limited containment. Completely break the female horse until she becomes very gentle, whereas you or anybody can ride her in her comfort. Breed the mare and the stud until you have the desired offspring. Then, you can turn the stud to freedom until you need him again. Train the female horse whereby she will eat out of your hand, and she will in turn train the infant horse to eat out of your hand, also. When it comes to breaking the uncivilized ******, use the same process, but vary the degree and step up the pressure, so as to do a complete reversal of the mind. Take the meanest and most restless ******, strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male ******s, the female, and the ****** infant, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse faced in opposite directions, set him afire and beat both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining ******s. The next step is to take a bullwhip and beat the remaining ****** males to the point of death, in front of the female and the infant. Don’t kill him, but PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN HIM, for he can be useful for future breeding.

THE BREAKING PROCESS OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN:smh:

Take the female and run a series of tests on her to see if she will submit to your desires willingly. Test her in every way, because she is the most important factor for good economics. If she shows any sign of resistance in submitting completely to your will, do not hesitate to use the bullwhip on her to extract that last bit of [b----] out of her. Take care not to kill her, for in doing so, you spoil good economics. When in complete submission, she will train her offsprings in the early years to submit to labor when they become of age. Understanding is the best thing. Therefore, we shall go deeper into this area of the subject matter concerning what we have produced here in this breaking process of the female ******. We have reversed the relationship; in her natural uncivilized state, she would have a strong dependency on the uncivilized ****** male, and she would have a limited protective tendency toward her independent male offspring and would raise male offsprings to be dependent like her. Nature had provided for this type of balance. We reversed nature by burning and pulling a civilized ****** apart and bullwhipping the other to the point of death, all in her presence. By her being left alone, unprotected, with the MALE IMAGE DESTROYED, the ordeal caused her to move from her psychologically dependent state to a frozen, independent state. In this frozen, psychological state of independence, she will raise her MALE and female offspring in reversed roles. For FEAR of the young male’s life, she will psychologically train him to be MENTALLY WEAK and DEPENDENT, but PHYSICALLY STRONG. Because she has become psychologically independent, she will train her FEMALE offsprings to be psychologically independent. What have you got? You’ve got the ****** WOMAN OUT FRONT AND THE ****** MAN BEHIND AND SCARED. This is a perfect situation of sound sleep and economics. Before the breaking process, we had to be alertly on guard at all times. Now, we can sleep soundly, for out of frozen fear his woman stands guard for us. He cannot get past her early slave-molding process. He is a good tool, now ready to be tied to the horse at a tender age. By the time a ****** boy reaches the age of sixteen, he is soundly broken in and ready for a long life of sound and efficient work and the reproduction of a unit of good labor force. Continually through the breaking of uncivilized savage ******s, by throwing the ****** female savage into a frozen psychological state of independence, by killing the protective male image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind of the ****** male slave, we have created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and re-shifts the position of the male and female slaves. We show what we mean by example. Take the case of the two economic slave units and examine them close.

THE NEGRO MARRIAGE

We breed two ****** males with two ****** females. Then, we take the ****** male away from them and keep them moving and working. Say one ****** female bears a ****** female and the other bears a ****** male; both ****** females—being without influence of the ****** male image, frozen with a independent psychology—will raise their offspring into reverse positions. The one with the female offspring will teach her to be like herself, independent and negotiable (we negotiate with her, through her, by her, negotiates her at will). The one with the ****** male offspring, she being frozen subconscious fear for his life, will raise him to be mentally dependent and weak, but physically strong; in other words, body over mind. Now, in a few years when these two offsprings become fertile for early reproduction, we will mate and breed them and continue the cycle. That is good, sound and long range comprehensive planning.

