The Effects of Willie Lynch

     Our blogs are supposed to be on current events, but I want to speak on Willie Lynch because  there are evidence that the effects of Willie Lynch are still around. Willie Lynch implemented a plan to make sure that slaves would be dependent upon their slave masters for at least 300 years in his speech addressing the American slave masters. It is 2010 and  Willie Lynch is still around. Willie Lynch plan was to take  the differences of the slaves and make them bigger until the differences became self perpetuating. His three essential ideals for controlling the slaves were fear, envy, and distrust. Willie Lynch said that he first divided the slaves by age. He  took the old slave and young slave, and put them against each other (distrust). Secondly he divided the slaves by color (envy). All slaves were originally dark skinned, so the slave masters introduced the white gene into the black woman  until they got a baby that was brown. Then they put the white into the brown until you attained a lighter brown, and then again until you had a slave that could almost pass as being white, but not enough to be accepted as white. He did this in order to put the dark skinned slave against the light skinned slave. The shade of the skin may have led to self racial hatred. Thirdly the slaves were divided on whether they have coarse hair or fine hair (envy). Fourthly they were divided them on if they live in the north, south, East, or west (distrust). Could this be an influence on gang violence? Fifthly Divide them again on status on the plantation, the house negro or the field negro. Lastly he said to divide them on the size of the plantation of one master to the size of another plantation. Consequently enough, this was not enough to create a slave. Willie Lynch believed you needed to break a negro in order to create a slave. Willie Lynch said, " Both horses and niggers are no good to the economy in their natural or wild state. Both must be broken and tied together for orderly production." This is where the fear factor comes in, in the breaking of the Negro Woman. The slave master paid attention to the woman and her offspring because they were the future of the slave generations. Now he said, "Take the meanest and most restless nigger, strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, female, and the infant nigger, 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 niggers." The Slave masters now have made the negro's woman and infant watch this ordeal, and the woman will be frozen psychologically and she will no longer look to him, but look to the slave master for dependency. Although now when she produces a female child, she will make them just like herself. Independent of the male, but dependent of the master. Then the woman will break her male offspring out of her natural protective instinct herself, and they will grow up with a strong body but a weak mind. She will be out front and the man will be behind her and frightened. Now is this why the ratio of black women to men is so large in college? Lastly Willie Lynch said, "Being a fool is one of the basic ingredients of any incidents to the maintenance of the slavery system." Thus, we were kept down as a people through ignorance and lack of education. The slave masters wanted to control language and knowledge, or sooner or later the slaves would be in the house of the slave master talking to them "man to man", thus the end of their economic system. Then in order for us to rise as a people is directly related to what were oppressed by and we must take it back for ourselves.

"Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave." Final Call. Web.  1 Oct. 2010. <http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/perspectives_1/Willie_Lynch_letter_The_Making_of_a_Slave.shtml>.