The latter.
You are correct, of course, but the message seems to have resonated
anyway. Too many of us would have it that this bit of conspiratorial
folklore is truly after us with an affirmative hostility. Somehow,
despite the self-interested preoccupations which engage all people, many
insist on conjuring up demons that are not there. To believe that the
powers that be are conscientiously up and at it, at work to divide and
conquer, to keep us down, well...this redounds only to our
disadvantage. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but if the ancillary
damage done by incorporating the latter is simply regarded as one more
piece of received wisdom, guess who suffers.
Christopher
> Dear Alshew, in all probability the Lynch Letter is a fabrication but
> it typifies the racist mind set thereby serving a purpose. Keep
> studying and questioning young brother!!-Rodney
Rodney,
I believe the Lynch document does more harm than good. Perhaps Mr. Shew
can tell us whether the African American Studies instructor presented
this document to his students as a true bit of history, which appears to
be the case. I believe that in the year 2001, the real challenges to
the community are not going to be addressed by serving up this kind of
thing to those who may already be predisposed towards paranoia.
Further, it is never a good idea to believe that falsehoods can somehow
serve a greater interest. But even if it were true, why would we want
to incorporate the thinking of a 19th-century bigot into our strategems
for facing the challenges of the modern world? The condition of blacks
in 2001 is light years away from the world of blacks in the "Willie
Lynch" era.
I don't believe the Lynch document typifies the "racist mindset." I
believe it typifies what too many blacks would like to believe the
racist mindset is--all-powerful, all-encompassing, and omnipresent. The
racist mindset, for the most part, consists of what we see right here on
SCAA--weak, insecure, and all too often simply unintelligible.
Because racism is still a reality, it is tempting to try to point to it
as the reason for any and all failure. Folks like Art Clemons have
dedicated their entire lives to this curious weltanschauung, and
promulgate it in nearly every post. All it does is provide cheap solace
for underachievement. How does this help to inspire blacks to overcome
and succeed? The Lynch document essentially informs black youth that
the white power structure is actively at work trying to keep black
people down. This further depresses black kids who have enough
real-life challenges to contend with without dreaming up non-existent
forces of evil.
I find it interesting that polls in recent years demonstrate that young
blacks, by overwhelming majorities, do not consider racism to be the
main obstacle to success.
I was heartened by recent reports that minority applications to the UC
system have gone up tremendously. We were informed by the liberals not
too long ago that Prop 209 (here in California) meant that blacks were
"not wanted" at these universities. It turns out that black (and
Hispanic) youth don't buy into this tendentious nonsense, and are ready
to compete with whites and Asians without the crutch of racial
preferences.
Or the "Willie Lynch" business.
Christopher
I would imagine the mythological speech encountered unnecessary and
unhelpful limits of imagination. The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky,
when confronted with the hard fact that none of his predictions had
actually yet come true, comforted his supporters with the following:
"This is simply further proof of my farsightedness."
Of course, he later ran to Mexico for cover, but wound up with an
ice-pick to the back of his head anyway.
Christopher
Proof???...
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http://www.deja.com/
I haven't seen it yet. I'd be interested in your opinion and others
here on SCAA if you have seen it. I saw some mixed reviews that
indicated Burns left out some key artists and truncated the last 40
years into the last hour of the show. But I really enjoyed Burns'
"Civil War" and also "Baseball" and when I get a chance I will be
picking up "Jazz" on DVD so I can watch it according to my own schedule.
Christopher
Good for you.
--
olan
>Proof???...
What is required is any proof that this so-called 'speech' ever occurred -
for example, ANY source or reference to it appearing in print anytime
before about 5 years ago.
"LET'S MAKE A SLAVE"
by Willie Lynch
The Origin 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 nigger man, a pregnant nigger woman and
her baby nigger boy.
Second, we will use the same basic principle that we use in breaking
a horse, combined with
some more sustaining factors. We reduce them from their natural
state in nature; whereas
nature provides them with the natural capacity to take care of their
needs and the needs of
their offspring, we break that natural string of independence from
them and thereby create a
dependency state so that we maybe able to get from them useful
production for our business
and pleasure.
CARDINAL PRINCIPLE FOR MAKING A NEGRO For fear that our future
generations
may not understand the principle of breaking both horses and men, we
lay down the art. For,
if we are to sustain our basic economy we must break both of the
beasts together, the nigger
and the horse. We understand that short range planning in 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
and sharp perception. We
lay down the following principles for lang range comprehensive
economic planning: Both
horse and niggers are no good to the economy in the wild or natural
state.
1.Both must be broken and tied together for orderly production.
2.For orderly futures, special and particular attention must be
paid to the female and the
youngest offspring.
3.Both must be crossbred to produce a variety and division of
labor.
4.Both must taught to respond to a peculiar new language.
5.Psychological and physical instruction of containment must be
created for both.
We hold the above six cardinals as truths to be self-evident, based
upon following discourse
concerning the economics of breaking and tying the horse and nigger
together...all inclusive of
the six principles laid down above. NOTE: Neither principles alone
will suffice for good
economics. All principles must be employed for the orderly good of
the nation. Accordingly,
both a wild horse and a wild or natural nigger 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 nigger must be broken, that is break them from one form of
mental life to another,
keep the body and take the mind. In other words, break the will to
resist.