WARNING: POSSIBLE INTERLOPING NEGATIVES

Earlier, we talked about the non-economic good of the horse and the ****** in their wild or natural state; we talked out the principle of breaking and tying them together for orderly production. Furthermore, we talked about paying particular attention to the female savage and her offspring for orderly future planning, then more recently we stated that, by reversing the positions of the male and female savages, we created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever unless a phenomenon occurred and reshifts positions of the male and female savages. Our experts warned us about the possibility of this phenomenon occurring, for they say that the mind has a strong drive to correct and re-correct itself over a period of time if it can touch some substantial original historical base; and they advised us that the best way to deal with the phenomenon is to shave off the brute’s mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomena of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit, something similar to floating balls in a vacuum. This creation of multiplicity of phenomena of illusions entails the principle of crossbreeding the ****** and the horse as we stated above, the purpose of which is to create a diversified division of labor; thereby creating different levels of labor and different values of illusion at each connecting level of labor. The results of which is the severance of the points of original beginnings for each sphere illusion. Since we feel that the subject matter may get more complicated as we proceed in laying down our economic plan concerning the purpose, reason and effect of crossbreeding horses and ******s, we shall lay down the following definition terms for future generations. Orbiting cycle means a thing turning in a given path. Axis means upon which or around which a body turns. Phenomenon means something beyond ordinary conception and inspires awe and wonder. Multiplicity means a great number. Means a globe. Crossbreeding a horse means taking a horse and breeding it with an ass and you get a dumb, backward, ass long-headed mule that is not reproductive nor productive by itself. Crossbreeding ******s mean taking so many drops of good white blood and putting them into as many ****** women as possible, varying the drops by the various tone that you want, and then letting them breed with each other until another circle of color appears as you desire. What this means is this: Put the ******s and the horse in a breeding pot, mix some asses and some good white blood and what do you get? You got a multiplicity of colors of ass backward, unusual ******s, running, tied to backward ass long-headed mules, the one productive of itself, the other sterile. (The one constant, the other dying, we keep the ****** constant for we may replace the mules for another tool) both mule and ****** tied to each other, neither knowing where the other came from and neither productive for itself, nor without each other.

CONTROLLED LANGUAGE

Crossbreeding completed, for further severance from their original beginning, WE MUST COMPLETELY ANNIHILATE THE MOTHER TONGUE of both the new ****** and the new mule, and institute a new language that involves the new life’s work of both. You know language is a peculiar institution. It leads to the heart of a people. The more a foreigner knows about the language of another country the more he is able to move through all levels of that society. Therefore, if the foreigner is an enemy of the country, to the extent that he knows the body of the language, to that extent is the country vulnerable to attack or invasion of a foreign culture. For example, if you take a slave, if you teach him all about your language, he will know all your secrets, and he is then no more a slave, for you can’t fool him any longer, and BEING A FOOL IS ONE OF THE BASIC INGREDIENTS OF ANY INCIDENTS TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SLAVERY SYSTEM. For example, if you told a slave that he must perform in getting out “our crops” and he knows the language well, he would know that “our crops” didn’t mean “our crops” and the slavery system would break down, for he would relate on the basis of what “our crops” really meant. So you have to be careful in setting up the new language; for the slaves would soon be in your house, talking to you as “man to man” and that is death to our economic system. In addition, the definitions of words or terms are only a minute part of the process. Values are created and transported by communication through the body of the language. A total society has many interconnected value systems. All the values in the society have bridges of language to connect them for orderly working in the society. But for these language bridges, these many value systems would sharply clash and cause internal strife or civil war, the degree of the conflict being determined by the magnitude of the issues or relative opposing strength in whatever form. For example, if you put a slave in a hog pen and train him to live there and incorporate in him to value it as a way of life completely, the biggest problem you would have out of him is that he would worry you about provisions to keep the hog pen clean, or the same hog pen and make a slip and incorporate something in his language whereby he comes to value a house more than he does his hog pen, you got a problem. He will soon be in your house.

Additional Note: “Henty Berry, speaking in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832, described the situation as it existed in many parts of the South at this time: “We have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may enter their (the slaves) minds. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be complete; they would then be on a level with the beasts of the field and we should be safe. I am not certain that we would not do it, if we could find out the process and that on the plea of necessity.” From Brown America, The story of a New Race by Edwin R. Embree. 1931 The Viking Press.
 
Muthafuckas are going to attack this thread saying Willie Lynch has been de-bunked. But, whether he lived or not don't make the principle of the argument not true.
 
Muthafuckas are going to attack this thread saying Willie Lynch has been de-bunked. But, whether he lived or not don't make the principle of the argument not true.

Thank you, now let the hate mail flow. Most will say Dick Gregory said it was hoax perpetrated by the feds. So, what a lot of it is still based on truth.
 
Thanks for even making such a thread but Ive read about him and his letters years ago and every since than I made it a point to do just the opposite.
 
Muthafuckas are going to attack this thread saying Willie Lynch has been de-bunked. But, whether he lived or not don't make the principle of the argument not true.

You're right:yes:...I Don't give a fuck about what people think...some will say it was a Hoax...I say, "take it or leave it":dunno:
 
Muthafuckas are going to attack this thread saying Willie Lynch has been de-bunked. But, whether he lived or not don't make the principle of the argument not true.

then why not just state the basic principles(which historians have done for decades)instead of continuing to crouch it in a story that hs been proven to be untrue?
 
