Willie Lynch Syndrome: Effect on the African American Community
Willie Lynch Syndrome: Its effect on the African American community, past and present. Reasonably account of the treatment of a race of people or hoax? Is this a reason for reparations?
Ricky Mitchell
COM/156
August 5, 2012
Michael Parris
Abstract
The Willie Lynch Letter is a document that allegedly is a speech given by a white slave owner from the West Indies, on the bank of the James River in Virginia, 1712. It has been said that it was instructions to the current day slave owners on how to control their slaves indefinitely. This alleged letter came into print in the 1970s and gained wide spread attention in the 1990s. The brutality associated with this speech in controlling the African slave and keeping him and his descendants under control for three hundred years or more has been disputed because of the language used. However, this writer feels that the methods describe are consistent with the way the African American community has been fractured in their treatment of one another, in his lifetime and history gives a brief analysis of the difference skin color has played in the African American community.
Willie Lynch Syndrome: Its effect on the African American community, past and present. Reasonably account of the treatment of a race of people or hoax? Is this a reason for reparations?
….there is a document that has been discussed among African Americans since before my time. This document was entitled the Willie Lynch Letter and the making of a slave, published by Lushena Books. The letter was in fact a speech reportedly delivered by a white slave owner from the West Indies, William Lynch, on the bank of the James River in 1712, where he announced: I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. You are losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the field for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires and your animals are killed. I have a
Ricky Mitchell
COM/156
August 5, 2012
Michael Parris
Abstract
The Willie Lynch Letter is a document that allegedly is a speech given by a white slave owner from the West Indies, on the bank of the James River in Virginia, 1712. It has been said that it was instructions to the current day slave owners on how to control their slaves indefinitely. This alleged letter came into print in the 1970s and gained wide spread attention in the 1990s. The brutality associated with this speech in controlling the African slave and keeping him and his descendants under control for three hundred years or more has been disputed because of the language used. However, this writer feels that the methods describe are consistent with the way the African American community has been fractured in their treatment of one another, in his lifetime and history gives a brief analysis of the difference skin color has played in the African American community.
Willie Lynch Syndrome: Its effect on the African American community, past and present. Reasonably account of the treatment of a race of people or hoax? Is this a reason for reparations?
….there is a document that has been discussed among African Americans since before my time. This document was entitled the Willie Lynch Letter and the making of a slave, published by Lushena Books. The letter was in fact a speech reportedly delivered by a white slave owner from the West Indies, William Lynch, on the bank of the James River in 1712, where he announced: I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. You are losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the field for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires and your animals are killed. I have a
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