Now the breaking process in the same for the horse and the nigger,
only slightly varying in
degrees. But as we said before, you must keep your eye focused on
the female and the
offspring of the horse and the nigger. A brief discourse in
offspring development will shed
light on the key to sound economic principle. Pay little attention
to the generation of original
breaking but concentrate on future generations. Therefore, if you
break the female, 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 nigger males in their natural state, a pregnant nigger
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
comfort. Breed the
mare 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
train the infant horse to eat of your hand also.
When it comes to breaking the uncivilized nigger, 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 nigger, strip him of his clothes in front of the
remaining niggers, the female, and
the nigger infant, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different
horse faced in opposite
directions, set him a fire and beat both horses to pull him apart in
front of the remaining
niggers. The nest step is to take a bullwhip and beat the remaining
nigger male 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 Take the female and run a
series of tests on her to see if she will submit to you desires
willingly. Test her in every way,
because she is the most important factor for good economic. If she
shows any signs of
resistance in submitting completely to your will, do not hesitate to
use the bull whip on her to
extract that last bit of bitch 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
offspring 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 of the female nigger. We have
reversed the relationship. In her
natural uncivilized state she would have a strong dependency on the
uncivilized nigger male,
and she would have a limited protective dependency toward her
independent male offspring
and would raise female offspring to be dependent like her. Nature
had provided for this type
of balance. We reversed nature by burning and dependent like her.
Nature had provided for
this type of balance. We reversed nature by burning and pulling one
civilized nigger apart and
bull whipping the other to the point of death--all in her presence.
By her being left alone,
unprotected, with male image destroyed, the ordeal cased her to move
from her
psychological 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 offspring to be psychological independent as well. What have
you got? You've got the
nigger woman out front and the nigger man behind and scared. This is
perfect situation for
sound sleep and economics. Before the breaking process, we had to be
alert and on guard at
all times. Now we can sleep soundly, for out of frozen fear, his
woman stand guard for us.
He cannot get past her early infant slave molding process. He is
good tool, now ready to be
tied to the horse at a tender age. By the time a nigger 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 niggers, by
throwing the nigger female
savage into a frozen psychological state of independency, by killing
the protective male
image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind of the nigger
male slave, we have
created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless
a phenomenon occurs and
re shifts the positions of the male and female savages. We show what
we mean by example.
We breed two nigger males with two nigger females. Then we take the
nigger males away
from them and keep them moving and working. Say the nigger female
bear a nigger female
and the other bears a nigger male. both nigger females, being
without influence of the nigger
male image, frozen with an independent psychology, will raise him to
be mentally dependent
and weak, but physically strong...in other words, body over mind. 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 nigger 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 had created an orbiting cycle that turns on its
own axis forever, unless
phenomenon occurred, and re shifted the 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
phenomenon is to shave off the brute's mental history and create a
multiplicity of phenomenon
or illusions so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit,
something akin to floating balls in a
vacuum. This creation of a multiplicity of phenomenon or illusions
entails the principles of
crossbreeding the nigger and the horse as we stated above, the
purpose of which is to create
a diversified division of labor. The result of which is severance of
the points of original
beginning's for each spherical illusion. Since we fell that the
subject matter may get more
complicated as we proceed in laying down our economic plan
concerning the purpose,
reason, and effect of cross-breeding horses and niggers, we shall
lay down the following
definitional terms for future generations.
1.Orbiting cycle means a thing turning in a given pattern.
2.Axis means upon which or around which a body turns.
3.Phenomenon means something beyond ordinary conception and
inspires awe and
wonder.
4.Multiplicity means a great number.
5.Sphere means a globe.
6.Cross-breeding 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.
7.Cross-breeding niggers means taking so many drops of good white
blood and putting
them into as many nigger women as possible, varying the drops
by the various tone
that you want, and then letting them breed with each other
until cycle of colors appear
as you desire.
What this means is this: Put the niggers and the horse in the
breeding or, mix some asses and
some good white blood and what do you get? You got a multiplicity of
colors of ass
backwards, unusual niggers, running, tied to backwards ass long
headed mules, the one
productive of itself, the other sterile. (The one constant, the
other dying. We keep nigger
constant for we may replace the mule for another tool) both mule and
nigger tied to each
other, neither knowing where the other came from and neither
productive for itself, nor
without each other.
CONTROLLED LANGUAGE Cross-breeding completed, for further severance
from their
original beginning, we must completely annihilate the mother tongue
of both the nigger 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 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, you take the 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
having a fool is one of the basic ingredients of and incidents to
the making of the slavery
system.
"Alden.Charles" wrote:
> >"LET'S MAKE A SLAVE"
> >
> > by Willie Lynch
> > The Origin and Development of a Social Being Called "The Negro"
> >
> > Let us make a slave. What do we Need?
>
> Sorry Skiff, but just reprinting this fabrication doesn't demonstrate it
> existed more than a few years -I haven't yet seen any date, place, or
> original publication site for this hoax.
>
> In fact, the language and some of the vocabulary are very strong clues
> that this was written fairly recently. For example, 18th and 19th century
> farm owners did not spend much time discussing the development of
> "psychology."
I agree with your view, but I only wanted to post this because the original
poster requested it.