This has been posted several times before, I've even posted it. Let the haters say what they want its still a very important read. Some of it still holds true today.
 
Yup!! Alot of truths in that reading!! My friend's mother is a professor at Georgia State......she made us read this & discussed it with us when I growing up!! I always thank her for exposing this to us when we were younger!!
 
Muthafuckas are going to attack this thread saying Willie Lynch has been de-bunked. But, whether he lived or not don't make the principle of the argument not true.

Stupid-ass, clown-ass, sambo-ass, phony-ass E-Militant!

The REASON that your "logic" is completely FUCKED UP is this:

This Willie Lynch BULLSHIT is a fraud and has been debunked numerous times.

You don't "follow" the Principle of some FRAUDULENT BULLSHIT when there are LIBRARIES & WEB SITES full of LEGIT BLACK HISTORY that goes under-used by African Americans!

If Blacks want "Principles" of Willie Lynch-type shit then they SHOULD GET IT FROM LEGIT HISTORY & LEGIT RESEARCH and not be "satisfied" with some Bullshit-Ass, phony-ass, Urban Myth Bullshit that IS THE WILLIE LYNCH letter.

Niggas like YOU are too easily SATISFIED, rather than being happy with some FAKE-ASS Willie Lynch Bullshit, you SHOULD DEMAND that more Blacks STUDY legit Black History and not be satisfied with a BULLSHIT-ASS INTERNET HOAX, "just because YOU AGREE with it AND IT SOUNDS GOOD"!

Black History here in America is TOO FUCKING IMPORTANT to ignore what is REAL & LEGIT in favor of some FAKE BULLSHIT
just because it "sounds good and you like its Principles"!

GTFOH with that weak-ass BULLSHIT!

MAN THE FUCK UP AND LEARN REAL BLACK HISTORY YOU SHORT-CUT-TAKING, CLIFF-NOTES-LOVING, LAZY ASSHOLE!
 

Stupid-ass, clown-ass, sambo-ass, phony-ass E-Militant!

The REASON that your "logic" is completely FUCKED UP is this:

This Willie Lynch BULLSHIT is a fraud and has been debunked numerous times.

You don't "follow" the Principle of some FRAUDULENT BULLSHIT when there are LIBRARIES & WEB SITES full of LEGIT BLACK HISTORY that goes under-used by African Americans!

If Blacks want "Principles" of Willie Lynch-type shit then they SHOULD GET IT FROM LEGIT HISTORY & LEGIT RESEARCH and not be "satisfied" with some Bullshit-Ass, phony-ass, Urban Myth Bullshit that IS THE WILLIE LYNCH letter.

Niggas like YOU are too easily SATISFIED, rather than being happy with some FAKE-ASS Willie Lynch Bullshit, you SHOULD DEMAND that more Blacks STUDY legit Black History and not be satisfied with a BULLSHIT-ASS INTERNET HOAX, "just because YOU AGREE with it AND IT SOUNDS GOOD"!

Black History here in America is TOO FUCKING IMPORTANT to ignore what is REAL & LEGIT in favor of some FAKE BULLSHIT
just because it "sounds good and you like its Principles"!

GTFOH with that weak-ass BULLSHIT!

MAN THE FUCK UP AND LEARN REAL BLACK HISTORY YOU SHORT-CUT-TAKING, CLIFF-NOTES-LOVING, LAZY ASSHOLE!

This Letter is not a myth...it is real. I get tired of the few handful of people trying to say that it is not real. If it was a myth...then Slavery was a myth. If it was a myth then the KKK was a myth. If it was a myth then racism was a myth. If it was a myth then Obama saying racism is real is a myth. If it was a myth then the Tuskegee project was a myth. If it was a myth then New York asking people to sign a waiver not to sue then over the 9-11 event was a myth. If it was a myth then the CIA allowing or putting drugs in the minority areas was a myth. If it was a myth then FBI or CIA pressuring that old black lady to stab Martin Luther King Jr. was a myth. If it was a myth then for years them portraying Jesus Christ as white was a myth. And this list can go on and on...

Then the same way most read the bible, and most of the stories in it have no real recording of the events actually happening other than other writings in which they were translated from.

Do research...majority of the lessons in that letter actually took place in our slavery history...from the tarring and feathering to the limbs being pulled apart...all the way down to our females being raped...Oh, I guest that was a myth too.

