Sunday, March 22, 2009

Droppin Knowledge On Ya Asses!

I heard about the "willie lynch Letters" over the weekend at a poetry slam (im becoming more interested in poetry by the way not writing tho jus like to listen and things) at my school. Googled it and after reading it i immediately thought it was fake. thing thing is no one really knows if its a real letter or not. but jus by reading it you can tell the letter wasnt event written in the 18th century without even being a historian. you can jus see it in the language it doesnt sound like an old british guy wrote this shit. i found a link (http://www.manuampim.com/lynch_hoax1.html) that disects this letter into pieces lol they do it really well too. i personally feel that this was written by sumbody (white im assuming) in the 20th century. im thinking this is basically how white america (not all white america) thinks about the african american race. this "letter" states how the african american race will never unite as one and make any progress. its a shame ill let you read on tho. make sure you look at that link above too.

"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 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 300 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.
On top of my list is ‘Age’, but it is there only because it starts with an ‘A’: the second is ‘Color’ or shade, there is intelligence, size, sex, size of plantations, status on plantation, attitude of owners, whether the slave live in the valley, on hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, coarse 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 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. 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 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."

2 comments:

  1. def agree this is a modern letter. 'IT WILL CONTROL THE SLAVES FOR AT LEAST 300 HUNDREDS YEARS' gave away the fact that it may just possibly be an 18th century letter. this is like Frederick Douglas : LET’S MAKE A SLAVE. [read it if you havent] white America is majority & as we know in most cases majority rules. they know as blacks we are already molded to live comfortable at the bottom of the totem poll. even tho in a couple years America with be predominately minority i dont feel our race will evolve to the standards ANY time soon of whites. all these readings are sad but thats some real GOOD KNOWLEDGE fa yall asses. but with all that said im proud to be BLACK i can honestly say is someways its a blessing for me personally.

    anyways thats my input! good job sheem.

    - suki =]

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  2. I am familiar with willie lynch and a lot of his letters and have been for some time now. I cant seem to figure out whether or not the letters are real. No one person can come up with such an accurate piece on how to control one species. The Bible has to be the closest piece of writing to control and be the most influential writing ever. But with that said I think that his writing are not raw, they have been touched and edited by a credible philosopher. Someone who has seen how slavery has affected blacks and analyzed the way to effectively control slaves...

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