Humane-Rights-Agenda Blog: Re: [NetworkAztlan_News] Black History Month: The Willie Lynch letter describing best way to control slaves.

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Subject: [NetworkAztlan_News] Fwd: Black History Month: The Willie Lynch letter describing best way to control slaves.

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From: Aztatl Garza <aztatlxikano@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:11 PM
Subject: Black History Month
To: aztatlxikano@gmail.com

Willie Lynch Letter delivered to Slave Owners in 1712.

Gentlemen,

I greet you here on the banks 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 your problems with the slaves. Your invitation reached me on my most 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 old highways in great numbers, you here are using the tree and rope on occasion.

I caught whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of 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 field 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 every one of you that if installed correctly, it will control the slaves for at least 300 years. My method is simple and members of your family or any 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, 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 plantation status on plantation, attitude of owner, whether the slaves live in the valley or on a hill, east, west, north, or south, have fine hair or 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 his indoctrination shall carry on and will become self-fueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.

Don't forget you must pitch the old black vs. the young black male and the young black male vs. the old black male. Also pitch the female against the male, and the male against the female. You must use the dark skin slaves vs. the light skin slaves and the light skin slaves vs. the dark skin slaves. You must also have our white servants and overseers distrust all blacks, but it is necessary they trust and depend on us. They must love, respect, and trust ONLY us.

Gentlemen, these kits are your control; use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. My plan is guaranteed, and the good thing about the plan is that if you used INTENSELY for one year the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful.

Thank you gentlemen, Willie Lynch, 1712

commentary:

This is a simple plan of racism, sexism and oppression and it is true in our communities and large cities today. People of color and women stand to suffer the most. It is used around the world to isolate us one from the other. It is being used to create chaos within the labor movement so that unity, wages and benefits are suspended (in some cases permanently, or even lost by working people). It is known in the broader sense as how to utilize class differences between the owners and the dispossesed to keep people in slavery.