I also guest them taking credit for what our people invented and created most be a myth also. And how long did it take for them to acknowledge it and not hide that anymore?

Wow...I guest in the Constitution our people being ranked as 3/5ths of a white person is a myth too (Article I Section II)?
 
Black folks history in America is a lot more complex than some urban hoax. Hundreds of first hand account slave narratives out there, in the public domain I might add, but black folks still want to believe in a letter first talked about in the 90's.

You give the white man too much credit. Ignorance like this makes him into some kind of Svengali over black folks. Don't people know that there were thousands of slave revolts in just the 50 year period before the Civil War alone? Black folks were not a bunch of childlike, docile automatons. If anything, if you read those slave narratives, it was the slaves who were making fools out of the owners the majority of the time.

What does it say about a person with no formal training learning how to read and write? Does anyone here know why Jim Crow was started in the first place? Black folks as a group, where cleaning lower class whites clocks. In less than a decade after Emancipation, black folks made their greatest leap of progress (percentage wise) socially, politically, and economically that hasn't been matched since.

Go read the late John Hope Franklin's Reconstruction: After The Civil War. Black per capita income increase by almost 50% in less than 8, I repeat, 8 years after the 13th Amendment was passed. White per capita income declined by 35% in the same period. If black folks as a whole had the type of psychological damage described in the Willie Lynch letter, none of what I described would have been possible. This was and still is to this day, the greatest proportionate redistribution of income in US history.

Read
John Hope Franklin's Reconstruction: After The Civil War
Melville J. Herskovits' The Myth Of The Negro Past
Lerone Bennett Jr.'s Before The Mayflower: A History Of Black America
Dr. Claud Anderson's Dirty Little Secrets about Black History, Its Heroes and other Troublemakers, Black Labor, White Wealth: The Search for Power and Economic Justice, and More Dirty Little Secrets, Volume II

which will dispel the all of the myths in the Willie Lynch letter.
 
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I think the danger here is in between the lines of the letter


[*]There's a conspiracy out to get all Africans


[*]Not by the illuminati with 95% of the worlds capital and power but masterminded by forgotten slave owner


[*]And somehow this is so ingenious it STILL affects us today


[*]The everyday white man is holding us down, they are the enemy, take zero personal responsibility


[*]I don't see how reading this letter is gonna help anyone who has already seen the equivalent of Roots:dunno:
 
WHO WROTE THE LYNCH SPEECH?

It is clear that the “Willie Lynch Speech” is a late 20th century invention because of the numerous reasons outlined in this essay. I would advance that the likely candidate for such a superficial speech is an African American male in the 20s-30s age range, who probably minored in Black Studies in college. He had a limited knowledge of 18th century America, but unfortunately he fooled many uncritical Black people.



Some people argue that it doesn’t matter if the speech is fact or fiction, because white people did use tactics to divide us. Of course tactics were used but what advocates of this argument don’t understand is that African people will not solve our problems and address the real issues confronting us by adopting half-baked urban myths. If there are people who know that the Lynch speech is fictional, yet continue to promote it in order to “wake us up,” then we should be very suspicious of these people, who lack integrity and will openly violate trust and willingly lie to our community.



Even if the Willie Lynch mythology were true, the speech is focused on what white slaveholders were doing, and there is no plan, program, or any agenda items for Black people to implement. It is ludicrous to give god-like powers to one white man who allegedly gave a single speech almost 300 years ago, and claim that this is the main reason why Black people have problems among ourselves today! Unfortunately, too often Black people would rather believe a simple and convenient myth, rather than spend the time studying and understanding a situation. Too many of our people want a one-page, simplified Ripley’s Believe It or Not explanation of “what happened.”



WILLIE LYNCH DISTRACTION

While we are distracted by the Willie Lynch urban mythology, the real issues go ignored. There are a number of authentic first-hand written accounts by enslaved Africans, who wrote specifically about the slave conditions and the slavemasters’ system of control. For example, writers such as Olaudah Equiano, Mahommah Baquaqua, and Frederick Douglass wrote penetrating accounts about the tactics of slave control.



