Why willie lynch must die

Full Text of the alleged Willie Lynch Speech, 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 of control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program were 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 woods as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion.

I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are not only losing a 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 fool proof method for controlling your Black slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that if installed correctly it will control the slaves for at least hundred years [sic]. 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. 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 is stronger than adulation, respect, or admiration. The Black slave after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self re-fueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.

Don't forget you must pitch the old Black male vs. You must use the dark skin slaves vs. You must use the female vs. You must also have your white servants and overseers 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. The Lynch speech lists a number of divide and rule tactics that were not important concerns to slaveholders in the early s, and they certainly were not adopted. No credible historian has indicated that any of the items on the Lynch list were a part of a divide and rule strategy in the early 18 th century. These are current 20 th century divisions and concerns.

Here are the Lynch speech tactics versus the real divide and rule tactics that were actually used in the early 18 th century:. Color light vs. American born. Intelligence Occupation house vs. Fine hair vs. Tall vs. Male vs. There are a number of terms in the alleged Lynch speech that are undoubtedly anachronisms i.

Here are a few of the words in the speech that were not used until the 20 th century:. I would advance that the likely candidate for such a superficial speech is an African American male in the 20ss age range, who probably minored in Black Studies in college. He had a limited knowledge of 18 th century America , but unfortunately he fooled many uncritical Black people.

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 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. While we are distracted by the Willie Lynch urban mythology, the real issues go ignored. For example, writers such as Olaudah Equiano, Mahommah Baquaqua, and Frederick Douglass wrote penetrating accounts about the tactics of slave control.

There are to many things that could be explained by this type of mind training that is expressed in this letter.

And as the letter stated by there being in some areas more slaves than Owners they had to come up with someway of training the black woman to pass certain training on thru there children. It's not Illegal Yet. Post a Comment. One of the lessons my father repeatedly drove home to me and my siblings was never accept anything that's written or broadcast in the media at first glance.

My freshman year psychology professor reinforced that lesson with a memorable lecture entitled 'Be A Skeptic'. As long as I have been on the Net, this Willie Lynch letter repeatedly finds its way into my e-mail inboxes, in general discourse with fellow African-Americans on and off the Net and in speeches like Minister Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March one.

I just recently read a February Ebony magazine issue that refers to it in a Two Sides column debate on whether light-skinned Black people have an advantage.

When I first read it back in the late 90's. First let me post the full text of the alleged speech so y'all can read it for yourselves, if you haven't seen it yet. 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 of control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program were 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 woods as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion.

I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are not only losing a 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 fool proof method for controlling your Black slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that if installed correctly it will control the slaves for at least hundred years [sic].

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. 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 is stronger than adulation, respect, or admiration.

The Black slave after receiving this indoctrination shall carry on and will become self re-fueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.