Frederick Douglass, for instance, wrote in his autobiography, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, that one of the most diabolical tactics of the American slaveholders was to force the slave workers during their six days off for the Christmas holiday to drink themselves into a drunken stupor and forget about the pain of slavery. Douglass wrote, “It was deemed a disgrace not to get drunk at Christmas; and he was regarded as lazy indeed, who had not provided himself with the necessary means, during the year, to get whiskey enough to last him through Christmas. From what I know of the effects of these holidays upon the slave, I believe them to be the most effective means in the hands of the slaveholder in keeping down the spirit of insurrection. Were the slaveholders at once to abandon this practice, I have not the slightest doubt it would lead to an immediate insurrection among the slaves…. The holidays are part and parcel of the gross fraud, wrong, and inhumanity of slavery.”[4]



Also, many nineteenth century Black writers discussed the specific tactics of the white slaveowners and how they used Christianity to teach the enslaved Africans how to be docile and accept their slave status. The problem with African American and Black British revelry during the Christmas holidays and the blind acceptance of the master’s version of Christianity are no doubt major issues among Black people today. It is certain that both of these problems were initiated and perpetuated during slavery, and they require our immediate attention.



Many people who embrace the Willie Lynch myth have not studied the period of slavery, and have not read the major works or first-hand documents on this issue of African American slavery. Further, as indicated above, the Lynch hoax is so widespread that this fictional speech is amazingly used as required reading by some college instructors. While we are being misled by this fantasy, the real historical data is being ignored. For example, Kenneth Stampp in his important work on slavery in the American South, The Peculiar Institution (1956), uses the historical records to outline the 5 rules for making a slave:



1. Maintain strict discipline.
2. Instill belief of personal inferiority.
3. Develop awe of master’s power ( instill fear).
4. Accept master’s standards of “good conduct.”
5. Develop a habit of perfect dependence.[5]



Primary (first-hand) research is the most effective weapon against the distortion of African history and culture. Primary research training is the best defense against urban legends and modern myths. It is now time for critical thinkers to bury the decade-old mythology of “William Lynch.”

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NOTES



1. For example, see: Lawanda Staten, How to Kill Your Willie Lynch (1997); Kashif Malik Hassan-el, The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave (1999); Marc Sims, Willie Lynch: Why African-Americans Have So Many Issues! (2002); Alvin Morrow, Breaking the Curse of Willie Lynch (2003); and Slave Chronicles, The Willie Lynch Letter and the Destruction of Black Unity (2004).



2. See: www.umsl.edu/services/library/blackstudies/narrate.htm



3. For this quote and the general Anne Taylor email exchanges regarding the authenticity of the Willie Lynch speech, see: www.umsl.edu/services/library/blackstudies/winbail.htm



4. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), p. 84.



5. Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956), pp. 144-48.





*Prof. Manu Ampim is an Historian and Primary (first-hand) Researcher specializing in African & African American history and culture. He is also a professor of Africana Studies. He can be reached at:

PO Box 18623, Oakland, CA (USA). Tel. 510-482-5791. Email: Profmanu@acninc.net.


(Full essay is published in the December 2005 issue of Nex Generation Magazine.)

DEATH OF THE WILLIE LYNCH SPEECH, PART II

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Stupid-ass, clown-ass, sambo-ass, phony-ass E-Militant!

The REASON that your "logic" is completely FUCKED UP is this:

This Willie Lynch BULLSHIT is a fraud and has been debunked numerous times.

You don't "follow" the Principle of some FRAUDULENT BULLSHIT when there are LIBRARIES & WEB SITES full of LEGIT BLACK HISTORY that goes under-used by African Americans!

If Blacks want "Principles" of Willie Lynch-type shit then they SHOULD GET IT FROM LEGIT HISTORY & LEGIT RESEARCH and not be "satisfied" with some Bullshit-Ass, phony-ass, Urban Myth Bullshit that IS THE WILLIE LYNCH letter.

Niggas like YOU are too easily SATISFIED, rather than being happy with some FAKE-ASS Willie Lynch Bullshit, you SHOULD DEMAND that more Blacks STUDY legit Black History and not be satisfied with a BULLSHIT-ASS INTERNET HOAX, "just because YOU AGREE with it AND IT SOUNDS GOOD"!

Black History here in America is TOO FUCKING IMPORTANT to ignore what is REAL & LEGIT in favor of some FAKE BULLSHIT
just because it "sounds good and you like its Principles"!

GTFOH with that weak-ass BULLSHIT!

MAN THE FUCK UP AND LEARN REAL BLACK HISTORY YOU SHORT-CUT-TAKING, CLIFF-NOTES-LOVING, LAZY ASSHOLE!

CO FUCKIN SIGN.....Bruh, you just said every fuckin' thing I wanna say to these lazy ass Oedipus Rexes who think that fuckin' letter is real....All these slave narratives available and they accept that OBVIOUSLY fake letter as gospel? GTFOH
 
This Letter is not a myth...it is real. I get tired of the few handful of people trying to say that it is not real. If it was a myth...then Slavery was a myth. If it was a myth then the KKK was a myth. If it was a myth then racism was a myth. If it was a myth then Obama saying racism is real is a myth. If it was a myth then the Tuskegee project was a myth. If it was a myth then New York asking people to sign a waiver not to sue then over the 9-11 event was a myth. If it was a myth then the CIA allowing or putting drugs in the minority areas was a myth. If it was a myth then FBI or CIA pressuring that old black lady to stab Martin Luther King Jr. was a myth. If it was a myth then for years them portraying Jesus Christ as white was a myth. And this list can go on and on...

Then the same way most read the bible, and most of the stories in it have no real recording of the events actually happening other than other writings in which they were translated from.

Do research...majority of the lessons in that letter actually took place in our slavery history...from the tarring and feathering to the limbs being pulled apart...all the way down to our females being raped...Oh, I guest that was a myth too.

I also guest them taking credit for what our people invented and created most be a myth also. And how long did it take for them to acknowledge it and not hide that anymore?

Wow...I guest in the Constitution our people being ranked as 3/5ths of a white person is a myth too (Article I Section II)?

This is the logic of a 10 year old.
 
then why not just state the basic principles(which historians have done for decades)instead of continuing to crouch it in a story that hs been proven to be untrue?

Its funny because I have read in places that it is just a theory and in others that it is real.

Good point over all.
 
whether he lived or not don't make the principle of the argument not true.

Count me amongst those who believe it's fake, however I c/s this.

Perhaps the OP should've put this at the top to try to stop this thread from deteriorating into a real v. fake argument. :dunno:
 
then why not just state the basic principles(which historians have done for decades)instead of continuing to crouch it in a story that hs been proven to be untrue?

Untrue or not, are the warped principles espoused within the letter not being practiced today?
 

Untrue or not, are the warped principles espoused within the letter not being practiced today?

The problem is that when you put good info and mix it in with bullshit what you end up getting is total bullshit. Perception is reality in this world.

Put it to you like this. It doesn't matter if you like girls, if all your friends are faggots everyone will think you're one too. You're judged by the company you keep.
 
my question is was Lynch that popular in the Caribbean because Caribbean and U.S. slavery was a lil different being that Caribbean slaves were able to hold on to more of their roots and had more rights n privileges? How is he coming in as an authority when what he was practicing was not really being practiced in the Caribbean?

that's my only question but anyway, very good read.
 
my question is was Lynch that popular in the Caribbean because Caribbean and U.S. slavery was a lil different being that Caribbean slaves were able to hold on to more of their roots and had more rights n privileges? How is he coming in as an authority when what he was practicing was not really being practiced in the Caribbean?

Peace,

That's actually one of the many reasons why the "Willie Lynch letter" doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
 
my question is was Lynch that popular in the Caribbean because Caribbean and U.S. slavery was a lil different being that Caribbean slaves were able to hold on to more of their roots and had more rights n privileges? How is he coming in as an authority when what he was practicing was not really being practiced in the Caribbean?

that's my only question but anyway, very good read.

good point:hmm:....I'll be back ...
 
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c. 1398 – 3 February, 1468) was a German goldsmith and printer who is credited with being the first European to use movable type printing, in around 1439, and the global inventor of the mechanical printing press. His major work, the Gutenberg Bible (also known as the 42-line Bible), has been acclaimed for its high aesthetic and technical quality.

This guy made Willie Lynch and the Western propaganda machine possible.
 
Like the bible, unable to verify the validity of letter... but would say the effects are not sensationalized.
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I would contend from reading African history and the ongoing whitewash of history itself (pun intended), and the ongoing refusal to change how history is taught to our children and re-education of adults to Africa's involvement in ancient history and its ideas used to form the ideologies of Greece and Rome, but also a plethora of sciences which was said they fathered... Along with 'discoveries' made by Christopher 'Columbus'.
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With the issue of our past unanswered, and current stigma associated with being 'African' or Africa, or the mentality against it formed globally, and our image controlled and throughly tainted by the media and entertainment industries... The issues of the letter will never end.

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We have been programmed that suffering for a cause is wrong and our peaceful, land-less revolution has 'liberated' African Americans... Especially if they call you 'black'
 
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